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Keep up with the latest news and events from Polynesian Rental Cars and Bikes, including cultural and sporting events across the Cook Islands, helpful tips and tricks for planning the best possible holiday in our island paradise, and updates and specials from our amazing team based in handy locations all around Rarotonga. If you've got some news you'd like us to share, then please get in touch.
December 16th, 2022
What To Do In Rarotonga At Christmas
Rarotonga is the perfect destination for a Christmas holiday whether with family or your romantic partner. High season is in the Southern Hemisphere winter months of June through September, so coming in December can mean there are less tourists and more of a local vibe as Cook Islanders return home from New Zealand and Australia. Here are our top five things to do in Rarotonga at Christmas:
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July 29th, 2022
Seven Best Places For Whale Watching In Rarotonga
Each year from July through October we are blessed in the Cook Islands to be visited by some of the largest whales in the Ocean: beautiful humpback whales. These incredible creatures travel up to 6,500 kilometres from the cool feeding grounds of the Southern Ocean and Antarctica where they stock up on Antarctic krill, to our warmer Pacific waters where they mate and give birth.
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February 11th, 2022
Special Deals To Rarotonga
Here in the beautiful Cook Islands we're open and ready to welcome holidaymakers from New, Zealand, Australia and abroad back to our beautiful shores. It has been a tough couple of years for everyone on the planet. Our tiny slice of paradise relies heavily on tourism and our economy needs travelers to keep many of our people in jobs, so we are delighted to see light at the end of the tunnel.
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November 3rd, 2021
Cooks Islands Voted Best Travel Destination For 2022
Anyone who has been to the wonderful paradise of the Cook Islands would already know it's the coolest destination on earth, and those of us lucky enough to live here count our blessings every day. Now it's official: Lonely Planet, the world's top independent travel publication, has voted the Cook Islands the best country to visit in 2022.
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July 9th, 2021
Five Cool Rarotonga School Holiday Activities
The Cook Islands have so much to offer that everyone can have the kind of holiday they dream of, whether it's lying on a beach for days on end, or doing a new adventure every day. If you're coming to Rarotonga with your family for the school holidays, here are five awesome ideas for fun activities you all can enjoy.
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