Our Day tour operates daily Mondays through Saturdays. It departs from Rarotonga Airport at 8 am and returns at 5.30 pm. The tour includes transfers to/from airport to your accommodation, flights, island tour of Aitutaki, lagoon cruise and barbeque lunch. Towels and snorkeling gear are also provided.

This is our most popular excursion. The Day Tour starts with a coach transfer from all hotels and motels to Rarotonga International Airport for an 8 am departure to Aitutaki. The flight takes 40 minutes on our Saab 340 pressurised airliner during which a tea and coffee are served.

On arrival at Aitutaki you will be taken on a short island tour by 'le truck' lasting around one and a half hours and during which a stop is made at the local village market where souvenir T-shirts etc. can be purchased.

Then it's on to the highlight of the day - the lagoon cruise. Departing from the wharf opposite Aitutaki Lagoon Resort and Spa, you will board the 21 metre catamaran Titi-ai-tonga. (Translation: "Wind from the South"  the name of a historic trading schooner that used to serve the island early last century).

The catamaran has comfortable covered seating as well as sunbathing decks and access is easily negotiated for people with physical disabilities including those in wheel chairs.

The clear turquoise water of the Aitutaki lagoon is spectacular!

There is time for snorkeling and swimming before stopping at a motu (small islet on the fringing reef) for a tasty barbecue lunch, cooked right on board. Anyone who has not snorkeled before will find our lagoon tour guides only to happy to help you experience the wonder of the lagoons underwater world.

It's not that hard and after a short lesson most people will find snorkeling a breeze.

The cruise will pass by Akaiami, the small islet that was once a stopover for huge TEAL (Tasman Empire Airways Limited)
Shorts Solent flying boats enroute from Fiji to Tahiti on the famous weekly Coral Route TM. The service finished in 1965 when Tahiti’s international airport at Faaa opened to landplane service. The return flight arrives back at Rarotonga airport at 5.30 pm.

Snorkeling gear and towels are provided on the lagoon cruise. We recommend you bring a light change of clothing, sun protection, and lots of extra film or memory cards for your camera.

Talk about the weather...

Our staff check the Aitutaki weather each morning before departure from Rarotonga. In the event of cloudy wet conditions that prompt Air Rarotonga to cancel the day tour, clients are given the choice of re-booking for another day with no cancellation penalty or surcharges.