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]
Nov 20, 2017, 8:59 pm
#481
Join Date: Feb 2010
Programs: MR-Amb, Hyatt-Globalist, AA-EXP
Posts: 1,744
With regards to the water, I seem to recall getting a few bottles at turndown and also receiving bottles every time they took us somewhere in the golf carts. So I felt like we always had plenty and can't recall having to buy any.
Dec 31, 2017, 11:13 am
#484
Suspended
Join Date: Aug 2013
Location: Southern California, USA
Programs: Marriott Ambassador and LTT, UA Plat/LT Gold, AA Gold
Posts: 8,764
In other words, don't count on getting an award stay here for less than 80-100K points per night, if you can even find that!
Mar 14, 2018, 5:39 pm
#485
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Mar 2013
Programs: DL PM, MR Titanium/LTP, Hilton Diamond
Posts: 10,130
Going for our honeymoon in the fall. Looks like either the Overwater Superior Lagoon Villa or the Overwater Deluxe Island View are in our budget with the Deluxe coming out to about ~$500 more over the course of 4 nights. Is the Deluxe island view worth the extra cash?
If it matter I am an SPG Plat (though I know that doesn't matter - it's also via being a Marriott Plat so no additional SPG Plat tier levels) but I know at this property that carries little weight, especially in September which is still relatively high season.
If it matter I am an SPG Plat (though I know that doesn't matter - it's also via being a Marriott Plat so no additional SPG Plat tier levels) but I know at this property that carries little weight, especially in September which is still relatively high season.
Mar 14, 2018, 6:56 pm
#487
Join Date: Jun 2016
Posts: 2,257
Going for our honeymoon in the fall. Looks like either the Overwater Superior Lagoon Villa or the Overwater Deluxe Island View are in our budget with the Deluxe coming out to about ~$500 more over the course of 4 nights. Is the Deluxe island view worth the extra cash?
If it matter I am an SPG Plat (though I know that doesn't matter - it's also via being a Marriott Plat so no additional SPG Plat tier levels) but I know at this property that carries little weight, especially in September which is still relatively high season.
If it matter I am an SPG Plat (though I know that doesn't matter - it's also via being a Marriott Plat so no additional SPG Plat tier levels) but I know at this property that carries little weight, especially in September which is still relatively high season.
Mar 25, 2018, 11:39 am
#488
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Mar 2013
Programs: DL PM, MR Titanium/LTP, Hilton Diamond
Posts: 10,130
I wouldnt pay. I got upgraded from Superior Villa to Deluxe (dont know which one, is it the Island or Otemanu - what's their difference anyway? all Deluxe villas I know allow you to see the mountain, just need to know where to turn your head when on the deck) and I am not Plat. So I think you stand a chance for upgrade.
Will stick with the Superior Villa and save the dollars for dinner at Lagoon!
Apr 27, 2018, 2:42 pm
#489
Join Date: May 2015
Posts: 9
It looks like most of folks here booked into the basic OWV and got upgraded as platinum member. Any experience of upgrading from the land villa? Can SNA be useful here? Definitely interested in trying OWV as part of our 4 night stay. Has anyone negotiated OWV upgrade with additional $$ or points in advance or upon check in?
By the way, how's the snorkel experience in Bora Bora? compared to Maldives?
By the way, how's the snorkel experience in Bora Bora? compared to Maldives?
May 5, 2018, 12:05 pm
#490
Join Date: Apr 2009
Posts: 172
a mismanaged, crumbling, overpriced mess
rather than laundry list the many shortcomings of our stay, including being assigned the worst room and no upgrade i'll just say enter at your own risk. $1,400 for rooms that should be $500 max. the rooms are large but every area of the property is run down, from tile patches missing for so long rot has kicked in (oasis pool), to a tennis court net torn right through at the top and sagging like a sway-backed mare, to a stinky lagoon to falsely "helpful" butlers to $50/couple up charges on excursions (you are at their mercy) to mosquitos or whatever they are everywhere to cockroaches and indoor centipedes on furniture and bizarre curtain less showers that dribble gritty water to comically ineffective management and watered down drinks. a clueless honeymooner's paradise, this is no place for experienced travelers and there was nothing luxurious about it. it was a joke. oh, and nothing but the boat dock and the lagoon restaurant directly faces the mountain. you'll see!
May 5, 2018, 12:12 pm
#491
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Rye, NY USA
Posts: 261
Too bad your experience was not great. Been going there for probably 5 years in a row and have had different, much more positive experiences but service experi nice can impact quite a bit.
surprised the oasis pool is coming apart. Just redone like 12 or 18 months ago. In any event, not really used by people as far as I have ever seen over the years.
surprised the oasis pool is coming apart. Just redone like 12 or 18 months ago. In any event, not really used by people as far as I have ever seen over the years.
May 5, 2018, 2:50 pm
#492
Join Date: Jun 2016
Posts: 2,257
to be honest, i have seen the pests mentioned in #490 at the stR hotel property before. and even inside my villa.
i dont think it's reflective of the hotel's filthiness, as the problem is that these pests are prevalent in tropical places. it's really hard to get rid of them.
it makes your skin crawl, yes, and i dont like them either, and i have seen them in both high end and low end properties.
as long as u come with the appropriate expectations, then u wont be as freaked out abt it. when i saw it, i used some old papers/magazine, scoop it up, throw it outside (if still alive), and try to think abt other things after that to avoid being squirmy and upset.
i dont think it's reflective of the hotel's filthiness, as the problem is that these pests are prevalent in tropical places. it's really hard to get rid of them.
it makes your skin crawl, yes, and i dont like them either, and i have seen them in both high end and low end properties.
as long as u come with the appropriate expectations, then u wont be as freaked out abt it. when i saw it, i used some old papers/magazine, scoop it up, throw it outside (if still alive), and try to think abt other things after that to avoid being squirmy and upset.
May 24, 2018, 5:30 pm
#494
Join Date: Feb 2010
Programs: SPG, Wyndham, AA
Posts: 120
I wouldn't count on the hotel upgrading to an overwater, because not everyone actually wants an overwater. The direct beach access can be a preference - so I think the property wouldn't just move someone on that thought process IMO