The City of Lautoka is a 30-40 minute drive from Nadi International Airport. This new City, which will celebrate its 30th anniversary as a city in February 2007, is well-known for its sugar mill and wharf, and its modest beginnings in the early nineteenth century as a town created by the Colonial Sugar Refining Company Ltd (CSR).

Business residents from the Lautoka & Nadi areas, however, increasingly head to Lautoka as a pleasant environment in which to live. The City Centre is starting to modernise, and there is a sports and musical stadium at Churchill Park, a golf course, a marina and busy wharf. However, one of the main attributes for residents are the hills behind the City centre, such as Simla, where many homes enjoy views over the City and out to the ocean. Some of the best views of the Mamanuca and Yasawa island groups can be seen from here, as well as magnificent sunsets. Even those without views can enjoy the hilly topography and pleasant residential neighbourhoods.