Oure Lodge Beach Resort

Beautiful location. Quite a bit of disrepair though and facilities remained closed eg beach bar and lounge. Our bathroom had signs of rotting wood around the tub. The staff were wonderful, helpful and friendly, especially as the weather was not the best for our arrival. Comfortable beds. Food was lovely. I would absolutely return as the location is fantastic. Superb beach access. With a little more TLC this would be perfect.

This is arguably the best location to stay on Pine Island. The Piscine Natural is rated the top spot to visit on the island - yet the colourful coral and fish were better in the water off this resort. This is a 4 star resort, although apart from a little aging, it is hard to fault. Not many resorts have pools - so this was an added bonus. It felt like we had the hotel and island pretty much to ourselves with only a handful of guests staying. (the recent riots have kept tourists away, although could see no evidence on the island of unrest and all was calm). Food was not cheap any where really, so be prepared to pay 'fine dining' prices at restaurants (except perhaps for pizza etc at Gite Nataiwatch next door). The only criticism/disappointment was that with only a handful of guests in the whole resort, that an upgrade to an ocean front villa, instead of the garden one we booked, might have taken our stay to a whole other level, but that said, our garden villa was only steps away from the beach and was just lovely. (they should also reduce the cost of renting a bike) I always like to know about beds when I read reviews as we love a soft bed, Oure's bed's were a happy medium - not too soft and not too hard, we had absolutely no trouble falling asleep each night :) I HIGHLY recommend going to Pine Island and staying here - truly an exceptional untouched place on this earth - with lots of sea turtles too! :)

We really enjoyed our stay here. Staff at the front desk were always so lovely and spoke great English. Room was great and cleaners did a good job keeping it clean, we got it quite sandy one day and they did a great job cleaning. Beach was AMAZING, better than any of the beaches visited in New Caledonia including private beach at the Hilton resort. Free kayak and other sports equipment was great and the man to book these through was really nice and even saw dolphins at the beach one day and came running out to tell everyone. Wifi wasn’t great, was slow and would disconnect but when you have a beach so great right there you won’t want it. Staff at restaurants were a little bit of of let down, due to location of lodge and not having much on the island you are left with no choice to go to the restaurant at the resort, there was no menu and each time we wanted to order something the staff would just say one or two things they could cook and didn’t know the price, they weren’t too friendly and didn’t speak any English apart from one really lovely lady. We stayed for two nights and spent three days doing nothing else but sitting on the loungers at the beach and swam. Would definitely go back and highly recommend to anyone else

The location is spectacular - Paradise! - quiet, peaceful, not too large and direct beachfront - however the actual resort desperately needs updating - (moldy lounge chair mattresses, broken curtains, broken furniture - small details - however there are lots of them - so the place looks shabby and tired). I believe it has been operating for 20 years now - would be great to see them spend some money on the place, Oure tera has the definite potential to be a Top Class Resort given the perfect location/positioning they have - and would then justify the AU$600+ per night accommodation I paid for a Beach Bungalow. Lunch is the best menu of the day and food quality - the dinners - alas, really not value for money given the food quality - (steak was like rubber) - however the dinner service crew (the ladies) - were really lovely.