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Living Not Just by the Water, but Over and Even Below It
Six decades ago, a hotel was built with rooms set on concrete piles placed deep within the ocean floor. The design has been flourishing ever since.
An aerial view of the Conrad Bora Bora Nui, a contemporary luxury resort with overwater bungalows and walkways.Credit.Alamy
By Mark Ellwood
June 9, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET
It was an idea born from the tropical desperation of three American friends who had moved to French Polynesia on a whim in 1959.
Their first plan there to run a vanilla farm had fallen through, so they resolved to try the hotel business. Tourism was nascent, and international visitor numbers had begun to grow after a new airport opened on the main island, Tahiti. The three men Jay Carlisle, a stockbroker; Hugh Kelley, a lawyer; and Donald McCallum, a salesman bought a couple of properties to turn into funky hotels they called the Bali Hai. One was on the island of Ra’iatea.
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Greece or Spain: which holiday heaven should you visit this summer?
As two of our sunshine favourites announce that they intend to welcome back British tourists this summer, which one will you choose?
14 March 2021 • 5:00am
The beautiful Balearics, Spain
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The first flight I ever took was to Mallorca, aged 13. We awoke to a golden morning on the north-east coast, with steps down to a cove of fine sand and limpid, turquoise shallows, bath-warm. They couldn’t get us out of the water, our parents – after a lifetime of the toe-numbing Atlantic we had never known anything like it.