Megan Singleton: BloggerAtLarge.com writer with her recommendations for Rarotonga

BloggerAtLarge.com writer Megan Singleton's gotten back from Rarotonga - and she's got some recommendations for prospective travellers looking to explore the region.

She's outlined her favourite restaurants, her tips for dealing with unpredictable weather - and shared her top spot to go snorkelling with the turtles.

Read more about Megan's experience in Rarotonga here. 

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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Sunday Session podcast with Francesca Rudgin
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Speaker 2 (00:20):
Our travel correspondent Meghan Singleton has just been a week
in Raratonga and she joins us now with some of
her best her top picks for holidaying in Raratonga. And
of course none of this is sponsored. You made all
these decisions and paid for everything yourself.

Speaker 3 (00:37):
I did, I did, I know. So it's great because
last year I was over there with a group of
ladies in March and that was lovely. It was warmer,
but almost a bit too hot. So this year, going
in October, I was thinking, oh, it looks like on
the AX it's only going to be in the low
to mid twenties. Well, actually it turned out some days
twenty eight degrees already. And I think too, when you

(00:59):
look at the weather APX for Raratonga, you're seeing maybe
some cloud or rain or whatever, But you go around
the other side of the island and it's a lovely
sunny day. So don't be distressed if you're heading off
there and you think that the weather's looking bad. For
next week, because the chances are it won't be not
all the way around the island anyway. So one of
the tips I do have is to hire a car.

(01:20):
It's an easy island to tootle around. The top speed
is fifty k's. People go less than that. It's only
the tourists that drive up people's jackxies to try and
get around. So it's really easy island. And then you
can visit lots of different places resorts to go and
have a lunch or you know, a paddle or a
cocktail or a spar treatment or or something like that.

(01:41):
So that is one of my recommendations. One of the
car rental companies those just put their bond up to
three and a half thousand dollars, which took me by surprise.
So check on the fine print on that because you
don't want that blocked on your credit card. If that's
all the limit that you've got.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
That's true, Alming, very true. Hey, some top tips for
where to eat?

Speaker 3 (02:03):
Yeah, I loved Antibodies, that would be my top. It's
up on the hill, could look a veil watching time,
so we saw Wales. Tamar And House was another really
lovely one. The Nautilus had the best pinicoladas on the island.
In my mind, the Murray night markets are pop up
food trucks, beautiful, cheap and cheerful, and OTB restaurant, which
means on the beach, and that is actually at the

(02:25):
resort we stayed at, which was Manuia. And I'm doing
it again, Francisca. We loved it so much. I'm going
to have to organize another tour next year.

Speaker 2 (02:32):
If you were going to spend money on maybe doing
one sort of little outing, I would love to go
and snorkel with turtles. Is that something you'd recommend?

Speaker 3 (02:42):
Absolutely? And we went with a company called Go Local.
There are lots of companies and this one takes photos
and it's all included with the package. And I've just
while I was on hold, finished off or updated a
blog post and I've put some turtle photos on there.
Absolutely magic, everyone said. And I took twelve of us
on that tour. We loved it and we would do
that again. In the channel where the turtles are just

(03:05):
they look like that mo than they appear they're not.
We never touched them, we didn't chase them, we didn't
get near them, but they look amazing and I would
totally recommend that.

Speaker 2 (03:14):
Fantastic. Thank you, Meghan. Good to hear you've got a
post too, so Meghan will have all her Raratonga tips
at Roger at large dot com twelve to twelve.

Speaker 1 (03:24):
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