Making the most of WiFi hotspots in the Cook Islands

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What services do Bluesky offer to visitors to the Cook Islands?

Bluesky keeps our visitors connected while on holiday. We have over 300 Bluezone WiFi hotspots in the Cook Islands, giving you easy Internet access to your family, friends and social media. Visitors can also enable roaming on their devices. We have over 270 roaming partners. Check if your network roams in the Cook Islands on www.bluesky.co.ck. Get talking with international capped calling. Our one-hour capped calling rates are some of the best under the Pacific sun. For up to an hour pay only $5 to call New Zealand and $10 to call Australia, Fiji, UK, USA and Canada. Grab yourself a Visitor SimCard today. For only $49 it is preloaded with 3GB Data, 30min calling time and 300 texts.

What tips do Bluesky offer visitors to maximise their SIM cards/WiFi?

Assuming the visitor is purchasing a Bluesky Visitor SIM card: • First tip would be to make good use of the free SMS txts and calling minutes to contact friends and family back home instead of relying on data operated apps (e.g.

Messenger/WhatsApp/

Viber). Better yet, book

all your tours and make reservations using your minutes while on holiday. • Save Data by switching off all auto-updates, restrict background data downloads on your device. • Use Data for live updates or ‘in the moment’ posts via your social media channels.

Upload your pics later using

WiFi. • Switch off your data if you're not using it - also saves your battery life. • Data add-on bundles are not available on Visitor SIM

Card, so if you're needing more data BUY another

Visitor SIM card just in case. • Download the MyBluesky app on arrival to monitor your data/mins/txts usage. • Need to upload your photos from your computer? Tether data from your phone to your computer and get those important captures up online in no time! • Avoid using data when visiting sites that may have low data range/signal. Take your photos and upload them later once you're in good range.

WiFi Tips

Where are the Bluesky retail offices, and what are the opening hours.

Bluesky services the whole of the Cook Islands. We have outlets on all islands except Takutea, Manuae, Suwarrow and Nassau. We have three Bluesky outlets on Rarotonga open everyday. Main office in Parekura opens from 8am - 6pm; CITC Avarua complex office opens from 8am - 4pm; Muri outlet opens from 10am - 6pm. We also have an outlet located outside international arrivals area, which only opens during international flights.

Where and how can visitors find Bluesky hotspots?

Bluezone WiFi Hotspots are located throughout Rarotonga, Aitutaki, the rest of the outer islands at a variety of places such as our airport, restaurants & cafes, resorts, bars, shops, markets and most public meeting areas. A full list is available on www.bluesky.co.ck

• If you have access to a

Bluezone hotspot at your accommodation then save on mobile data and upload your photos/videos using

WiFi instead.

• Can't find your nearest

Bluezone hotspot? Visit www.bluesky.co.ck and find our map with over 100 hotspots located around

Rarotonga and Aitutaki.

There's sure to be one next

door or around the corner from you. • Make sure to log off your

WiFi after each browsing session to conserve MBs • Out of range? Visit any of Rarotonga's cafes/ restaurant with our

Bluezone hotspots instead and enjoy the comfort there, along with good food and atmosphere, and a refreshing beverage!

Shipwrecked on a tropical island

ENGLISH BORN NEW ZEALANDER’S STEVE AND GERALDINE MARSON ARE LIVING A DREAM OF OWNING ‘THE PERFECT BEACH BAR ON A TROPICAL ISLAND’; AND IT’S APTLY NAMED THE SHIPWRECK HUT BEACH BAR.

Located at the Aro’a Beachside Inn on Rarotonga’s sunset coast, you couldn’t pick a better location with guaranteed mind-blowing sunset views every evening (weather Geraldine and Steve Marson in their Shipwreck Hut Beach Bar, with staff Anna, Stephanie and Priest in the background permitting). IT and barcoding with this at Aro’a Beachside Inn since Meeting and marrying in company. They took me on Steve and Geraldine bought it. Cheshire, both Steve and to introduce barcoding to the Every Tuesday Stephanie does Geraldine are from sales whole group. It was really a popular guest appearance backgrounds: Steve in pioneering stuff at the time! singing with the band at the engineering, electronics, computer and IT, and Geraldine in pharmaceuticals. “The business was sold, so then I set up my own business in Kent called Lynk Data Bar. “We are lucky to have such a wonderful, fun team!” We asked Steve if the “We met at night school Systems. I did that for ten years Shipwreck Hut Beach Bar had because we were working for then I sold it, which made me anything to do with them German or Swiss German enough to retire on at the age buying the place. companies, so we both went to night school to learn German!” said Steve. of 47! “Every man wants to have his own bar, sure!” said Steve. “We just clicked and “I remember, at the started going out in age of 17, we were January '86. We got sitting on a beach engaged about March in Italy next to this and got married in beach bar and I July.” thought, that would They now have two boys Will and be cool, to have a little beach bar.” Dan, who are in Since arriving on their mid-twenties: the island Steve has Will is completing developed his own his Masters; he's a geomorphologist, and Steve performing with Anania Brown singing and guitar skills to the point Dan is a musician where he performs in a band. “He’s a very good “We moved to New Zealand in at the Shipwreck BBQ on guitarist and sings well too!” 2008! Geraldine got a teaching Saturdays. He also sings in “The boys were born in Cheshire. We moved to Kent when Dan was about six weeks old, as I got a job there with a company as European Sales Manager for FACIT.” job. I was there three months before I got so bored I joined a company as general manager doing very similar things I was doing in the UK. That business eventually got sold, so I took time off and then found this a guest spot on Tuesday and Thursday nights when live music is featured from 6.30pm to 8.30pm. Famously, the popular Rockin’ Jandals play on Tuesdays with Rarotonga guitar great Anania Brown, Geraldine gave up work to look place.” and local DJ legend Ian after the children then later Wheeldon. studied to become a science teacher. We are lucky to have “What got me into singing was when Geraldine and I “She is actually a scientist. Her speciality was biology, microbiology. And she's got a such a wonderful, fun team! were on a skiing holiday in France. They had this dressup karaoke night. I went as degree in microbiology. So she Batman, Geraldine went as Cat now got a secondary degree, Woman. I thought: I'll give which is a teaching degree.” Steve said he and Geraldine this a go and sang an Elton The next big thing for Steve was when they made him managing director in the UK for FACIT. “I was now seriously into the had stayed at Aro’a Beachside Inn in 2012, then came back in 2014 to find out it was for sale and bought it. Stephanie Vaiimene, the general manager, has been John song. Then surprisingly I had a request: Can Batman please sing Daydream Believer? Which I did, and I still sing it today at the Shipwreck Hut Beach Bar!”

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