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Moorea/Bora Bora restaurants & activities
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DH and I will be headed to Moorea and Bora Bora later this week. We're staying at the Hilton on both islands.
Please let me know if you have any activities/tour companies or restaurants to recommend at either location. The only dinner reservations we currently have are at La Villa Mahana in Bora Bora. And I haven't booked any activities/tours yet on either island.
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Re: Moorea/Bora Bora restaurants &amp; activities
I stayed at both Hiltons in previous trips! LOVED the properties. I really enjoyed the circle island tour in Moorea. I also liked renting a car for just one day, doing some shopping, and stopping again at the juice factory (they stop there during the circle island tour). I haven't done this, but if you like dolphins, Dr. Michael Poole has a neat dolphin excursion. On Bora Bora, the spa at the Nui is gorgeous! I'd get a spa treatment
IAlso, the shark and ray feeding is neat. There is also a lagoonarium tour that is similar. The 4x4 tour on Bora Bora takes you part of the way up Mt. Otemanu, which offers some awesome views. As for meals- I liked Allo Pizza on Moorea (cheap and delicious) and on Bora Bora you got Villa Mahana taken care of 
If you haven't already, check out Jan Prince's Tahiti Guide!
Edit: We used Albert Tours for several of our trips to Moorea for car rentals, circle tours, and transfers. On Bora Bora, we used Tupana tours for the 4x4 and Shark Boy for the shark/ray feeding.
Our wedding on Wilson Island!
Thanks for all the info ladies!!
Jells - I didn't have the Jan Prince guide, but thanks to your recommendation and Amazon Prime my plane reading material is on it's way. And I'll definitely have to make a spa appointment in Bora Bora - I had been wondering which location had a better spa.
We just got back about two months ago from both locations. You will have so much fun.
To be honest, I didn't feel like the food on Moorea was as good as Bora Bora. We had dinner at Rudy's, Mayflower (lobster ravioli was freaking fantastic), Mahagony, Tipaniers (worst service ever), the place with the sting rays (can't remember the name), Le Martinez, and had Allo Pizza delivered. Mayflower and Allo were both pretty fantastic but other than those two, I was very "eh" on my foodie experience in Moorea.
In BB, we went to Bloody Mary's which wasn't horrible. We also ate at La Villa Mahana which was worth every single penny - one of the best meals of my life. We also went to the resturant..oh, gosh, what was it called? Something Hut. The tables were on the beach....the food there was freaking fantastic as well. There is also supposed to be a really good restaurant at the Sofitel. We didn't try it because the reviews on TA were so all over the place.
As far as stuff to do...we took a high speed catamaran from Tahiti to Marlon Brando's island which was so awesome. It was a day excursion - sooooo relaxing. I would also recommend an ATV tour of the interior of the island - Moorea isn't about the water - it is about the landscape and it is gorgeous. In Bora Bora, we did the Photo Lagoon - we took out a sailboat at night and this guy took pictures of the scenery and us. The pictures were fantastic - further, the captain/photographer was a life long BB resident so he gave us so much information about the island. We also did the Reef Discovery with Christophe. We had a great experience with Christophe.
I would recommend checking out the TA forums. Some of the regulars on there own vacation homes in Moorea and/or BB and are super helpful.