Patrick-Carleton's video: St Regis Resort Bora Bora

Be prepared - the first glimpse of Bora Bora is love at first sight. Sailors, poets, adventurers, honeymooners, and other romantics have claimed this little island as their own...and so will you. Bora Bora lies 259 kms northwest of Tahiti in the Leeward Society Islands. An artist's palette of blues and greens greets your eye: aquamarine, lapis lazuli, turquoise, cobalt, periwinkle, sapphire, emerald, jade, ultramarine, and indigo. You'll love counting the shades of colour in these diaphanous waters. Tiny reef-islets, called "motu", ring the opalescent waters like exotic little havens cast adrift. Coconut palms seem to quiver like a mirage on the horizon, and a confection of white sand beaches dips down into the crystal lagoon. The St Regis Bora Bora Resort is a magnificent 44 acre resort 15 minutes from the airport by boat with panoramic views fronting the main island of Bora Bora, Mount Otemanu, and the remote islands of Taha'a and Raiatea on the horizon. Protected by a unique, self-contained saltwater lagoon, the property is exquisitely designed with interiors of rich, exotic woods.