South Pacific Odyssey – Tahiti & Fiji

About this cruise

If you've got 18 nights to work with, this sailing from Honolulu on September 29, 2026 through Papeete, Moorea Island and Raiatea Island, with additional stops along the Australia & New Zealand is genuinely one of the better ways to spend them. The trip wraps in Auckland, so you won't retrace your steps. You ease into this one, with a few sea days up front to find your rhythm before the 7 port calls start. The route threads through 3 countries along the Australia & New Zealand coast: French Polynesia, Fiji and New Zealand. Keep an eye out for Auckland: The city of sails between two harbours. Around 14 hours per port on average, which is generous enough to go beyond the obvious. Celebrity Solstice has 10 restaurants on board, which means you could eat somewhere different nearly every night. There are enough performances, events, and social mixers on a cruise this length that you couldn't do them all if you tried. And that's a good problem. Honolulu itself is worth spending some time in. Don't just treat it as a departure point. The autumn timing is underrated too. Good weather, calmer seas, and a more relaxed ship. That's 18 nights well spent.