Some might say that if you want to visit paradise, Tahiti isn't the absolute epitomy of paradise any more: but we're romantics, we like Gaugin paintings and we still have a real craving to try out Tahiti for ourselves.

So when we found that the Sheraton Hotel Tahiti ranks up as #2 of all Tahiti hotels on TripAdviser, we thought this might not be a bad spot to stay. However, whether that's true or not depends very much on who you listen to.

In our interview with Le Meridien Bora Bora's Sales and Marketing Director, Nicolas Orget, he was very enthusiastic about the hotel's Turtle Sanctuary which helps baby turtles mature away from harm.

And some good news: this past weekend 59 baby green sea turtles were born at the resort.

The turtles weigh less than 1 oz and are about 2 inches in length. These eggs were actually brought to the Turtle Sanctuary by poachers and the Sanctuary's caretaker made a nest for them at the resort. The baby turtles will stay in the nursery for one year and in the resort's interior lagoon until they are 2 or 3 years old.

Awwww....]]> juliana 2008-03-13T17:25:55-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/2/20/132623/057 <![CDATA[<p><i>Hotelier. The word is so romantic, so eccentric, so...French. However, run-of-the-mill real world hoteliers don't always live up to the etymology. <p>Always looking to bring you the most pertinent information on the worldwide hotel scene, we figured when we found hoteliers that were worthy of the French pronunciation of the word, we would let them speak to you directly. Besides, before you dropped a bunch of cash to stay at someone's house, wouldn't you want to get to know the owner a bit? Exactly. We, always oh so full of ourselves, are calling this series <b>Hoteliers That Matter</b> and we are sitting down with these hoteliers and letting them tell you, straight from their mouths to web ears, what you juliana 2008-03-07T13:32:38-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/12/28/123434/26 <![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Hotel+Bora+Bora/local/365"><b>Best Killer View: The Hotel Bora Bora</b></a><p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/killerview_hotelborabora.jpg" class="imgborder"><p><img align="right" src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/2007_awards_hc.jpg" class="imgborder">We have seen a lot of great <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/killer%20views">Killer Views</a> over the past year but looking back through all our stories, we kept coming back to this one.<p>It's the view from an overwater bungalow at the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Hotel+Bora+Bora/local/365"><b>Hotel Bora Bora</b></a>(We have a bit of an <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Overwater%20Bungalows">overwater bungalow obsession</a> here.) The picture was dropped into the <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/superstarfish/420838873/in/pool-hotelchatter/">HotelChatter Flickr Pool</a> by an employee of the resort which would normally raise our suspicions but this Aman Resort gets consistently good reviews.<p> If you do want to stay here, these overwater bungalows cost around $1,200 a night (!), so we say heed a recent guest's tip to book a bungalow HotelChatter 2007-12-28T12:52:26-05:00 Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/