Best Air Fare Prices - Mutiny To Tahiti And French Polynesia

Even the horrendous French nuclear testing program from 1966-1996 did little to dampen this image. And Mel Gibson (1984) played the role of Fletcher Christian in three blockbuster Mutiny on the Bounty films, marlon Brando (1962), tahiti became the most famous Polynesian island of all when Clark Gable (1935), more recently. Legendary Tahiti has tickled imaginations worldwide, and Cook, bougainville, since the age of explorers Wallis.

On Moorea you can also camp. Bora Bora has seven hostels and pensions in the US$50-100 range and Moorea has 11. Another option is to stay in small locally-operated pensions. Yet it's also true that you can greatly reduce your costs if you book your top end hotel rooms as part of a package tour. Bora Bora is easily the most upscale tourist destination in the South Pacific with 17 resorts charging over US$250 double a night without meals. There's no getting around the fact that French Polynesia is expensive, for the modern traveler.

Moon Tahiti, i explain why in my guidebook. You're better off flying from Tahiti to Bora Bora and then returning to Tahiti by boat, if you want to experience the boat trip one way. But they're basic and the overnight trip can be rough, passenger-carrying cargo boats do ply from Tahiti to Bora Bora several times a week. The only interisland boat trip which is easy to do is Tahiti to Moorea which operates every two hours and costs US$10. Or US$550 if you add on the Tuamotu Islands, a Society Islands air pass will cost around US$400. You can save money by purchasing one of Air Tahiti's 28-day air passes, here again. And Air Tahiti operates efficient services to 46 islands and atolls in French Polynesia, most visitors get around the islands by air.

There are sightseeing tours by outrigger canoe, and Bora Bora, raiatea, huahine, on Moorea. Four-wheel-drive safari tours are offered on all the main islands and these are also cheaper than renting a car. Options include renting a bicycle instead of a car (on Moorea and Bora Bora) or traveling by le truck or public bus (on Tahiti). Car rentals in French Polynesia average US$100 a day - expensive!

You can often avoid the high cost of the buffet by settling for a drink at the bar. These happen several times a week. Don't miss attending at least one Island Night at a fancy resort for the wild tamure dancing and drumming, whatever. And Bora Bora in early July, huahine, an optimum time to be there is for the Heiva festival on Tahiti. Although prolonged rainfall is possible yearround, less humid time, may to October is the cooler. When to go?

Something I hope to do again very soon, the cruise to the Marquesas Islands on the Aranui. My most memorable experience in French Polynesia? Just 2.5 hours more than it takes to fly to Hawaii, and the flight from Los Angeles to Tahiti takes only 7.5 hours, tahiti is actually east of Hawaii, geographically. 000 tourists a year compared to the six million who visit Hawaii, french Polynesia gets only 200. One thing you won't encounter in French Polynesia - unless you spend most of your time at a large resort - is a tourist glut.