Lagoon Tour Pickups: Resort Jetties, Vaitape and Matira

Bora Bora’s lagoon tours pick you up by boat. On Rohivai Tours’ full day, Bora Bora: Full day Lagoon Safari & Lunch on a Motu - ST, the boat comes to your accommodation if it has safe sea access, and otherwise to a nearby meeting point; there are 18 listed pickup points, from the resorts on the motu to the Quai de Vaitape, Matira Beach and Farepiti on the main island. The trip is from $169 a person (checked November 2026), with the pickup and drop-off included.

The calendar above is the full-day lagoon safari, with 850 reviews (checked November 2026); its pickup details show when you check availability.

The short answer

Stay at a resort on a motu or on the water and the boat comes to your jetty or beach wherever it can do so safely. Stay on the main island and you meet it at a listed point near you: the Quai de Vaitape in the village, Matira Beach in the south, Farepiti or one of the hotels. Either way you give your accommodation when you book, and the pickup details show when you check availability.

How the boat pickup works

Safe sea access means enough depth, a sandy bottom, no coral and not the shallow fringe of the shore; a jetty has to be big enough for the operator’s boats. Where that is not possible, the pickup is at a nearby meeting point close to your accommodation. It is about 20 minutes by water from the pickup to the first stop, and the same back to the drop-off point at the end of the day.

The 18 listed pickup points are: The St. Regis Bora Bora Resort, InterContinental Bora Bora Resort Thalasso Spa, Village Temanuata, Quai de Vaitape Bora Bora, Conrad Bora Bora Nui, Le Bora Bora by Pearl Resorts, Snack Matira, Ke One, Farepiti, Otoamana Beach house, Matira Sunset House, Four Seasons Resort Bora Bora, Rohivai Tours, Matira Beach, Hotel Royal Bora Bora, The Westin Bora Bora Resort & Spa, Hotel Maitai Polynesia and InterContinental Le Moana Bora Bora Resort. The drop-off points are the same 18. The operator’s base is in Matira, 300 m past the Royal Bora Bora hotel on the sea side.

Check dates and pickup for the full day

Vaitape, Matira and the airport

Vaitape, the main village (Air Tahiti), is on the west coast of the main island. Matira Beach, at the southern tip, is 6.4 km from Vaitape by road, about 5 minutes by car without stops, and Farepiti is 3.1 km from Vaitape by road. The airport is on Motu Mute, 6.9 km from Vaitape in a straight line across the water, and Air Tahiti runs its shuttle boat, the Bora Bora Navette, between the airport and Vaitape. Going back, the shuttle leaves Vaitape harbour 1 hour 30 minutes before the flight; its schedules are posted each week on the Vaitape quay, and the day’s air ticket is your proof of travel to board it. A lagoon tour and a flight on the same day is a tight fit: book the tour for another day.

On a cruise day

Port calls and tender landings are your cruise line’s to confirm: check where its tenders land and what time you must be back on board. If you will be ashore in Vaitape, the Quai de Vaitape is one of the listed pickup points of the Rohivai Tours trips, and on a short call the 4-hour half-day lagoon safari is the easier fit than the 6-hour day. Give the quay as your pickup when you book, and ask the operator to confirm the time against your ship’s.

Other operators’ meeting points

Onoku Services' canoe day has a free pickup at 9:00 am from the beach in front of Tiare Market, and does not include pickup from hotels that are not on its list. Bora Bora Manu Lagoon Excursion's full day on Viator meets on the path to Manu Taxi Boat, on the sea side near the Tiare Market supermarket, where its boat picks you up at the water’s edge. H2O Bora Bora's small-group trip picks up by boat from your hotel’s dock or a meeting point, between 8:00 and 8:50.

Getting to Bora Bora

International flights land at Faa’a on Tahiti, and Bora Bora is a 50-minute domestic flight from there (Tahiti Tourisme, Air Tahiti), 259 km in a straight line. Arrive the day before your lagoon tour, so a late or changed flight does not cost you the day; the shuttle from the airport takes you only as far as Vaitape.