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 a terrific success.
To thank our companions (Air Tahiti Nui, Tahiti Tourism, Hilton Resort Tahiti, and Conrad Bora Bora Nui), Windstar invited them to rejoice on board for the week. We additionally had media representatives from Journey Weekly, The Factors Man, Northstar Journey Media, Cruise Media LLC, and freelance writers on board with us. Lastly, we invited authorities officers: Hironui Johnston, Senior Authorities Advisor, Rene Temeharo, a cupboard minister, Lionel Lao, the Minister of Tourism, and Fredric Raffin, the Minister of Transportation, to hitch the festivities. We have been honored to have the First Woman, Angeline Fritch, and President Édouard Fritch on board for the week as effectively. Windstar’s company workers loved crusing with them and strengthening our relationship additional.
The occasion came about on Star Breeze the place friends and company workers mingled and loved reside performances and talks from native companions such because the Mamas and the Papas and the Youngsters of Raiatea, and different native musicians and dancers. All through the week, all passengers obtained genuine Tahitian items throughout turndown resembling a pareao, Tahitian salt, cleaning soap, and extra. Native companions have been additionally invited on board for lunch to thank them for his or her partnership and dedication to Windstar’s relationship with Tahiti.
All through the week, friends and crew on Wind Spirit and Star Breeze loved a number of cultural actions and occasions onboard and onshore. Certainly one of these occasions was Windstar’s signature Vacation spot Discovery Occasion. On that night time’s menu was moon fish and different Tahitian dishes. After dinner friends and crew joined our native Tahitian companions in conventional Tahitian dances and watched in awe as the fireplace dancers lit up the sky with their expert dancing and fireplace dealing with.
At our Signature Seaside Barbecue occasion on a non-public Motu, friends took benefit of the complimentary water sports activities gear introduced from the ship and kayaked, snorkeled and paddle boarded. At lunch time, they listened to reside 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 discovered how you can tie the normal Tahitian pareo, earlier than dancing with our native companions on the powdery white sand of Motu Mohea.
Through 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 way of restoration by planting, rising, and monitoring 1000’s of heat-resilient corals. The corporate 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 friends’ identify for the remainder of 2022 and we’re trying ahead to contributing to this partnership. Beginning in 2023, passengers crusing in French Polynesia can be inspired to undertake a coral for a donation of $35 per individual robotically added to their shipboard account. Company might choose out, however the firm anticipates the bulk will donate to this necessary 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 friends 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. Throughout a conventional Tahitian wedding ceremony, the tifaitai, a quilt, is wrapped across the couple to suggest they’re now husband and spouse.
The friends have been happy with the reside performances and the unique buffet desk that served genuine native dishes. As friends completed dinner, they have 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 sit up for constructing this relationship for a few years to come back.
