Sail
|
SAILING AdvenTours – AdenTours offers the opportunity to combine diving and sailing on a variety of group SAILING AdvenTours. This is a great way to learn to dive and sail on the same trip. BAREBOAT CHARTERS - The lowest Bare Boat Charter rates in the industry are offered by AdvenTours. Yachts are available world wide. Captains/Instructors and/or crew are available if requested. #YACHT CREW SERVICES - AdvenTours is proud to offer three US Coast Guard Certified Captains and a Premier Hostess to crew YOUR Personal or Chartered Yacht. Our crew members are available to travel inexpensively to meet you and your boat where ever needed. CREWED YACHT CHARTERS - AdvenTours can combine our Bareboat Charter and Yacht Crew Services to offer the greatly discounted Crewed Yahct Charters. AdvenTours rates are well below most other "crewed charters". CANAL/BARGE AdvenTours - The industries lowest rates on Self Drive Barge/Canal trips in France, Ireland, Italy, and Germany are offered by AdvenTours.
GUADELOUPE, French West Indies 28 May – 4 June 2008 We plan to do a Dive/Sail AdvenTour to Guadeloupe 28 May until 4 June. Guadeloupe is composed of several islands in the French West Indies which is a couple hour American Eagle flight away from San Juan (south of Antigua, Barbuda, St Kitts, and Nevis...north of Dominica and St. Lucia). The villages, ports, harbors, and anchorages are loaded with shops, restaurants, and quaint beach bars.There is a "chance" we may opt to sail to Dominica (about 35 miles away) for a evening, but I cannot promise that. For those that are interested, I am considering adding two or three days diving to either the front or back of this trip IN DOMINICA (world class dive sites and spectacular mountain island). Let me know if this interests YOU. To get to Guadeloupe you can either come on Air France from Paris OR American Eagle from San Juan. Most will need to over night in San Juan because there don’t seem to be any good connections. The Travel dates for this AdvenTour will be to arrive Guadeloupe (PTP) on May 28 or EARLIER (AE arrives PTP from SJU @ 1725) and plan to depart on June 4th or later (AE departs PTP at 3:55 PM so it is doable if the boats are in by noon). The RATES will be ABOUT $800/person based on double occupancy cabins. This will NOT include diving, transportation, or provisions. The diving will cost ABOUT an additional $150/diver (if we dive from OUR boats). The Airport to Base transfers will be about $10/person/direction. Each crew will provision as needed. I anticipate eating MOST dinners ashore and most breakfasts and lunches aboard. After we have set the crews and the Captains have agreed on a sail plan we will give more guidance on Meal and Provision costs. MY GUESS.....$100/week/person for boat provisions and $25/day for on shore meals. We currently have only a hand full of openings, so if this trip intersts you contact us ASAP.
Please send your deposit to: Be Safe !!! Have Fun !!! Jim (817) 946-5736
May/June2007 This is some "general" information about Tahiti that YOU will need when trying to decide if you want to join us on our Tahiti AdvenTour in MAY-JUNE 2007.
This AdvenTour will offer
each of you a variety of travel and destination
options. When we finalize the "deals" I will tell
each of you MY PLANS and MY SUGGESTIONS. You will
then have several options as to how to customize YOUR
AdvenTour.
GENERAL GEOGRAPHY
Tahiti is HUGE and made up of several major
archipelagos (Society, Tuamotu, Gambier, and
Marquises). Gambier and Marquises are AdvenTours of
their own and their distance from the Island of
Tahiti make it impractical to include in this AdvenTour.
AdvenTours DESTINATIONS
We will focus on the Society Islands of Tahiti,
Moorea, Raiatea, and Bora. We will offer the option
of AdvenTouring to Rangiroa in the Tuamotu
Archipelago for those that want to see/do more.
This AdvenTour will encompass a variety of activities
to include Sailing, Diving, and Touring. The entire
trip will most likely be about 2 1/2 to 3 weeks. YOU
are invited to join us for the entire
AdvenTour or any portion.
One "possible" itinerary (use this as an example only)
would be to spend the first 4 to 5 days enjoying
a land based touring/diving in Tahiti and Moorea.
Followed by a couple days of land based touring/diving
in Raiatea and then boarding Sail boats for 5 to 7 day
of sailing/diving to Bora Bora and returning to
Raiatea. The last section of this itinerary would be
and additional 4 or 5 days of land bases
touring/diving in Rangiroa. From Rangiroa we would
return to Tahiti for our flight back to the United
States.
Using the above itinerary each of you will have the
option of which portions of the AdvenTour you would
like to attend. If you opt not to sail with us, you
could remain on Raitea (or schedule your arrival
to coincide with the boat departure) and then meet us
in Bora Bora.
The bottom line is that we plan to offer you several
options.
GETTING TO/FROM TAHITI
Air Tahiti Nui serves LAX and JFK to PPT (Papatee
Airport). For the Airline Employees there are
several special rates from LAX and JFK from $350
to $500, but you will travel STANDBY. For those that
need/want positive space travel the rates are
approximately $1000 (there are fares offered on
specific dates for as little as $650, but they may or
may not be available when we go).
There are OTHER airline options that will be addressed at a later date.
INTER ISLAND TRAVEL
We will fly into Papatee on the island of Tahiti.
Ferry service between Tahiti and Moorea is easy, quick
(30 Minutes), and inexpensive.
Inter Island flights on Air Tahiti (not Air Tahiti Nui,
which is a different company) are available by the leg
or by purchasing an Air Pass. Air Passes cost between
$250 and $500 depending on which islands you opt to
visit. I have pasted Air Pass information to the end
of this e-mail.
LODGING OPTIONS
Tahiti has some of the most beautiful
hotel/spa/resorts in the world. Most of the larger
ones are very expensive. We have had several requests
to spend at least a portion of our time in one of
these spas. I am working on RATES at this time, but
these FIVE STAR facilities will cost between $200 and
$600/night (double occupancy).
There are also a fair amount of smaller
resorts/bungalows that we should be able to acquire
for between $75 and $150/night (double occupancy).
DIVING
The diving is "World Class". For the true divers in
the group, I will plan to dive 3 or 4 days in each
destination allowing 1 or 2 days of non-diving for
additional touring. We will most likely dive one dive
per day while on the sail boats.
Diving is expensive in the Pacific. We will most
likely pay about $75/dive ($150/two tank dive).
SAILING
Our intent is to get two or three catamarans for 7
nights. Catamarans are in VERY limited supply so we
may have to adjust our sailing plans based of
availability. The sailing is reported to be wonderful
and will offer the divers and non-divers the
opportunity to explore the coves, reefs on our own.
Although we may eat some of our meals aboard the
boats, we plan to eat the vast majority on shore.
COST
The total cost will obviously vary based on which
resorts we actually settle with. I am currently in
discussions with several facilities at each
destination. You can use these numbers as a
"guideline". I think some of these numbers are HIGH,
but I would rather you plan HIGH and be pleasantly
surprised if we come in at a cheaper rate. The big
variables will obviously be the number of days diving
WE choose, positive or standby travel status, and
whether or not you choose the Resort Spa option for
three of the nights.
Air Fares (Air Tahiti Nui AND Inter island travel) -
Between $800 and $1500/person
Sailing - About $600/person
Diving - Eight Days of two tank diving @ $150/Day -
ABOUT $1200
Diving - Six Days of single tank diving while on
Sailboat - ABOUT $300
Lodging - Eight nights @ $80/person/night - ABOUT $650
Lodging - Three nights at a SPA Resort @
$200/person/night - ABOUT $600
TIME FRAME
This entire trip will take about 2 1/2 weeks or
more. I will try to make Sail Boat reservations as
soon as I have a feel for how many people are
joining us on the boat.
This trip will basically be the last week of MAY and
the first week of JUNE. Until we know who is going
and what date restrictions we have with the
sailboats and resort openings, we cannot set the
EXACT date.
Because most of the trip is land based there will be
flexibility for those that need it.
COMMITMENT
The rates will vary somewhat based on how many
people we will have joining us. If you are
interested, it is VERY important that you give me
some type of commitment or "feed back":
"100% I am in"
or
"I want to go but it will be dependent on ??? "
or
"I am interested, but not willing to commit yet"
AND
"I want to be included on a Sail Boat to DIVE"
or
"I want to sail, but will not dive"
or
"I do not want to go on the sailboat"
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
YOU need to do some of your own research so that YOU
will be able to make some decisions. I suggest
looking at
http://www.tahiti-tourisme.com/ which
has LOTS of information.
YACHT SERVICES In addition to group sailing AdvenTours also offers:
|
|
.JPG)
.JPG)
