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The Haumana Tahiti small ship cruises sail a 118ft (36m) catamaran motor yacht, with just 11 stateroom cabins and 1 Panoramic Fetia Suite, providing for a maximum of just 24 guests on each journey. They have a Polynesian crew of 13, giving attentive and personal service, and with the smaller size of the yacht, they are able to access shallow waters around the beautiful islands.
The Haumana catamaran operates 3 night island cruises, taking in the beautiful islands of Raiatea, Taha'a and Bora Bora, sailing in both directions. This means you could add the cruise into a longer itinerary where you can further explore the start or finishing islands of Bora Bora and Raiatea, with a few more nights on one or both islands before or after your cruise.
The Ninamu and Mahana cabins are modern in design and well equipped, with a queen bed, ensuite shower room with hair dryer and complimentary toiletries, air conditioning, flat screen TV, mini-bar/fridge, in-room safe and 2 large portholes to enjoy the sunrise views. There are 2 Ninamu cabins on the lower main deck and 9 Mahana cabins on middle deck, along with the spacious Panoramic Fetia Suite, which is more than double the size of the staterooms, and offers a King bed, ensuite shower room, hidden flat screen TV with CD/DVD player, in-room safe, minibar/fridge and 2 sitting areas; 1 with 2 armchairs and table, and another with built in sofa overlooking the front of the ship from the bank of large windows across the front of the suite.
The Haumana has several areas to relax and enjoy your time aboard. The restaurant is on the main deck at the stern, with inside and outside tables, plus a lounge seating area and access to the marina deck off the back of the ship, where you can easily jump in for a swim or snorkelling, go kayaking and stand-up paddleboarding. On the upper bridge deck isw the spacious lounge bar with seating areas and panoramic views, and the inner lounge with TV, book and DVD library. On the main deck at the bow, there is a sun deck with double sun bed, tables and chairs and amazing views.
The restaurant serves a fresh tropical breakfast each morning, and lunch and dinner menus feature freshly caught fish each day, which could be tuna, sea bream, mahi mahi, which ever jumps on the line that day, you won't get fresher, and tropical fruits and fresh local produce from the islands is also used as much as possible. A good selection of wines and beverages to complement their menus is available at each meal. Sometimes, you could choose to dine on a private motu, picnic on the beach or have a romantic moonlight dinner on the bow sundeck.
Cultural activities, like pandanus weaving and pareo painting, are available for guests to enjoy on board, and the proud Polynesian crew share their traditions and culture, with stories and live music and entertainment each evening. Excursions can be arranged to pearl farms, private motus and village visits, some may be included, others there may be an extra cost to book.
Itineraries start either in Bora Bora or Raiatea and are 3 nights/4 days duration, and cruise the same route, just one going north, one going south.
Raiatea to Bora Bora - Poerava Cruise
- Day 1. Boarding starts in Raiatea at the dock in Uturoa at 2.00pm. Whilst everyone settles in and finds their favourite spot to enjoy a cold drink, the ship cruises north from Raiatea around the coastline of Taha'a, to the overnight anchorage in the lagoon off the north coast of the island. Dinner is served on board.
- Day 2. Breakfast is served aboard while still at anchor in the Taha'a lagoon, where you can spend the morning swimming or snorkelling from a deserted motu. Lunch is served on board, and the afternoon can be spent exploring or joining an excursion to a pearl farm or vanilla plantation. Dinner is served aboard, whilst you set sail toward Bora Bora, and cruise smoothly overnight.
- Day 3. Breakfast is served as you savor your first view of Bora Bora lagoon, where you can spend the morning enjoying marine activites and exploring the lagoon, or booking a place on an optional excursion, until lunch is served on deserted sandy motu. Later in the afternoon, with everyone back on board, it's time to relax with a few drinks and maybe the crew entertaining you traditional music and song after dinner, as you gently cruise the Bora Bora lagoon, to anchor for the last night.
- Day 4. You have time for your last breakfast aboard and final packing until you disembark around 10.00am at the Vaitape dock, on the central island.
Bora Bora to Raiatea - Vanira Cruise
- Day 1. Boarding starts in Bora Bora at the dock in Vaitape at 2.00pm. Whilst everyone settles in and finds their favourite spot to enjoy a cold drink, the ship cruises north from the dock around the largest of Bora Bora's outer motu, Motu Toopua, to the overnight anchorage in the lagoon off the north-west shore of the main island. Dinner is served on board.
- Day 2. Breakfast is served aboard while still at anchor in the Bora Bora lagoon, where you can spend the morning swimming or snorkelling from a deserted motu, or joining an optional excursion. Lunch is served on board, and the afternoon can be spent exploring or just relaxing. Later in the afternoon, with everyone back on board, it's time to relax with a few drinks and maybe the crew entertaining you traditional music and song after dinner, as you gently cruise the Bora Bora lagoon, to anchor for the night. Dinner is served aboard, whilst you set sail south toward Taha'a, and cruise smoothly overnight.
- Day 3. Breakfast is served as you get your first view of Taha'a and her lagoon, where you can spend the morning enjoying a shore excursion to either a pearl farm or vanilla plantation, until lunch is served on deserted sandy motu, where you spend the afternoon chilling on the sand, or in the water. Later in the afternoon, with everyone back on board, it's time to relax with a few drinks and maybe the crew entertaining you traditional music and song after dinner, as you gently cruise the Taha'a lagoon, to anchor for the last night.
- Day 4. Whilst you enjoy your last breakfast aboard and final packing, you cruise round Taha'a towards Raiatea, where you disembark around 10.00am at the Uturoa dock on the north shore
Child Policy
Airport Transfers
Check-in Details
Although there are frequent international flights into Tahiti, there are limited airports of embarkation to choose from, with currently only Paris, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Auckland and Tokyo offering single plane air service to Tahiti.
The international airline for French Polynesia. is Air
Tahiti Nui, who operate daily flights from Paris and Los
Angeles to Tahiti, and on some days there are additional fights
to/from Los Angeles. In addition, they operate two weekly flights
to/from Auckland and they serve Tokyo twice a week. Their services
to New York and Sydney have been suspended at this
time.
Air France currently offer a service from Paris,
three times a week via Los Angeles
Air New Zealand operates daily flights via LA to
Papeete, and 5 days a week from/to Auckland with it's own aircraft.
It also operates a codeshare arrangements with Air Tahiti Nui
providing seats on their fights from Tahiti to Auckland and Los
Angeles.
United Airlines operate 3 times a week from San Francisco to Papeete, on Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday, which will connect to their daily flight from Heathrow.
Air Calin, operate a weekly flight between
Noumea, in New Caledonia, and Tahiti.
Hawaiian Airlines provide a weekly service
between Honolulu and Tahiti, currently operating on a
Saturday/Sunday schedule.
LANChile, operate a flight once a week from
Santiago to Tahiti via Easter Island, providing the availability to
do a great side trip from Tahiti to Easter island.
Air Tahiti is French Polynesia's domestic
airline, which operates an extensive domestic flight network
covering all the country's main islands, with at least a daily
service. With the main Society islands receiving a number of
flights a day, since Air Moorea stopped operations between Tahiti
and Moorea, the flight connections now to Moorea have become
limited, most connections between the two are now done by ferry
boat.
The less populated and outer islands have a restricted service, so
sometimes a night stop in Tahiti may be required when connecting to
these islands.
Air Tahiti provide the only air service between
Tahiti and the Cook islands, which they currently do once a week on
a Thursday, an extra high season flight is operated between June
and August
There are a number of aircraft and helicopters available for private charters, but they all tend to be based in Tahiti so arranging charters between the outer islands can be expensive as the aircraft will originate and terminate in Tahiti. Tahiti Nui Helicopters are one such company that operate resort transfers (where helipad available), inter-island flights and sightseeing trips. Contact us for further info.
Airline Seat Maps
For most airlines, we can pre-reserve seats for you once your flight booking is confirmed, and if no charge is applied, will do so as a matter of course. If there is a charge by the airline for this, we will only do this with your approval. If you would like to have a look at a seat plan for your aircraft, check the airlines' own website, or one of the best independent websites for this information is SeatGuru.com, which is part of the Tripadvisor group. Click Here to find information on your particular airline.
Pricing Policy
PRICING INFORMATION
Ninamu Cabin
The 2 Ninamu Cabins are on the Main Deck, which is the lowest public deck, which has the sundeck at the front of this deck, and the restaurant with inside and outside dining areas, lounge seating, panoramic scenic views and stairs down to the marina platform, and up to the middle deck. The cabins offer a queen bed, ensuite shower room, flat screen TV, mini-bar/fridge, and 2 large porthole windows to enjoy the views of paradise floating past.
Mahana Cabin -
The 9 Mahana cabins are on the Middle deck, along with the Fetia suite. There is a small open deck area to the rear with stairs down to the main deck and restaurant, and up to the upper deck lounge areas. The cabins are basically the same as the Ninamu cabins, the only difference is the deck location.
Panoramic Fetia Suite
The spacious Panoramic Fetia Suite is located at the front of the Middle Deck and spans the entire span of the deck, with large windows across the whole width of the suite, giving wide panoramic views. The Fetia Suite is double the size of the standard cabins, and offers a King bed, ensuite shower room with hairdryer and complimentary toiletries, hidden flat screen TV, which rises up at the touch of a button, CD and DVD player, small table with 2 tub armchairs, lounge sitting area with built in sofa, in-room safe, minibar/fridge and air conditioning.
contact us
If you have any questions regarding the islands of the Pacific Ocean or you would like us to provide a quote for your planned itinerary, then please contact us, we will be more than happy to help.
Phone: 01342 840555
Fax: 01342 841623
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