We have seen a lot of great Killer Views over the past year but looking back through all our stories, we kept coming back to this one.
It's the view from an overwater bungalow at the Hotel Bora Bora(We have a bit of an overwater bungalow obsession here.) The picture was dropped into the HotelChatter Flickr Pool by an employee of the resort which would normally raise our suspicions but this Aman Resort gets consistently good reviews.
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 further out as some of the over water bungalows near the docks have less privacy.
We are suckers for a room with a killer view. We find that we are even more likely to forgive some minor hotel inconveniences if we can stare out the window at something pretty--yeah we are that shallow. Let's help out our fellow hotel mavens by uploading rooms with killer views to the HotelChatter/Flickr photo pool, or by sending the photo along to us. We will feature our favorites in this space from time to time. Remember to tell us the name of the hotel and the room number of the hot view.
This Killer View was dropped into the infamous HotelChatter Flickr Pool by member SuperStar Fish, who took the shot from overwater bungalow #110 at the Hotel Bora Bora.
In the Hotel Bora Bora set, SuperStar Fish writes:
This is the hotel that I work for... and LOVE! It was the first resort built in Bora Bora back in 1961 so it is 45 years old this year. I am the Sales Manager and one of my favourite feelings is walking through the grounds with guests or travel agents on site inspections and seeing how they are affected by the hotel's old soul. This special vibe of peacefulness and serenity that emanates from the most beautiful surroundings touches everyone!
Ok so Hotel Bora Bora despite being tucked away in French Polynesia, is certainly hip to the newfangled ways of hotel promotion on the internet. However, this set includes 96 photos of life at Hotel Bora Bora that are artistic and all sorts of pretty to look at. But they still give you a real sense of what your trip there would be like--except for maybe what the food tastes like, which one reviewer highly disliked.
Just looking at this picture of the overwater bungalows at Bora Bora Pearl Beach, we only have one question--aren't these bungalows just a little too close to each other?
When we hit up the reviews over at TripAdvisor, no one seemed to mind about such proximity to one another, although they did complain about some conditions of the bungalows not being up to par. Also, the restaurants got major thumbs-down.
If you are keen on booking here, take the advice of this guest:
We stayed on the farthest premium overwater bungalow and had peace and quiet.
In the end, this may or may not be a perfect overwater bungalow, but it probably depends on which one you get and that's hopefully the newly redecorated one furthest away from the rest.
We have never needed an escape from LA more than we do right now. The whole town has been crazy for the past week with actors, assistants, stylists, agents and other A-listers whipping the place into a frenzy before the Oscars. Not to mention we had a couple of rainy days and everyone knows that Angelenos cannot function in wet weather.
With our last "trips" taking place in two busy cities--Paris and Tokyo--this time our Escape from LA is taking us to a place where we can just chill. Which is why we are headed to Hotel Bora Bora in the French Polynesian Islands--just an eight and a half hour flight away. And we are throwing down the big bucks for one of their fifteen overwater bungalows.
We have seen a lot of great Killer Views over the past year but looking back through all our stories, we kept coming back to this one.
We have never needed an escape from LA more than we do right now. The whole town has been crazy for the past week with actors, assistants, stylists, agents and other A-listers whipping the place into a frenzy before the Oscars. Not to mention we had a couple of rainy days and everyone knows that Angelenos cannot function in wet weather. 
