Essentials

from Heathrow and Auckland. You spend three nights in Rarotonga and three in Aitutaki at beachfront hotels. Activities include reef walking, a visit to a market and cultural village in Rarotonga and a lagoon vaka tour in Aitutaki. Departures once a month between October and July. offer Aitutaki and Rarotonga as stopovers when travelling to the southern hemisphere. Trailfinders (020 7084 6500; trailfinders.com) has a Sydney Getaway & Cook Islands Castaway trip. This is a 12-night tour in April 2023 and costs from £3,599pp, priced for a couple and including all flights, four nights in a four-star Sydney hotel, and four in beach resorts both in Rarotonga and Aitutaki. The price includes transfers and a Sydney Harbour Explorer tour, and currently offers a saving of £200 per couple.

more information on Aitutaki, visit cookislands. travel/islands/aitutaki.

more information on flights to Aitutaki and other islands in the Cooks, see airraro.com.