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InterContinental Resort & Spa Bora Bora: Paradise on Stilts

12/02/2004 at 10:13 AM
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InterContinental Hotels Group (which owns Crowne Plaza, Indigo, Holiday Inn, Staybridge and Candlewood) will soon become the largest international luxury hotel operator in French Polynesia. The InterContinental Resort & Spa Bora Bora will open in May 2006 in Tahiti, marking InterContinental's fourth resort in the area.

The design is pretty incredible -- and we mean that in both the "wow" sense and in the "um, how are you going to make this work?" sense. The 80 Villas and 12 day rooms on stilts will stretch across 100 square meters of shallow surf in the Bora Bora lagoon. Will room service come in a speedboat? What happens when there's a fire drill? And where's the ice machine?

Well, considering the budget of $65 million, let's hope they've got all that covered. InterContinental certainly cares about the details: The Villas will be wired in some way (they call it "Global Connections" and offer no details) and guests will have access to a gym/health club, business center and spa, including a "Balneotherapy and Thalassotherapy centre" designed by Yves Treguer. Sounds... wet.

For photos (well, really nice architects' renderings, anyway), check out Hospitality Net.

Hotel not recommended for those who can not swim. Or for those with an irrational fear of sharks.

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