CRUISECLUES  Our Cruises Cruise Information from Passengers  
Home Shipstips Message Boards PhotoClubs Menus Port Ship Schedules Cruise Cams Packing Lists Staterooms Daily Programs Bar Lists Personal  Sites Reviews Wine Lists
  Tahiti Cruise  -  Hotel Last Day

Cruise Ships
Adonia
Adventure of the Seas
Allure of the Seas
Amazing Grace
Amsterdam
Anthem of the Seas
Arcadia
Aurora
Azamara Journey 
Azamara Quest
Azura
Balmoral

Black Watch
Boudicca
Braemar
Bremen
Brilliance of the Seas
Caribbean Princess
Carnival Breeze
Carnival Conquest
Carnival Destiny
Carnival Dream 
Carnival Ecstasy

Carnival Elation
Carnival Fantasy
Carnival Fascination
Carnival Freedom
Carnival Glory
Carnival Imagination

Carnival Inspiration
Carnival Legend
Carnival Liberty
Carnival Magic 
Carnival Miracle
Carnival Paradise
Carnival Pride
Carnival Sensation
Carnival Spirit
Carnival Splendor
Carnival Sunshine
Carnival Triumph
Carnival Valor
Carnival Victory
Celebration
Celebrity Century
Celebrity Constellation
Celebrity Eclipse
Celebrity Equinox
Celebrity Infinity 
Celebrity Millennium
Celebrity Reflection

Celebrity Silhouette
Celebrity Solstice
Celebrity Summit
Celebrity Xpedition
Columbus
Coral Princess
Costa Allegra
Costa Atlantica
Costa Classica
Costa Concordia
Costa Deliziosa
Costa Fascinosa
Costa Favolosa
Costa Fortuna
Costa Luminosa
Costa Magica
Costa Marina
Costa Mediterranea
Costa Pacifica
Costa Romantica
Costa Serena
Costa Tropicale
Costa Victoria
Costa Voyager
Crown Princess
Crystal Harmony
Crystal Serenity
Crystal Symphony
Dawn Princess
Deutschland
Diamond Princess
Disney Dream
Disney Fantasy
Disney Magic
Disney Wonder
Emerald Princess
Empress of the Seas
Enchantment of the Seas
Eurodam
Europa
Explorer of the Seas
Freedom of the Seas
Galaxy
Golden Princess
Grandeur of the Seas
Grand Princess
Hanseatic
Holiday
Horizon
Independence of the Seas
Insignia
Island Escape
Island Princess
Island Star
Jewel of the Seas
Jubilee
Kapitan Khlebnikov
Legacy
Legend of the Seas
Liberty of the Seas
Maasdam 
Mandalay
Majesty of the Seas
Marco Polo
Marina
Mariner of The Seas
Mercury
Monarch of the Seas
MSC Armonia
MSC Divina
MSC Fantasia
MSC Lirica
MSC Magnifica
MSC Melody
MSC Musica
MSC Opera
MSC Orchestra
MSC Poesia
MSC Serenata
MSC Sinfonia
MSC Splendida
Nautica
Navigator of the Seas
Nieuw Amsterdam
Noordam
Nordic Empress
Norway
Norwegian Breakaway
Norwegian Crown
Norwegian Dawn
Norwegian Dream
Norwegian Epic
Norwegian Gem
Norwegian Getaway
Norwegian Jade

Norwegian Jewel
Norwegian Majesty
Norwegian Pearl
Norwegian Sea
Norwegian Sky
Norwegian Spirit
Norwegian Star
Norwegian Sun
Norwegian Wind
Oasis of the Seas
Oceana
Ocean Princess
Ocean Village
Oosterdam

Oriana
Pacific Dawn

Pacific Jewel
Pacific Pearl
Pacific Princess
Pacific Sun
Paul Gauguin

Polynesia
Pride of Aloha
Pride of America
Pride of Hawaii
Prinsendam
Quantum of the Seas
Queen Elizabeth - QE
Queen Mary 2 - QM2
Queen Victoria
R4
Radiance of the Seas
Radisson Diamond

Regal Princess
Regatta
Rhapsody of the Seas
Riviera
Rotterdam VI
Royal Clipper
Royal Princess
Ruby Princess
Ryndam
Sapphire Princess
Sea Princess
Seabourn Legend
Seabourn Odyssey
Seabourn Pride
Seabourn Quest
Seabourn Sojourn
Seabourn Spirit
Serenade of the Seas

Seven Seas Mariner
Seven Seas Navigator
Seven Seas Voyager
Silver Cloud
Silver Explorer
Silver Shadow
Silver Spirit
Silver Whisper
Silver Wind
Sovereign of the Seas
Splendour of the Seas
Star Clipper
Star Flyer
Star Princess
Statendam
Sun Princess
Superstar Gemini
Superstar Libra
Superstar Virgo
Tahitian Princess
Thomson Celebration

Thomson Destiny
Thomson Dream
Thomson Majesty
Thomson Spirit
Veendam
Ventura
Vision of the Seas
Volendam
Voyager of the Seas
Westerdam
Wind Spirit
Wind Star
Wind Surf
Yankee Clipper
Zaandam
Zenith
Zuiderdam

  

 
www.sheraton.com/property.taf?prop=1315&lc=en 

Quotes (Diane, Buil remarks are after others)

All these from DianneC "Masked Traveler":

On, Sunday...the shops along the main street were closed so we headed for the grocery store. Approach the first le truck you see after crossing the street in front of the ship. "??? Champion overte ????" 120CFP per person.

We got a variety of chocolates for @ 200CFP ea (Cote de Or best, avoid Champion). You can find them in the baking section.  

Hinano- big ones- 195CFP, postcards 60 CFP, schoolkids blank workbooks 19- 27CFP ea (no that wasn't a mistake, these are a great, useful, cheap souvenir and come in calligraphy & music. Also saw some at one of the souvenir stores for 200CFP.) 

We took a little different track on our departure day & it was lots of fun. We got to the hotel on our bus @ 2PM. The food & baggage storage was back in the hospitality room. There was time for a lovely swim in the glorious pool, a good back massage under the waterfall and then a dip in the upper level hot tub (just above the towel cave). Out by 4PM and dry by 4:20 and ready and waiting for our "Le Belvedere" truck by 4:30. 

This was our 4x4 excursion and the trip was a delight. We had a beautiful sunset dinner looking out over the harbor at the little R4 & Moorea in the distance. Food was great, but I can't recommend the fondue to anyone who is not used to lots of oil. The beef and the wine were plentiful. The grilled mahi-mahi got raves. Cost about 5,000CFP per person- prix fixe- includes travel up and back. A Papeete classic. 

We changed into our travel clothes after the sun went down. Then at @ 8PM the truck picked us up and took us directly to the airport. (We could have had them take us back to the hotel as well, but buses and I don't get along so we thought it was worth the risk of facing an extra long wait at the airport. 

DianneC

--------------------------------------------

...we had a couple of days in Papeete at the end of the cruise...took the ferry from Papeete back to Moorea and spent the day...rather than...Papeete...about $10 each way. On Tahiti, the ferry ...next to...R3...On Moorea, the ferry port is on a different part of the island from where the R3 goes. ...bubble cars for rent...$40 instead of $60...bike or scooter if...early...several ferries...nicest one...a catamaran...doesn't take cars...car ferry catamaran (also nice) take...half hour....another car ferry...funky (but okay)...takes 1-1/2 hours. For some reason the R3 wouldn't let anyone off the ship until 9:30...so we missed the good ferries (...went at 9 and 12 or so).

...disembark from R3 they...take you to the Sheraton Hotel (used to be the Outrigger Hotel ) to spend the day until....7:30 or 8, when they take you to the airport...hotel...very nice...swimming pool...provide six rooms for people to change clothes...provide a little buffet and cold drinks...restaurant there looked pretty good...(but it's expensive)...delicious pineapple drink at the bar (ground-up pineapple, no booze)...was $8...can rent a room for day use...$120...hotel...close to downtown Papeete...can walk...shopping...Le Truck for 120 francs (or take a taxi.)

...the cases were picked up bright and early and put on the dock under surveillance...had enough time after breakfast to go into town and the Municipal Market in Papeete (two blocks from the ship). What a crazy marvelous place that is, noisy, fragrant, incredibly colorful, i.e. a photographer’s paradise! Bought more “stuff” although the prices seemed a little higher than on the other islands but the selection is unbeatable.  After lunch we were transported to the Sheraton Hotel where we were to wait for our buses to the airport later in the day...had a buffet meal at the hotel at 3, then spent hours under a palapa by the pool (this hotel is BEAUTIFUL!) drinking maitais until we headed for the airport well after the equally beautiful sunset. The plane left just a tad late, not much, but on the return flight the food  service on Hawaiian Airlines definitely took a nose-dive! After the good food on the ship, it barely made it to average…

-----------------------------------------

DIANE and BUIL's EXPERIENCES (On our cruise, the Sheraton was the Outrigger which was purchased by Sheraton later)

We liked the leisurely morning, not being rushed as with other lines, even had lunch aboard ship....

Disembarked 1:45pm dockside to a full day of rain, drizzle, or overcast to find our luggage under tent. We were helped by Polynesians to move luggage 20-30 feet to a line (each line few letters of alphabet for last name, like a-c, d-f, etc)...after document check, luggage loaded into a separate container for plane, boarded bus for the luxury Sheraton Hotel to spend the day (this all happened relatively quickly) until 

Arrived at side of hotel, went in side door to a large banquet style room, tile floors, with banquet chairs and tables, a cold drink bar, and a buffet area with a side room for carry on luggage...this part was not a luxury experience, but quite ordinary and different from the rest.

We were impressed by the remainder of the Sheraton Hotel...very luxurious...very expansive with large spaces, wide stairs, a number of wide open areas on different levels, wide corridors...very nice swimming pool with curving rock stairs to hot tub in rocks...still sprinkling rain...large chairs in various other parts of hotel looked comfortable, but already taken by maybe a quarter to a third of the the ships passengers, the remaining passengers had to sit back in the banquet room.  We wondered about the other guests as we passengers were a large herd (numerous bus loads).

We were to have banquet food (not up to par with the cruise) available til 6pm and we waited for the line to dwindle (it never did)...we stood in line about 5:30pm and the buffet ran out of food a few minutes later, had waited too long, though we did get a few brownies and a couple of picked over items, many others weren't so lucky...this wasn't typical of our experience of Renaissance up to then...maybe it only happened this one time. 

The R4 passengers were given the room numbers of four rooms for  men and four rooms for women (for changing, showering, etc) which were very large with king-size beds and balconies facing the ocean, very nice rooms...I looked at each of the men's rooms...each a sign on the door saying  to keep the room unlocked...found a women in the last one who pressed her finger to her lips and pointed to the bed which had a man sleeping...a few hours later, found a different one of the men's rooms locked,  & went to another room...as I hardly used the rooms, I was unaffected, though amused at some of the  passengers concepts of sharing the rooms.

The bus took us to the airport several hours before the flight.  One couple preferred to wait in the Sheraton Hotel and took a taxi the short distance to the airport, later. 

Though parts of this may have seemed undesirable, it was generally better than any of our rushed disembarkations from the other 7 cruise lines (12 cruises).

travel.epinions.com/trvl-review-1349-F688AED-398EE298-prod1  embarkation/debarkation procedures
groups.yahoo.com/group/Renaissance_New_Board/message/4849  Another View of Hotel Situation

 

Each of our Shipstips Cruise Ship pages (links on the left of any of our pages) generally has 1000's of mostly cruise vacation photos per ship ...100's of Cruise Reviews per ship  ... Menus, Cruise Cams, Daily Programs, Cabin Photos, Monthly Port Schedule, Deck Plans, 360 Virtual Tour, Ratings, Ship Statistics, Itinerary, Drink Menus, & or Wine Lists...and more

 

More Tahiti Cruise Pages

LAX to Faaa    R3/R4    What to Wear and Bring    Last Day   Faaa to LAX

Tahiti    Moorea    Huahine    Raiatea    Bora Bora

Cabin Breakfast Order Menu    Drink Menu

Reviews   PHOTOS    Tahiti Web Sites    Weather/Time

Travel Guide Books    Tahiti Maps     Dive Guide  

Passport/Visa      Gov Travel Advisory     Currency Conversion

Gov Travel Advisory    Message Boards


CRUISE SHIP:

Food / Wine   SPA & Workout Facilities    Tipping 

Excursion & Off Ship       Entertainment

Google
 
Web Cruiseclues
Shipstips Islesea
 
 
 
 

 

 

 
 

 
     
Home Shipstips Message Boards PhotoClubs Menus Port Ship Schedules Cruise Cams Packing Lists Staterooms Daily Programs Bar Lists Personal  Sites Reviews Wine Lists

 BACK TO TOP OF PAGE