Samoa Travel Guide is part of the Bula! Fiji Hub Trip Report.
TPOL’s Guns & Butter Travel Guide is the best way to see as much as you can in as little time as possible. Here’s how it works – A trip is composed of two factors: Labor And Lazy. The opportunity cost (what is given up) for relaxing and being Lazy is gained by being adventurous in the form of Labor and vice versa. The guide includes inefficient activities i.e., tourist traps that should be avoided and aspirational activities that are worth doing but may be impossible to see given the constraints of time and resources.
What is there to do in Samoa? To start, you must understand that there are two islands in Samoa, Upolu, where I stayed and Savaiʻi, home to the famous blowholes. Unfortunately, logistics made it impossible to visit the latter, thereby inspiring the name of this post (see I Blew It: Missing Blowholes in Samoa And Tuna in America).
TPOL’s Trivia: There is also American Samoa, a territory of the United States. Another place I intentionally but regrettably skipped (see TPOL Does the Unthinkable, Skips a ‘Country’).
For the two nights I was here, I did the following:
Stay
I stayed at the Sheraton Samoa. The hotel was under construction, but no renovation was needed to capture the beauty of Samoa.
To Sua Trench
I took a day trip to To Sua Ocean Trench. Although it has been overrun with Instagramers (see Samoa: Why I Loath Instagram & follow me on IG), it is a necessary stop.
Beach
We hired a driver to go to the trench and to take us to Samoa’s iconic beaches. Unfortunately, it had rained in the morning flooding access to said beaches. We settled for this one:
Food
At the beach, I had oka (Samoan fish salad) along with a bottle of wine.
I am not big on room service, but the food at the Sheraton was excellent.
Golf
I did not golf but learned that there are three golf courses in Samoa.
TPOL’s Trivia: Our driver said that Daylight Saving Time was introduced so executives could get in a round of golf after work before it got dark!
More Trivia
In 2009, the government switched from driving on the right to driving on the left.
Overall
My time in Samoa was too short. I will be returning.
