Island Romance
Sunset sails, private dinners, and nothing else. A private, tailored journey of 5-7 days in Bora Bora & French Polynesia, designed end to end by a Forest Travel advisor — with Virtuoso privileges at the finest luxury hotels, from US$19,000 per traveler.
- Romance · Slow
- Ideal length: 5-7 days
- Best time: From May to October, the best window for Bora Bora.
- Private guiding, access and transfers throughout
- From US$19,000 per traveler — a starting point, tailored to you
- Designed one-to-one by a Forest Travel advisor
- Virtuoso privileges at the finest luxury hotels
Sunset sails, private dinners, and nothing else. A private, tailored journey of 5-7 days in Bora Bora & French Polynesia, designed end to end by a Forest Travel advisor — with Virtuoso privileges at the finest luxury hotels, from US$19,000 per traveler.
Few places on earth pair a caldera peak, a ring of coral motus and a lagoon this luminous, all arranged for private, unhurried days.
When to go
From May to October is the best window for Bora Bora. Your advisor times it to the light, the crowds and your own calendar.
The experiences
A sense of what this journey can hold — each one arranged privately and shaped to you:
- A sunset sail across the lagoon, the sails set and the island turning gold behind you.
- A private dinner on the sand, the table set at the water's edge and the tide the only sound.
- A morning of doing nothing at all, breakfast brought to the deck and the day left open.
- A late swim under a sky thick with stars, the reef phosphorescing where you move.
A sense of the rhythm
This is romance stripped of everything but the essentials: water, light, one another. The pace is deliberately unhurried, with days shaped by the tide and the sunset rather than any list of sights. What you remember afterward is not what you did but how completely you stopped.
How to do it well
The counsel our advisors give travelers planning this journey:
- Time the sunset sail to the last hour of light, when the lagoon holds the colour longest.
- Ask us to arrange one dinner entirely off the resort, on the sand and by candlelight.
- Travel in the dry season for still evenings and warm, windless nights.
- Resist filling the days; the island's romance lives in the unscheduled hours.
What only your advisor can open
The difference between a good trip and an unrepeatable one is access — and access is a relationship, not a booking. Every guide, room and moment is chosen and sequenced for you.
Who it's for
Travelers who value privacy, time and doing it once — beautifully — and who would rather have one trusted advisor orchestrate every detail than assemble it themselves.
Estimated investment
From US$19,000 per traveler, based on double occupancy — scaled to your dates, party size and level of privacy. A starting point, not a final quote; confirmed once your advisor tailors the itinerary.
Designed entirely around you
Nothing here is a package. A Forest Travel advisor shapes the whole journey and stays one message away before and throughout your trip.
Your Virtuoso privileges
As a Virtuoso member, Forest Travel includes benefits reserved for Virtuoso guests at the finest luxury hotels, at no added cost: a room upgrade on arrival when available, daily breakfast for two, a property credit toward dining or spa, and early check-in with late check-out when the hotel allows.
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Questions, answered.
Moorea is greener, wilder and quieter, better suited to those who want mountains at their back. Bora Bora is the postcard made real, all lagoon and luminous water, with a polish Moorea doesn't chase. For pure romance and the iconic setting, Bora Bora is the one people picture; Moorea is the one they discover.
Take it in the last hour of light, when the lagoon holds its colour longest. That is the counsel our advisors give for this journey: the sails set, the island turning gold behind you, and the whole sail arranged privately for the two of you. Travelling in the dry season, May through October, adds the still evenings that suit it best.
Yes. Ask us to arrange one dinner entirely off the resort, on the sand and by candlelight. The table is set at the water's edge, with the tide the only sound. It is one of the essentials of this journey, which strips romance down to water, light and one another, and in the dry season the warm, windless nights make it all the more serene.
Yes. A late swim is one of the moments this journey can hold: a sky thick with stars overhead and the reef phosphorescing where you move. The dry season, May through October, brings warm, windless nights that suit it, and keeping your evenings open leaves room for it, since the island's romance lives in the unscheduled hours.
Plan on 5-7 days. That gives room for a sunset sail across the lagoon in the last hour of light, a private dinner on the sand by candlelight, a morning of doing nothing at all with breakfast brought to the deck, and a late swim under a sky thick with stars. The pace is deliberately unhurried, with days shaped by the tide and the sunset rather than any list of sights. Resist filling them; the island's romance lives in the unscheduled hours.
As a private, tailored journey it starts from roughly US$19,000 per traveler (double occupancy) and scales with your dates, party and level of privacy — a starting point, never a fixed package price. Your advisor confirms the figure once the itinerary is tailored.
May through October, the dry, cooler season in Bora Bora and French Polynesia. The lagoon turns its clearest turquoise and skies stay reliably open, which is exactly what a sunset sail needs. The dry season also brings still evenings and warm, windless nights, ideal for a private dinner on the sand and a late swim under the stars. Your advisor times the trip to the light, the crowds and your own calendar.
Bora Bora pairs a caldera peak, a ring of coral motus and a lagoon of rare luminosity, and few places on earth bring them together like this. On the Island Romance journey that setting is arranged for private, unhurried days. In the dry, cooler season from May through October, the lagoon turns its clearest turquoise and skies stay reliably open, so the water and light that define the island are at their best.
Yes. A morning of doing nothing at all is one of the moments the Island Romance journey in Bora Bora can hold: breakfast brought to the deck and the day left open. Like every experience on the journey, it is arranged privately and shaped to you. Our advisors counsel resisting the urge to fill the days, because the island's romance lives in the unscheduled hours.
On the Island Romance journey in Bora Bora and French Polynesia, the pace is deliberately unhurried, with days shaped by the tide and the sunset rather than by any list of sights. It is romance stripped of everything but the essentials: water, light, one another. What travelers remember afterward is not what they did but how completely they stopped, which is why open, unscheduled hours matter as much as a sunset sail or a dinner on the sand.
If clear water and reliable sun are the point, avoid December to March. November to April is the warmer, wetter half of the year and falls inside the South Pacific cyclone season, though severe cyclones are rare in the Society Islands. May to October is the dry season, 24 to 29°C with low humidity and calm seas, and May and October bring that weather without the July and August rates, with still evenings for the sunset sail.
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