Though certainly romantic, it’s not strictly a couples escape in fact the Four Seasons Bora Bora is remarkably kid-friendly, with separate programs for small children and teenagers - so you’ll get your alone time one way or another. We’d prefer to be able to swim straight out of bed, but if your lifestyle demands a lavish three-bedroom presidential villa with a private pool, well, there are worse problems to have. Only a handful of the Four Seasons’ accommodations aren’t overwater, and that’s because they’re two- and three-bedroom villas, and presumably too massive for stilts. To be honest, when you’ve got a hundred-odd bungalows on stilts over the calm, warm waters of a South Pacific lagoon, you’re already 90 per cent of the way there. You’ve got the good life, on an idyllic blue lagoon in French Polynesia, and you’ve got the kind of thoughtful luxury and highly trained service that the Four Seasons name entails.
Say it out loud and see if it doesn’t put a picture in your head: Four Seasons Bora Bora. To be honest, most of the work in describing this place is done by the name alone.