Ken mentioned the vineyard on Rangiroa...I'm curious about others' experiences with that excursion. While I was off checking out hammerhead sharks and shooting the pass, my Mom did the vineyard excursion. She did not enjoy it. First, they were taken there by a small boat which had nowhere to actually land, and people had to hop over a rail and/or step in the water, and some of the women had to be hauled out of the boat onto land by the young men there...I didn't see this, but the way she described it was that they had to hoist some of the women over the rails and through the surf! (Again, I don't know how accurate that description is, but some of the women I spoke to afterwards said they were quite embarrassed about the way in which they had to be heaved up.) Then, she said the vineyards themselves were just some small, sandy patches of struggling plants...and all that they did was wander through them, in the heat, with no water or anything to drink...until they got to the small building where they make the wine, which they got to taste (and she said it was horrible).

Now, one might ask what one would expect of vineyards on an atoll in the middle of the South Pacific...I guess it's not going to be Napa! But still, everyone I spoke to didn't like the excursion. Has anyone here done it? Any feedback? How long have they been doing this excursion?

Oh, and Ken, you're not telling these anything they don't already know -- that B&K is the bomb, and knows virtually every detail there is to know about Regent! :D