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Updated: November 30, 2020
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Nouvata – Three hotels, nine types of rooms, one superb location.
This trio of hotels offers two, three, and four-star accommodations in a large area in the nicest part of Noumea’s beachside suburb. The budget block is separate, with rooms facing the road, but they are the best value in an upmarket area. The mid-range options are in Le Pacifique, two blocks of identical rooms with awesome views. Top of the range is the Hotel du Parc, where Premium Rooms have panache, as well as kitchenettes, extra single beds, and extended balconies offering fabulous views. In addition to the resort-style pool among palms, the general amenities are excellent and the location perfect: just behind a row of cafés, the tourist office, and bus stop for the city center.
Nouvata – The Basics
- Location: 123 Promenade Roger Laroque in Anse Vata, a beachside suburb of Noumea on the main island. About 5 km from the city center, 50 minutes from the international airport, and 15 minutes from the domestic airport.
- Guests: With 3 hotels of different standards, it caters to absolutely everyone from overnight backpackers to families on longer stays.
- Beach: The beach right across the road is narrow, a bit rocky, and alongside the esplanade, but decent enough. A quieter and cleaner stretch of public beach is in front of Le Méridien, about 800m south via the coast (and not the road).
- Views: Ironically, some of the finest views are from the block of budget rooms facing the bay across the busy road. More expensive rooms on the higher floors provide broad views of the sea and streets, but they may be partially obstructed by the budget block.
- WiFi: A small amount of data is provided free per day per room.
- Parking: Enough free and secure parking at the back, away from the main road.
- How to Book: Booking.com will have the best rates.
- Phone: (687) 262 200
- Email: resa@nouvata.nc
- Website: nouvata.nc
Nouvata – Amenities
- Pool: The lovely pool is a decent size and surrounded by palms. Also, a small sheltered splash area for toddlers.
- Spa: A basic salon provides the usual hairdressing, beauty treatments, and massages.
- Fitness Center: Surprisingly, there isn’t one.
- Private Pools/Jacuzzis: Not expected or provided in rooms at this sort of high-rise hotel complex, but a large jacuzzi is near the pool and surrounded by palms.
Nouvata – Food and Drink
- Restaurants & Bars: L’équilibre – Likable brash décor. Serves breakfast (including to the public), as well as buffets for lunch and dinner, sometimes with traditional entertainment. • Code Bar – Faces the road and water. Tropical-style with wooden decking. All-day tapas and snacks, with live music on weekends; even salsa dancing some nights.
- Breakfast: Included in some rates, depending on the booking. The substantial buffet breakfast is certainly worth paying for.
- Room Service: Available from about 7am to 10pm.
Nouvata – Rooms
- Room Types: Budget Room • Budget+ Room • Basic Room • Standard Room • Standard+ Room • Comfort Room • Comfort+ Room • Premium Room • Premium+ Room
- Smoking Rooms: No smoking allowed in the rooms and restaurant/bar, but permitted anywhere else on the hotel grounds.
- Best Room: Of the 9 types of rooms across 3 hotels, the best are the spacious Premium+ Rooms. They feature unusual circular baths and floor-to-ceiling windows leading to lengthy balconies which offer broad views of the sea and streets.
Nouvata – What’s Nearby?
Best Nearby Restaurants & Bars
One attraction of staying at the Nouvata is the number of inviting cafés within a 2-minute walk in either direction along the esplanade from the hotel entrance, including:
- Hanoi Plage – Quaint, colorful, and chic, for Vietnamese cuisine and DIY grills on the table. Indoors and street-side setting.
- Le Faré du Palm Beach – Cheery and perfect for people-watching. Big breakfasts, fresh salads, homemade burgers, waffles, and ice cream.
- Le Bilboquet Plage – Upstairs at the back of the Galerie Palm Beach shops. Long-established, vast menu, reasonable prices, and family-friendly. Great for trying traditional food such as Bougna Chicken.
- Pizza & Pasta – Also salads, wraps, and risottos. Raised terrace for water views. Children’s menu, daily specials, and takeaways.
- La Bodega del Mar – Shares the same pier as Le Roof, but more affordable for tapas, pizza, cocktails, and live music.
- Le Roof – Extraordinary setting on a pier above the water. Sumptuous décor and expensive seafood. Intimate and romantic. Sunsets guaranteed; sometimes dolphins below.
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Best Nearby Restaurants & Bars
- Two well-stocked minimarts are about 600m along the main road into Anse Vata, just up from the Hôtel Le Lagon.
Local Transport
- Right outside the entrance to the Nouvata is a bus stop for services 10, 11, and 70 to the city center – some via the neighboring beach at Baie des Citrons.
Nouvata – The Hotel

The Nouvata is set back a little from the esplanade in a nicer part of Anse Vata beach.

At the front of the hotel complex is the block of budget rooms, with quieter ones facing away from the main road.

More expensive rooms are in the taller blocks, offering greater possibility of sea views.

The surprisingly large jacuzzi near the main pool is shady and appealing.

The main pool is substantial, shady, and popular among guests from the three hotels.

Views from all rooms, even the cheapest ones, are often fabulous.

The Standard Rooms are plain and could easily be improved.

Premium Rooms offer some kitchen facilities.

Premium Rooms provide the finest views down Anse Vata bay.

The circular baths in the Premium Rooms are unusual but likable.

Premium Rooms feature small but serviceable balconies, some facing the sea, others looking inwards.

The Premium+ Rooms are spacious enough for sofas and extra single beds.

The classy L’équilibre restaurant in the hotel offers buffets for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

L’équilibre also provides seating facing the pool and gardens.

With a laidback tropical feel, the Code Bar faces the street and bay.

The hotel is in Anse Vata, a tropical beach in the suburbs of Noumea.

The Nouvata overlooks the esplanade, with plenty of shops, cafés, and bars in both directions.

Very near the Nouvata, Hanoi Plage is an inviting café serving Vietnamese food.

At the end of an unmissable pier is the stylish Le Roof restaurant.

Sharing the pier with Le Roof is La Bodega del Mar, ideal for tapas, pizza, and cocktails.

Also along the esplanade near the Nouvata is the Galerie Palm Beach arcade, with Le Bilboquet Plage bistro at the back.

There are plenty of places to spend money at the Galerie Palm Beach arcade along the esplanade.

In front of the nearby Hilton hotel complex is a row of fantastic cafés and shops.

Pizza & Pasta is one of many cafés in front of the Hilton hotel complex and within a two-minute walk of the Nouvata.

Le Faré du Palm Beach is a cheery and affordable café on the esplanade near the hotel.

A seaside path links Anse Vata with the neighboring beach at Baie des Citrons several kilometers to the north.

A day trip to nearby islands, such as Île aux Canards, is easy to arrange from a tiny terminal at Anse Vata.

The best beach at Anse Vata is in front of Le Méridien, about 800m south of the Nouvata.

Buses to the city center, often via the Baie des Citrons beach, leave from right outside the Nouvata.

The center of Noumea is compact and fun to wander around.

A walkway near the dockyards in the capital offers shade and views.

The Moselle Markets along Rue Georges Clemenceau in downtown Noumea is open from 5am to mid-day every day but Monday.

Alongside the market, some stalls also sell clothes and souvenirs.

Much of the coastline in Noumea is lined with marinas.
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