#87198 - 10/05/10 08:54 AM
St Regis hotel and food
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clwrs
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Registered: 09/29/10
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Loc: Houston, TX
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Hi all,
We have been reading many posts where people have said that we should go to Vaitape at the beginning of our trip and load up on food for our bungalow for snacks and small meals. Could someone please explain how we would do this? Does the St Regis offer free transport over to Vaitape? If so, how often does it run back and forth? Where is a local market that would have a decent selection from where the boat would drop us?
Thanks for all of the help!
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#87199 - 10/05/10 11:14 AM
Re: St Regis hotel and food
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Poehere
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If you need to load up on food I think you picked to wrong hotel...
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#87200 - 10/05/10 12:57 PM
Re: St Regis hotel and food
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Old Wife
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We never went to Vaitape to shop. We stayed at the Sofitel Motu and walked to the nearby market/magasin for chocolate waffles for breakfast and picked up a baguette and cheese (and once a canned chicken salad) for lunch at the same time. The only time I saw Viatape was when I was rushed there for stitches.
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#87202 - 10/05/10 07:35 PM
Re: St Regis hotel and food
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Gary & Cath
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I think St Regis does one complimentary shuttle over to Vaitape and then after that you have to pay - Lorio from this forum may want to chime in and confirm that for us (she was there in Dec 2009:)
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#87210 - 10/06/10 11:01 PM
Re: St Regis hotel and food
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Suki (689)
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Stitches plz explain i bet a great story $$$$$$$FP4LIFE$$$$$$$$
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#87211 - 10/07/10 06:34 AM
Re: St Regis hotel and food
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Old Wife
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My stitches? Our last day on Bora Bora, we went for a walk around the motu that the Sofitel Motu is on. Silly me, I was wearing my Birkenstocks (those are definitely not hiking footwear!). I stepped on a lava rock that looked stable, but it wobbled and I pitched forward and fell face-first into more lava rock. I cut the left side of my face (forehead, sliced open the bridge of my nose, cut from my nostril down around into my mouth), my left elbow and left knee (the left side of my body fell on lava and the right on sand). I needed stitches in the bridge of my nose to close up that cut and was put on double-strength antibiotics and bandaged up. I was quite a site and that was Friday morning and we didn't get back to Toronto until Sunday morning (we travelled that whole time). So I had to walk around LAX with a bruised and banadaged face. Hubby said it was a weird experience for him because everyone who saw me immediately looked at him very suspiciously!
Fortunately, when I got home, someone told me to put Dermatix on all of my cuts once the stitches came out. I do have a little scar on my lip (you can't put Dermatix on lips), but the rest of my face healed up perfectly. There are scars, but they're completely flat and can be hidden with makeup if I want (I seldom cover them and when I mention them to people, they say they didn't notice them until I told them---either all of them are being polite or the scars really aren't noticeable).
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#87225 - 10/08/10 10:14 AM
Re: St Regis hotel and food
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Poehere
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In fact you have a souvenir from BB that lasts a lifetime Old Wife...? ! I have one of those picked up in Thailand at the river Kwai, tiny but there forever and whenever I look at it, it brings back sights, sounds and memories of that particular place, pretty cool I think!
G&C St Regis does shuttle 2x a day to Vaitape. The store OW is talking about is at Matira, across from the Novotel, (Tiare market)
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#87227 - 10/08/10 04:55 PM
Re: St Regis hotel and food
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Old Wife
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Yes, a lifelong souvenir and I don't mind it because I got it in Bora Bora (if I'd fallen in my backyard and done it, I would really hate it, LOL!). The funny thing is a good friend had a terrible feeling when I went on that trip and said she dreamed that my husband got hurt and I was really upset. When I came back and told her what had happened to me, she told me about her dream. Very strange.
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#87228 - 10/08/10 05:56 PM
Re: St Regis hotel and food
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Patti.
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Tracy...I have had dreams like that MANY times....and it is almost always that something happens to someone very close to the person I had the dream about rather than the exact person I had the dream about. It's happened so often it's really scary....especially when I dream about a death or something. It really makes me wonder about premonitions and ESP and stuff like that.
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#87232 - 10/08/10 09:58 PM
Re: St Regis hotel and food
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Gary & Cath
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Thanks, P, so its a complimentary shuttle twice a day?
Yes, we visited the Tiare Market many times when we stayed at Thalasso. Got the shuttle over to Moana and walked down the road - its a good little shop for supplies.
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