Hotels near Christmas Island International Airport - XCH, Flying Fish Cove

For dining and and other amenities you're pretty restricted unless you have a car, and they are hard to hire unless you do so weeks, probably months, in advance. There are also no accessible sandy beaches at the Cove itself (though apparently there are elsewhere on the island). Nett result (plus having the 'flu!) was that I could not do some of the things I'd looked forward to on Christmas Island, such as exploring the jungle and snorkelling.