Post #372649 by bamalamalu on Wed, Apr 9, 2008 10:58 AM

Thanks! I'm excited, I'm sure it's going to be great.

A trip to Bali Hai in Santiago is definitely in the plans! I remember reading about that several years ago when I first saw the (very extensive!) trip report that tikibars wrote. Thanks for the tip on making reservations. We'll actually have 2 nights in Santiago on the way back, so it should be easy enough to make that happen. I'm still working on finalizing the hotel reservations on Easter Island, then I'll get Santiago set. I know there's plenty of time, but I'm still gonna be antsy until I get everything confirmed.

Thanks to everyone who has posted tips & pictures in all the various Easter Island/Bali Hai threads; they're both helpful and inspiring!

Oh - christiki - when I was researching flights it didn't seem that going via Tahiti was more expensive, but it did add a lot of time connecting through there. If you were going to stop in both directions it wouldn't be as big a deal, of course. I went with Santiago since I wasn't able to add the number of days I'd want for the Tahiti route to feel worthwhile this time.

[ Edited by: bamalamalu 2008-04-09 11:03 ]