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Aranui offers 50% discount for 2024 cruises to remote Austral Islands

Passenger-freighter Aranui 5 has announced special savings for its two cruises to the remote Austral Islands in March and November 2024. There’s a 50% discount for the second passenger sharing a cabin or a no single supplement offer for solo travellers on both voyages. Departing Papeete in Tahiti, each of the 11-day cruises to this

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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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Martin Clunes boards Aranui 5 for part of his epic voyage across the Pacific in new ITV documentary series

The islands of the Pacific conjure up images of wild and mysterious adventures in unspoilt beauty. And in a new three-part documentary series for ITV, starting this week, actor Martin Clunes embarks on an epic 10,000-mile ocean wide adventure in search of the real Pacific. In Thursday’s opening episode, Clunes boards the passenger-freighter Aranui 5

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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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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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