 |
Hotel Bora Bora, , French Polynesia (hotel) |
Kahuna Kent
Tiki Centralite
Joined: Aug 19, 2007
Posts: 78
From: Woodland Hills, Ca
|  Posted: 2007-12-31 10:01 am Permalink
Name:Hotel Bora Bora
Type:hotel
Street:
City:
State:
Zip:
country:French Polynesia
Phone:
Status:operational
Description:
An elegant luxury hotel on Bora Bora's Blue Lagoon
|
Kahuna Kent
Tiki Centralite
Joined: Aug 19, 2007
Posts: 78
From: Woodland Hills, Ca
| Posted: 2007-12-31 10:23 am Permalink
We had a day in Bora Bora, and we spent the morning on a cruise around the Motu's with spectactular views of the island. Back on shore, we searched for Tikis, finding only a sign on a tourist shop:
We decided to look at an elegant luxury hotel on the island (one of those $1000 a night for the "cheap room" places).
The Bora Bora Hotel has one of the greatest Tropical Bars ever. They were closed between meals, but they let me take pictures:
Not much actual "Tiki" - a few really nice pieces:
I walked around the hotel grounds, we had a delicious "snack" on the beach, and then wandered next door to one of the Pearl Shops that are found every where on the island - But this one had Tikis!
(continued next post)
|
Kahuna Kent
Tiki Centralite
Joined: Aug 19, 2007
Posts: 78
From: Woodland Hills, Ca
| Posted: 2007-12-31 10:36 am Permalink
(Continued from last post)
Some "tasteful" Marquesan style tikis adorned the garden entrance to the pearl shop
More Tikis at the doorway
I took pictures wandering across the grounds
This place has a LOT of Tikis!
This one was a work in progress:
(More pictures in the next post)
|
Kahuna Kent
Tiki Centralite
Joined: Aug 19, 2007
Posts: 78
From: Woodland Hills, Ca
| Posted: 2007-12-31 10:54 am Permalink
(Continued from last post)
This pearl shop grounds were filled with tikis -
This big "totem pole" was out front facing the road:
Then our Taxi arrived and I had to leave the tikis and head back to the boat!
|
hiltiki
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Jun 10, 2004
Posts: 2790
From: Reseda, calif.
| Posted: 2007-12-31 7:10 pm Permalink
Ahhhhhhhhhhhh.........I wish I could be there. Thanks for all the pictures it looks fab.I haven't been back there in 12 years, looks just as good as ever.
|
Kahuna Kent
Tiki Centralite
Joined: Aug 19, 2007
Posts: 78
From: Woodland Hills, Ca
| Posted: 2008-01-04 1:28 pm Permalink
More pictures of this beautiful place!
Those are the waves breaking way out on the horizon. The coral reefs keep the water around the island calm
No, we didn't stay here, but the rooms look wonderful
Approaching Bora Bora from the sea. The sky was overcast, but we got very little rain on our visit
Enjoying a refreshing "Tabu" beer (The tiki lager beer)
Does anyone sell these on the mainland?
Tourist-ey shop in town with many Indonesian tikis
|
leisure master
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Mar 24, 2007
Posts: 428
From: The exotic village, NYC
| Posted: 2008-01-04 2:23 pm Permalink
That place is freakin' beautiful (and Bora Bora seems nice too!)
I know there was probably way to much other stuff for photos, but any other pictures of the bottles behind the bar?
Would love to see what kind of hooch a tropical bar in bora bora keeps in stock!
Quote:
|
|
|
_________________
I'm not an alcoholic, I'm an enthusiast.
|
Kahuna Kent
Tiki Centralite
Joined: Aug 19, 2007
Posts: 78
From: Woodland Hills, Ca
| Posted: 2008-01-05 3:37 pm Permalink
Hi, Leisure
No photos of the liquor cabinet. The rums at bars & shops I went to tend to be from Martinique by way of France. (Makes sense since this is French Polynesia) La Mauny white (in various strengths) and St James for the dark are the most popular. Unfortunately, I didn't bring back any bottles of this, since I had a couple bottles of Havana Club ;>
|
christiki295
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Apr 09, 2003
Posts: 3616
From: LA-2547 mls east Hawaii &5500 Easter Is
| Posted: 2008-01-05 10:00 pm Permalink
Amazing. Tiki nirvana!
|
