#2 in Top 20 Bora Bora for A Honeymoon · ★★★★★
The St. Regis Bora Bora Resort
The largest overwater villas on the island — the Marriott-flagship honeymoon hardware.
The largest overwater villas on the island — the Marriott-flagship honeymoon hardware.
"The largest overwater villas on the island — the Marriott-flagship honeymoon hardware."
The St. Regis Bora Bora Resort opened in 2006 on Motu Ome'e — the largest motu in the Bora Bora lagoon by surface area, which means the property has the most-spread-out resort layout (90 villas across 44 acres, vs Four Seasons's 115 villas on a smaller motu). Eighty-nine villas across the multi-motu campus (the resort uses two interconnected motus — Motu Ome'e and Motu Tehotu — connected by a footbridge), the upper-tier Royal Estate (a multi-bedroom 1,300-square-metre overwater compound with private outdoor pool and butler service) is the working milestone-flagship, and the standard Overwater Villa with Pool (170 square metres with private plunge pool, the largest entry-level overwater villa in Bora Bora) is the working honeymoon flagship. The asset is the working St. Regis butler service combined with the largest overwater villa product on the lagoon — every guest receives a per-floor butler (the St. Regis brand signature), and the standard Overwater Villa has 35% more square footage than the Four Seasons equivalent at a similar price point. The St. Regis is the right pick for the working Bora Bora honeymoon where the largest-overwater-villa-product and the butler-service infrastructure are the working assets — the trip's working centerpiece is the private-pool overwater villa session, and the Marriott Bonvoy loyalty value handles the secondary working booking.
Royal Estate (the multi-bedroom milestone flagship) or Overwater Villa with Pool for the working honeymoon-flagship product.
Use the butler — the St. Regis butler service is the working Bora Bora differentiator. Pre-arrange every detail (sunrise-breakfast schedule, in-villa anniversary-dinner, lagoon-snorkel boat) on arrival. The 44-acre layout means the working day uses the resort's bicycle programme.
The St. Regis Bora Bora Resort sits within our broader Top 20 Hotels in Bora Bora for a Honeymoon list. It scored an aggregate 9.8/10 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 Motu Ome'e 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.