Cyndi, there is a place you can store luggage at the Papeete airport. I read about it over on the Tahiti Explorer website. I'll dig it up for you if you like. That way you can have a suitcase full of "cruisewear" that you don't have to take with you to BB.

As for the PG itself, you can take as much as you like. But don't overpack. You can reuse or recycle outfits for evening easily enough. There is a captain's reception and dinner, I believe it's the first night after embarkation, that would be Sunday. I'll check that too. It's a little dressier, if you want it to be, but you don't have to make it so.

I had dreamt of doing the PG with just carry-on. But for two weeks I just can't. Plus I like to take my skirts and tops on hangers, in a suitbag.

But I think the luggage storage is just the thing for you.