Originally Posted by Angostura

This is tough because of the early morning arrival in PPT. I've traveled a few times on consecutive long flights, and I've had the best results with getting about 4 hours of sleep on each flight. Your body will want to sleep on the CDG-LAX leg, but if you sleep too much, you won't be able to sleep on the LAX-PPT leg. Of course, you'll be awake around 4AM PPT-time on arrival, so no matter how much and when you sleep you'll still crash after lunchtime on the day of arrival. Of course, there're few better places in the world for an afternoon nap than French Polynesia. After a few afternoon ZZZ's, you should be about on local time.