Little Italy Hotel

I like to say thank you to the owner of Little Italy Meleseini, for the warm welcoming us to your restaurant, if you looking for a place with great food and friendly staffs look no further than the Little Italy. The food was made fresh taste so good, and the staffs who served us were full of knowledge on the menu, the island and anything else you need to know about the island. Thank you so much and we are looking forward to our next trip down here next year.

So many miscommunications from the staff really overshadowed the stay at this place. I chose it for the unique property, staying above a highly rated and unique restaurant (in Tonga at least). Upon arrival, the restaurant was closed. Front desk staff said it was going to be closed for two weeks, and then every employee gave a different response (closed 2 weeks, closed 2 days, take away only...). Front desk staff said that since restaurant is closed, breakfast was being delivered to rooms....of coures, that didnt happen and the restaurant was open in the morning. Every employee says something different if you ask them questions. No clue what's going on there. Rooms were fine/basic. Wifi generally worked out. It's a bit of a far walk to the city. I wish we stayed at the Emerald or Tanoa because they seemed well run (we went there for meals since Little Italy was too lazy to run a restaurant).

Firstly, they had very little wine available. No bottles of white wine at all. There was only 1 waitress and 2 men taking orders (Uber eats). After an hour, we received cold and unpleasant garlic focaccia. The pizza was also cold and was sent back. It was replaced with a burnt but hot offering. However, the pollo fettuccini was really good. They were understocked and understaffed. Too busy filling takeaway orders, in house guests were left waiting.

Went here for a meeting while in Tonga. Great coffee and great pastries. I would highly recommend it. On next trip would probably stay here as we had a sneak peek at their rooms and way way better then the rubbish Tanoa rooms we paid so much money for to get dirty linen, dirty mouldy bathrooms, black hairs in the bathroom showers, leeks air conditioners. I would be using LITTLE ITALY NEXT TIME I GO BACK TO TONGA. GREAT COFFEES AND GREAT FOOD. GREAT LITTLE SPOT.

This will be my 3rd visit to tonga for business and I've always stayed at tanoa buy decided this time I wanted to try little Italy as recommended by friends, I booked via email with Vei which is the most helpful professional lady. The night we arrive which was 12.30am we were awaited by hotel shuttle but when we arrived at hotel the lady ask us to pay 30 per person for fare which was disappointed as we were never told this via email so we could be well prepared for. They had someone at reception which was a man was welcoming but again problem is he never came helped us with our bags given they had stairs. Again if we pay this should be all part of your service. I really felt sorry for the lady we were with as she had bags and then we were given our keys and the receptionist never offer to take our bags up the stairs, first of all if you guys have no elevators then when you have guests check in this should be included in your service to deliver our bags to our rooms given we had to walk up the stairs.i arrived in my room which I was in the water front I found my room was decorated with fancylace on top of my bed etc which in our culture was very offensive given this is the way we decorate for any dead person. My advise is please you have beautiful rooms but remove all the decorations and just leave as it is as some people are not on honeymoon they are on business etc. My Aircon did not work but was glad they put me in another room for the night, I must say there standard rooms are perfect.another thing I recommend about this place is there beds are amazing so this is very much worth it. 2nd day went to go back into my room they still had issues with my Airton where I then used a fan. Because when your there for work you just cannot be bothered but just need a good bed a clean room and at least some nice air. There restaurant is always packed I heard the food is good but we went to sit down with some guests and they took forever to bring us our drinks hence we left and went to the roof top bar. At the end of our stay the hotel charge me the standard room rate which I am grateful for. Given this small issues I ran into when we stayed there these are things that can be improved by this place because I HIGHLY recommend to stay here. I do hope they add more rooms and hopefully get an elevator along the way. Little Italy is the place to stay in tonga.

I stayed there three nights. I saw the positive reviews, but was still skeptical about a hotel that’s also a pizza place. I was quite happy with the stay. The restaurant is a popular place, but the noise doesn’t carry into the room. (Albeit my room was on the other side of the hotel, but I still didn’t hear much restraint noise outside the restaurant. Staff was friendly and accommodating. Owners were onsite everyday actively maintaining everything. It’s on the quieter side of town and a 10-15min walk into town, along the oceanfront.