I’m soo excited to be organising a little holiday to Fiji for our family. My sister is getting married in Fiji and it occurred to me today that there are now so many options when planning a holiday. I’m referring to accommodation, car hire, children’s equipment hire and even domestic workers services. We can pay a fee to share someone’s house, someone’s car and the owner drives you, share a boat and the owner steers you, even rent all your children’s equipment. No need to pay $00 x 3 for the sturdiest suitcases, just pay to share them, clothes, bikes and surfboards. Better still, hire someone to cook for the children or mind them for you in your shared holiday house. WE LIVE IN A SHARING ECONOMY AND I LOVE IT!

You do still have to pay for the item that is being shared. For this holiday, I prefer to pay to share for many reasons. The main one being my children have more opportunity to interact with the locals. They’ll get to experience more of the culture, values and traditions I was brought up with (I was raised in Fiji) that we may not have the good fortune to experience if we stay in a fancy resort. A big plus is it is very affordable for our party of five. A major biggie is knowing your “sharing fee” probably puts food on the sharers table that week. That’s a pretty good feeling.

Yes this blog is meant to be about my family and their adventures in Hervey Bay and the Fraser Coast. However I’m still new to blogging and writing about something close to my heart happens to come easy. So please ride with me on this one.  For this Fiji holiday, I have Airbnb sorted for accommodation. Now to find a hire car owner-driver who wants to share his car with my cray but cute kids and a lovely bubu (Fijian for grandmother figure) to make us all those heart warming dishes – qiliqili, vakasoso, bele and waci poki that I’ve been dreaming about. If you have any suggestions or tips, please share and email me at victoria@kidskoncierge.com.au, it will be appreciated. Lets keep this sharing economy going. It costs less, we learn more about each other’s traditions and values, we get a more authentic experience and we truly make a difference to the sharer’s livelihood.

Hervey Bay / Fraser Coast locals – if you have any suggestions about Fraser coast locals who share non-mainstream, (is that a real word?) do tell as we would like to come share one day!

Photo credit: Tourism Fiji