Originally Posted by Amicus

It is NOT mandatory to take the Le Moana water shuttle from the airport. We also received this email last week but ignored it.

There is a FREE water ferry from the airport to Viatape. From there, you can get a car taxi to Le Moana. I can't remember the price of the taxi from town center to the hotel, (on our prior visit in 2013) but it was definitely less than $125!! Also, Le Moana runs a paid shuttle bus from the hotel to Viatape on a fixed schedule of a couple times each day. Their bus service was inexpensive, but again, it only runs maybe two roundtrips each day. The dropoff/pickup point in town was the small parking lot of a pearls store, just across from the open air market. Don't know how far that is from the ferry dock, but Viatape is quite small. We walked the length of the main street several times.