The St. Regis Bora Bora Resort

On Google Hotels, read on 13 October 2026 for 2 adults, each night searched alone, the cheapest night to 6 September 2027 was $796 (6 November 2026, between nights at $1,601 and $1,770) and the dearest $4,978 (25 December 2026). Other nights: $2,026 on 17 October, $1,001 on 12 November, $1,200 on 12 December, $3,490 on 24 December, $4,956 on 28 December and $4,135 on 31 December 2026; $1,200 on 25 January, $1,148 on 6 March, $2,675 on 20 April, $3,050 on 24 June, $3,807 on 26 July and $2,608 on 29 July 2027.

Between November and March the monthly medians run from about $1,622 (November) to $2,192 (March); between April and July 2027, as the dry season sets in, from about $2,807 (June) to $3,068 (July). Each figure is the cheapest category Google holds for that night searched alone, and Google does not say whether taxes are in it. Booked as 7 nights from 16 November 2026, the lowest seller Google listed that day asked $2,150 a night and the resort’s own listing $2,152, where the calendar had $1,446 to $1,848 for the same nights taken one at a time.

The resort bills in Pacific francs (XPF), fixed at 119.33 to the euro (Tahiti Tourisme). For the 2025–26 festive season its own release started at $1,900 a night in an Overwater Superior (PRWeb).

The butler, available 24 hours a day in every category, is included: drinks on arrival and each morning, unpacking and packing, 2 garments pressed a person a day (rooms); Google lists it as free. So are bicycles, snorkelling gear and the non-motorised watersports at the Main Beach: paddleboards, kayaks and Polynesian canoes (experiences).

Breakfast at Te Pahu is extra unless the rate includes it (dining), and so is the shared boat from the airport. A law of 9 December 2025 reformed the tourist tax, and the communes have until 31 October 2026 to adopt it, with its rates, for stays from 1 January 2027 (tax office). No page we read publishes a resort fee, VAT or service charge: Marriott’s rate list prints, for every villa, a figure with taxes and all fees included, without itemising it. A Tripadvisor thread from around 2017 quotes 4% service, 5% tourist tax and 5% VAT; it is too old to rely on.

No. The standard rate includes no meals and no all-inclusive plan is listed. A March 2026 guide describes 3 plans, each for at least 4 nights and with drinks excluded: breakfast; half board, with a 3-course dinner; full board, adding a 2-course lunch at Aparima. At Lagoon, it adds, half and full board carry a supplement of XPF 2,500 a person per visit (Salty Vagabonds). The official pages mention full board only for the festive season, and an offer for Marriott Bonvoy Silver members and above with breakfast for 2 and XPF 10,000 of resort credit a day, for at least 4 nights (overview).

You land at Faa’a, French Polynesia’s only international airport, and take Air Tahiti from the domestic terminal in the same building to Bora Bora, about 50 minutes (Salty Vagabonds); Air Tahiti advertises fares from XPF 40,246 return, taxes included (Air Tahiti). At the airport on Motu Mute the resort’s greeter waits at the St. Regis desk, and the shared boat takes 20 minutes (overview).

The boat is paid for and has to be reserved (overview): ask the resort for the price when you book it. Private transfers exist too, according to a March 2026 guide (Salty Vagabonds).

The 2 resorts are 1.8 km apart as the crow flies, both on the motus facing Otemanu. The St. Regis’s overwater villas start at 144 m² (rooms), the Four Seasons bungalows at 100 m² (Four Seasons). The Four Seasons includes breakfast and the airport boat in its rate, which the St. Regis charges for; it runs a kids’ club for ages 5 to 12 (families), while the St. Regis offers a list of babysitters. Its boat from the airport takes 15 minutes, the St. Regis’s 20.

On Google Hotels, read on 13 October 2026, the cheapest night searched alone was $796 (6 November 2026) at the St. Regis and $1,790 (11 January 2027) at the Four Seasons. The gap narrows once breakfast and the airport boat, which the St. Regis charges for, are added to its rate.

The Overwater Superior, Deluxe and Deluxe Otemanu have no pool or whirlpool; the Overwater Premier Otemanu has a whirlpool on the deck that seats 3; the 2 Overwater Royal villas, with one bedroom (260 m²) or 2 (321 m²), have a 24 m² plunge pool (overwater villas). On land every villa has its own: 12 m² for the Reef side Garden and the Beachside, 30 m² for the Reef side Royal Garden, 57 m² for the Royal Estate (rooms). The overwater villas have glass panels in the floor.

Among the overwater villas, those named after it: the Deluxe Otemanu and the Premier Otemanu; the Superior has a lagoon view, the Deluxe an island view (rooms). The resort’s photographs of the Overwater Royal villas also show the mountain.

A St. Regis, a Marriott Bonvoy brand, opened in May 2006 on Motu Ome’e according to Hotels for Kings; the official pages we read give no date. It has 90 rooms according to the MICHELIN Guide, Expedia and a 2025 press release, in 10 categories from the overwater villas to the 3-bedroom Royal Estate, on grounds of 17 hectares by the overview’s count, 44 acres by the release’s.

It holds 2 MICHELIN Keys, awarded in 2025, and Tripadvisor’s Best of the Best 2026 (awards). Forbes Travel Guide rates it 4-Star, while the overview and Expedia call it 5-star: they are different systems. Google shows no star class.

3 restaurants serve dinner from 5:30pm to 9:30pm: Lagoon, over the water, closed on Wednesdays and Thursdays; Bamboo, Pan-Asian, closed on Tuesdays and Wednesdays; Farniente, Italian, open Tuesday to Saturday (dining). Te Pahu serves breakfast from 6:30am to 10:30am and on Wednesdays holds Polynesian Night, dinner and a show from 6:30pm. Aparima Bar serves lunch and snacks from 11am to 9:30pm, with a grill night on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays (guest portal); the 727 Bar pours from 5:30pm to 10pm, closed on Wednesdays and Thursdays. In-room dining runs 24 hours, and dinner should be booked.

The resort itself counts 4 restaurants and 2 bars, while the overview’s list of amenities and Booking.com say 5: the difference is Aparima, a bar that serves meals. A March 2026 guide puts a fine-dining dinner at XPF 11,000 to 18,000 a person (Salty Vagabonds).

Not by the resort’s own pages. Its dining page, its guest portal and an April 2026 post name it plain Lagoon Restaurant, with its own executive chef. OpenTable and a March 2026 guide still call it «Lagoon Restaurant by Jean-Georges», and the resort’s overview captions a photograph the same way; the Jean-Georges group, which lists 45 restaurants in 13 countries, has none in French Polynesia. No announcement of an end date was found: the departure of the name is our inference, and nobody has confirmed it.

The St. Regis Spa has a private islet of its own beside the Lagoonarium, with a beach facing Otemanu: 5 indoor treatment rooms, an outdoor pavilion, a balneotherapy room, a Jacuzzi, a steam room and a sauna, a lounge over the lagoon and separate lounges for men and women (spa). Its own list of services names the steam room and the therapy bath but no sauna or Jacuzzi.

In the spa’s booking menu the Polynesian Taurumi, Relaxation, Re-Energize, Stress-Relief and Warm-Candle massages cost XPF 26,500 for 60 minutes and XPF 34,000 for 90, about €222 and €285; the Balinese Puai and Performance massages XPF 27,500 and 35,000; 15-minute foot, scalp and hair add-ons XPF 6,500 (spa menu). The products are Sothys.

Treatments are paid for, and no official page says that the steam room, sauna or Jacuzzi are included in the room rate. The overview adds that «all spa bookings require a day pass», without saying whether that applies to resort guests (overview).

Visitors can buy one. A March 2026 guide prices the resort’s day pass at XPF 22,000 a person, with the boat from the base on the main island, a 2-course lunch at Aparima, the beach, the Lagoonarium, the main pool and the non-motorised watersports, drinks extra; the spa day pass costs XPF 43,000 with a 60-minute treatment (Salty Vagabonds). The official pages print neither price. The spa page says online booking is unavailable, yet its «Reserve Now» button opens an online menu that takes bookings.

There are 2 outdoor pools, both open from 8am to 6pm: the Main Pool, with a swim-up bar and open to all ages, and the Oasis Pool, for adults only, with private cabanas (experiences). No size, infinity edge, heating or water temperature is published for either. Many villas have their own: a 24 m² plunge pool in the Overwater Royal villas, 12 to 57 m² in the land villas.

The spa from 9am to 6pm every day, by appointment; the pools from 8am to 6pm; the Technogym fitness centre 24 hours a day, every day (experiences).

A protected stretch of lagoon inside the resort, with coral and tropical fish including Napoleon fish, reached from several pontoons; snorkelling gear is provided free (overview). 3 times a week a marine specialist from Natura Ora leads a Lagoonarium Discovery (experiences). No page prints a charge for either.

Children of every age are welcome: 2 adults and 2 children under 12 can share the Beachside, Reef side, Overwater Deluxe and Premier Otemanu villas (rooms), cots are free, and on Expedia one child up to 12 stays free in the existing beds. Booking.com charges guests from 13 as adults and an extra bed from 12 at XPF 25,300 a night; Expedia gives XPF 29,070.

There is no kids’ club to count on. Booking.com lists one and an official photograph is captioned «Manava Children’s Club», but a guest who stayed in 2025 writes that it was removed, as the front desk confirmed (Food.Wada.Travel). The concierge keeps a list of babysitters, the Main Pool is open to children, and according to a 2026 guide children up to 6 eat free from the children’s menu and those from 7 to 12 pay half price (Salty Vagabonds).

Yes. A full-time wedding planner organises 2 packages, Island Simplicity and Traditional Polynesian, on Spa Beach facing Otemanu, on the Lagoon terrace or on the Main Beach, which the wedding text gives for up to 250 guests and the capacity chart for 300 at a reception and 200 at a banquet (events). Indoors there are 3 rooms, 393 m² in all; the Canoe Room seats 90 theatre-style and the Lagoon terrace takes 150 at a reception. No price is published today: the last one we found, from 2021, started at $65,000 for a wedding at the Royal Estate with 5 nights for up to 6 guests (Luxury Travel Magazine).

For New Year 2027 the resort lists a set menu at Lagoon or a buffet at Te Pahu, both with live music and fireworks over the lagoon (holidays). The prices for 31 December 2026 are not published yet; in 2025 the dinner cost XPF 42,500 an adult and 21,250 for children from 6 to 12, and Christmas Eve XPF 34,350 (Wander in Paradise). Booking.com says that dinners on 24 and 31 December are compulsory; the official page does not.

No seasonal closure is published: Marriott’s booking calendar runs to September 2027 and Google shows prices for every month to early September 2027. The dry season runs from mid-April to October, at 24 to 27 °C on Tahiti (French Bee); November to April is the wet season and the cyclone season (Smartraveller), though Tahiti is rarely hit. Prices follow the weather: Google’s monthly medians were about 28% to 89% higher from April to July than from November to March.

On Motu Ome’e, BP 506, 98730 Bora Bora, a private islet across the lagoon from the main island (overview). As the crow flies, Otemanu is 4.1 km away, Vaitape 6.1 km and the airport 7.4 km; by boat the airport takes 20 minutes and the resort’s base on the main island 10. Marriott’s FAQ gives about 9 miles to the airport by water. No noise measurement exists: the quiet is the motu’s, and guests describe their stays as peaceful and private.

On 1 October 2026: 4.8 out of 5 on Google from 871 reviews, 4.8 on Tripadvisor from 3,138 (first of 13 hotels in Bora Bora), 9.2 out of 10 on Booking.com from 62, 9.6 on Expedia from 271, and 4.8 on Marriott from 1,309. Guests praise the service first: on Google, 235 of 256 mentions of it are positive. Value for money has 4.3 out of 5 on Tripadvisor and 8.0 out of 10 on Booking.com. Breakfast and the airport boat come on top of the rate; the resort opened in 2006.

On the overview on 1 October 2026: Celebrate Lavishly, a suite with champagne, to 31 December 2026 (offer); 5,000 Marriott Bonvoy points a night from 1 August 2026 to 30 June 2027; Premium Rooms & Suites Await, from 1 September 2026 to 30 June 2027; and, for Silver members and above, breakfast for 2 with XPF 10,000 of resort credit a day for at least 4 nights. A banner on the rooms page still advertises 50,000 points for 2023–24 stays: it has expired.

Yes. Every overwater villa opens straight onto the lagoon; the resort has 2 beaches, the Main Beach and Spa Beach, and the Lagoonarium. At the Main Beach paddleboards, kayaks and Polynesian canoes are free; jet skis, boat trips and diving are also on offer (experiences).

A tennis court, free bicycles, the Technogym fitness centre, workshops with the Cultural Ambassador such as flower crowns and pareo painting, a gift shop and a convenience store, babysitting and 24-hour room service (experiences). Cards are accepted and pets are not. There is no golf: the resort lists no course or package.

Check-in from 3pm, check-out by noon, from 18 years old; early check-in or late check-out for a fee (overview). Pets are not allowed; service animals are welcome without a fee. No accessible room can be booked online: Marriott’s rooms page, the one the booking uses, offers none, read on 15 October 2026, even though the hotel information lists mobility-accessible rooms and a roll-in shower.

The rooms page says standard internet is free for every guest; the overview’s FAQ and list of amenities say free for Marriott Bonvoy members who book direct. The currency is the Pacific franc (XPF), fixed at 119.33 to the euro; the resort takes cards, but on Tahiti many taxis do not, and tipping is not customary in French Polynesia (Tahiti Tourisme).

No: the hotel information says «Parking Not Available», and the motu is reached only by boat (overview). Parking at the resort’s base on the main island is not documented.