Hotel Tiare Tahiti Papeete

... and taking life easy....Tahitian drivers are mental and the worst we have come across in our travels to date. We hired a car and, to put it mildly, it would be safer to play "frogger" on the M6 blind-folded than drive in Tahiti at night time.



The island only has one road as the interior is fairly mountainous and still largely covered in forest. Everyone in Tahiti seems to work in Papeete and therefore drove past our small "idyllic ...

... had on jeans (it wasn't cold) and the French woman wore scarves. We stayed there for awhile splitting chocolate croissants, a ham and cheese omelet and coffee And the guidebooks were right - everything is expensive here. A simple omelet was $9.50 - coffee not included and there are no refills! Then we walked around downtown and happened upon a small male singing group singing Tahitian songs on the street corner - they were very entertaining. One gentleman caught my ...

... 1st day on Moorea Island which was an amazing way to start the Conference.
Unfortunately for the next 3 full days we were locked in a room while the beach and 30 degrees was calling me from outside.
Lots of partying with great night life, samba dancing and even a night of Karoake. ( I am a terrible singer)

Enough talk, enjoy the photos.

... limited in choice than in the formal dining room was freshly cooked to order, the service was good and not hurried and the general ambience excellent - a much more satisfactory dining experience than we had in the regular dining room. It was then time to head off to watch the entertainment for the evening, a film called 'The Bounty', starring Anthony Hopkins, Mel Gibson and Liam Neeson with a storyline based around the Tahitian islands - a very enjoyable couple of hours.

... English and a tiny bit of French.... We swam in the lagoon, marvelled at how warm it was, gained a few mosquito bites, marvelled at how expensive everything was, ate cheese for dinner, drank French wine, toured the island in a morning and got the afternoon flight out to Auckland.

... at the Cathedral. It was quite a strain on my brain trying to switch from Spanish to my very very very bad French. I think that by the time we got back to the hostel it was 2am local time but 6am according to my body. At that point, any bed was welcome! We discovered very early the next morning that nothing is open on Christmas day in Papeete, fortunately the previous people in the hostel had left behind some ...

... think emails went). Walked over to the Brasserie to meet Gordon, where the proprietor told me without any prompting "oh, you've missed him: he's gone for a haircut" (see what I meant about becoming regulars?) Eventually we met up and decided to go to Moorea on the ferry. (A wilder and scenic island recommended by a few people.) Rather stupidly we figured out how to read the timetable after having bought the ...

... morning and stay at a (basic) hotel for four nights. We wanted to look round the small shopping area in Papeete but we had only looked round a few of the clothes and jewellery shops which, apart from a few pharmacies and tourist shops, was all that there was, when at around 4.30 the shops started to close. Our intention was to stay in town for a meal but as it all closed down we returned to the hotel and had cocktails at the beachside bar before an evening meal and an early night.

... up by the Te Miti guesthouse i was booked into and it was a 15 minute drive down the coast to there. Seen as it was breakfast time thats what i had and took a bus then into Papeete with robert and dave who i had met that morning at Te Miti. Papeete has feck all going for it and didnt take long to have a look around and get cash before heading back for the beach which was a stones throw from the guesthouse.. Now i had ...

... I've ever seen (large in size, not amount, hah). We got on a bus to a village on the opposite side of the island which was an hour's walk from our first hostel. After about 40 minutes of walking our feet were blister ridden and I could wring the sweat out of my shirt so we were extremely grateful when a nice islander woman picked us up and drove us the rest of the way. We were told that Tahitians were 'arrogant and rude like the French', but ...