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Travel Tips Early Flight Arrivals and Pre-registration With many international flights arriving in Tahiti in the very early morning hours, it is suggested that you pre-register your hotel room for immediate occupancy where appropriate. If it is already included, this will be indicated in the "Included Features" as "includes pre-registration." In most hotels in French Polynesia, check-in time is 1 p.m. or later. |
The Unique Charm of Tahiti
Hotels
Rarely do we use such standard descriptions as "deluxe" or "first
class." The reason is that French Polynesia is not a standard
place!
On these islands, you may elect to stay in a village
on an otherwise deserted atoll; in an over water bungalow, cooled naturally
by the tropical trade winds; or in an air-conditioned high rise near
cosmopolitan Papeete. Even a modest hotel may offer a setting of such
incomparable beauty, the experience of staying there may exceed that
of staying in a deluxe hotel elsewhere in the world. What strikes you
as "deluxe" will depend entirely on your own picture of paradise.
The goal we set for ourselves is to make that picture as clear as possible
for you, so that you can choose with confidence.
Bungalows
A Thatched-Roof Bungalow and a Beautiful Blue Lagoon . . . Much of the
fun of coming to the islands of French Polynesia is being able to stay
in thatched roof bungalows located in a tropical garden setting, on a
beautiful palm-fringed beach or over a crystal clear lagoon. For the
ultimate "escape," choose a vacation that features these traditional
Tahitian accommodations.
Diving French Polynesia
Diving in French Polynesia is colorful, varied, and among the best anywhere.
You'll encounter a myriad of colorful reef fish, moray eels, turtles,
even manta rays and sharks. The translucent waters are warm (generally
80 degrees and above year 'round) and clear (visibility to over 150 feet)
and full of colorful, exciting marine life . . . no matter which island
you choose to explore. Moorea specializes in hand-feeding sharks and
dives with rays and dolphins, along with a myriad of reef fish and low-growing
corals. Bora Bora generally offers beautiful, graceful manta rays in
its plankton-rich multi-hued lagoon. Huahine and Raiatea offer more brilliant
displays of coral ledges and cliffs, along with varieties of colorful
reef fish. However, it's the Tuamotu atolls - Rangiroa, Manihi and Tikehau
- where more experienced divers will enjoy the fullest diversity of marine
life, with dives starting along the outer reefs, drifting through the
passes, and into the lagoons. It's high-excitement diving with black-tip
and white-tip sharks everywhere-and occasionally silver-tip or hammerhead.
