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]
Mar 9, 2024, 10:44 am
#1621
Join Date: Aug 2017
Location: SAN
Posts: 1,306
“Enjoy one of our three special nights with inspiring menus during the week: Monday Burger, Polynesian show and dinner or Moana night, a night dedicated to the ocean’s flavors”
saw this on the website. Anyone know what day they do the Polynesian Show or Moana Night?
Thanks
TD
saw this on the website. Anyone know what day they do the Polynesian Show or Moana Night?
Thanks
TD
Mar 12, 2024, 11:31 pm
#1622
Join Date: Oct 2003
Posts: 2,092
I have a stay here booked on points for later this year (in a base room) - trying to get an idea of whether this place is actually shabby or just not the most modern of resorts? Seems like maybe they've done some renovation work but I couldn't tell for sure.
Also how is the food? I know it'll be expensive but is it at least good?
Also how is the food? I know it'll be expensive but is it at least good?
Mar 13, 2024, 11:14 am
#1623
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: BC, Canada
Programs: Bonvoy Titanium Elite, VSE/MVC Chairman's Club
Posts: 547
“Enjoy one of our three special nights with inspiring menus during the week: Monday Burger, Polynesian show and dinner or Moana night, a night dedicated to the ocean’s flavors”
saw this on the website. Anyone know what day they do the Polynesian Show or Moana Night?
Thanks
TD
saw this on the website. Anyone know what day they do the Polynesian Show or Moana Night?
Thanks
TD
The Polynesian Show was similar to what you'd get at a Hawaiian luau.
You sit in the breakfast restaurant, make sure to get an early reservation as they seat from the outside inwards. The outside seats are on the edge of the lawn with the best view of the show.
Dinner was mediocre, small buffet, not much larger than the small breakfast buffet
Show starts after dinner. It was enjoyable
Mar 13, 2024, 11:20 am
#1624
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: BC, Canada
Programs: Bonvoy Titanium Elite, VSE/MVC Chairman's Club
Posts: 547
I have a stay here booked on points for later this year (in a base room) - trying to get an idea of whether this place is actually shabby or just not the most modern of resorts? Seems like maybe they've done some renovation work but I couldn't tell for sure.
Also how is the food? I know it'll be expensive but is it at least good?
Also how is the food? I know it'll be expensive but is it at least good?
The resort construction is "authentic". it is not modern by any stretch of yhe imagination, other than reception and the staff office next to that.
I would call it a bit run down, in need of a bit of a refresh
the food varies.
Breakfast buffet is tiny and mediocre and does not change at all, and there are long delays as they refill things like bacon, etc
The Italian restaurant is REALLY good
The south ametican? theme night in the bar area was good
the fries at the bar are nice and crisp
Jean George's was a disappointment. EVERY dish was a small portion in a broth. Not the level of tasting menu I expected
Mar 13, 2024, 9:59 pm
#1625
Join Date: Oct 2003
Posts: 2,092
We stayed about a year ago
The resort construction is "authentic". it is not modern by any stretch of yhe imagination, other than reception and the staff office next to that.
I would call it a bit run down, in need of a bit of a refresh
the food varies.
Breakfast buffet is tiny and mediocre and does not change at all, and there are long delays as they refill things like bacon, etc
The Italian restaurant is REALLY good
The south ametican? theme night in the bar area was good
the fries at the bar are nice and crisp
Jean George's was a disappointment. EVERY dish was a small portion in a broth. Not the level of tasting menu I expected
The resort construction is "authentic". it is not modern by any stretch of yhe imagination, other than reception and the staff office next to that.
I would call it a bit run down, in need of a bit of a refresh
the food varies.
Breakfast buffet is tiny and mediocre and does not change at all, and there are long delays as they refill things like bacon, etc
The Italian restaurant is REALLY good
The south ametican? theme night in the bar area was good
the fries at the bar are nice and crisp
Jean George's was a disappointment. EVERY dish was a small portion in a broth. Not the level of tasting menu I expected
Mar 13, 2024, 11:10 pm
#1626
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: BC, Canada
Programs: Bonvoy Titanium Elite, VSE/MVC Chairman's Club
Posts: 547
Thanks - very helpful. Would you return? We've never been to French Polynesia (and admittedly wasn't super high on my list until I was debating this vs Hawaii), but happened to get points availability and the stars align. Would be using the last of my Bonvoy points as I'm now a Hyatt person. (Lifetime platinum for what it's worth, so still get breakfast, maybe by some miracle I'll get an upgrade)
The water, lagoon, etc is much nicer here than around the St Regis Maldives, where we went the year prior to Bora Bora. But the Maldives property and experience blow Bora Bora out of the water, just on a completely different level...
Mar 13, 2024, 11:56 pm
#1627
Join Date: Oct 2003
Posts: 2,092
It's an easy trip from the west coast, so for that it would stay on the list to maybe go back to. It's a more exotic French speaking Hawaii without the commercialization
The water, lagoon, etc is much nicer here than around the St Regis Maldives, where we went the year prior to Bora Bora. But the Maldives property and experience blow Bora Bora out of the water, just on a completely different level...
The water, lagoon, etc is much nicer here than around the St Regis Maldives, where we went the year prior to Bora Bora. But the Maldives property and experience blow Bora Bora out of the water, just on a completely different level...
were the rooms renovated at all or still very old? Seems like a few might be but not most?
Mar 14, 2024, 3:46 am
#1628
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: BC, Canada
Programs: Bonvoy Titanium Elite, VSE/MVC Chairman's Club
Posts: 547
The decor is dark wood, adding to the older feel
Practice your French.
And a heads up the town of Vaitape is like two blocks long with very little there, so perhaps think twice about doing the 4hrs shopping trip across the lagoon... the minibus ride from.the dock to/from town is a bit of an uncomfortable adventure
Apr 10, 2024, 5:37 pm
#1629
Join Date: Mar 2023
Posts: 3
I noticed that Marriott started charging additional 20,000 XPF per night when redeeming points for Reef-side villas 
Another points' devaluation.
EDIT: The charge dropped to 1,000 XPF, not sure if it was a glitch.
Another points' devaluation.EDIT: The charge dropped to 1,000 XPF, not sure if it was a glitch.
Last edited by BoringCoupleCT; Apr 10, 2024 at 6:04 pm