Beverage Packages at Fiji Weddings, Decoded

Exactly one Fiji resort publishes a beverage-package rate card. Everyone else bundles drinks into a wedding package price, names a duration without a price, or publishes nothing at all. That opacity is the reason this page exists, and the fourth hour is where the money quietly goes.

Below is every published figure we could verify from resorts' own sites on 13 September 2026, plus the tax stack that sits underneath a quoted per-person number.

What does a Fiji beverage package actually cost?

The InterContinental Fiji publishes three tiers priced per person by duration. It is the only public rate card in the country.

Read the curve, not the numbers. On the Classic tier, hour two adds FJ$9 a head. Hour four adds FJ$29 — more than three times as much. The same shape holds on Deluxe and Premium. Resorts price the late hour steeply because that is when consumption is heaviest and staffing is longest, and it means the honest way to compare two quotes is per hour, at the hour you actually intend to run to.

On eighty guests, moving a Classic package from three hours to four is roughly FJ$2,320. That is a photographer.

The resort publishes only that all packages are sold in Fiji dollars. It does not publish inclusions, tax treatment, service charge, corkage, a cash-bar option or minimums. A third-party site lists inclusions and a 25 per cent service charge; that figure appears nowhere on the resort's own pages, so ask rather than assume.

What do the package resorts include?

Most of the market sells drinks inside a wedding package. The durations are published even where the prices are not, and durations are the comparable unit.

Four things in that table are worth pausing on.

Three hours is the Fiji norm. Radisson Blu's two hours is the shortest published package in the country — meaningfully below the market, and a real difference when you are comparing an unpriced quote against a priced one.

Castaway publishes what is excluded, which is rare and useful. Wine, beer and soft drinks are in; spirits are not. If your crowd drinks spirits, that is an undisclosed add-on rather than an inclusion.

Plantation's per-additional-adult rates reveal the tier gap. Vakamau adds FJ$132 per adult, Domoni FJ$247, Domoni Upgrade FJ$347. The FJ$100 step from Domoni to Upgrade is, in effect, the published price of moving from Standard to Deluxe drinks.

Momi Bay only buys the fourth hour at the top tier. The step from a three-hour to a four-hour package appears nowhere except inside the FJ$50,999 Grand Fijian package, bundled into a FJ$21,000 jump. The extra hour is never priced on its own.

Can you bring your own alcohol?

Almost certainly not, and Outrigger is the only Fiji property that says so plainly. Its wedding FAQ reads: "No, BYOB is strictly prohibited at private functions." No corkage fee is offered at any price.

That matters because no Fiji resort publishes a corkage rate at all. Not one. There is no per-bottle figure anywhere in the market to negotiate against. The only published BYO policy in the country is an outright ban.

What you can legally carry in is separate from what a resort will let you serve. Fiji Revenue and Customs allows travellers aged 18 and over to bring up to 3 litres of spirits, or 4.5 litres of wine, or 4.5 litres of beer, or a combination not exceeding that limit, accompanied and not for sale. Four and a half litres is six bottles of wine per adult, so a wedding party can legally walk in a serious quantity. The binding constraint is the resort's contract, not the border.

What happens when the package hours end?

This is the question couples forget, and Outrigger publishes the answer most directly: receptions must end by 10:00pm, with the Reef Cocktail and Lounge Bar open until 1:00am with a live band. The party continues on a cash basis in a public bar.

That is the usual Fiji shape. Understanding it changes how you budget: you are not buying a night, you are buying three hours and then everyone pays for themselves. Tell your guests, so they carry cards.

For a sense of what that costs them, two resorts publish tax-inclusive bar prices.

Malolo states its menu prices "are inclusive of 12.5% government taxes"; Matamanoa states "prices include all taxes".

Where does the cost actually escalate?

Four places, in order of size.

1. The fourth hour. Priced steeply everywhere it is priced at all, and bundled invisibly where it is not.

2. Imported spirits. Matamanoa's own menu is the cleanest proof available: local spirits FJ$10, imported FJ$14 — a 40 per cent premium, taxes included. Fiji's domestic producer, Paradise Beverages, was formerly Fosters Group Pacific and now sits within the Coca-Cola group. It brews Fiji Bitter, Fiji Gold and Vonu Pure Lager, and distils Bounty Rum, Ratu aged rum, Katia vodka and the Rum Co. of Fiji range, from breweries in Suva and a distillery in Lautoka. Specifying those brands over imported labels is the single most reliable published saving in the category, and it is a better story on the night.

3. Guests above the package minimum. Outrigger's additional guests are FJ$180 each. Plantation's are FJ$132 to FJ$347 depending on tier. On a guest list that creeps from 30 to 45, that is a four-figure movement nobody quoted you.

4. Tax and service charge. Which needs its own section, because it changed this month.

What tax is actually in the price?

The position as at 13 September 2026 is simpler than most quotes suggest, and simpler than several resorts' own paperwork.

So the government take on resort food and beverage is VAT 12.5 per cent plus TST 5 per cent, and nothing else. Anyone still quoting you "VAT plus STT plus ECAL" is working from information that is four to six years out of date.

The Tourism Services Tax explicitly reaches drinks, not just rooms. Plantation Island's own TST FAQ states it applies to eligible services purchased on site from 1 September 2026, "including food and beverages". There is a transition rule worth money: the Ministry of Finance confirmed on 25 August 2026 that bookings made before 1 September 2026 are not subject to TST even where the service is delivered afterwards. If you contracted in August for a 2027 wedding, get that in writing.

And a live warning about reading the paperwork carefully: Mana Island Resort's own 2025–2027 wedding contract still states that rates include 15 per cent VAT — a rate Fiji has not charged since July 2025. That is not a criticism of one property so much as a demonstration of why you ask, in writing, exactly which taxes are inside a quoted number.

What are the eight questions to send?

Ask every shortlisted property the same eight, in writing, before comparing anything.

1. What is the beverage package price per person, per hour, at each tier?
2. What is in each tier — specifically, are spirits included?
3. What is the extension rate if we run an extra hour, and is it quoted in advance?
4. Are VAT at 12.5% and TST at 5% inside that figure, or added?
5. Is a service charge added, and at what percentage?
6. Is a cash bar or consumption basis available instead, and what are the terms?
7. What is the corkage rate, and is BYO permitted at all?
8. What time must the reception end, and where do guests go afterwards?

Question three is the one nobody in Fiji publishes. Question four moves the total more than any other. Question eight is the one that decides whether your guests enjoy the last two hours.

The verdict

• Three hours is the market. Two is short. Four is expensive. Compare per hour, at the hour you will actually run to.
• Spirits are the hidden variable. At least one major property excludes them from an otherwise generous package.
• BYO is effectively unavailable, and no resort publishes a corkage rate to negotiate against.
• Specify Fijian brands. The published local-versus-imported spirit gap is 40 per cent.
• The tax stack is VAT 12.5% plus TST 5%. Everything else you may be quoted was repealed years ago.

Guideline only. Tax rates, liquor licensing hours and resort policies change. Confirm tax treatment with the Fiji Revenue and Customs Service and licensing with the Ministry of Trade, Co-operatives, Small and Medium Enterprises and Communications. Fiji's permitted licensed hours were amended by a Bill we could not confirm as enacted, so do not rely on a published hours schedule without checking. Last reviewed 13 September 2026.

Next step: send the eight questions to three properties on the same day. Fiji wedding food and drink covers the menu side, the Fiji wedding cost breakdown lists every other line item, and what a Fiji wedding actually costs collects every published package price in the country. Shortlist settings in Fiji wedding venues or browse venues directly.