He was pleasantly surprised to find an Internet cafe in Fiji. Getting travel information. The Internet offers fast access to airline and hotel information. Grisdale used Kublai's Internet cafe in Hong Kong to check out Internet sites on Bangkok before he traveled to Thailand. The rest are tourists.
Internet cafes can be cheaper alternatives to checking e-mail from hotel rooms.
Hotels often add extra charges to telephone calls and often have old telephone systems that don't work well with speedy laptops. While doing research in Hanoi, he shunned his laptop to use the computers at the Queen Cafe. The quality of Internet cafes varies. Some have banks of new PCs and fancy printers. It was in pieces and gave off electric shocks.