Air Tetiaroa transports guests between Tahiti and Tetiaroa, home of The Brando resort. We waited for our flight in a lounge in a small domestic terminal reserved exclusively for Air Tetiaroa’s two daily flights.
Air Tetiaroa Lounge Tahiti (PPT) Review
If you’re familiar with Fa’a’ā International Airport in Tahti, you’ve got to turn right, walk past the international terminal, then through a parking lot. You’ll see a small terminal (technically, domestic terminal 2) with the Air Tetiaroa sign.
There, you can check-in for your flight, drop your bags off, proceed through security, then enter the lounge.
The lounge opens up to two hours before your Air Tetiaroa flight. We arrived about an hour before and shared the lounge with one other couple.
With room for about 20 guests (Air Tetiaroa’s larger de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter aircraft seats 20), the lounge is cozy. On the left side of the lounge are three clusters of seats for 4-5 guests (two chairs and a couch). On the other side of the lounge is a C-shaped couch with room for up to seven people (that’s where my wife and I sat).
The ceiling is covered with reliefs of the national flower, gardenia taitens (tiare mā’ohi). The windows were also partially frosted with the same flower.
There are also restrooms (no showers)…
…as well as a small outdoor terrace for smokers:
While there was no food in the lounge, there was a choice of non-alcoholic soft drinks, water, tea, and coffee (via Nespresso pods).
When it is time to board, you will walk directly from the lounge onto the apron and board the aircraft.
CONCLUSION
We enjoyed escaping the muggy heat in the Air Tetiaroa Lounge. While this is not a lounge I would deliberately show up early for, it’s always nice to allow extra time in case of unexpected delays.
At least you got something to drink and a cool place to relax. When we left SavuSavu airport in Fiji, it was just an open airport (if you can even call it that) and walked straight through to the airplane.
It was quite a nice place to wait and I wasn’t hungry – no complaints!
That thicket of sharp sticks , behind the sofa , will stab one in the back whilst they are not looking .