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We're looking to go on the 7 July cruise which is 11 nights. It's for a family holiday with 6 adults and four kids aged 11, 13, 13 abd 15. I've read about the Ambassadors of the Environment program and would be interested to hear from anyone whose teens have been on that. I have a few questions:

Is the program interesting or does the marine theme get a bit boring?

Does the Paul Gauguin have deck games?

Is there an icecream bar?

As there are two sea days is there enough for the teens to do - particularly without the Internet 😀😀. My four grandchildren are sporty kids and active. They've looked at other ships with all the bells and whistles. I'm hoping Paul Gauguin would be ok. Any information would be so appreciated, thank you.

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We took our daughter when she was 17 and our son was 8. Our daughter very much enjoyed the youth program, and they allowed our son to participate in some of the activities. There are not activities all of the time though, so they do have to be able to self entertain. The kids can use the pool. No ice cream bar. There was a shuffle board court that we used. We did the 7 night, so being in port every day kept the kids busy so they didn't need a ship with all the bells and whistles. Hope that helps!

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We're looking to go on the 7 July cruise which is 11 nights. It's for a family holiday with 6 adults and four kids aged 11, 13, 13 abd 15. I've read about the Ambassadors of the Environment program and would be interested to hear from anyone whose teens have been on that. I have a few questions:

Is the program interesting or does the marine theme get a bit boring?

Does the Paul Gauguin have deck games?

Is there an icecream bar?

As there are two sea days is there enough for the teens to do - particularly without the Internet 😀😀. My four grandchildren are sporty kids and active. They've looked at other ships with all the bells and whistles. I'm hoping Paul Gauguin would be ok. Any information would be so appreciated, thank you.

 

Hi CherylFP,

 

We hope you decide to sail with us! Through our partnership with the Wildlife Conservation Society, we offer the Stewards of Nature program that invites guests to discover and value nature through hands-on, interactive learning for children and teens ages 7-17, as well as family members. This program is offered on the July 7, 2018, Cook & Society Islands voyage. For more information, visit: http://www.pgcruises.com/WCS-Family. There is also a daily schedule you can view to see the activities for each day of the sailing. The ship also has a watersports marina for kayaking, windsurfing, and paddleboarding at select times during the cruise. Complimentary snorkeling equipment is also available for check out. At our private island, Motu Mahana, there is volleyball and kayaking and our private beach in Bora Bora guests can paddleboard and kayak. There are also Polynesian activities led by Les Gauguines and Les Gauguin and shuffleboard.

 

Kind Regards,

Paul Gauguin Cruises

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We didn't cruise with teens, but a fair number of them were on the December holidays PG cruise we took a few years ago, and they seemed to be having a great time. There was a diving program...they got their certificates and did a lot of great diving.

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Hi CherylFP,

 

We hope you decide to sail with us! Through our partnership with the Wildlife Conservation Society, we offer the Stewards of Nature program that invites guests to discover and value nature through hands-on, interactive learning for children and teens ages 7-17, as well as family members. This program is offered on the July 7, 2018, Cook & Society Islands voyage. For more information, visit: http://www.pgcruises.com/WCS-Family. There is also a daily schedule you can view to see the activities for each day of the sailing. The ship also has a watersports marina for kayaking, windsurfing, and paddleboarding at select times during the cruise. Complimentary snorkeling equipment is also available for check out. At our private island, Motu Mahana, there is volleyball and kayaking and our private beach in Bora Bora guests can paddleboard and kayak. There are also Polynesian activities led by Les Gauguines and Les Gauguin and shuffleboard.

 

Kind Regards,

Paul Gauguin Cruises

 

I have been looking at this specific cruise and have a question about Stewards of Nature. It would be our 8 year old in the program.

 

Seems to be an amazing offering but also a very full schedule. Does the child have to do the program every day? Or if there was a day or two we wanted to take a different excursion as a family, but have him do the Stewards of Nature all the other days, is that ok?

 

Also, it looks like you can do an add-on for a family member. Question here is can you rotate the adult family member one day to another? We also have a 1 year old so it would be one parent joining the Stewards of Nature on a given day. May also have a set of grandparents with us so there is a thought that one of them might want to rotate in if that was allowed.

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Hi. Just an update on when we are now intending going on this cruise. October there is a Cook Islands and Tahiti cruise and am wondering how this would be for teens. It is school holidays in New Zealand. There are two days at sea and am wondering also how rough this stretch of water can be. Many thanks. 

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The water between Tahiti and the Cook Islands can be pretty rough. The ship cannot dock at either of the Cook Islands, and anchors in an unprotected area to tender passengers through an opening in the reef to get to the dock. We tendered into Atutaki in December a few years ago. On the way back to the ship, the waves were going completely over the tender. It wasn't as bad this past September, but it still required a slow, careful process to get on and off the tender. Sometimes the Cook Island ports aren't accessible by tender so the 2 days at sea result in just a sail by.

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I've done the Cook Islands cruise 4 times, this year will make it 5 times. Only once did we miss a call and that was for Rarotonga as it was rough. The PG actually is drifting outside the reef. The ship uses it's thrust propellers and pods to stabilize the ship. The PG has a very capable/seasoned crew that frequently deals tricky tendering  .... your in good hands

 

If you blow up the picture you will see no anchor line or mooring line 😉

Rarotonga - PG off of Avarua (1 of 1).jpg

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On 2/10/2020 at 4:04 PM, CherylFP said:

Hi. Just an update on when we are now intending going on this cruise. October there is a Cook Islands and Tahiti cruise and am wondering how this would be for teens. It is school holidays in New Zealand. There are two days at sea and am wondering also how rough this stretch of water can be. Many thanks. 

We did that route with our teens a few summers ago.  Beautiful weather and no rough seas.


We went during summer though when they had the Ambassador program for kids so we had two naturalists for 3 kids total.  We got to go on virtually everything they did and having our own private tour guides basically.  Our kids loved the ship and the times we had (except the flight on ATN).

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