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Babyless in Bora Bora: Air Tahiti Nui New Business Class Review

Too tired to write about our island-round bike ride, but here's a picture of our view of our hotel from a lookout point
Too tired to write about our island-round bike ride, but here’s a picture of our view of our hotel from a lookout point

Ah, it’s over! This trip report was a bit too ambitious and I’m exhausted from writing it, so I think I’ll just end it here. I wanted to go into detail because when I was planning my trip I didn’t find too much about Bora Bora so hopefully this has been a semi-useful resource. Anyway, at the end of an amazing trip (including a bike ride around the island which was exhausting and fulfilling as this trip report), we finally had a few flights home. At this point, I was anxious to get home: nine days away from Baby M is a lot and we couldn’t wait to see her!

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Babyless in Bora Bora – Air Tahiti Nui Old Business Class

We took a plane very similar to this photoshopped picture to Tahiti! (asiatraveltips.com)
We took a plane very similar to this photoshopped picture to Tahiti! (asiatraveltips.com)

The only way to get directly from North America to Tahiti is via Air Tahiti Nui – an airline that has a fleet of five Airbus 340s. Three of the five planes have remodeled cabins with new seats in both business class and economy – but it’s pretty much luck of the draw which cabin you get. After three totally kind of annoying domestic connections on US Airways and an hour at the new Tom Bradley International Terminal in LAX, Jess and I were ready for our flight to the South Pacific. Unfortunately, we drew the short straw and ended up on one of Air Tahiti Nui’s old business class – better than coach but a far cry from some of the newer international business class cabins out there. Apologies in advance, I didn’t take too many pictures – I was so exhausted by that point I just needed to relax!

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