We had intended to try this shuttle out and check out the other resort, but we enjoyed the Thalasso so much that we didn’t have any real desire to leave. There is no fee for the shuttle from Thalasso to Le Moana and back before 2pm.
So if you’d like to spend a day hanging out at Thalasso, you can plan to do this on the same day. Typically, the shuttle boats have a fee to go from Le Moana to Thalasso ($23, but that fee should be included in your spa treatment fee. You can book a spa treatment at Thalasso if you wish and arrange to go via the inter-resort transfer shuttle boat. There is no official spa at Le Moana, but that’s not a real problem except that you can’t just saunter over. The Thalasso spa is located at the Thalasso…hence it’s in the name. If having spa treatments are important to you: If you get a room on the opposite side of the hotel, you’d see purely ocean. That’s Le Meridien Resort that you see ahead. Click here to see a layout of the hotel rooms. There are also bungalows along the beach. Your views at this resort are more of the open ocean than at Thalasso (horizon rooms) with Raiatea and Taha’a in the distance, or the beach (lagoon rooms), depending which way your bungalow faces. Le Moana: IC Le Moana is located on the main island and easy access to Matira Beach, which is the only public access beach in Bora Bora. They’re currently also building large family bungalows with plunge pools at the ends of the pontoons. The Emerald bungalows have a view of the beach/resort. Get the Sapphire bungalows for ocean view and Diamond bungalows for the best views of Mount Otemanu and some ocean. I personally enjoyed the view all around the Thalasso immensely because it combined beautiful blues and lush greens. Otemanu, so you get views of the lagoon and the mountains. Thalasso: IC Thalasso is located along a little motu across from the dormant volcano, Mt. If your location and views are important to you: What I could gather were these things that you can consider about what would make your stay great: I really think we would have been happy at either resort, but by a lucky fluke, we got to stay at IC Thalasso.
We ended up staying at the Intercontinental Bora Bora Resort and Thalasso Spa, so I couldn’t tell you as much detail about the Intercontinental Bora Bora Le Moana, but we did stop by there briefly to pick up other guests during our jet ski tour of the island and these are also the consensus of the multiple reviews I reviewed. At the end of the day, if you can remember this and come to terms with it and not compare, you’ll have a blast! So before you get caught up in review diving, which can take hours, think about what is most important to you to have a wonderful stay. The thing that I’ve gathered from reading reviews is that a lot of factors can come into play to affect your stay.
MOANA UKELELE UPGRADE
I read different threads about the two hotels as well, contemplating if I wanted to upgrade from Intercontinental Le Moana to Intercontinental Thalasso when we booked our package.
I use it myself too but often spend way too long perusing all the reviews until my head hurts from all the good and the negative. You can probably read tons of reviews on TripAdvisor for hotels you are considering staying at, and TripAdvisor is a great resource. When we were leaving the resort to go home and waiting for a few other passengers, we did some mellow duets and it was such a memorable way to depart! One of these guys was also great at playing the ukelele and singing. Receiving dock at IC Thalasso every time a boat arrived, one of these guys would blow into a conch to announce your arrival and welcome you. The big question I had about Bora Bora was–which Intercontinental was better to stay at? Not an uncommon question when deciding. Bora Bora were different and both had advantages in their own way that I’m glad we got to experience. I was very impressed by Hong Kong, so I had high expectations in Tahiti. Baby Lullaby Festival (103) Best Disney Songs 2020 (128) Billboard Baby Lullabies (125) Caspar Babypants (176) Cedarmont Kids (280) Dr.I had only stayed at one other Intercontinental hotel before the ones in Bora Bora and Moorea on this most recent trip, and that was at the Intercontinental in Hong Kong about 6 months prior.