Fiji ... GF eating

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Hi everyone

We are planning a trip to Fiji soon and wondered if any other coeliacs have been and have any helpful tips. We are probably booking a room in a resort on the mainland that has a kitchen. We have contacted the resort in question and they have let us know that they can do GF for us.

In particular would like to hear if anyone has been to any of the island resorts if you have any info of GF food out there. We were originally going to go to the islands and stay there the whole trip but it scared me off as none of them have any self catering facilities and most offer meal plans. So we decided to go mainland and at least give ourselves the option of self preparation...Didnt want to get stuck on an island with a glutened child and no food for her ...eeeek!

Thanks

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So against all the little niggles I had telling me not to go to the islnds we made the decision to do a stay on the mainland and then go to an island for a short stay also. I contacted both places we intended on staying and both replied within 24 hours stating that they could both cater for our coeliac daughter. One resort actually emailed me a copy of their menu which had GF certified options on it already!.
Long story short we ended up making the decision to leave the island destination after one night (stayed two as we could not get out before the next morning). Our daughter ate one specially prepared meal and was not all that well after it (not drastically sick but..who knows what she would have been like after 6 days here) There were no other options for her other than the case of snack foods we carried for her so we went back to the other resort we stayed at on the mainland.

My reason to post, if you made it through this far, is to say that if you ever go to Fiji make sure if you are going the island option you need to take a massive amount of food with you!
Otherwise stay at the Radisson at Denarau and do day trips to the islands. This is what we will do next time we go. The Radisson staff went out of their way to help us with our daughters diet. They ordered in GF bread and also GF muffins for her (at no extra cost to us as our breakfast was included).. Might I add that we didnt even ask for this to happen - a staff member offered this when she found out our daughter was coeliac. We had our own cooking facilities so we could cook pasta that we took with us for her too!