The South Pacific has always been on our list of places we wanted to visit, so when Paul Gauguin offered a deal where the third person in the cabin sailed for free, we decided to go. Our teenage son accompanied us and had a wonderful time, too.

Pre-Cruise:

We live in Canada so we knew that the journey was going to be a long one and, with that in mind, we decided to go a day early and stay one night in Papeete, both to recover from the lack of sleep and in case we hit bad weather on our way out. The journey was absolutely seamless. We booked our own flights to LAX on Air Canada and were first in line to check in to Air Tahiti Nui. We upgraded to business class and were very glad that we did as the wider seats and extra leg room meant that we could actually get some sleep - a first for me. Read more