tahiti/easter island

[rechoboam]

There was some discussion about going to easter island via tahiti...a while back
Has anyone actually flown syd/mel to papeete, then easter island, then santiago? I would like to do this plus on to new york. Maybe somehow integrate it into a circle pacific fare? Crazy idea but would be an adventure

 

[Stephen65]

We did this on a circle pacific fare on the route you listed and then from Santiago to La Paz, Lima, LA and home. However it was in 1996.

Easter Island is definitely worth visiting. You can see everything on the island in 2 days if you hire a 4WD to get around.

 

[JohnM]

I went Santiago-Easter Island and back a few years ago on LAN as part of a DONEx. The flight continued on to Papeete and then returned to Santiago via Easter Island.

Agree with Stephen65 that Easter Island is worth a visit and a couple of days is enough. Not an awful lot on Tahiti IMHO but some of the other islands of the many are worth a visit.

I flew QF to AKL and then Air Tahiti Nui to Papeete. That, and the internal Air Tahiti, was a good airline in my experience when I went there last year but French Polynesia was very obviously in an economic slump.

French Polynesia tends to be a resort place, which isn't my thing; Easter Island not so.

 

[elbarto]

There was some discussion about going to easter island via tahiti...a while back
Has anyone actually flown syd/mel to papeete, then easter island, then santiago? I would like to do this plus on to new york. Maybe somehow integrate it into a circle pacific fare? Crazy idea but would be an adventure

I looked for fares to easter island last month and couldn't find flights on this purported PPT-Easter Island route. booking easter island in generals seems a bit of a pain and looks to be a job for a travel agent if you want to do it on one ticket.

 

[drron]

We did it on a Global explorer ticket(I wanted AA miles which I couldn't get on the TN QF codeshare but could on the TN number.)Highly reccomend it.Just loved Easter Island.But check both the Circle Pacific and Global explorer price.
PS the PPT-IPC-SCL sector is operated by LAN.
PPS-my TR is here-
http://www.australianfrequentflyer....en-hill-amazon-jungle-13855.html?daysprune=-1

 

[StevePER]

My wife and I did PER-AKL-PPT with NZ, then PPT-IPC-SCL with LAN in 2007 (and back again after travelling around South America for a bit). Excellent trip and we had no trouble booking it online.

Somewhat dated trip reports:
Australia to South America in Luxury (NZ/LA/VT)
Five 767s - LIM-PER With LA And NZ

 

[rechoboam]

Thanks everyone. Once the mortgage is paid off a very long Global Explorer is definitely my dream.