Thinking of Fiji for your next family getaway? Here is what our week at Hilton Denarau was really like: pools, dining, day trips, and family-friendly tips.

New Zealand. August 2019. It was time to escape winter for tropical climes.

Almost a year on, hopping on a plane to a small South Pacific island just three hours north of our home country, seems like a distant dream.

1 June 2020. The winter begins again…

But it turns out our wild adventurous souls were destined for grounding with a day on the land and in the shore.

We packed up the car the night before. The surf reports showed swell would be headed our way. But when we arrived at the beach on the cusp of the Coromandel peninsula - that we planned to have a cruisy day at on the logs - just before the break of dawn, the ocean told us it had other plans…