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Loyalty Lobby flags fantastic award availability at the Conrad Bora-Bora Nui through March of 2022 (John notes that it is excellent through May of 2022, but it looks like much of April and May has booked up). Standard rooms are available for 89,000 Hilton Honors points per night on most nights through March and then on select nights in summer 2022. This can be an excellent opportunity to take advantage of either 5th night free bookings or the use of free weekend night certificates since those certificates can currently be used any night of the week through the end of 2022.
Award availability is basically wide open through next March with standard rooms available almost every night at the time of writing. As an example, here are February and March of 2022:
While not quite every night is available at 89K points, many more nights are available than is typical.
Since Hilton has extended free night certificates through December 31, 2022 and made them valid any night of the week, those who have earned free night certificates from Hilton Surpass and Hilton Aspire cards could use those certificates to excellent value for those nights with standard room availability.
Note that the “standard” room at the Conrad Bora-Bora is a “Garden View Suite”. There is a small area at the Conrad Bora Bora with connected rooms more like a traditional hotel where those rooms are located. As many Diamond members have been, I was upgraded to a King Horizon View Villa during my stay. Funny enough, when I later stayed at the St. Regis Bora-Bora, my butler at the St. Regis (a Marriott property) told me that she heard that those horizon view villas at the Conrad (a Hilton property) were getting private pools added. That made sense as there were these oddly placed concrete columns under those villas that they had decorated with flower pots at the time. It looks like they have since gone ahead and added those pools:
When I stayed, there was no private pool on my deck, though the place was gorgeous nonetheless.
That horizon view villa had a similar layout to the garden view suites, just in a standalone villa format, so I wouldn’t be disappointed with either room type for the standard room price.
If you book 5 nights at the 89K price, you’ll pay 356,000 points after the 5th night free — an average of 71,200 points per night. That’s certainly an attractive deal. Even if you’re buying the points when they go on sale for half a cent each, that comes out to about $356 per night, which is less than half the normal nightly rate.
In my post comparing the Conrad Bora-Bora Nui and the St. Regis Bora-Bora (which is the resort where the movie Couples Retreat was filmed), I noted that service at the Conrad Bora-Bora was impeccable and the property felt more high end (in large part due to the fact that it is much newer), but that I still preferred the St. Regis Bora-Bora overall. Though I loved the Conrad Bora-Bora, I would hesitate to travel all the way to Bora-Bora without staying at one of the properties inside the lagoon with the classic Bora-Bora view. The Conrad is alone on the outside of the lagoon facing the open ocean. The property is gorgeous as seen in this picture that my wife took on the way to breakfast one morning (the advantage of traveling to Bora-Bora with a toddler is being up for sunrise).
But the Conrad Bora-Bora is missing the classic view of Mount Otemanu that you get from most of the property at the St. Regis Bora-Bora.
However, the good news is that I made a handful of searches and found 5-night award availability on each of them when looking at the St. Regis Bora-Bora (Marriott also offers the 5th night free on award stays and standard awards there are 85K per night, so it’s 340K for 5 nights). I would certainly consider going back to spend 5 nights at the St. Regis and a few at the Conrad. For those considering the same, note that I was able to book a private boat transfer between the resorts for less money than either resort was charging for the same. That boat transfer and the views were one of the highlights of the trip.
Note also that we recently reported excellent award availability on Air France to Tahiti. Stephen marked that post expired, but then I noticed The Points Guy eventually reported that same availability about a week ago, so it seems it has perhaps been coming and going.
If you are interested in Bora-Bora, now could certainly be the time to get booking.