Just thought I would mix it up a little bit and tell you guys about a place near Australia that I’ve actually been to. Two summers ago I took a family vacation with my mom’s company to the beautiful island of Fiji. The plane ride there was absolutely exhausting. It took a total of about 23 hours on the plane and 17 were actually in the air (because of stops along the way). My parents gave my sister and I a sleeping pill to split on the way there and back, and we were still miserable.
After all the traveling was over to get there, we checked into our hotel. We stayed at the JW Mariott in Fiji and I wouldn’t recommend another one. The service was great and the rooms and their views were gorgeous. The pool in the back is connected to the beach so if you’d like to go to the beach or pool it is all right there.
Honestly, there isn’t much more to do in the area of the hotel, or in Fiji itself, for that matter. There were about 5 to 6 restaurants connected to our hotel alone, and many others that are with other hotels nearby. But the life outside of the resorts is nothing. There is a lot of farmland and areas that are not very developed. There is a shopping strip but it doesn’t have much besides the little trinkets that you tell yourself before you leave that you’re not going to come back with.
When we were there, we mostly stuck around the beach everyday. I am a beach person, however for those of you that aren’t, it might get a little boring. There is a long stretch of beach with resorts that offer the generic “beach vacation activities” but those can get old, and expensive, after a few days.
One day my family went on a catamaran ride to get to an island across the ocean. We went with a few people from my moms work, and one of which drove it. Everything was going great and the views were lovely… until we started noticing we were slowly accumulating more and more water on the catamaran. Soon enough we realized that the ship was sinking. So, there was nothing else to do but to jump off into the middle of the deep ocean. As we all floated there panicking, we watched the boat sink deep enough to where the tip of the sail was the only thing left.
Obviously I’m here writing to you guys today so I think you can conclude that we were all okay and rescued….our boat was recovered as well. The point to this story? You cannot always trust the people that lend you those fun rides. The gentleman along the beach that had rented us the catamaran had conveniently forgotten to put the plug in the back of the pontoon, which is what caused us to sink. They then had blamed the situation on US for putting too many people on the catamaran, even though they are the ones that put us on there. Anyway, we got the situation worked out and it ended up being completely their fault. So, just be careful! This advice can apply to you even if you’re not going to Fiji and you have another vacation planned where you think you might be renting something.
1 comment:
Wow! What an experience! I would have freaked out sooo bad! There is no way! You guys were lucky! The blog started out really nice and it made me want to go visit there, but the you gave a down side about it so it kind of changed my mind a little bit! But the picture still helped and I have always wanted to visit there, so that one incident won't change my mind!!
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