Wailevu Retreat

Retreat Lodging

	The Wailevu Retreat will be constructed on an approximately forty-five acre site fronting on a 2000 foot long white sand beach. The two-phase development will consist of 30 Bures (cottages) in the first phase and 40 in the second, eventually accommodating approximately 225 people. The first phase consists of 17 one-bedroom, 8 two-bedroom and 5 four–bedroom Bures. Half of these Bures will be on raised stilts over the tidal sand flats of the bay. The other half will be sited at the bay's edge where the jungle foliage meets the beach. The retreat facilities will include a reception-administration building, shops with demonstrations of craft making, a Fijian wellness center with a medicinal herbal garden, restaurant, bar, swimming pond, gardens, turtle pond, church, stables, housekeeping, bar/ restaurant storage and mechanical buildings, administrative personnel residences, and a village for the hotel workers. All buildings and water works will be constructed of natural, traditional materials, all of which are native to the area. The style will harmonize with the indigenous building forms.			The cultural center and retreat lodging will share joint access, monitored by security guards. The retreat is predominately self-supporting, fed by its own vegetable garden, fruit trees, fish and prawn farms. Local village fishermen and women can provide local crabs and lobsters. The animal-breeding farm will raise chickens, cattle, pigs for butchering, and horses for riding. Electricity, pure Fijian spring water, telephone and Internet serve the lodging. There will be off-site waste disposal with natural filtering ponds.
	Wailevu Retreat Lodging Plan
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