helpful travel tips if you're considering traveling right now and is french polynesia
a destination you should consider i'm christine with where in the world of seattle i make travel
videos every week to help you get up get out and go travel so if you like to travel consider
subscribing i'm super excited because in this week's video i'm bringing in a friend who's been
traveling and she's going to share with you some real-time travel tips as well as her perspective
on traveling to french polynesia right now so check it out so i'm so excited to have maddie
with me here today maddie introduce yourself hey guys my name's maddie i am a travel blogger and
content creator you can find me pretty much all over the internet um at a one-way ticket and i
was recently drooling over all of her photos of french polynesia is that where you most recently
were yeah it was and i saw i got so jealous of everybody and their mother going to bora
bora and maria and tahiti and i was like i need to go there so i went i guess november and december
and that's pretty recently i'm curious if you have tips for people who either have been traveling or
are considering traveling now what are some tips that you would give first and foremost tip that
i would give for people wanting to travel now is that you have to be flexible things are changing
constantly like it's i've had people come to me where they're like this was the rule and then
the morning i woke up of my flight there was this completely different rule so you really have to be
flexible so that would be tip number one without a doubt my second tip kind of goes hand in hand
with that would be take non-stop direct flights wherever you can i know sometimes they're more
money but the chances of something going wrong with like two flights or three flights versus one
it just do yourself a favor and the third tip which is a more practical one get travel insurance
there are a lot of countries requiring you to get it to get in um so obviously you have to get it in
those circumstances but just to have that peace of mind to save yourself if something crazy happens
you just again you will thank me later i know that travel insurance is one of those things that
people are just like ugh i don't want to buy that like i'm never going to use it i have had to use
travel insurance even pre coven more times than you would ever guess so during covid especially
super important and actually for travel insurance do you have anything on your blog as a resource
for more people to learn more i actually have it kind of like scattered throughout a couple of
places that i would recommend world nomads um they sell plans different plans that you can get for
i think you can get like long-term ones with them if you're kind of constantly traveling
but then you can also get individual trip ones i also use a website called square mouth it's kind
of like an aggregator for a bunch of different insurance policies and there's a filter option
on the website to cover covid which is important and you want to do your research
when you're getting a plan to make sure that certain circumstances are covered for covid so
that's one place that i know that you can actually filter it out and it makes it easier to find
that's actually really helpful because when i was considering insurance for my tanzania trip
there specific language in there removing them covering you for covid so making sure that you're
looking those resources i'll link them below as well as reading the fine print super important
and you really good tip about flying direct if you guys missed my video about 12 questions to
ask yourself about traveling internationally now you'll know that i had a 31 hour flight back from
zanzibar that was not fun i passed through either three or four airports and there were several
times i could have gotten stuck somewhere in the world that wouldn't have been fun so flying direct
super key okay so for french polynesia oh somewhere i've always wanted to go would you
recommend traveling there now it is currently as of i think like february 1st they did close down
temporarily france since it's a french territory handling coven very well so that goes into my
thing yes i would recommend going there now i think that they're planning on opening up in a
couple of months their high season is our summer in north america so i think they're planning to
open up for the high season so definitely would recommend it just it's kind of a place that's
built for social distancing um if you're on like islands like tahiti and maria where it's
you know a little less remote i mean it's still remote it's in the middle of the south pacific but
um everything's outdoors like everything so it's really great for that and then bora bora staying
in an overwater bungalow and like i mean how much more socially distant and like away from all of
the humans does it get so i think it's the perfect place to visit i mean all the time but especially
right now yes and i you guys know that i am always chasing beach travel like this that allows you to
be outdoors i have so many questions about french polynesia um what resources do you have on your
website like i'm curious like what like what's one of the differences between the two islands
and how can we find more information from you i do have a bunch of blog posts on my website a
onewayticket.com about french polynesia about the different hotels i stayed in what they're doing to
you know keep everybody safe during covid they've done an excellent job to really keep people safe
not only people traveling there but the locals too because it's a really remote place like
let's be let's be real they don't have the kind of infrastructure medically that we have in the us or
canada or wherever so they've done a really really really good job um i went to tahiti orabora and
maria tahiti is kind of where people fly in and where you can't help but go to tahiti if you're
going to french polynesia and a lot of people like to you know just go there for a night just to get
off the island but i think it's worth a few days and then from there i went to bora bora and
which is amazing it's like what everybody it's the quintessential like honeymoon destination although
i did not go for a honeymoon i was with my friend um and then from there i went to mariah and
bora bora and moreya are so different so different they both have overwater bungalows for the people
who are chasing that um marae is a little cheaper too so you can kind of get that like
french polynesia over water bungalow vibe for a fraction of the cost of bora bora which is nice
and a lot of people don't know about and then bora bora most of the resorts are on like the outer
islands of the island itself so you're kind of more isolated which is great for cohen if you're
just like i don't want to be around anybody but moray is more it's like all the mainland you can
rent a car which is something that i did one day and just drive around the entire island it took us
a few hours stopping everywhere beautiful beaches left and right you know talk to locals it was kind
of more of like a mix of getting into like the island itself and then like having that distanced
away from all the humans experienced wanderlust right now yeah it was so nice it was great
i will link i will link her blog as well as some of those articles in the description below thank
you so much for doing this where can we find you um you can find me on my blog a onewayticket.com
you can find me on instagram at a one-way ticket and pretty much everywhere else but those are the
main places that you will find me that's maddie check her out and tell me in the comments below
if you've been to french polynesia or if you've ever considered traveling there i'd love to know
i'm christine i'm here every week i'll see you in the next adventure
ciao