InterContinental Tahiti Resort & Spa

The best place for your Tahiti vacations, InterContinental Tahiti Resort & Spa is located on 32 acres of lush tropical garden alongside an idyllic lagoon. This well-known resort in Tahiti offers fine dining at two restaurants and world-class dinner shows. Guests can indulge in a host of activities, from diving amongst coral reefs to unwinding at the Deep Nature Spa. If you are looking for Tahiti resorts for honeymoon, this is the ideal starting point for your unforgettable South Pacific getaway.

How To Get There

The InterContinental Tahiti Resort & Spa is just a 2‑minute drive from Faa’a International Airport (PPT) and approximately 15 minutes from downtown Papeete.Taxis are available 24‑hours at the airport terminal; hotels are not permitted to run their own transport, so transfers must be arranged through the concierge or a private service.Guests arriving via Fowler may also take the public bus or use resort‑arranged shuttle services (surcharge applies).

Dive Overview

At InterContinental Tahiti Resort & Spa, diving is handled by the on‑site TOPDIVE Tahiti centre, offering access to around 12 superb dive sites along the west and east coasts of the island. From calm lagoon settings ideal for learners to ocean drop‑offs teeming with reef sharks and lemon sharks, white‑tip reef sharks and blacktip reef sharks, the dive programme covers a wide range of experiences.

[Read More: French Polynesia Dive Travel Guide]

Accommodation Overview

InterContinental Tahiti Resort & Spa presents upscale island‑chic lodgings set across lush tropical gardens and a cerulean lagoon, designed to blend Polynesian elegance with modern comfort. Guests can choose between several accommodation types including Garden View Rooms, Lagoon View Rooms, Panoramic Rooms, Over‑Water Bungalows and the exclusive Motu Suite Overwater Villa—each positioned to offer either verdant garden views, sweeping lagoon panoramas or direct over‑water access.

Room features vary by type and may include:

• Private terrace or balcony overlooking tropical gardens, the lagoon or the island of Moorea
  
• En‑suite bathroom with bathtub and/or separate shower
  
• Air‑conditioning, flat‑screen TV, safe, tea/coffee making facilities and minibar
  
• Sliding glass doors and timber floors adding to the Polynesian style
  
• Daily housekeeping service
  

Resort Facilities

Food & Drinks

The InterContinental Tahiti Resort & Spa offers a wide range of restaurants and bars, introducing guests to Polynesian culture through delicious dishes, traditional dances and drinks and snacks that use fresh local ingredients.

Dive Information

Tahiti will offer you your first introduction into the rich, tropical waters of French Polynesia. The incredible biodiversity of the dive sites showcases the rich flora and fauna, from colourfull nudibranchs to Lemon sharks. Tahiti is also the ideal island to learn scuba diving with some perfect dive sites in the lagoon-like the aquarium or the wrecks. Dont miss the most spectacular and unique dive the Tahiti Shark experience, where certified divers get to discover, in a perfectly safe and risk-free atmosphere, Polynesias most common species of shark the Whitetip reef shark, the Blacktip reef shark and the Lemon shark!

Inter-island Gold Pass

With their 6, 10 or 20-dive inter-island Gold pass, you can dive on 6 islands: Tahiti, Moorea, Bora Bora, Rangiroa, Fakarava and Tikehau. The package is only for certified divers and can be used by 2 divers in any of the TOPDIVE centers and with Tahiti diving.

Free Nitrox Diving In French Polynesia

Scuba diving with enriched nitrox air allows for no more decompression dive time. This means more time underwater, especially on repetitive scuba dives. In all TOPDIVE centers, Nitrox dives are offered at no extra charge for all Nitrox certified divers. For non-certified divers, they offer Nitrox PADI certifications, SSI, FFESSM/CMAS, ANMP/Cedip and PADI.

Blue Honeymoon Dive

This private dive will be organized just for you and your loved one, accompanied by your own diving instructor and an instructor that will capture your most memorable undersea moments on camera. This excursion is available at TOPDIVE dive centers TAHITI, MOOREA & BORA BORA. Excursion includes: 2 introductory dives with a private instructor, shell leis, a refreshing after-dive fruit drink and your romantic dive recorded on USB driver!

Discover Shark Diving

The Polynesian waters play host to many different species of sharks. With our experienced divemasters at TOPDIVE, we can assure the safest possible conditions in order for you to observe and marvel at the beauty of this mysterious creature. TOPDIVE Tahiti, Moorea, Bora Bora, Rangiroa and Fakarava dive centers offer a SSI specialty course called, SSI Shark Ecology. Its purpose is to allow any certified diver the opportunity to identify, recognize and describe shark species in relaxed and secure conditions. The standard dive rule-of-thumb for observation of these species is usually to be slightly negatively buoyant as to adhere close to the sea floor, and not to attract too much attention. Main species in French Polynesia: The White tip lagoon shark, The Grey reef shark, Blacktip reef shark, Lemon shark. During the course of your dives, you may encounter other shark species like the Silvertip shark, the Silky shark, the oceanic whitetip shark, the Tiger shark and even the Whale shark.

Dolphins And Whales Watching Around Tahiti

You can come to approach and watch dolphins playing near the passes of Tahiti throughout the year (except for whales season) and encounter whales around Tahiti every year, from August to October. During wales season, they also offer whales watching around Bora Bora in private tour.

Dive Center Information

TOPDIVE Tahiti dive center is ideally situated in the heart of the Intercontinental Tahiti Resort. It promises easy access to 12 very lovely dive sites located on the west and east coasts of the island.

Dive Center Facilities & Services

• Refresh dive before other islands
• Free Nitrox immediately available
• Wreck dive
• Night dive
• Free transfers from all resorts (From Le Mridien to Tahiti Nui Hotel)
• Yacht services
• Private boat
• Private instructor
• Nearby snack bar
• Snorkeling
• Honeymoon dive
• Diving for kids
• Whales watching
• Drift dive
• Discovery dive
• 2 tank dive
• Dolphins watching
• Sharks encounter
• Nearby beach