LE BORA BORA BY PEARL RESORTS - RELAIS & CHÂTEAUX

perfekt place to stay at bora bora

Wow! What a wonderful time we had at le bora bora! We stayed in a lagoon view overwater bungalow and it was spectacular. Honestly money can buy happiness at this resort. Awe inspiring views everywhere. Staff were so friendly and everyone felt like they were dedicated to making our stay as enjoyable as possible. We highly recommend the snorkel tour. Perhaps the only thing we felt like could use improvement was at the Otemanu restaurant, but there are other places to eat at the resort and overall everything was great. Highly recommend staying here!

Great place. Everything you would imagine. We had an overwater bungalow. It was fantastic. This is our fourth time to French Polynesia. Food was very good. I would highly recommend this property. Definitely deserving of the château relais designation.

Having said that there are a few things that will help manage your expectations for a better time. If I were the general manager here, these are some of the things that I would try to work on.

1. Don’t expect the best service at the restaurants. Some of this might be cultural and I am coming from a North American experience. But in general you only have about a 50% probability of any request being fulfilled. So as long as you are patient, you’ll be fine. Some staff are absolutely great and remember everything.
2. The greetings at restaurants are unusual. Often times there will be several hostesses there. But they seem to be working on anything other than greeting guests. Which one would think is their primary purpose. We have several times come to a restaurant and the person continues to work on some paperwork and doesn’t even make eye contact and tells us that they will get to us when they’re ready. That’s pretty rough. Again, maybe cultural, though we haven’t experienced that at other resorts. In particular, Kelly has been pretty rough at Miki Miki..
3. They do nickel-and-dime a little bit here (which you wouldn’t expect given how expensive the rooms are). It is offputting when they are clearly trying to upsell on bottled water and don’t give an option for tapwater. When you ask for tapwater they sometimes take a long time to bring it, or sometimes don’t bring it at all. It is sometimes easier just to bring your own.
4. The hotel still uses single use plastic bottles for shampoo, etc. I’m sure they’re working on this but in 2024 it stands out a little.
5. The heat and UV is very high so I try and do things first thing outdoors in the morning or closer to sunset. It would be better if the paddle boards and kayaks would be available a little later, as opposed to closing by 5 PM which is over an hour and a half before sunset. I think it should be open a little later. Or not close at all. Maybe there are other reasons that I’m not aware of of why they close earlier.

Don’t come here unless you want to be disappointed in all beach future vacations. It’s freaking beautiful and the food is amazing. Service is sometimes not overly friendly but it’s so gorgeous they could be spitting in my face and I wouldn’t care much.

Struttura meravigliosa. C'è poco da dire perché non mamca nulla e si viene trattati con i guanti bianchi. Brigitte quando arrivate vi accoglie e vi accompagna sino al vostro alloggio (che è bellissimo). Quando andrete in spiaggia troverete il mitico e simpatico Tama. I cocktail del bar in piscina sono ottimi, i ristoranti come detto da altri ospiti sono cari ma da un 5 stelle non ci si può aspettare gun trattamento diverso; la colazione è abbondante, variegata ed eccezionale! Se solo si potesse, non si andrebbe mai via di lì.