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12 Jan 2019
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Need some travel ideas? You want to get away but the thought of a Caribbean cruise doesn’t excite you? Here’s some suggestions: Europe in Style A recent development in river cruising is the introduction of Crystal Cruises. This luxury brand now has 5 different ships...
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Travel deals during wave season – how to save money

08 Jan 2018
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It’s wave season and that means great travel deals are plentiful.  In my last post, I talked about what wave season means and how to make sure you’re getting a great deal. There’s even a little case study.  This post gives some current examples. Great Travel...
The view from our room at the Intercontinental Tahiti

Paul Gauguin cruise Tahiti and Final Impressions (11 of 11)

16 Apr 2017
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This completes our series on the Paul Gauguin cruise of French Polynesia. The cruise is called Tahiti & the Society Islands and fittingly, we spent our last day in Tahiti. Disembarkation Disembarkation was as easy as embarkation was a week before.  We had to leave our room by...
Intercontinental Moorea view of the beach from the pool

Paul Gauguin cruise – Moorea day at the Intercontinental (10 of 11)

15 Apr 2017
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This continues our series about our Paul Gauguin cruise.  If you missed the rest, start reading here. Today, after getting off the ship, we spent a day at the Intercontinental Hotel in Moorea. The Intercontinental Hotel Moorea Yesterday, we toured the island and visited both the...
Festive sights - Polynesian night aboard the Paul Gauguin. Locals teaching passengers how to make flower headdress and lei

Paul Gauguin Moorea – sightseeing (9 of 11)

14 Apr 2017
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This continues our series on our Paul Gauguin cruise in the South Pacific. Today we focus on our sightseeing day in Moorea. Three days in Moorea pre cruise.   Click on each to read Post 1, Post 2 and Post 3 Boarded the Paul Gauguin in Tahiti.  A discussion of the Paul Gauguin...
A great fish eye view at the start of drift snorkel in Bora Bora

Paul Gauguin cruise Bora Bora Manta Ray (8 of 11)

13 Apr 2017
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This continues our series on our Paul Gauguin cruise.  To catch up, start here.  Read on to learn about Manta Rays. Our second day in Bora Bora began with a trip into the small town of Fa’anui where the tender pulls in.  We decided to take a look at some pearls.  Everyone...
These Lemon Shark were large

Paul Gauguin cruise – Bora Bora Sharks (7 of 11)

12 Apr 2017
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This continues our series documenting the Paul Gauguin cruise through the South Pacific.  Read about our surprise encounter with sharks. Let’s review where we’ve been so far. Three days in Moorea pre cruise.   Click on each to read Post 1, Post 2 and Post 3 Boarded...
Paul Gauguin's floating bar

Paul Gauguin cruise – private island (6 of 11)

11 Apr 2017
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This post about the private island continues our series aboard the Paul Gauguin cruise leaving Tahiti.  Click here to start the series and here to go to the previous post on Huahine. Many cruise lines tout their “private island”.  But sometimes the...
The view from the bridge connecting two islands in Huahine

Paul Gauguin Pearl Farming in Huahine (5 of 11)

10 Apr 2017
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This continues our series aboard the Paul Gauguin cruise leaving Tahiti.  Click here to go to the first post or here to go to the previous post. Today we stopped at Huahine, a small island in the Society Islands.  We booked the Huahine Safari Expedition from the ship which was...

Paul Gauguin first day at sea – Luxury awaits (4 of 11)

09 Apr 2017
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We continue our series on our Paul Gauguin trip.  We spent three days pre-cruise in Moorea which you can read about here.  Then we took the ferry to Tahiti awaiting the Paul Gauguin for our 7 day cruise of the Society Islands.    The cruise starts in Tahiti since this is the...
Over water bungalow in Moorea

Moorea – The over water bungalow (3 of 11)

08 Apr 2017
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As travel agents, we start to recognize certain patterns in client requests.  For example, when ever people think of a visit to Polynesia they think of over water bungalows.  Indeed, many high end resorts have them in Tahiti, Moorea and Bora Bora.  To experience this first hand,...
Flower blooming in Moorea

Moorea – tours, food and fish (2 of 11)

07 Apr 2017
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This is the second in our Paul Gauguin cruise series.  The previous post was called “It can’t get any better than this” because we kept saying that over and over on our first day.  But we hadn’t even left the hotel.  On our second day, we toured Moorea in...
The main ferry terminal in Moorea

Moorea – how much better can it get? (1 of 11)

06 Apr 2017
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This post kicks off our series about our trip on Paul Gauguin’s Tahiti & The Society Islands cruise.   It’s titled ” How much better can it get?” because I kept saying this over and over during the first few days.  So let me tell you why. The big...
Royal Caribbean or someone else?

Alternative Vacation Suppliers

23 Mar 2017
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We’ve all seen the TV advertisements for Royal Caribbean or Carnival right?  If you are a certain age, you’re mail box is probably inundated with marketing materials from Viking and Oceania.  And if you are looking at Bridal magazines, you’re no doubt familiar...

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