The Brando

On Google Hotels, read on 1 October 2026 for 2 adults, a night cost €3,946 on 12 October and €3,943 on 29 October 2026, €6,510 on 16 November and €2,914 on 28 November, €4,652 on 31 December, €4,197 on 15 March and €4,779 on 15 July 2027.

The October nights are the villa-and-breakfast rate for the one-bedroom villa in high season, €3,335, plus 18.16% in taxes and service and the city tax for 2: the all-inclusive plan, €5,600 before tax, comes to about €6,619 a night. For the other nights the calendar names neither the villa nor the plan, and it showed no price for 1 to 11 October 2026.

None of these prices includes the Air Tetiaroa flight, €642 return per adult (2026-27 rate brochure).

The 2026-27 rate brochure prices each villa per night, before 18.16% in taxes and service and a city tax of €1.26 per person per night (children under 12 exempt). All-inclusive: one-bedroom villa €4,870 in low season and €5,600 in high season (1 June to 31 October); Family villa €6,100 or €7,020; 2 bedrooms €9,830 or €11,300; 3 bedrooms €14,900 or €17,140; the Teremoana Residence €20,000 or €23,000. Villa and breakfast, sold for every villa but the Residence: one-bedroom villa €2,900 or €3,335.

On top comes Air Tetiaroa, €642 return per adult, unless the stay runs to 4 nights (half price) or 7 (free). Our sum for 2 adults, 3 nights in a one-bedroom villa, all-inclusive, in low season: €14,610 for the villa, €2,653 in taxes, €7.56 in city tax and €1,284 in flights, about €18,555; with the Fly Free offer the flights drop out. The fare table in the 2026-27 brochure carries a footnote dating it 1 April 2025 to 31 March 2026.

It includes the villa, every meal and in-villa dining round the clock, most drinks (water, soft drinks, beers, wines, French champagne and spirits), a minibar restocked daily, one shared excursion per person per day, one to three 50-minute treatments per villa per day depending on its size, the gym, tennis, beach equipment, a bicycle each and Wi-Fi (rate brochure). The benefits run from 3pm on the day you arrive to 11am on the day you leave.

Left out are the Air Tetiaroa flight, “premium” dishes, wines, champagnes and spirits, taxes and service (18.16% plus city tax), the festive dinner supplements, €80 for an in-villa order between 10pm and 7am, diving (XPF 20,000 to 50,000, about €168–419) and big-game fishing (XPF 510,000 for a half day, about €4,274). An undated agent’s page says the all-inclusive covers the flight and that the spa costs extra: the 2026-27 brochure says the opposite on both (Far and Away Adventures).

You fly into Faa’a International Airport on Tahiti, and from there Air Tetiaroa takes 20 minutes on one of its two 14-seat Twin Otters, leaving from its own lounge; you are expected 45 minutes before take-off. The flight is compulsory for guests and only guests of the hotel can take it; there is also a weekly scheduled flight from Bora Bora (location, Air Tetiaroa terms).

No: the brochure says rates do not include the Air Tetiaroa flight, €642 return from 12 years old, €321 from 2 to 11 and €128 for an infant, taxes included. From 4 nights it is 50% off for 2, 4 or 6 people depending on the villa, from 7 nights it is free; the Fly Free and Kids Fly offers also waive it (rate brochure, Fly Free). It is paid in advance, in euros.

An Oyster review says you pay extra only for stays under a week: on the 2026-27 rates you pay in full under 4 nights and half from 4 to 6.

It depends on your international flight’s times; the public site prints no Air Tetiaroa timetable, and the Groups brochure’s sample itinerary shows departures from the lounge between 8:50am and 3:30pm. The resort sells one night at the InterContinental Tahiti Resort & Spa, moments from the airport: from €614 for 2 in a Classic room with an ocean or Moorea view, breakfast and taxes included; 2 nights or more are booked directly with the InterContinental (rate brochure, Groups brochure).

A luxury private-island resort on the motu of Onetahi in the Tetiaroa atoll: 35 villas and a private residence, open since 2014 and owned by Pacific Beachcomber (The Atoll). It holds Three MICHELIN Keys and calls itself the first resort in the world certified LEED Platinum; Expedia rates it 5 stars, Google gives it no class. MICHELIN counts “35 rooms”, the Groups brochure 24 one-bedroom villas (MICHELIN, Groups brochure).

There are 5 categories, each with an infinity plunge pool, a deck, a bathtub outdoors and air conditioning cooled with seawater (the villas): One Bedroom Villa, 96 m², a king bed and 2 sofa beds, for 2 adults and 2 children under 12; Family One Bedroom Villa, 96 m², with a twin room for 2 children under 18; 2 Bedroom Villa, 168 m², 4 adults; 3 Bedroom Villa, 246 m², 6 adults; Teremoana Residence, 279 m² indoors plus an equally large deck, 3 king beds and a staff room.

The site prints no separate view by category. The Groups brochure gives the one-bedroom villa 92 m² of living space plus a 56 m² terrace; its 1,033 sq ft come to 96 m², as the site says (Groups brochure). A beach wheelchair is listed for the one-bedroom villas.

Les Mutinés, dinner only, a tasting menu, 34 seats, from 10 years old; Nami Teppanyaki, 8 seats; the Beachcomber Café for breakfast, lunch and dinner, 60 seats inside and 34 out; Bob’s Bar for lunch and dinner; Te Manu Bar for evening cocktails. In-villa dining runs round the clock and every restaurant has vegan dishes (dining, Groups brochure). The site publishes no hours and no prices.

In the reviews on Google the name that comes up most is Bob’s Bar, for lunch and for cocktails.

Varua Te Ora sits on a freshwater lake in over 2,000 m² of grounds: treatment suites, a steam bath, a waterfall, a tea lounge, a yoga pavilion and a couples’ suite (Tahiti Tourisme). Fare Mana is the space for meditation, yoga and sound baths; Fare Manu is a suite for 2 in the trees (spa).

The site describes Polynesian massage, facials, treatments for children aged 8 to 12, and manicures and pedicures on request; it publishes no menu and no prices. The spa is run by Deep Nature (sustainability policy).

On the all-inclusive plan each villa gets one 50-minute treatment a day, 2 in the 2-bedroom villa, 3 in the 3-bedroom villa and the Residence; extra children on that plan have no spa access (rate brochure). On villa and breakfast, treatments are paid for, and no price list is published.

There is no day pass: only guests of the hotel reach the atoll, on Air Tetiaroa. Treatments are booked with the spa.

The gym is open 24 hours; the spa’s and the pool’s hours appear on no public page or brochure, and treatments are booked with the spa. The Groups brochure lists sunset yoga, 5pm to 6pm, on request (Groups brochure).

Every villa has its own infinity pool: about 10 m² in the one-bedroom villas, 13 m² in the 2-bedroom, 22 m² in the 3-bedroom and the Residence (the villas). By the beach there is a shared freshwater infinity pool, its size not published (Groups brochure).

No source says whether the pools are heated; the resort is open all year, and the sea around the atoll runs from 27 °C in July to October to 29 °C in January to April, according to Tahiti Tourisme.

Yes: the villas stand just back from the beach with direct access, the lagoon is good for swimming and kayaks, boards, canoes and snorkelling gear are included on both plans (experiences). The Coral Garden, from Bob’s Bar or the main beach, is a first snorkel in shallow water; Reef Quest needs a confident swimmer.

The sea stays at 27 to 29 °C all year, according to Tahiti Tourisme; Reef Quest, Rimatu’u and the whales are from 12.

No closure is published: the 2026-27 brochure prices every month from 1 April 2026 to 31 March 2027. Low season runs from 1 April to 31 May, 1 November to 19 December and 5 February to 31 March; high season from 1 June to 31 October; the festive season from 20 December to 6 January. The weeks from 7 January to 4 February 2027 have no season name in the brochure (rate brochure).

The site’s events calendar marks the whales from 20 July to 31 October 2026 (the experiences page says August to October) and green turtle nesting from 1 November 2026 to 5 January 2027 (a resort story says September to March).

For Tahiti Tourisme the dry season runs from May to October and the wet season from November to April, with days of 20 to 30 °C and the sea at 27 to 29 °C all year; the hotel’s high season is June to October. Cyclones belong to November to April: Météo-France Polynésie rated the 2025-26 risk low between 12° and 20° south, and Tetiaroa lies at 17° south.

The Groups brochure says the island is “free from hurricanes”; for the national weather service November to April remains the cyclone season. We found no outlook for 2026-27.

Children are welcome. On the all-inclusive plan up to 2 children aged 0 to 3 stay free, and ages 4 to 11 cost €325 plus tax a night in the one-bedroom villa (€33 on villa and breakfast); the Kids Fly, Stay, Dine & Play Free offer makes the flight, villa, meals and activities free for 2 children under 12, with 3 nights minimum. Les Mutinés is from 10, the Lagoon School takes ages 6 to 12, the spa ages 8 to 12; the reef, Rimatu’u and the whales are from 12.

The MICHELIN Guide lists a kids’ club and babysitting on request; the hotel’s own programme for children is called the Lagoon School.

Yes, priced for 2 people: the Pomare wedding XPF 520,000 (about €4,358, with a Fare Manu spa package and 3 hours on a private boat), the Poerava XPF 200,000 (about €1,676), a blessing XPF 150,000 (about €1,257); each extra adult XPF 16,670, each child XPF 9,170, a bottle of champagne XPF 14,380 (Groups brochure, 4 November 2025).

Cocktail receptions take up to 80 guests, at Bob’s Bar or Te Manu Bar with its outdoor area; a plantation dinner up to 50; the resort sleeps up to 80, and the whole island can be taken for 3 days or more. The Arioi ceremony’s price and the island buyout’s are not published, and ceremonies do not include nights or flights.

A dinner at the Beachcomber Café from 6:30pm, with menus that tie Polynesian produce to French cooking, live music and dancing (Festive Brochure 2026). Any stay that includes the night of 31 December 2026 carries a supplement: on the all-inclusive plan €350 plus tax for adults and children over 16, €175 for ages 12 to 16, free under 12; the villa-and-breakfast table says €550 and €275.

Christmas Eve costs €250 and €125 all-inclusive, €450 and €225 on villa and breakfast; festive stays confirmed by 19 October 2026 get 15% off. The Kids offer page says the dinner supplements apply to children too, while the brochure has them free under 12 (rate brochure).

On the 2026-27 rates: Early Booking, 15% off when you book at least 60 days ahead; Stay 4 Pay 3 (25% off), Stay 5 Pay 4 (20%) and Long Stay, 30% off from 7 nights, all 3 on the all-inclusive plan only; Fly Free, the flight free for 2, 4 or 6 people depending on the villa, from 3 nights, all-inclusive, for travel from 1 April 2026 to 31 March 2027; Kids Fly, Stay, Dine & Play Free for 2 children under 12, from 3 nights, until 31 March 2028.

Early Booking cannot be combined with Stay 4, Stay 5 or Long Stay. The Early Booking page says the all-inclusive plan is “available during the festive season only”, while the brochure and the other offers sell it all year.

The 2026-27 brochure sets no general minimum, and Early Booking works for 1 night, festive season included; Google’s card says “minimum-stay rules apply” without a number. The offers set their own: 3 nights for Fly Free and the Kids offer, 4 for Stay 4 Pay 3, 5 for Stay 5 Pay 4, 7 for Long Stay.

18.16% in all: 5% VAT, the 4.9% regional RPT tax, a 6% service charge and a 2% community and conservation fee carrying 13% VAT; plus €1.26 per person per night in city tax, with children under 12 exempt (at 12 you pay as an adult). The 2% fee is the only thing resembling a resort fee (rate brochure).

For a standard booking you pay 20% within 30 days and 80% no later than 60 days before arrival, everything at once if you book within 60 days. Cancellation is free from 91 days out; then you lose 20% (90 to 61 days), 50% (60 to 31) and everything in the last 30 days (rate brochure).

The festive season is stricter: 20% at booking, 80% by 120 days before, 50% from 90 to 61 days and everything from 60 days in. Shortening the stay loses the remaining nights, and the flight is prepaid on the same terms.

Check-in is at 3pm and check-out at 11am, and the all-inclusive benefits start and end at those times too. Early check-in costs €2,000 for a one-bedroom villa on the all-inclusive plan (€1,200 on villa and breakfast), late check-out €1,000 (€600) (rate brochure).

A US non-profit founded by Marlon Brando’s estate and the resort’s owner. It runs the EcoStation on Onetahi, where researchers from around the world work, a conservation programme (rats were eradicated in 2020, and there is a mosquito project) and, with the Te mana o te moana association, the turtle count: 161 nests and over 15,600 hatchlings in the 2024-25 season (Tetiaroa Society).

Its naturalists lead the excursions, and the free Green Tour shows the seawater air conditioning, the gardens and the solar panels and ends at the research station (experiences).

According to the resort, the actor saw Tetiaroa on a hike in Tahiti while filming Mutiny on the Bounty in the early 1960s; the atoll had been a retreat for Tahitian royalty, and before that a gathering place around the marae. The Brando Family Trust approved the resort in 2009 and it opened in 2014; Bob’s Bar was the atoll’s original meeting place (The Atoll, dining). Brando died in 2004, as The Luxury Traveller notes.

He bought the atoll, completing the purchase in 1967, according to the Tetiaroa Society, the atoll’s conservation body, read on 15 October 2026; the 99-year lease is the resort owner’s, on the 2 motus where the hotel stands, from the company that owns the land (conservation plan).

The Tetiaroa Society runs a project with the Institut Louis Malardé to keep Onetahi entirely free of mosquitoes, and Condé Nast Traveler writes that guests will not be bitten (Tetiaroa Society). That is the Society’s programme and a press claim.

Unlimited Wi-Fi is included in the villas and public areas on both plans (rate brochure). The local currency is the Pacific franc (XPF), but the hotel bills the villa, flights and deposits in euros; diving, fishing and ceremonies are priced in XPF. The 6% service charge is already in the 18.16%, and Tahiti Tourisme says tipping is not expected.

No, because there are no cars: on Tetiaroa you get about by bicycle, one each in the rate, or on foot, and the hotel uses a few golf carts for tours (Tahiti Tourisme, rate brochure). The “free parking” on Google’s card is a generic label: there is no car park on the atoll.

No: the MICHELIN Guide says pets are not allowed, in line with the strict biosecurity rules on flights to the atoll (Air Tetiaroa). Google’s card and an Oyster review list pets as allowed; the hotel’s site publishes no policy.

No: there is no course on the atoll, and the published activities are tennis, pickleball, beach volleyball, cycling, water sports and excursions (experiences).

Air Tetiaroa’s planes have no cabin crew, so passengers must move on their own, boarding and leaving included, and anyone in doubt must say so when booking (Air Tetiaroa). On the atoll a beach wheelchair is listed for the one-bedroom villas; the number of accessible villas is not published.

The MICHELIN Guide lists a doctor on call; a January 2025 review says there is no doctor on the island. Air Tetiaroa’s terms recommend travel insurance and Tahiti Tourisme recommends adequate health cover.

A 24-hour gym, tennis and pickleball, beach volleyball, bicycles, kayaks, boards, canoes and snorkelling gear, the spa, the Lagoon School for ages 6 to 12, in-villa dining at any hour and 3 shops: pearls, the spa boutique and one for art and souvenirs (rate brochure, the resort). MICHELIN adds babysitting on request, a kids’ club and a doctor on call.

On the motu of Onetahi in Tetiaroa, a private atoll about 60 km north of Tahiti (59 km as the crow flies from Faa’a airport); Google and Tripadvisor address it to “Arue 98702”, the Tahiti commune the atoll is part of on OpenStreetMap. It is the atoll’s only hotel, with no neighbours and no cars, and the only way in is the 20-minute flight (location).

The Groups brochure and MICHELIN say “30 miles”: 60 km is 37 statute miles, or 32 nautical miles.

The scores are very high: 4.7 out of 5 on Google from 266 ratings (231 five-star), 4.8 out of 5 on Tripadvisor from 447 reviews, with service at 4.8 and value at 4.5, and 10 out of 10 on Expedia from 4 reviews; MICHELIN has no guest score yet. The staff, the nature and the privacy are what people praise.

The flight and the taxes come on top of the rate, and the “premium” dishes and wines stay outside the all-inclusive plan. It is worth the price if the atoll, birds and reef matter most to you; some guests expected more from the restaurants’ cooking.