#19 in Top 20 Bora Bora for A Honeymoon · ★★★★★
InterContinental Tahiti Resort & Spa
Papeete, gateway resort with overwater bungalows — the connecting-flight honeymoon stop.
Papeete, gateway resort with overwater bungalows — the connecting-flight honeymoon stop.
"Papeete, gateway resort with overwater bungalows — the connecting-flight honeymoon stop."
InterContinental Tahiti Resort & Spa sits on the western edge of Tahiti at Faa'a — 5 minutes by car from Papeete's Faa'a International Airport (PPT, the gateway to all of French Polynesia), and the property is the working overnight-stop for couples on the working multi-island honeymoon trip. Two hundred and thirty rooms and overwater bungalows, the upper-tier Overwater Pool Bungalow with private outdoor pool is the working overnight-honeymoon-flagship. The asset is the working airport-adjacent position and the working overwater-bungalow product at Tahiti rates — the property handles the working multi-island honeymoon's first-and-last night (the airport-arrival night before the morning Bora Bora flight, the working last night before the international departure flight), and the working overwater-bungalow product means the trip's working first impression is the Tahiti-overwater bungalow at sunset. InterContinental Tahiti is the right pick for the working multi-island French-Polynesia honeymoon's working bookend-property — not as the centerpiece, but as the working airport-adjacent overnight asset, and the working Faa'a-airport 5-minute taxi handles the working logistics-overhead.
Overwater Pool Bungalow (the private-pool airport-adjacent flagship) or Premium Lagoon View Room for the working couple-of-friends option.
Use the property as the working airport-adjacent overnight before the Bora Bora flight (the working morning flight is at 6am-8am from PPT). The working Papeete city-walking circuit is 15 minutes by taxi for the working day-trip.
InterContinental Tahiti Resort & Spa sits within our broader Top 20 Hotels in Bora Bora for a Honeymoon list. It scored an aggregate 9.4/10 across the three editorial criteria — competitive against the field but, on a honeymoon-specific factors, the angle above is what earned its rank. For the alternatives in the same Bora Bora neighbourhood, see Tahiti, Faa'a and adjacent. For a different city entirely, see the related lists below.
If you have already chosen the dates, our editor recommends booking the room twelve weeks ahead. The best suites with the right view orientation go first, and inventory for the popular months is quoted in months, not weeks. Suite-level rooms with private plunge pools or terraces — the ones that earn this rank — are typically the first to sell out.