Windstar Cruises’ thirty fifth Anniversary in Tahiti
From October ninth to October sixteenth, Windstar hosted the President’s Cruise with Windstar’s President Chris Prelog, and President Édouard Fritch of Tahiti. The weeklong occasion was a celebration of Windstar’s thirty fifth anniversary of crusing in Tahiti, and it was an ideal success.
To thank our companions (Air Tahiti Nui, Tahiti Tourism, Hilton Hotel Tahiti, and Conrad Bora Bora Nui), Windstar invited them to have fun on board for the week. We additionally had media representatives from Travel Weekly, The Points Guy, Northstar Travel Media, Cruise Media LLC, and freelance writers on board with us. Lastly, we invited authorities officers: Hironui Johnston, Senior Government Advisor, Rene Temeharo, a cupboard minister, Lionel Lao, the Minister of Tourism, and Fredric Raffin, the Minister of Transportation, to affix the festivities. We had been honored to have the First Lady, Angeline Fritch, and President Édouard Fritch on board for the week as nicely. Windstar’s company employees loved crusing with them and strengthening our relationship additional.
The occasion occurred on Star Breeze the place visitors and company staff mingled and loved stay performances and talks from native companions such because the Mamas and the Papas and the Children of Raiatea, and different native musicians and dancers. Throughout the week, all passengers obtained genuine Tahitian items throughout turndown comparable to a pareao, Tahitian salt, cleaning soap, and extra. Local companions had been additionally invited on board for lunch to thank them for his or her partnership and dedication to Windstar’s relationship with Tahiti.
Throughout the week, visitors and crew on Wind Spirit and Star Breeze loved a number of cultural actions and occasions onboard and onshore. One of those occasions was Windstar’s signature Destination Discovery Event. On that night time’s menu was moon fish and different Tahitian dishes. After dinner visitors and crew joined our native Tahitian companions in conventional Tahitian dances and watched in awe as the hearth dancers lit up the sky with their expert dancing and fireplace dealing with.
At our Signature Beach Barbecue occasion on a personal Motu, visitors took benefit of the complimentary water sports activities tools introduced from the ship and kayaked, snorkeled and paddle boarded. At lunch time, they listened to stay tahitian music and loved scrumptious barbecue favorites. After lunch, they joined the Mamas and the Papas to create handmade flower crowns, bracelets, baskets, leis, and realized tips on how to tie the normal Tahitian pareo, earlier than dancing with our native companions on the powdery white sand of Motu Mohea.
During the Farewell Reception aboard, Chris Prelog, Windstar’s President, introduced Windstar’s new partnership with Coral Gardeners. Coral Gardeners’ objective is to avoid wasting coral reefs by restoration by planting, rising, and monitoring 1000’s of heat-resilient corals. The firm was began by highschool college students in Moorea in 2017 and has grown into a global group that’s devoted to revolutionizing ocean conservation.
Windstar donated $35,000 to this worthy trigger in our visitors’ identify for the remainder of 2022 and we’re wanting ahead to contributing to this partnership. Starting in 2023, passengers crusing in French Polynesia might be inspired to undertake a coral for a donation of $35 per particular person routinely added to their shipboard account. Guests could decide out, however the firm anticipates the bulk will donate to this essential environmental endeavor in a spot they’re having fun with on trip.
The President’s Cruise concluded on the Presidential palace of Tahiti. President Fritch hosted a gracious reception and welcomed all Windstar visitors aboard Star Breeze to attend. He stunned President Chris Prelog and spouse; Silke; with a conventional Tahitian tifaifai, in recognition of their latest vow renewal on the motu. During a conventional Tahitian marriage ceremony, the tifaitai, a quilt, is wrapped across the couple to suggest they’re now husband and spouse.
The visitors had been happy with the stay performances and the unique buffet desk that served genuine native dishes. As visitors completed dinner, they had been pleasantly stunned by a Tahitian Black Pearl trend present and obtained a bracelet containing a single black pearl. The President’s Cruise was past profitable and represents Windstar’s dedication and long-standing relationship with Tahiti. We look ahead to constructing this relationship for a few years to return.