Potentially Reopening in 2025

The former Sofitel Bora Bora Marara Beach Resort - Review 2025

By: Woodrow Matthews & Annie Gunton - Updated: June 2025

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Our review team:

Woodrow Matthews

Contributor at Outoria.com

Woodrow is a freelance writer specializing in travel and destinations. He’s been seeing the world since a young age, having visited all 50 states in the US before he left home for college. He moved from Hawaii to the south of France in 2019 and has been exploring Europe ever since. There aren’t many places he’s not interested in - remote Greek islands, middle-of-nowhere French villages, Swiss mountaintops, and luxurious spa resorts are a few categories he keeps going back to. In the rest of the world, his favorite destinations include the islands of French Polynesia and the national parks of the western US.

Annie Gunton

Editor at Outoria.com

Annie has lived on 4 continents and traveled through 6. Spending her time in places as different as London and the Kalahari she has adapted how she gets out and enjoys what’s around.

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The former Sofitel Bora Bora Marara Beach Resort:

The Sofitel Bora Bora Marara Beach Resort, along with its sister property below, closed down together even before the pandemic due to financial difficulties. It’s unclear if they would reopen under the Sofitel brand, and the latest estimate for that is 2025 at the earliest.

In its prime, this was one of the top resorts on the main island of Bora Bora, located on the southeastern shore near Hotel Maitai Polynesia and Matira Point. The property had a small set of overwater bungalows, an infinity pool, and access by boat to the private island property, which had even more great beaches and snorkeling.

We’re hoping this reopening materializes, as it would be great to have another luxury resort on the main island.