I am an experience mariner and have been on dozens of small group cruises. Also have been designing building vessels for 38 years aswell as a licenced captain. For 13 years I was on the Canadian Marine Advisory Council drafting regulations for passenger vessels On Nov. 3rd we boarded the Pamorama II for a 11 day cruise of the Society Islands with 35 other passengers. The captain and crew gave the worst and incomplete safety briefing I have ever wittinessed and then we set sail for a 2 hour roller coaster ride to our first desination of Moorea Island. There was aboat a 8 to 10 knot wind with a beam sea. We quickly learned what a terrible sea boat we were on. It pitched and rolled so bad that it was next to impossible to walk. Most including myself, sat, held on tight with passengers drinks rolling accross the decks if not held onto including mine. We had a nice dinner and spoke to some passengers who had top side state rooms. They were told by the crew that the next days 18 hour sail to Bora Bora would be rough and they would be moved to the lower level state rooms as it would not be safe for them in there rooms. The next morning at 7 am we woke up to a dead ship. There was no emergency lighting working. The passage way leading to the upper deck was totally black and the fire doors at each end of the passage way had closed. The only light we had was our cell phones I had to push open the heavy fire doors to reach upper deck. I was imformed that the electrical distrubution system had failed, repairs would take at least a week as parts need to be shipped from Europe and the cruise was cancelled. At 8:30 I returned to our state room in the pitch black with fire doors still closed to pack up in the dark. At 9 am we found that the fire doors had been wedged open and some daylight was now present and helped slighty. Later we learned from Variety that the emergency lighting was turned off at day light to conserve battery power. At departure onto a small watertaxi our cruise director read us a memo from head office saying we would refunded our full cost of the cruise 2, 20% off on a future cruise that would not be added to any other discounted sale prices and they would pay for two nights in a hotel in Tahiti. When we arrived at the hotel we were told they would now only pay for one night. There was no comunication at all with a Variety reprsentative in those next few days as we all passengers waited to find flights home. It took a month to get our refund. I saw last week a Black Friday sale with 60% off I now wished that I had of read the reviews on Trip Advisor prior to booking and learned of the terrible reviews this cruise had. I