Mind the palm trees at Fiji's exclusive Wakaya Club resort
By Paul Johnson on Apr 30, 2006 in Accommodation, Celebrities, Fiji, Oceania, Regions, Resorts, Travel Miscellany
Keith Richards, guitarist to the Rolling Stones, is suffering from mild concussion having been hospitalized after falling out of a palm tree. The incident is reported to have happened at The Wakaya Club, a luxury resort on a private island in Fiji. The resort was winner of Andrew Harper’s ‘Hideaway of the Year Grand Award’ back in 2004, and has recently opened a new spa.
[…] Keith Richards, who I reported fell out of a palm tree about 2 weeks ago, has only just been discharged from a hospital in New Zealand. It turned out that his fall at the luxurious Wakaya Club in Fiji proved more serious than was first thought and Richards had to undergo brain surgery to relieve pressure from a blood clot. In true Rolling Stones style he thanked the hospital by saying that he hoped he wasn’t “too much of a pain in the arse”. Possibly related posts: […]