How is Fiji in Dec, Jan, Feb?

Hi guys,
i'm still trying to put it all together for my first surf trip.
Now, the guys from the perfect waves are saying that during australian summer, is off season in Fiji, therefore my friends and I could enjoy it with our longboards.
Do you think this is reasonable?
It's not a problem surfing the reef, as long as we dont have to face tubes and 4m waves...
Are they taking us for a ride? Let us pay and then watch the others have fun on crazy waves?
Or there are so many options that we can find our little spot and enjoy it while all the others are at cloudbreak?
Should we consider the Solomon instead? NewCaledonia?
Give up and come back in 5 years when we can ride tubes??
Just go to feed the crowd in Noosa and acept our misery of kook condition?
Thanks
i'm still trying to put it all together for my first surf trip.
Now, the guys from the perfect waves are saying that during australian summer, is off season in Fiji, therefore my friends and I could enjoy it with our longboards.
Do you think this is reasonable?
It's not a problem surfing the reef, as long as we dont have to face tubes and 4m waves...
Are they taking us for a ride? Let us pay and then watch the others have fun on crazy waves?
Or there are so many options that we can find our little spot and enjoy it while all the others are at cloudbreak?
Should we consider the Solomon instead? NewCaledonia?
Give up and come back in 5 years when we can ride tubes??
Just go to feed the crowd in Noosa and acept our misery of kook condition?
Thanks