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LAX to Nadi recently. Checked bag allowance was 1 66 lb bag. Cabin baggage was 1 15 lb bag plus a "personal item" i.e. a smaller bag like backpack. Lots of room in the overhead compartments. Backpack was not weighed. Ours said we could pay $105 (FJD?) for a second checked bag of 50 lbs...

Thanks all for the suggestions and still open to suggestions. They make Dramamine for kids but it's not available anywhere for a while. OK, so far I bought some herbal lollipops and the Sea Bands. EDIT: The wife just came home and shows the normal Dramamine chewables are also for children of...

I'm looking at taking a couple 8 year olds on a boat for what should be a 5 hour trip. Don't know if they will get seasick but one has had motion sickness issues with riding in the backseat on twisty roads. Suggestions for what to take to try to prevent it? I've taken Bonine with good effect...

Thanks for the trip report and tips on Egypt travel. Your story just describes what we have unfortunately seen previously which is the Aggressor fleet is a collection of individual boats for which Aggressor takes no responsibility for the experience. Your summary of your experiences bears that...

Your location either means high cold tolerance or high heat humidity tolerance. I always use a 3mm full suit in the tropics of the stretch variety so it is effective and comfortable. Handles any incidental coral exposure or jellies exposure. I used 5mm suit when in low 70s but that is cool...

That pic is pretty horrifying even blurred out. And absolutely incredible what medical science, and surgeon skill, can do as well as the tourniquet. And at two bites from a 9 foot shark, surprised she could survive. She gets a lions share for surviving in the first place. It'd be easy to...

Thanks for the videos. I noted you said no lights except under ledges. You also said no external red filters and just using the brilliant colours setting? If so, did you try using their red filter but did not like it or just never had the red filter? I bought their red filter set due to past...

Websites and Facebook pages for any company only show positive information for the company. That's not surprising but your claims only reinforce how useless their sites are to knowing the reality of the product. The possibility of talking to someone who actually went is what brought me to...

RIP to this person regardless the circumstances. Fun trivia for the economic definition discussion is definition of third world wasn't based on economics but on political alignment. The definition was created during the cold war to refer to aligned with NATO or the Warsaw pact. No surprise...

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Thanks all, I got what I needed from your responses. It wasn't my preference to use a proctored test but I was considering it as a backup but it sounds ill-advised.

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Going to Fiji for some diving and snorkeling. I have a Verizon phone and am wondering about options for using a phone in Fiji. Not too worried about using it generally but I might need it to take a proctored COVID test to re-enter the USA. Thoughts?

Thanks for the trip report. Pre-kids, the wife and I went to Taveuni I think in June (gee, has it been that many years already?!). We checked in for our domestic flight to find we had been bumped off not only our flight but our airline! :-) But in true "Fiji it will get done" style, they had...

Thanks, Don

Sorry my polish is non-existent so I can't read the link. Are you saying the friends were charged and convicted of lying about the location but received no punishment? Or that they were not convicted?

If you have been on liveaboards previously specifically to snorkel then you have an idea of what your experience will be like but the focus will be on the divers and their sites are going to be away from where it is easy to snorkel. How much the boat will accomodate taking you snorkeling while...

Note to self, don't go fishing with the chairman

Thanks! Great camera work on the tiny creatures. Difficult to be stable.

There two things that don't inspire confidence though I am going off third hand info: first, that apparently nobody was driving the boat except a "watch person". Definition of watch person to me is as described above, someone who roams the boat looking for problems, not the guy driving the...