Has anyone been to Tahiti?
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Crazydog

Friday, May 02, 2003 - 01:34 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
We are considering going there for our honeymoon. If you've been there, I'd love to hear your opinions. This is what I've got so far:

Pros: beautiful, relaxing, exotic
Cons: expensive, very far, not much to do

Any other views?

Babyruth

Friday, May 02, 2003 - 01:43 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
CD, we were there last year at this time. :)
Feel free to email me (addy in profile) for info.

Tappy

Sunday, June 29, 2003 - 04:21 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
We went to Atlantis - Paridise Island and loved it.

Bobbie_552001

Sunday, June 29, 2003 - 07:26 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Agree Tabby...I just posted in another thread regarding the Atlantis. It has something for everyone and pampering you is their main goal...

Hippyt

Sunday, June 29, 2003 - 10:38 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
<dh>,I thought this was a free trip.

Bastable

Monday, June 30, 2003 - 12:18 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Tahiti's main city, Papeete, is not very appealing. The best parts of Tahiti require you to take a short flight to the outer islands. Tahiti is also one of the most expensive South Pacific islands, since it's French-owned and they tend to ship everything over from Europe.

I much prefer the Cook Islands, just a few hours west (not far at all), which are cheap and just as beautiful. They are probably the most beautiful place I have ever been, and the safest, and they're cheap. And easy to navigate on a moped--one road goes right around the island. It's where The Blue Lagoon was shot. Stunning. Fiji is close behind it, but you have to pick your hotel carefully (as you do in Tahiti), because some stretches of these islands are hot and sandy and not very nice. It's not as simple to land in a paradisical resort as you might think.

Cheap vacations to Tahiti, with airfare: www.tahitivacations.net
Also great and very expensive: www.discoverwholesaletravel.com/

But for any package, check into the hotel property before you buy. Find reviews.

Jedisan

Monday, June 30, 2003 - 05:11 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I agree w/ Bastable.
I have never been to Tahiti, but I lived in The Kingdom of Tonga for a year (cook islands, near Fiji), and I suspect it is definitely cheaper, and (most certainly) equally beautiful.

Bastable

Monday, June 30, 2003 - 10:31 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Oops, I mistyped in my previous message. Discover Wholesale Travel is very inexpensive.

Jedisan, I have heard such interesting things about Tonga and its King and its social problems. How wild (and also, on Sundays, how boring) that must have been for you!

Jedisan

Sunday, July 06, 2003 - 09:08 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Bastable, roaming around, waiting for more BB updates, I came across your response to my post.
LOL! You DO know what you are talking about regarding Sundays. Holy Cow, there were Sundays that I thought would just simply NEVER end.
The home I lived in was right behind the church that the King attended. He wears these dark glasses all thime, and we used to speculate it was so he could catch some winks!
That wall around that same church is where I had my first smoke. Must've been on a Sunday, when I was bored LOL!
Was it a vacation that took you to the "Friendly Islands"?

Jedisan

Sunday, July 06, 2003 - 09:09 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Also, Crazydog, you started this post a while back. Have you decided on the Honeymoon yet?
Congrats, by the way.

Crazydog

Monday, July 07, 2003 - 10:32 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Thanks. Yes, I booked it. We are not getting married until April so it is a looooongg time from now. We will be spending the majority of our time on two islands, Moorea and the legendary Bora Bora. It is expensive but I think it will be one of those once-in-a-lifetime kinds of things.

Babyruth

Monday, July 07, 2003 - 11:25 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Yay, Crazydog! :)
I have some more info to send you, (if you want more).

Crazydog

Monday, July 07, 2003 - 11:51 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Sure, Babyruth, and thanks again for the tips you provided earlier. We will be staying at the Sheraton Moorea Lagoon and the Sheraton Bora Bora Nui. Very excited.

Jedisan

Monday, July 07, 2003 - 04:12 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
That's great Crazydog.
Thanks for the update

Scootersmom

Monday, July 07, 2003 - 04:19 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Congratulations Crazydog! We were there several years ago. Loved the "over the water" bungalows. The water is fantastic. We went on a shark feeding excursion on Moorea and had a blast.

This is a trip you'll remember forever! :)

Bastable

Monday, July 07, 2003 - 05:43 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Travel is NEVER a waste, Crazydog. You will have a blast!