Four Seasons Bora Bora: The Overwater Bungalow Perfected

The speedboat transfer from the airport is 25 minutes across water so spectacularly coloured it looks like a screensaver. Then the Four Seasons dock appears, and you step onto a resort whose gardening department alone employs 40 people. The detail is everywhere.

Choosing Your Bungalow

The 100 bungalows divide into beach villas and overwater bungalows. For first visits, the overwater configuration — specifically, one facing Mount Otemanu rather than the outer reef — is the only choice. Category O2 begins at 125 square metres; the Overwater Suite at 360 square metres is among the finest hotel rooms in the southern hemisphere.

“At 5am, before any other guest is awake, you can slip off the private deck into water so still it perfectly mirrors the mountain above.”