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# Children &amp; Internet Access (Not together!) Country forums / Pacific Islands & Papua New Guinea / Fiji
twiggy74 05:38 UTC 10 Oct 2007 | Hi All, We are heading on a big family holiday next week (there's 10 of us - 4 kids) and staying at the Warwick. I have been scanning thru the TT posts but have been unable to find answers to my questions in the limited time that I have (one newborn+one three year old - doesn't give you much time!) Firstly.. what would you suggest would be some kid friendly activities - the kids are ranging in age from say 18 months to almost 4 years - and then there's bubs! I have heard that the railway may be good but haven't found much info on it, kids clubs in the resort are meant to be good but is there any other ideas that people may have? hints? tips? and also any health/safety issue when travelling to fiji with kid-lins? I know it's a very child friendly place, but someone may have an idea or two on what we should take or be careful of. Secondly.. Internet access - We plan on taking our laptop as we have our own business & need to keep in touch.. what's the best way to go about this? Is there pre-paid plans or ?? I have found a few different sites that deal with this but I keep hitting brick walls.. or you need to buy a $200 modem from them.. we're only there 6 nights... not really keen on that! If anyone with any experience in this area has some ideas i'd love to hear from you. Thank you in advance.. Twig |
oldpro 23:57 UTC 11 Oct 2007 | Regarding the second question: seems to me that you ought to contact the Warwick and ask them what the possibilities are. I don't know what your needs are, so the following may be irrelevant. I had a laptop with me in Fiji. Did my work on that and only used the internet for emailing and to up- and download files. For internet access I used internet 'cafes'. On islands where I was, these were most often found in dive shops, and almost invariably had very slow and not very reliable telephone modem connections. I used a memory stick to plug into USB ports on PCs in internet cafes. The mainland (aka Viti Levu) did not guarantee fast or reliable connections. In fact, I was in Lautoka for several days and it was only marginally more expensive but much easier on my frustration level to just take a bus to Nadi and use a good internet cafe there. In Suva I tried out 3-4 different cafes before I found one with a decent connection speed. | 1
twiggy74 04:26 UTC 12 Oct 2007 | Thank you oldpro.. helps out heaps.. hopefully i won't have much time to sit on the laptop anyway.. there's sunshine to be had.. | 2