InterContinental Bora Bora Le Moana Resort

Le Moana is the intimate main-island choice — a small beachfront resort on Matira Point at the southern tip of Bora Bora's main island, one of only a handful of hotels off the motus, with two white-sand beaches and a short walk to Matira Beach, the island's only public beach and its most famous sunsets. Within gazing distance of Mounts Otemanu and Pahia, its roughly 64 bungalows carry classic Polynesian design — thatched roofs, handcrafted detail and a furnished terrace — across overwater bungalows of around 560 square feet with beach, lagoon or Mount Otemanu views, a glass-floor table over the water, and a pontoon ladder to the lagoon, alongside beachfront bungalows and the larger Overwater Suite Poevai. The iconic canoe breakfast arrives across your lagoon on a flower-decked outrigger, and the days run to world-class dive sites reached straight off the pontoon, beachcombing along Matira, hiking Mount Otemanu and a potter through Vaitape for famed Tahitian black pearls. Dining centres on Noa Noa, the beachside main restaurant serving French cooking infused with local flavours, indoors or out, with live entertainment two nights a week, alongside the casual poolside Vini Vini Bar & Terrace. The resort has its own spa for Ayurvedic, deep-tissue and aromatherapy treatments, a swimming pool, complimentary non-motorised water sports, and a free boat shuttle to its sister InterContinental on the island — overwater Bora Bora at a more accessible, convenient tier, with the main island on the doorstep.