Things to do in Majuro
And where to stay, the best time to visit, what a day costs, and the traps to skip.
Best time to visit Majuro
• a note or something on ✦ an occasion worth the trip
Relatively drier window and the recommended first trip, with the most reliable Eneko, Arno and Laura boat days.
King tide flooding window, when exceptionally high tides flood low road sections in Majuro a few times a year.
Wetter stretch with heavier rain, higher humidity and rougher lagoon crossings and more cancelled boat days.
Lutok Kobban Alele cultural week concludes on Manit Day, the cultural peak of the Majuro year.
What's on
- Remembrance Day 1 March
Solemn national day for nuclear test victims, marking the Castle Bravo anniversary.
- Constitution Day 1 May
Public holiday marking the 1979 constitution, with ceremonies, sport and gatherings in Majuro.
- Fishermen's Day First Friday in July
Public holiday celebrating Marshallese fishing culture.
- Lutok Kobban Alele Last week of September
Week long festival of Marshallese culture around the Alele Museum, ending on Manit Day.
- Manit Day Last Friday in September
Custom Day public holiday with singing, dancing, weaving, cooking and canoe culture in Majuro.
Best things to do in Majuro
Alele Museum, Library and National Archives
The national museum in Majuro, best for stick charts, canoe culture and the photographic record of the testing era.
Laura Beach
The atoll best beach at the far western end of the road, calm lagoon swimming and a local weekend picnic scene.
Eneko Island
A small lagoon islet about 30 minutes by boat from Uliga, for white sand, swimming and snorkelling with nothing else.
Waan Aelon in Majel
A working canoe centre in Majuro where young Marshallese learn traditional building, sailing and navigation.
Tobolar Copra Processing Plant
A working copra plant turning dried coconut into oil, soap and body oil, the outer island cash economy in one visit.
Majuro Peace Park
A quiet memorial park in Delap built with Japanese support to commemorate those who died in the Pacific war.
Cathedral of the Assumption
The Catholic cathedral of the Marshall Islands in central Majuro, visited for its inlaid tile floor and calm interior.
Where to stay in Majuro
Delap
largest hotel, museum and first night
The southern DUD islet with the Capitol area, Alele Museum and Marshall Islands Resort on the lagoon.
Uliga
restaurants, dock and daily life
The commercial middle of DUD, with Hotel Robert Reimers, the Tide Table, supermarkets and the Arno and Eneko dock.
Rairok and Long Island
quieter apartment stays
West past the bridge toward the airport, with village apartment stays and a taxi ride for every town dinner.
Eneko and Arno
island overnight experience
Lagoon cabins on Eneko and a single rustic lodge on Arno, with limited water, power and food arranged in advance.
Best restaurants in Majuro
Enra Restaurant
The island fancy table inside the Marshall Islands Resort, the largest dining room in Majuro with lagoon views.
Tide Table Restaurant & Lounge
The social heart of Majuro at Hotel Robert Reimers, for fresh tuna, pizza and burgers overlooking the lagoon.
Won Hai Shien
A Chinese restaurant by Uliga Dock praised for excellent food, the variety pick in a hotel heavy town.
DAR
A small Uliga backroad cafe with reasonably priced diner fare and some of the best coffee on the island.
Flame Tree
The Delap pizza stop, a casual local place to eat before sunset on the main road in Delap.
Riwut Corner
A roadside diner with American and local foods, also a fuel and convenience stop on the atoll road.
Outdoor things to do in Majuro
Raycrew Marine Services
The current Majuro dive operator at the Marshall Islands Resort, running guided reef, wreck and snorkel trips.
Kalalin Pass
The named Majuro pass dive, where a section divers call the Aquarium concentrates fish life in moving water.
Arno Atoll
The atoll about an hour by boat from Majuro, with white sand, turquoise shallows and reef passes and no town at all.
Enemanit Island
A private lagoon islet for a beach day and snorkelling over a wrecked aeroplane and helicopter in shallow water.
Best hotels in Majuro
Marshall Islands Resort
The largest hotel in the country on the Delap lagoon, with lagoon view balconies, Enra restaurant and the dive desk.
Hotel Robert Reimers
The friendly smaller town hotel in Uliga by the dock, with bungalows, the Tide Table and the boat arrangements desk.
Lojkar
Apartment style stays in Rairok village west of town, a quieter and more local base for longer Majuro stays.
Eneko Island cabins
Basic island cabins on Eneko booked through Hotel Robert Reimers, for a night alone on a lagoon islet.
Beachcomber Lodge, Arno
The only lodge on Arno in traveller accounts, rustic lagoon cabins with a kitchenette over white sand and shallows.
Is Majuro expensive? What a day costs
| Budget | $85 a person |
|---|---|
| Classic | $180 a person |
| Splurge | $320 a person |
A day of food, drink, sights and getting around, before the room
What to book ahead
- Eneko Island: a few days ahead
- Tobolar Copra Processing Plant: a few days ahead
- Raycrew Marine Services: a few days ahead
- Kalalin Pass: a few days ahead
- Arno Atoll: a few days ahead
- Enemanit Island: a few days ahead
- Marshall Islands Resort: weeks ahead
- Hotel Robert Reimers: weeks ahead
- Build the trip around Island Hopper days a few times a week and the weekly scale Nauru Airlines connector.
- Book the two town hotels and any Arno or Eneko overnight weeks ahead, and leave a no dive day before flying.
- Protect the first weekday for the Alele Museum, which is closed at weekends.
Is Majuro safe?
- Use a hotel arranged taxi after dark and lock rooms, as break ins and theft are the common crimes in a low crime country.
- Carry a stout stick on quiet walks, as dog packs in inhabited areas are a documented hazard for walkers and runners.
- Carry medical evacuation insurance, use repellent against dengue, and drink bottled or boiled water.
Majuro travel tips: tourist traps to skip
- Do not treat the ocean side as a swimming beach, and do not land on a lagoon islet unannounced as most land is customary.
- Do not build a Sunday around shopping, the museum or the Laura bus, because Majuro rests on Sunday.
- Do not expect imported goods or a favourite menu item when a supply ship is late.
Getting around Majuro: public transport and more
- Shared taxis ply the single road at a flat US$2 in town, about US$5 from the airport, with Laura priced as a special trip.
- Rental cars run about US$60 to 80 a day locally, including through Hotel Robert Reimers, with no international agencies.
- Boats to Eneko and Arno leave from the Uliga dock area and run on local days and weather, confirmed in person.
Who Majuro suits
| Solo travellers | Good |
|---|---|
| Groups of friends | Good |
| Couples | Good |
| Bachelor parties | Not ideal |
| Families | OK |
| Bachelorette parties | Not ideal |
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