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With its dreamy beaches, translucent water and dramatic volcanic mountains, Bora Bora is made for lovers. And there’s quite possibly no better place to get starry-eyed with your beloved than the St. Regis. From the moment the hotel’s speedboat (with onboard wi-fifi) collects you from the islet that doubles as the airport, you can expect to be pampered.

Bora Bora is the spiritual home of the overwater villa so it’s no surprise that most of the 89 rooms here jut out over the water and have their own private plunge pool or whirlpool, with a personal butler for every guest. Aftfter watching the sun set behind the jagged peak of Mount Otemanu, you’ll be tempted to slip offff the balcony into the bath-like water below. The resort also has two pools: one with a swim-up bar set beside

a perfect private lagoon; another with fifive curtained cabanas that afffford canoodling couples some privacy.

With four eateries, including the acclaimed Lagoon by JeanGeorges restaurant, you can expect topnotch French, Italian and Japanese fare. Some might fifind the lagoonside restaurant with reef sharks swirling under the glass flfloor a little gimmicky, however, the food is anything but – the rice cracker-crusted ahi tuna is superb.

On its own island with manicured lawns, in the middle of a secluded turquoise lagoon, the resort’s Miri Miri Spa is the stuffff of dreams. Retreat here for the Polynesian or Clarins treatments before whiling away an aftfternoon on a sunlounge. Or muster the energy to go swimming with manta rays and reef sharks on a memorable excursion around the lagoon.