We were on the October 28th sailing and loved it as well. I don't whether or not you flew coach or business class on Air Tahiti Nui. The food and wine going over in business clas was great, however, coming home in coach the food was terrible and very poor service. In fairness, the coach section was sold out. We only pre-reserved our exclursions a couple of weeks before the cruise along with the 2 on board restaurants and had no problems. Maybe we just lucked out or chose less popular excursions. I think even if I had just sat on deck 8 in a chaise lounge chair and never got off it would have been just as wonderful.