If you have shopping plans during your stay in Tahiti, we recommend visiting Papeete since the main places for shopping are located here. It is worth noting that there are no tremendous shopping centers here, but you will find a sufficient amount of shops, stores, and boutiques to satisfy your consumer demand. Walk around the city, try to search for different souvenirs in the small shops located on the streets of the city since there you can buy them cheaper and you will have more chances to buy something really peculiar. While preparing for shopping, keep in mind that the locals are more morning “larks” than night “owls”. The business day of Tahiti’s most stores begins at seven or eight o'clock in the morning, but it ends quite early in comparison with the European standards - at four or five o'clock in the afternoon. Therefore, if you are interested not in large shopping centers, but in the islanders' shops or local markets, you should go out shopping early in the morning. Take into account that it is improper to bargain here, the sellers expect you to buy their goods for the price they ask for. The buyer who will be smiling might get a discount of one or two Francs, but nothing else. Although Tahiti is a part of the overseas collectivity of the French Republic, it still has its own currency, which is the CFP French Pacific Franc. Its rate is fixed and pegged to the Euro. However, both the European currency and the American dollar are accepted for
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