Gizo - Communications
WiFi is available throughout town, but patchy in the anchorage.
Buy a “Bumblebee” card from the Telekom office (bright red building). These are not available online. Two cards are available – 50mb and 250 mb. Unfortunately, the 50 mb card is valid for only two hours, once you enter the codes, and the 250 mb card can be used for seven days. (This card information applies to Honiara as well).
There is internet access at the Telekom office, but it is not open weekends.
Various resorts in the Solomon Islands will have a Wi-Fi antenna for this Bumblebee system, but often the resort itself does not have cards to sell.
Last updated: May 2016
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Fuel- No.3 fuel depot, contact: Anthony. Can arrange filtered diesel delivered to your yacht by Skipper: Davis, so you don’t have to pull up on a dock or cart jerries. Delivery fee SI$100 within the bay. Can be delivered elsewhere by negotiation.
Food & drink – PT109 sells the cheapest beers in town. If it is closed you may be able to find someone to open it if there are a few people or you want to eat. Closed Saturdays & Sundays. The Waterfront Bar serves good food (but gets rather noisy at night time) You can berth the dingy right next to the waterside gate.
Computer/ Photo/ Video – Bobo at the DVD shop/ printers behind PT109 (door at the Figtree) Contact: 7466391 or ask at PT109 bar. Computer technician. He has a special interest & skills. He wants to build up his knowledge & business. He may be able to help!
Hospital – Gizo hospital is Japanese built & is the most prominent building on the coastline. Its facilities include laboratory, surgical suite, emergency, pharmacy, imaging. Non-Solomon residents pay a small fee for services.
Fuel at Gizo.
Often diesel and petrol are full of rust and water as it all comes from drums that sit around for months or years. This last year the big fuel depot west of town has been pumping directly from these drums with no filtration.
“No.3” filters their diesel with a Baja/Racor filter and will, on request, their petrol. They are between PT109 and the fuel depot with “No.3” on their waterside grey wall. Good wooden dock and very friendly family. They will negotiate a price.
Big fuel depot to the west has a wooden dock but usually force customers on to their concrete dock by mooring their barge and daddies’ pleasure yacht on the wooden dock.