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Five top Pacific Island escapes

To inspire us with ideas for a winter break, Rick Felderhof from Our World shares the five most popular Pacific escapes for Kiwis.

Pacific Islands: The best snorkelling spots

Patricia Greig looks at the best spots to get eyeball-to-eyeball with fish on your next visit to the islands of the South Pacific.

Fiji: Banquet for a princess

Jane Jeffries tries to mind her manners while cooking a meal for her fellow cruise ship passengers in Fiji.

Cruising: Relaxation 101

Tropical beaches, fine dining, cooking and dance lessons – Lynley Bilby finds her every whim is catered for on a Pacific island cruise.

Room check: Le Meridien Resort, Noumea

Nicky Park stays at a beachside hotel near the New Caledonia capital.

Fiji: Islands provide a triple threat

Three unique resorts make Anne Cooke and Steve Haggerty feel right at home.

French Polynesia: A cruise in paradise

Elisabeth Easther and her son booked a passage on a freighter to explore the far-flung charms of French Polynesia’s Marquesas Islands.

Five reasons to visit Vanuatu

Good food, waterfalls and gorgeous beaches are great reasons to visit Vanuatu, writes Megan Singleton.

Flavours of foodie Fiji

The tourist mecca's restaurants are fast becoming a culinary force with their focus on fresh, local ingredients and indigenous dishes, discovers Delaney Mes.

Fiji: In the jet set

To the people of Beqa Island sharks are friends. Nicholas Jones tested that trust.

Room check: The Modern Honolulu, Hawaii

Paul Davies stays at a full-service lifestyle hotel close to Waikiki Beach.

Fiji: The best of palm and reef

Go local when it comes to food, Nicholas Jones discovers at a cooking school in Fiji.

Fiji: Precious string of secrets

Paul Rush discovers the enigmatic beauty and brilliance of black pearls in the waters of Fiji.pacific

Tonga: In gentle giants' domain

Whale watching in Tonga goes extreme when Jane Jeffries hops in with the cetaceans.

Niue: Ballet in the blue

Paul Rush meets creatures both noble and dangerous in waters of astonishing clarity.

Rarotonga: Return to a cool, blue world

Kim Palsenbarg revisits a past hobby and is entranced to find the world beneath the waves as welcoming as ever.

Cook Islands: Recharged in Rarotonga

Laura Hutchins cherishes the easy-going pace of Cook Island life because she knows when she's home it'll be what she misses the most.

Fiji: Into the deep

All his courage gathered, Nicholas Jones ventures underwater for an eye-opening scuba dive.