Oceania Tahiti (Papeete) Cruise Reviews

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A Longtime Princess Cruiser Sails Oceania

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azbirdmom
10+ Cruises • Age 70s

We’ve been on over three dozen Princess cruises and until recently we didn’t have any reason to stray from them. But the dream itinerary that we wanted to do was no longer offered by Princess. We booked the 10 day French Polynesia cruise a couple of times with Princess during Covid and it was cancelled. The final cancellation was because they sold the Pacific Princess and Princess no longer had ...
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Sail Date: February 2024

Cabin Type: Penthouse Suite


Cruise to no where

Review for a South Pacific Cruise on Nautica

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LastSBwithG
First Time Cruiser • Age 60s

Finest cruise at sea turned in to finest Marketing at Sea. Cuisine was ok in main dining room and better in specialty restaurants but similar to NCL and Princess specialty venues. Princess has tge best pizza at sea is true! Certainly not above the others. I found my self looking for peanut sauce for chicken sauté, none! Making my own tartar sauce for fish from mayo and mustard. ...
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Sail Date: January 2024

Traveled with children


Nice ship, but very disappointed this time.

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odyssey10
First Time Cruiser • Age 70s

After cruising many lines over 35 years, Oceania is our favorite. Great food, small ships, and interesting ports and excursions (previous to this cruise). First, the positive: Oceania has great ships. We've been on the Riviera (@1200 passengers) and the smaller Insignia and Nautica (@600 passengers}. The ships are well laid out with specialty restaurants, a fantastic buffet, comfortable ...
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Sail Date: January 2024


Our cruise needed to feature on "Mighty Cruise Ships" for disappointment, but no happy ending.

Review for a South Pacific Cruise on Nautica

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canucktrekker
10+ Cruises • Age 70s

We booked this cruise on Oceania as a repeat cruise for my special birthday, having done this exact same cruise 7 years ago, and loved it! We have enjoyed many cruises before, both ocean and river, with various cruise lines, and expected a wonderful time on this smaller, high end cruise line. Before I begin, positives were great food, mainly pleasant staff, wonderful library, comfortable ...
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Sail Date: January 2024

Cabin Type: Concierge Level Veranda Stateroom


Great Experience for 1st Time on Oceania

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Chessnut25
10+ Cruises • Age 70s

We selected this voyage for the itinerary, a Covid-delayed celebration of our 25th anniversary. I want to dispute some of the criticism I've read on this site. The food was fantastic even if appetizers were largely the same from night to night. Grand Dining Room experience was equal to specialty restaurants, but both Polo Grill and Tuscana had excellent menus and delightful, hot food that was ...
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Sail Date: January 2024

Cabin Type: Deluxe Ocean View


For our Final cruise: Tahiti filled the bill.

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Protseq
First Time Cruiser • Age 70s

After 37 years cruising, we decided that a trip and cruise to Tahiti and French Polynesian Islands would be a fitting finale. Oceania Nautica's itinerary and cruise dates were the answer. I read the reviews on here, plus social media and I had a good idea what to expect. Here are my thoughts on this cruise, the ship, food, entertainment. Embarkation: Arrived in the rain at 1130am. The ...
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Sail Date: January 2024

Traveled with children


HAPPY CRUISING WITH OCEANIA

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lachster
6-10 Cruises • Age 60s

We chose this cruise having cruised with Oceania on the Riviera 8 years ago. I have read some of the reviews on the NAUTICA before we traveled and having now completed the cruise I believe that some of the expectations are unfair. The ambience of Oceania is very comfortable and uncrowded and fits within the 5 star+ bracket that is on its own. The lodgings very comfortable being suite forward ...
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Sail Date: January 2024

Cabin Type: Concierge Level Veranda Stateroom


What has gone so wrong?

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Cruise and Stay
10+ Cruises • Age 50s

Like several other reviewers, we had sailed with Oceania on 5 occasions before the "pandemic" and rebooked based on those experiences. This is clearly a company where the dead hand of remote corporate policy wonks is at work, setting procedures and practices on the ships with absolutely no clue of what going on at the operational, customer facing level. Penny pinching ad nauseum. This was an ...
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Sail Date: April 2023

Cabin Type: Vista Suite


Oceania for Tahiti is the correct choice (as it is for all destinations globally) Confirmed again!

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Gord Jones
2-5 Cruises • Age 70s

This is our third cruise with Oceania and they over-delivered again. Here is what went right: 1) Oceania shore excursions on Bora-Bora/Raietea were on point and cost effective. Recommend: -Vanilla farm/Pearl Farm tour with meal "Tahaa Cultural Experience" (best prices in Tahiti for fresh vanilla beans @ 3800xpf/50grams). Fantastic hula show on same tour with great meal with free rum ...
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Sail Date: March 2023


Not for attempting to work remotely

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BCSurvive
6-10 Cruises • Age 60s

Pluses +Very comfortable cabin with plenty of storage room +Great service (except for IT) +Food was excellent, even the buffets +Despite the ship being 25 yrs old it was remodeled well Negatives -Extremely slow wi-fi. We were only using it for work related reasons (no streaming, gaming etc.) but it a took long time for emails to pull up or attachments to open. -We had free ...
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Sail Date: March 2023

Cabin Type: Deluxe Ocean View


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