Samoa graces the front cover of the The Independent!

Polynesian Xplorer is thrilled with the recent coverage Samoa received in UK’s The Independent newspaper. An article by Adrian Phillips made the front cover of the Travel Section, and featured of course, was our beautiful MD, Zita Martel. The feature on our beautiful islands  covered three pages, and the front page article is posted here  in it’s entirety. As it suggests, if you are looking for a Samoan experience, then you have come to the right place here at Polynesian Xplorer!

“Anthony, my guide, was like a chunk of granite in flip-flops. There seemed to be a great many chunks of granite flip-flopping their way through the streets of the capital, Apia. I could have thrown a rope with my eyes shut and lassoed somebody more than capable of pushing a grand piano up a flight of stairs. Yes, if there’s a certainty in life, it’s that a Samoan won’t blow away in a gale. And that’s no bad thing when you live on a palm-fringed island in the South Pacific because occasionally nature packs up the sun, stirs up the sea and points its attack dogs at paradise.

Polynesian Xplorer aids Hutt International Boys’ School (HIBS) in their 2013 visit to Samoa

The 2013 HIBS International Service Team

Polynesian Xplorer is at your service again! Our cheerful and amazing team greeted a school group of 15 students and 3 teachers from the Hutt International Boys’ School in Wellington, the city of “The Hurricanes” on the 20th of April.  Every year, HIBS sends a service team of 12-15 students overseas to aid less fortunate communities in foreign countries. They fundraise, seek sponsorship and collect goods to take to a community less fortunate than their own. This year, 2013, with the aid of event managers, Polynesian Xplorer, they are visiting Samoa with an intention to carry out some community work and assist with reconstruction and development work.

Samoa’s Polynesian Xplorer makes event management look easy at the EU conferences 2013

Hostess Britta awaiting EU arrivals at our Faleolo Airport office

Our ever dedicated and attentive Polynesian Xplorer events management team were the local event coordinator for two European Union funded conferences successively.  Stunning tropical sunny weather welcomed the 50 delegates of the EU to Samoa for the first series of meetings.   It was –  wait for it as it’s rather long –  the 11^th European Development Fund (EDF) National Programming Consultative Seminar for the Pacific Region.  Following on the heels of that one, tropical showers greeted the second lot of 60 delegates for the ACP Connect Study for the Pacific Region.   One of our flagship hotels in Apia, Tanoa Tusitala Hotel, was the venue.

Samoa Air fares a weighty issue

Samoa Air Cesner

Samoa Air made history and went viral by becoming the first airline in the world to do what was previously unimaginable: charge passengers by weight.  Yes, ladies, just what you’ve been dreading, getting weighed by a stranger at the airport! And if you’re like us who carry the kitchen sink in our handbags – don’t even think about it! Eliminate! Eliminate! Eliminate the excess baggage!!  The idea has been hovering in the air in the past and voila… Samoa Air is the first to beat everyone to it.