Maldives or bora bora more expensive. Maldives is way more expensive than bora bora though both are at the expensive category. There are strategies to reduce the cost a bit in either location but on average its probably easier to have a slightly more budget friendly vacation in bora bora than it is in the maldives. In the maldives transportation options are limited and islands youll visit are very far from each other.
So theres no one size fits all answer here. Both bora bora and maldives are expensive destinations on cash points and miles. In general it will be easier to spend less on a trip to the maldives.
Both the maldives and bora bora are expensive luxury destinations. Check out my article on choosing a honeymoon by budget if you want an in depth breakdown of the costs of each but room rates flights and meals in the maldives will rack you up in the range of around 11000 25000 for a week whereas a trip to bora bora will be just a tad more expensive in the 14000 35000 range. There are a lot of tourists compaired to the maldives and the prices reflect that.
Both destinations are bloody expensive. Bora bora now onto the range of resort choices in maldives and bora bora. On your hotel room rate transfer are often not included.
Maldives has more budget friendly options than bora bora and also more over the top places with nightly rates closer to 2000 a night range of resort options maldives vs. Bora bora was more expensive for us because there were more things to do and we spent the money to do them. Overall the maldives seems to be more suited for someone who is oprah rich whereas bora bora is much more affordable.
Ok fine although cant comment on bb can tell you most about maldives as have been 6 times and are going 2 x this year all resorts are islands and each island is its own hotel its a different type of holiday vacation its more about relaxing and charging the batteries not a great deal to do except dive snorkel spa read books and chill relax. Four seasons resort bora bora four seasons resort bora bora. But at the same time i would say the biggest factor to which is cheaper bora bora or maldives is largely based on where you are travelling from.
For example you cant visit a resort through a public transportation. The journey to french polynesia was about double the cost than to the maldives when i went but everything in bora bora seemed to be a lot cheaper than the maldives. So in answer to is the maldives or bora bora more expensive i would say for food the answer is the maldives however i think generally speaking the maldives is cheaper than bora bora.