Matriki Beach Huts

✅ Private and basic - this is not a hotel or resort. ✅ Self-catered with simple kitchen. ✅ Beachfront balcony for relaxation or enjoying the view. ✅ Beautiful lagoon and sea views. ✅ Airport pickup/dropoff $20. ✅ Private open-air shower. ✅ Free bicycle use to explore the island. ✅ Beach access directly outside hut. ✅ Huts sheltered under trees and not exposed to hot sun or wind. ✅ The windows are screened only, providing plenty of ventilation. There are shutters for rainy weather (I never closed shutters). ✅ Complimentary tea/coffee and condiments. ✅ Scooter hire available. ✅ Wifi available $5 fee. ✅ Mosquito net over bed - did not have any issues with insects during my stay. ✅ Plenty of sun loungers, beach chairs and outdoor furniture. ✅ Short walk along the beach to Tamanu Restaurant next door. ✅ Short walk along the beach to Resort Tava'e - Restaurant & Bar. ✅ 10min bicycle ride to Tina & Co 24hr convenience store and liquor store for snacks, beverages, or basic supplies. ✅ Children are not allowed. ✅ Drinking water tap available - when asked if it was safe to drink was told that "no one has died" and look, I'm still here 😂 tasted nice and fresh. ✅ Foot baths at each entrance of hut to wash sand off feet, that's how on the the beach you are.

❌ Two shared toilets 🚽 - not really an issue, they were clean. ❌ $10 laundry fee - not self service. ❌ No aircon, however fan and open air windows provided sufficient airflow. ❌ Rooms not serviced during stay. ❌ No complimentary milk.

Nice location at the beach. Lovely little terrace where we had dinner every night. The fresh coconuts were super tasty. The snorkeling tour with the owner was amazing.

The dishes in the hut were not very clean and there was some outdated food (oil, herbs). The sheets had an interesting smell. The details of the tour could have been better communicated, e.g. no water provided, no vegetarian lunch.

We loved the place the beach on our own the colors the wind the rain during night, the light and all these very friendly and relaxed people on the island We would come again It was an extraordinary feeling staying in this island

Confortable hut just next to the beach, there were bananas waiting in my hut and i got a freshly opened coconut from Matthias :) he is also doing lagoon tours and renting scooters and pick-ups from the Airport.

The mosquito net was a little bit old and dirty.. but apart from that everything was perfect!!

The huts are a few steps to the water and surrounded by palms and trees. Just what you need to be in a South Seas paradise.

Accommodation is right on the beach

Matriki feedback. Owners Mathias ... Mat & Riki. Matriki Beach Huts. I never met Riki but Mathias was a really nice chap. I highly recommend his Matriki Lagoon Tour. Very informative and quietly professional. Mathias is a non assuming gentleman of German descent who met Riki in NZ. He has lived on Aitutaki for about 21 years. I believe Riki is a local from Aitutaki. Accomodation was rustic. Almost romantic. ... "just NOT FOR ME". <title> An outside shower and two perfectly functional outside flush toilets down rustic outside stairs ... perhaps less than 100m away ... in the tropical rain ☔️ tipped me over. ... Hence splashing out on a night of luxury at the Tamanu Resort. ... during a 24 hour tropical storm... Matriki Beach Huts best feature is its location. As the name suggests, right on the beach. Good snorkelling, close to Tamanu and Tava'e two very good restaurants and an EXCELLENT Lagoon Tour. However at $125 per night not good value to me. I would not personally go back to stay but would recommend many of it's romantic "Robinson Caruso like" qualities.

Accomodation was rustic. Almost romantic. ... "just NOT FOR ME". <title> An outside shower and two perfectly functional outside flush toilets down rustic outside stairs ... perhaps less than 100m away ... in the tropical rain ☔️ tipped me over. ... Hence splashing out on a night of luxury at the Tamanu Resort $370+$30. ... during a 24 hour tropical storm...