Papeete to Moorea?

[crowpro]

What if you stay on Moorea pre-cruise and then plan on taking the ferry back to Papeete on embarkation day and the weather is bad? Is that a problem or do the ferries always run.

 

Thanks

[rgastin]

If you pose this question on the Ports of Call ...South Pacific boards you will be able to get an accurate answer.

[Wendy The Wanderer]

The weather would have to be very bad for them to cancel all the ferries, all day. The fast catamarans maybe, but there's a bigger car ferry that looked very ship-like to me--I would imagine it can go in almost any weather. I wouldn't worry too much about this issue.

[Leejnd4]

What if you stay on Moorea pre-cruise and then plan on taking the ferry back to Papeete on embarkation day and the weather is bad? Is that a problem or do the ferries always run.

 

Thanks

 

While I agree this is probably a question better put in the Ports of Call forum, I can tell you that I've been there three times and taken the ferry back and forth, including one time when it was pouring rain and the swells were huge. I remember feeling a little green on that ride :o but the ferry still ran.

 

It's not a long ride - 30 to 40 minutes - and it's in a channel so unless you're in the midst of a SERIOUS storm (very rare for that part of the world - they do not get hurricanes or cyclones there), the ferry will run.

[Wendy The Wanderer]

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It's not a long ride - 30 to 40 minutes - and it's in a channel so unless you're in the midst of a SERIOUS storm (very rare for that part of the world - they do not get hurricanes or cyclones there), the ferry will run.

 

Well, I do beg to differ on one point, LeeAnne, they do occasionally get cyclones (the dock at Motu Mahana got swept away by one.) But...if there is such a SERIOUS storm, no doubt the cruise would be affected too, not just the ferries, lol!

Edited March 14, 2015 by Wendy The Wanderer