Family Visit

The Loved Ones Challenge (also known as Family Reward) refers to a reward challenge where the contestants compete to earn the reward of spending the day with their loved ones or having the privilege to watch or chat with their loved ones through a video tape or the internet respectively.

History
The challenge first appeared in where the contestants' loved ones sent in video tapes and the contestants have to compete with each other to win the video tape as reward. Since then, with the exception of and, the challenge has made its appearance on every season, with loved ones connecting with the contestants through a webchat, home made video tapes or even physically appearing on location. The challenge usually appears when there are only 6 contestants left in the game.

Survivor Fiji
The challenge did not make an appearance on because at that time, a coup d'état was initiated by Fiji's military leader, Frank Bainimarama prevented the families of the cast members from coming to Fiji to participate in the challenge.

Survivor Samoa
The reason why the challenge was not in this season is unknown.

Trivia

 * Parvati Shallow is the only person to compete in this challenge three times