anywhere in the whole world...

Can't believe no one mentioned Mexico great time there on that sorta cash

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiji

this will tell you the basics.

people are really friendly, especially the native fijians. there are 2 major ethnic groups, fijians and fijian-indians. broadly speaking the fijians own all the land and the indians run all the services although obviously this is a generalisation (it's a throwback to when the british ruled and needed manpower, so they brought people over from india). cost wise it varies wildly depending on which island you're on and what you do. on caqalai for example i brought a tent with me and paid the equivalent of about €10 for camping and 3 meals a day. and if i remember correctly it cost about €25 per scuba dive. in other places it was more expensive (and if you went to some of the 'party islands' you could be paying 3 or 4 times that much). i can't really remember costs to be honest so looking up lonelyplanet.com or something would be your best bet.

one thing though, you should ring the foreign office about the political situation. there was a coup in 2000 which got them kicked out of the commonwealth. they got back in the next year and all was well when i was there (last autumn). i do remember reading something about increasing tensions around december time so it might be worth chekcing out. should be fine i'd imagine (blind faith, nothing like it )

no worries

and it's csm, i won't bore you with the ill-advised behaviour that led to the name

dr.bollocko wrote:

What about prague, or middle europe aside from prague.
A load of these places are still really re-he-heally cheap. Prague though. Beautiful.

yeah. go at the end of the month with my friends. there's a spare hotel room because someone pulled out.

who keeps saying "Hawaii"?

Very easily and without any reservations koh phi phi, Thailand.