You can spend $2,000 a night for an overwater bungalow in Bora Bora, and Vincent, our Bora Bora snorkel tour guide (see previous post), has ferried the likes of Justin Beiber and Jeff Bezos to some of them.
We elected to stay in a home rented out by VBRO, far cheaper and homier. "Coco's Place" is built on stilts in a hillside across from the lagoon in the northern end of the main island, in the Fanuui district. From our living room window we could see five bungalows that, it turns out, were occupied by the likes of Marlon Brando and Jack Nicholson.
Our VBRO host, Barthelemey, a Bora Bora native, knew all about the association with Brando when we asked. He told us that he was either an actual relative of Brando (Brando apparently had a Polynesian girlfriend), or there were relatives of Brando's still on the island. Hard to really confirm which is which, given my rusty French. He also slipped in that Jack Nicholson and friends had stayed at three of the bungalows. And to think, the famous had lived across the road from us. Four of the five are available for vacation rentals, at about $400 a night.
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