French Polynesia | Bora Bora, Moorea & Tahiti

Three Islands, One Journey

Tahiti, Moorea & Bora Bora

Most people fly eleven hours and stay on one island. The islands are forty minutes apart by air and they are nothing like each other, so we use all three. You land on Tahiti and sleep. Moorea is the green one, jagged and quiet and almost empty. Bora Bora is the lagoon everybody has seen a photograph of, and it earns it. Gay-owned, and welcoming to all.

Night 1

Papeete

You arrive late, whatever route you take. One night on the Papeete waterfront so the islands start properly the next morning, with the roulottes and the market ten minutes away if you have any energy left.

Nights 2–4

Moorea

Thirty minutes by air or a fast ferry from Tahiti, and a different world. Volcanic spires straight out of the water, pineapple fields up the valleys, and a lagoon shallow enough to wade. Three nights, and nobody rushes.

Nights 5–8

Bora Bora

Four nights to finish, on the lagoon everyone pictures. Mount Otemanu on one side, a ring of motu on the other, and water in about nine colours. This is the part you do not shorten.

Where You Stay

The Garden Journey

The same three islands and the same lagoons, in garden and beachside villas rather than over the water. It is the honest way to do French Polynesia without the overwater premium, and on Bora Bora it puts you inside the St. Regis grounds for less than an overwater bungalow anywhere else.

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Tahiti · Night 1

Hilton Hotel Tahiti

You land in Papeete late, and this is ten minutes from the terminal on the waterfront. One night to sleep off the flight before the island hop.

King room, ocean view
Daily breakfast for two
Airport transfer on arrival
Room upgrade, early check-in and late check-out when available

Hilton Moorea Lagoon Resort, garden pool bungalow

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Moorea · Nights 2–4

Hilton Moorea Lagoon Resort & Spa

Moorea is the one people are surprised by. Green volcanic spires straight out of the water, a lagoon you can wade across, and almost none of the crowds.

Garden bungalow with private pool
Daily breakfast for two
All island transfers
Room upgrade, early check-in and late check-out when available

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Bora Bora · Nights 5–8

The St. Regis Bora Bora Resort

The largest resort grounds on the island, on its own motu, with the Mount Otemanu view everyone comes for. Your villa has its own garden and pool.

Reef side garden one-bedroom villa
Daily breakfast for two
Private boat transfer both ways
Room upgrade, early check-in and late check-out when available

The Garden Journey · 8 Nights

Papeete◆Moorea◆Bora Bora

Eight nights: Hilton Tahiti, Hilton Moorea, The St. Regis
Garden pool bungalow and a reef side garden villa
Every inter-island flight, Air Tahiti
Every private boat and car transfer
Daily breakfast for two throughout
Elevida planning & concierge

From $7,700 per person

double occupancy · international airfare can be arranged but is not included

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Where You Stay

The Overwater Journey

The one people picture. An overwater bungalow on Moorea and a second on Bora Bora, both with the ladder off the deck straight into the lagoon. This is the tier most of our clients book, and Le Bora Bora is the reason: a Relais & Châteaux property with genuine overwater bungalows, and thousands less than the resorts either side of it.

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Tahiti · Night 1

Hilton Hotel Tahiti

The arrival night. Ten minutes from the terminal, on the water, so the long flight ends properly rather than in a departure lounge.

King room, ocean view
Daily breakfast for two
Airport transfer on arrival
Room upgrade, early check-in and late check-out when available

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Moorea · Nights 2–4

Hilton Moorea Lagoon Resort & Spa

Your first overwater bungalow, on the quieter island, with the volcanic ridgeline behind you and a glass panel in the floor.

King beach overwater bungalow
Daily breakfast for two
All island transfers
Room upgrade, early check-in and late check-out when available

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Bora Bora · Nights 5–8

Le Bora Bora

A Relais & Châteaux house on its own motu, small enough that the staff learn your name, with Otemanu filling the window.

Overwater bungalow over the lagoon
Daily breakfast for two
Private boat transfer both ways
Room upgrade, early check-in and late check-out when available

The Overwater Journey · 8 Nights

Papeete◆Moorea◆Bora Bora

Eight nights: Hilton Tahiti, Hilton Moorea, Le Bora Bora
An overwater bungalow on Moorea and on Bora Bora
Every inter-island flight, Air Tahiti
Every private boat and car transfer
Daily breakfast for two throughout
Elevida planning & concierge

From $9,300 per person

double occupancy · international airfare can be arranged but is not included

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Or, the same islands at their most rarefied

✦ Ultimate Experience

The Flagship Journey

The best overwater villa on each island, both with private pools on the deck. The Conrad sits on the far side of the lagoon on Motu Toʻopua, which is the view of Bora Bora rather than the view from it, and the Sofitel’s luxury overwater villas are the finest water on Moorea.

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Tahiti · Night 1

Hilton Hotel Tahiti

The arrival night on the Papeete waterfront, so you start the islands rested rather than jet-lagged.

King room, ocean view
Daily breakfast for two
Airport transfer on arrival
Room upgrade, early check-in and late check-out when available

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Moorea · Nights 2–4

Sofitel Kia Ora Moorea Beach Resort

The best stretch of water on Moorea, looking back across the channel to Tahiti, with the luxury overwater villas set furthest out on the pontoon.

Luxury overwater villa
Daily breakfast for two
All island transfers
Room upgrade, early check-in and late check-out when available

Conrad Bora Bora Nui overwater pool villa

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Bora Bora · Nights 5–8

Conrad Bora Bora Nui

An overwater villa with its own infinity pool on the deck, on the ocean side of Motu Toʻopua, where the sunsets happen in front of you rather than behind.

King overwater pool villa, 1,302 sq ft
Daily breakfast for two
Private boat transfer both ways
Room upgrade, early check-in and late check-out when available

The Flagship Journey · 8 Nights

Papeete◆Moorea◆Bora Bora

Eight nights: Hilton Tahiti, Sofitel Moorea, Conrad Bora Bora Nui
Overwater villas with a private pool on the deck, both islands
Every inter-island flight, Air Tahiti
Every private boat and car transfer
Daily breakfast for two throughout
Elevida planning & concierge

From $12,400 per person

double occupancy · international airfare can be arranged but is not included

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On the Water

Experiences

Almost everything here happens on or in the lagoon, and very little needs booking a year ahead. These four are worth arranging before you travel. We price them once you have dates, rather than off a headline rate.

A private boat day on the lagoon

Half or full day · private

Your own boat and skipper around the lagoon, stopping to snorkel the coral gardens and the ray shallows, with lunch on a motu. The day almost every client says was the best of the trip.

Priced on request

The coral gardens and the rays

Any day · off the beach

The water inside the reef is waist deep and startlingly clear. Reef sharks and rays come into the shallows off Moorea, and you can snorkel straight off the sand at every hotel here.

Priced on request

Humpback whales

August to October

They come up from the Antarctic to calve in the lee of the islands, and they come close. A small boat and a guide who knows where they are is worth every franc.

Priced on request

Up the Opunohu valley

Half day · 4x4

Up through the pineapple plantations to the Belvedere, where both of Moorea’s bays open below you at once. The one thing to do on the island that is not in the water.

Priced on request

Good to Know

Before you go

When to go

May to October

The dry season, cooler and far less humid, and the best of the year for being in the water. November to April is warmer and wetter, with rain that usually passes in an hour. Our pricing is built on a June departure.

Getting there

Overnight, both ways

About eleven hours from the US west coast to Papeete, longer with a connection, and almost every routing lands late. That is why a night on Tahiti opens every one of these journeys rather than a same-day island hop.

How far out

A year is comfortable

Overwater bungalows are a small fixed inventory and the good ones go early. A year ahead is comfortable, six months is tight, three is luck. Every transfer and inter-island flight is arranged for you either way.

Gay-owned · Welcoming to all

Planned by people who travel like you

We book these islands ourselves. We know which bungalow numbers face the sunset and which back onto the plant room, every rate above carries breakfast and an upgrade where one exists, and nobody hands you a voucher and wishes you luck at the airport. Tell us your month and we will price it to the dollar.

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Prices are per person, double occupancy, for an eight-night journey in entry room categories, one night Tahiti, three Moorea, four Bora Bora. The Garden uses Hilton Hotel Tahiti, Hilton Moorea Lagoon Resort and The St. Regis Bora Bora Resort; The Overwater uses Hilton Hotel Tahiti, Hilton Moorea Lagoon Resort and Le Bora Bora; The Flagship uses Hilton Hotel Tahiti, Sofitel Kia Ora Moorea and Conrad Bora Bora Nui. All three include the three hotel stays with daily breakfast and Signature amenities, all inter-island flights, all boat and car transfers, and Elevida planning. International airfare and optional experiences are arranged separately. Pricing varies by travel date, room category and availability.
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