May 30, 2019, 10:51 am
Last edit by: Astrophsx
Activity Calendar for 2022
Activities: https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/f...lNr6yLgzMMIOsj
Spa: https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/f...lNr6yLgzMMIOsj
Dining: https://www.taptastego.com/bobxr/con...9-4b793254db69
Booking
Activities: https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/f...lNr6yLgzMMIOsj
Spa: https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/f...lNr6yLgzMMIOsj
Dining: https://www.taptastego.com/bobxr/con...9-4b793254db69
Booking
Nights available on points:
- Open up 12 months out
- Availability seems to open up five weeks out.
Fees when booking on points:
- City Tax of 400 XPF for each night
Transportation
PPT-BOB Flights:
- Round trip $350-600 per person
- Premium ticket includes more checked baggage allowance, priority boarding (sit on the left side for island views), and drink on board.
- Air Tahiti is strict with their baggage allowance. Excess baggage is $1.5 per pound over the limit.
- The airline is known to weigh hand luggage if it has wheels or is larger than your typical backpack or purse.
- If you hand luggage is weighed and is over the limit it will need to be checked or items will need to be removed and relocated to your checked luggage.
- Carry-on items do not seemed to be tagged so the gate agents do not know what bags have been checked
- If you hand luggage is weighed and is over the limit it will need to be checked or items will need to be removed and relocated to your checked luggage.
- Checked bags are weighed at the BOB airport for your PPT return flight
- They seem to not be as strict with charging for excess weight
- Lap infants are charged 10%
- Check the minimum connection time. If you arrive early Air Tahiti is likely to move you to an early flight based upon availability free of charge.
- In March 2022 the domestic security was asking that passengers remove and leave any large bottles of liquid from their hand luggage. Sealed duty free alcohol seems to be the exception.
- Tip: Sometimes it is cheaper to pack alcohol and pay the $1.5 per pound excess luggage fee than to purchase duty free at LAX.
Boat Transfer as of April 2022:
- 14,000 XPF per person roundtrip
- Children are free (not sure if there is an age cutoff)
It would be rather difficult to take the free boat from the BOB airport to Vaitape and then take the complimentary shuttle to St Regis. You would need to carry your luggage and time your flights accordingly. This would also need to be coordinated with the property.
Rooms
Renovated Rooms:
101 - Deluxe Over Water Villa w/ view may be renovated
504 - Reefside
Royal Estate (currently under renovations)
Platinum Benefits (2022)
- Breakfast for two (property is firm on this and will not provide free breakfast for any additional adults in the room)
- Welcome amenity in the room
- Bottle of Champagne
- Light snacks / fruit
- Bottle of Champagne
- 10% off products with the St. Regis Resort logo at the gift shop
- 20% off Bloody Mary Cocktails at the Aparima Bar
- 20% off Cocktail of the Day
- St. Regis Sarong when you spend 15,000 xpf on products at the spa
- Bonus points when purchasing massages at the spa
Daily Gifts
- 8-night stay April 2022
- Day 1 - stuffed animals for kids
- Day 1 - Large tote bag with St. Regis Bora Bora logo w/ waterproof lining in room
- Day 2 - Day 7 Tahitian Oils next to bed
- Day 3 - Two fridge magnets
- Day 1 - stuffed animals for kids
Item you can request for free
- Pool floats can be loaned out from the main pool
- Snorkel gear
- Microwave can be put in room by room service free of charge
- Extra small bottles of water can be requested by the housekeeper while they are cleaning
- Coffee service to the room from the butler before 12pm
- Two pressed items per person any time of the day
- For infants
- Cribs
- Large bottles of water for formula
- Cribs
- For Kids
- Free meals at all restaurants
- Free ice cream
- Free room service (even items from the regular menu)
- Free meals at all restaurants
Things to bring
- Water shoes can be helpful in the lagoon and on some excursions
- Alcohol
- Mini fridge is empty and can store champagne
- Boxed wine is light weight and stores easily in fridge
- If you don't plan to spend a few hours on the main island you can purchase fresh juices as mixers
- Pre-mixed canned cocktails (like cutwater spirits) seemed to be popular at the main beach. Bring your own insulated tumbler and ask for a bucket of ice.
- Mini fridge is empty and can store champagne
The St. Regis Bora Bora Resort, French Polynesia [Master Thread]
Feb 19, 2014, 9:29 pm
#317
Join Date: Aug 2010
Posts: 26
The spa/hot tub is not heated - just has the "bubbles". Although the air is warm enough that its not really needed. I think we used the tub once, the rest of the time we enjoyed the ocean. I wouldn't bother to get the units with the tub, but they tend to be slightly larger and have nicer views.
Apr 13, 2014, 5:48 pm
#318
Join Date: Aug 2004
Programs: HHonors Diamond, SPG Gold
Posts: 135
Am visiting this hotel next month and did a lot of scouring for best rate and this link I found the best rate:
http://www.starwoodhotelshawaii.com/...rs_HAWAIISPG50
50% off rack rate without needing one of those certificates or anything...Normal rate was 115k for a king overwater, with the code it was 85k.
Anyways, sorry if this has already been discussed, hopefully it helps someone.
Also works great for the le meridien.
http://www.starwoodhotelshawaii.com/...rs_HAWAIISPG50
50% off rack rate without needing one of those certificates or anything...Normal rate was 115k for a king overwater, with the code it was 85k.
Anyways, sorry if this has already been discussed, hopefully it helps someone.
Also works great for the le meridien.
Last edited by ZackVLion; Apr 13, 2014 at 6:09 pm
Apr 13, 2014, 9:36 pm
#319
Join Date: Oct 2011
Location: BKK
Programs: World of Hyatt Globalist; Marriott Bonvoy LTP; IHG Plat
Posts: 2,231
Am visiting this hotel next month and did a lot of scouring for best rate and this link I found the best rate:
http://www.starwoodhotelshawaii.com/...rs_HAWAIISPG50
50% off rack rate without needing one of those certificates or anything...Normal rate was 115k for a king overwater, with the code it was 85k.
Anyways, sorry if this has already been discussed, hopefully it helps someone.
Also works great for the le meridien.
http://www.starwoodhotelshawaii.com/...rs_HAWAIISPG50
50% off rack rate without needing one of those certificates or anything...Normal rate was 115k for a king overwater, with the code it was 85k.
Anyways, sorry if this has already been discussed, hopefully it helps someone.
Also works great for the le meridien.
May 14, 2014, 1:57 am
#320
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: all over europe
Programs: SPG Plat, PC Plat, BA Gold, *A Gold
Posts: 62
hi, now i read the last 15 pages of the thread...anybody some information on the breakfast?
How do they handle plats?
There is an offer including continental breakfast, is this the full one?
is it buffet or room service?
How do they handle plats?
There is an offer including continental breakfast, is this the full one?
is it buffet or room service?
May 14, 2014, 4:24 am
#321
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: JFK, DCA, BUR, YVR
Programs: AC, AS, BA, DL, HH (D), MR (T/LTP), UA (*S), UScAAre (PLT/1,87MM), WN
Posts: 5,207
Jun 1, 2014, 11:07 pm
#326
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: BOS/UTH
Programs: AA LT PLT; QR GLD; Bonvoy LT TIT
Posts: 12,753
Jun 11, 2014, 9:36 am
#328
Join Date: May 2004
Location: LAX
Posts: 1,849
I fully covered top 3 hotels last October (FS, SR and Thalasso).
http://lenticulartravel.com/tag/bora-bora/
and specifically SR: http://lenticulartravel.com/st-regis...a-trip-report/
SR have the best accommodation on the island - we stayed
in the Royal Overwater Villa. There is nothing like it in Bora Bora. Amazing.
Great service, outstanding butler - Ritchie. Great in room dining.
But... the hotel has a few weak or rather weird points which made us choose
the Four Seasons from now on.
The biggest weakness is the overall layout. The architects and designers
for some reason decided to face main buildings AWAY from Mt Otemanu.
You are having breakfast and instead of admiring the most beautiful island
in the world, you are like anywhere in the Caribbeans.
2nd - a terrible shuttle system, which for us is important.
3rd - the most weird service at the restaurants. Made us not want to go
there in the morning. Snobbish and weird, really strange.
This is our personal opinion, so of course you might feel different.
Andrew
http://lenticulartravel.com/tag/bora-bora/
and specifically SR: http://lenticulartravel.com/st-regis...a-trip-report/
SR have the best accommodation on the island - we stayed
in the Royal Overwater Villa. There is nothing like it in Bora Bora. Amazing.
Great service, outstanding butler - Ritchie. Great in room dining.
But... the hotel has a few weak or rather weird points which made us choose
the Four Seasons from now on.
The biggest weakness is the overall layout. The architects and designers
for some reason decided to face main buildings AWAY from Mt Otemanu.
You are having breakfast and instead of admiring the most beautiful island
in the world, you are like anywhere in the Caribbeans.
2nd - a terrible shuttle system, which for us is important.
3rd - the most weird service at the restaurants. Made us not want to go
there in the morning. Snobbish and weird, really strange.
This is our personal opinion, so of course you might feel different.
Andrew
Jul 30, 2014, 12:12 pm
#329
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Rye, NY USA
Posts: 261
Hi all.
Doing last minute late August / early September trip down. Going to stay about two weeks in country but curious as to people's thoughts on time spent in various locations. Was thinking 4 days moorea, 4 days and 5-6 days st Regis bora. Alternatively, could be convinced to go down to splitting time and skipping either taha or moorea. So what are people's thoughts for a first time visitor? Is moorea sufficiently different or interesting as an island vs bora bora? Is the Tasha experience that different from st Regis?
Know this is heavily personal pref driven but hearing others rationales as to why they pick an itinerary is helpful for figuring out what I would like best.
Thanks!
Doing last minute late August / early September trip down. Going to stay about two weeks in country but curious as to people's thoughts on time spent in various locations. Was thinking 4 days moorea, 4 days and 5-6 days st Regis bora. Alternatively, could be convinced to go down to splitting time and skipping either taha or moorea. So what are people's thoughts for a first time visitor? Is moorea sufficiently different or interesting as an island vs bora bora? Is the Tasha experience that different from st Regis?
Know this is heavily personal pref driven but hearing others rationales as to why they pick an itinerary is helpful for figuring out what I would like best.
Thanks!
Sep 1, 2014, 3:16 am
#330
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: all over europe
Programs: SPG Plat, PC Plat, BA Gold, *A Gold
Posts: 62
hi, i have been there last week for honeymoon was absolutley great.
Has anybody the email from the general manager? Would appreciate it, also possible by PM.
I forgot to ask when we left...
Has anybody the email from the general manager? Would appreciate it, also possible by PM.
I forgot to ask when we left...