Thursday 9th October, 2014 - Papeete, Tahiti

We arrived into Papeete around 8 last night and enjoyed sitting up on the aft deck looking out at city lights for a change. This morning we had to vacate our room by 8am, but could there were plenty of places to sit and read till it was time to leave the ship.
We were booked into a hotel about 20 minutes away and the taxi ride there was really our only look at the city but it seemed attractive enough, the bits we did see.
Once at the hotel we had to wait a bit for our room but then they upgraded us to what they described as a "cruisey suite" whatever that means, but it did have a large balcony and, in addition to the usual bathroom, a massive spa bathroom (neither of which we used). Still it was nice to have somewhere to read and sleep and have a shower before leaving.
Surprisingly, it isn't nearly as hot here as I thought it might be. It rained all afternoon (hence our lack of use of the balcony) and it was quite a pleasant 25° when we had to queue outside the airport for absolutely ages just to get to check-in.
The photos today aren't very exciting - just what I could manage to capture from the back of the ship.

                                          Central Papeete as seen from the ship.