Cook Islands March 2007 - Image Heavy - Tiki Travel

B bongofury Grand Member (6 years) Ventura County Joined: Oct 15, 2002 Posts: 1565	B bongofury Posted posted on Thu, Apr 19, 2007 8:16 PM We went at the end of their summer (low season) so prices may be higher now. Your U.S. dollar goes pretty far as the New Zealand dollar was 25% lower. We really didn't do much shopping, jsut relaxing for the most part. I think if you want to own land you have to marry a local (Mrs. Fury offered to get a divorce so we coudl do that). I'm sure most of us would get island fever after awhile, but so tempting. We spent 5 days on Rarotonga here : http://www.rarobeachbungalows.com and 4 days here: http://www.etumoana.com We booked it through the Costco Travel website (I wonder if it would be 25% less if you could book it through a New Zealand agent?). We tried to book it through our regular agent, but could not get the same savings or low cost tarvel insurance they offer. The site does not offer the beachfront as they are trying to show the cheapest accomodations, but just speak to one of their agents and they can do any upgrades. Try to do it in one call as you may get a different agent every time you call. We liked the bungalow on Raro a little better as the other one was a little fancy, but nice.

We went at the end of their summer (low season) so prices may be higher now. Your U.S. dollar goes pretty far as the New Zealand dollar was 25% lower. We really didn't do much shopping, jsut relaxing for the most part. I think if you want to own land you have to marry a local (Mrs. Fury offered to get a divorce so we coudl do that). I'm sure most of us would get island fever after awhile, but so tempting.

We spent 5 days on Rarotonga here : http://www.rarobeachbungalows.com
and 4 days here: http://www.etumoana.com

We booked it through the Costco Travel website (I wonder if it would be 25% less if you could book it through a New Zealand agent?). We tried to book it through our regular agent, but could not get the same savings or low cost tarvel insurance they offer. The site does not offer the beachfront as they are trying to show the cheapest accomodations, but just speak to one of their agents and they can do any upgrades. Try to do it in one call as you may get a different agent every time you call.

We liked the bungalow on Raro a little better as the other one was a little fancy, but nice.

Post #300528 by bongofury on Thu, Apr 19, 2007 8:16 PM