Here are my tips for bearing with the Tahiti
Airport...if you are on a pre cruise--bring shorts/short sleeve shirt to change in before you land..when we landed in March I perspired profusely until we got to the IBC (even then the rooms were poorly a/c)..for departure and to beat the crowds at the airport take your luggage and recruit another couple or two and take at taxi well before (e.g. an hour) the bus (provided by tahiti nui travel) is scheduled to depart the IBC or Le Meridian or Radisson...we left the IBC at 5:30 and it took us three hours to get up to the ticket window (I had to wear a headband to deal with the humidity and I wasn't even joggin or playing tennis) Getting though the security luggage checkpoints can be brutal as posted above, but as luck would have it, we were not checked....bring some bottled water to hydrate and bring patience...r/wes