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Moon Tahiti (Moon Handbooks)

Moon Tahiti (Moon Handbooks)
By David Stanley

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South Pacific expert and founder of SouthPacific.org David Stanley knows the best way to vacation in Tahiti, from navigating the streets of Papeete and browsing its market to visiting the Arahoho Blowhole on the island's northeast coast and snorkeling off Moorea. Stanley includes unique trip ideas like Romantic Tahiti and Best of French Polynesia. Packed with information on dining, transportation, and accommodations, Moon Tahiti has lots of options for a range of travel budgets. Every Moon guidebook includes recommendations for must-see sights and many regional, area, and city-centered maps. Complete with details on the best beaches and most romantic spots, Moon Tahiti gives travelers the tools they need to create a more personal and memorable experience. With expert writers, first-rate strategic advice, and an essential dose of humor, Moon guidebooks are the cure for the common trip.

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #50479 in Books
  • Published on: 2007-11-01
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 330 pages

Editorial Reviews

Review
David Stanley, the dean of Pacific Islands travel writers, is still going strong. His latest guides, the Moon Handbooks for Tahiti and Fiji, are reminders of the value of experience and straight-talk in travel journalism. Both guides have the usual Stanley organization: good maps, concise descriptions and contact information, and extremely useful tables with information on everything from population and size of islands to maritime coordinates.

We particularly like a new feature of the Moon Handbooks series: an up-front "best of" section marked with blue tabs. In this section, Stanley gives you his top recommendations for a typical vacation in either French Polynesia or Fiji. All experienced travelers are asked by friends for top recommendations. These are Stanley's, and given his experience, a visitor to either Fiji or French Polynesia could easily build a memorable vacation around just the "blue" section recommendations. -- Pacific Magazine, February 28, 2008

Customer Reviews

updated when?2
Been using this guidebook and LP's for making reservations for my island-hopping September 2008 trip, and find the listed accommodation prices in the moon edition to be woefully out of date, even accounting for the change in exchange rates. How can the LP Tahiti book, which was released in 2006, have more up-to-date information? Incredible!

Given this, I found it puzzling that so many previous people have rated this book so highly. When you look at their review histories, many are for books by this author. Hmmm.

Tahiti5
Excellent guidebook. It covers everything from how to get there, accomodations and dining, maps, money exchange, and suggestions of things to see and do, to the history of the area, which will make what one sees more meaningful.

Take This Book to Tahiti5
How can I describe how good this guidebook is? Well, I would assert, in the extreme, that it would be better to read this book without visiting Tahiti than to visit Tahiti without reading this book.

This book will double, triple, quadruple...the accomplishments and satisfaction of a trip to Tahiti.

Everything about the islands in French Polynesia is here, all the essential info, enabling a visitor to be knowledgeable, suave, and inefficient, rather than ignorant, bumbling, and frustrated.

I mean everything. Maps, a glossary, conversion tables, statistics, history, culture, arts, lodging and dining (of course, and in great detail for each establishment), transportation, sports, entertainment, flora and fauna, healthcare...all wonderfully indexed.

You must, I mean you MUST, take this perfect guidebook with you to French Polynesia.

And you MUST use it to prepare for your trip. It would take you thousands of hours in front of your online computer to attempt to recreate even a small segment of author David Stanley's research, available for a very modest sum in this book.

The only plan better than taking this book to Tahiti, I suppose, would be to take David Stanley, himself.