Best way to access Excel & Word documents on iPad

On my iMac I have a number of EXCEL and WORD documents created with Excel / Word MICROSOFT for MAC 2011.
I want to access these Word and Excel documents on my iPad.
I am confused as to what is the best way to do this. Pages & Numbers with iCloud ........ or ....... CloudOn, the free, cloud based service that lets you run Word and Excel on the ipad????
When we are on holidays I need to VIEW or UPDATE Excel and Word documents on my iPad and then when we get home update my iMac with any changes that I may have made.
I do not need to print from my iPad whilst on holidays, only view and update.
Has anyone had experience with Pages and Numbers on their ipad using documents created with Microsoft for Mac 2011 on their Mac computer. Does it work well and is it user friendly doing what I want it to do as detailed above?
Thanks

Thanks for that info Skydiver119.
I was hoping that if I had the apps 'PAGES' (for my Word docs) and 'NUMBERS' (for my Excel docs) loaded on my iPad that I would be able to access my documents without having to have internet access.
I understand that to get them there in the first place I need internet access and then to update back to my iMac when I get back home I would need internet access.
I am relatively new to iPad & apps etc. so maybe I have misunderstood the concept. I thought that having the apps loaded onto my ipad, would mean that my documents would be there to access/edit/update when ever I needed to. I mean of course, as I have already said above, once downloaded either by syncing through iTunes or iCloud to start with.
Can you (or anyone else!) please help with this
Thanks

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