Paul Gauguin in Moorea

New itineraries and maiden ports in Paul Gauguin’s French Polynesia and South Pacific 2024 calendar

Paul Gauguin features new itineraries and maiden ports on its all-inclusive to French Polynesia and South Pacific cruises in 2024. Of the line’s seven unique itineraries in 2024, two are new including a 7-night More Society Islands & Tahiti voyage featuring a return to sacred Raiatea, and a 14-night Islands of the Marquesas & Tuamotus

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Wind Spirit in Moorea

Sail with Windstar in Taihiti and adopt your own coral to help save the French Polynesian reefs

Anyone sailing in French Polynesia with Windstar Cruises in 2023 and 2024 will have the opportunity to adopt a coral. For a donation of $35, those signing up will be presented with unique adoption cards while on board. The scheme follows Windstar’s partnership with Coral Gardeners, a Mo’orea-based organisation in French Polynesia determined to revolutionise

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Windstar offers £695 complimentary package to celebrate 35 years cruising Taihiti

To celebrate 35 years of cruising in Tahiti, Windstar Cruises is offering a complimentary package worth up to £695 per person with any seven, ten or 11-day Tahiti voyage in 2022. The All-In package,  offered to all guests booking the company’s Cruise+Air+Hotel Tahiti package, is packed full of extras including: Return flights from Los Angeles

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Star Breeze at Sea

Double the delight in October as Windstar celebrates 35 years of cruising in Tahiti with two yachts

This year Windstar is celebrating 35 years of cruising in the tropical paradise of Tahiti, and to mark the milestone two of its yachts will be sailing the warm French Polynesian waters in October. The iconic 121 islands and atolls of Tahiti, made famous by the mutiny on the Bounty led by Fletcher Christian, and

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Windstar abandons Asia autumn season and sends Star Breeze to Tahiti instead

Windstar Cruises has cancelled its scheduled cruises in Asia for autumn 2022 owing to continued uncertainty regarding ports reopening in the region. The move affects seven scheduled itineraries on Star Breeze, including a crossing of the Pacific from Alaska to Japan, two Grand Japan sailings, Island Hopping through Japan, Windstar Crew Hometowns: Philippines and Indonesia,

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Aranui 5

Follow in the footsteps of Moby Dick author on Aranui 5 voyage to Nuku Hiva

In 1842 American author Herman Melville, best remembered as the author of Moby Dick, landed on the island of Nuku Hiva in the Marquesas islands of French Polynesia. Now, 180 years on, passengers on the part cargo – part cruise ship Aranui 5 can see the island that so captivated Melville as part of a 12-day

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Regatta of Oceania Cruises

Oceania debuts 16 Europe and Tahiti cruises on ‘better-than-new’ Regatta and Nautica in 2022

Oceania Cruises is offering 16 new Europe and Tahiti voyages for early 2022 aboard the “better than new” Regatta and Nautica. The return of Nautica on 1 April from an extensive drydock and Regatta from her recent re-inspiration will herald the completion of the $100m “better-than-new” rebuild of the brand’s four Regatta Class ships, and

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Aranui 5

Return to Paradise! Aranui 5 to resume cruises for international passengers from 8 August

The passenger-cargo ship Aranui 5 is preparing to restart cruises for international passengers to the remote and enchanting Marquesas Islands of French Polynesia in the South Pacific. The resumption on 8 August follows the lifting of travel restrictions to French Polynesia on 15 July and a special one-off cruise for local passengers, which departed on

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Fred Olsen's Boudicca

Fred Olsen offers ‘small ships for a big world’ in 2021-2022, visiting 224 destinations in 73 countries

Fred Olsen’s fleet of smaller, more intimately-sized ocean ships will be visiting 224 destinations in 73 countries, on 93 different itineraries in 2021-22, with durations between three and 153 nights to 88 different areas of scenic cruising. Complementing the UK departure ports of Southampton, Dover, Liverpool, Newcastle and Edinburgh (Rosyth), Olsen will also be offering

Aranui 5 in Fatu Hiva

Go island-hopping across French Polynesia in 2021 on the ‘Freighter to Paradise’

Aranui 5, the passenger-cargo ship fondly known as the “Freighter to Paradise”, has long been associated with transporting passengers to the remote and enchanting Marquesas Islands of French Polynesia in the South Pacific. In 2021, however, she is expanding her reach and supplementing her regular schedule of 13-night cruises to the Marquesas Islands with the

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