Luxury Hotels & Travel
Overview Bora Bora sits inside a barrier reef in French Polynesia, roughly a 50-minute connecting flight from Tahiti’s Faa’a Airport. The island itself is small — you can drive its coastal road in under two hours — but the lagoon around it is the real destination. Most travelers never set foot on the volcanic interior … Read more
Every couple planning a luxury honeymoon eventually hits the same fork in the road: water or land. Do you book the bungalow suspended over a lagoon, glass floor panel included? Or the villa tucked into a hillside, with enough space to forget the resort exists beyond your gate? Both cost roughly the same at the … Read more
The Maldives is one of those destinations that seems simple from a distance — tropical island, overwater bungalow, turquoise water — and reveals its complexity only once you start planning. There are 26 atolls. Hundreds of inhabited islands. More than 150 luxury resorts, each accessible only by seaplane or speedboat. Price points that range from … Read more
There is a version of the private island fantasy that most resorts only approximate. A private plane from Nadi. A 45-minute flight over the Koro Sea. The aircraft descending toward a coral-fringed island that, from the air, looks assembled rather than natural — the white sand too white, the lagoon too blue, the reef edge … Read more
You’ve saved up. You’ve earned this trip. Now you’re staring at three browser tabs — one for Bora Bora, one for the Maldives, one for Fiji — and somehow the decision feels harder than it should. All three have turquoise water. All three have overwater bungalows. All three will make your friends scroll through your … Read more