Money and costs
The currency of the Solomon Islands is the Solomon Islands Dollar (SBD). At the time this text was created, there were ATM's and international withdrawals were possible only in Honiara. Credit card payments are rare or largely non-existent due to the precariousness of the country's electronic communications system.
ACCOMMODATION
The Solomon Islands' accommodation network is still recovering from the instability that plagued the country from 1998 to 2006. Australian and New Zealander businessmen maintain small resorts operating in the most touristic spots, but only Honiara, Gizo and Munda have acceptable hotels, resorts or lodges if taken in account international standards.
Some hotels and resorts They accept Australian dollars and credit card payments. The most elegant and welcoming have restaurants, bars and offer WiFi, with daily rates ranging from €45 to €150 per double room. The daily rates of various lodges e guesthouses, by comparison Spartans, without air conditioning and shared bathroom are around €20.
FOOD
Any traditional Solomon Islands meal involves the main ingredients available in the archipelago: fish, chicken, pork, coconut, sweet potato and taro (tuber abundant in most of the South Pacific). In the few restaurants used by locals and street markets, meals are very affordable, invariably less than €5 per dish or even per full meal.
The restaurants of the best hotels, resorts and lodges also offer Western-inspired meals at much higher prices – €10 to €25 per person, per meal, even so, very affordable if we take into account, for example, what is practiced by the best accommodations from neighboring New Caledonia or from French Polynesia.
INTERNET
Barring drastic last minute changes you will find unstable, slow and expensive Internet even in Honiara, Gizo, Auki and Munda, provided by Solomon Telekom and accessible through code cards that have different costs depending on the browsing time purchased, as you can see in Internet Solomon Telekom. Honiara has some cybercafés but the Internet may not work for long periods of time if there is a failure in the islands' electricity supply or other technical problems. if traveling with smart phone, tablets or laptop computer can purchase a SIM card from Our Telekom or Be Mobile operators.