{"id":334,"date":"2019-08-21T01:26:26","date_gmt":"2019-08-20T22:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dreamoverwater.com\/?page_id=334"},"modified":"2026-02-11T14:08:38","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T11:08:38","slug":"about-dream-over-water","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dreamoverwater.com\/about-dream-over-water\/","title":{"rendered":"About Overwater Bungalows &amp; Us:"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1336\" height=\"751\" src=\"https:\/\/dreamoverwater.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/bora-bora.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2398\" style=\"width:1348px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-primary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-a2ae7f33802c8ed85097c38ad3a9dfea\">What is an Overwater Bungalow?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>An overwater bungalow is a luxury accommodation built on stilts over a body of water, typically found in tropical destinations like the <a href=\"https:\/\/dreamoverwater.com\/places\/maldives\/\">Maldives<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/dreamoverwater.com\/places\/france\/french-polynesia\/bora-bora\/\">Bora Bora<\/a> (pictured above) and more recently, the <a href=\"https:\/\/dreamoverwater.com\/places\/tags\/caribbean\/\">Caribbean<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These bungalows offer direct access to the water, via private decks with steps leading down to the lagoon or ocean below. The design may also include glass floor panels, allowing guests to observe marine life from inside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-primary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-a2ae7f33802c8ed85097c38ad3a9dfea\">Where Did They Originate?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Though the overwater bungalow borrows heavily from traditional architecture styles of South Asia and the South Pacific, its potential as luxury tourist accommodation wasn&#8217;t fully realized until 1967.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That was the year when three American residents of French Polynesia, Jay Carlisle, Donald \u2018Muk\u2019 McCallum and Hugh Kelley, wanted to expand their small hotel business on the island of Ra&#8217;i\u0101tea, near <a href=\"https:\/\/dreamoverwater.com\/places\/france\/french-polynesia\/tahiti\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Tahiti<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Though the waters around the island were beautiful, there were no beaches and so, to attract tourists, some thinking outside the box would be required. A seemingly crazy idea came to them &#8211; put hotel rooms, using stilts, directly over the water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This would seem, and in effect just be, impossible in most parts of the world but the island, and indeed much of the South Pacific, was blessed with many sheltered lagoons and atolls where the waters were calm enough and kind enough to allow such a thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thus the idea was born and the world&#8217;s very first overwater bungalows were built in Ra&#8217;i\u0101tea, Tahiti in 1967. Since then, and especially in the last couple of decades, the concept has spread all around the tropics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tahiti and <a href=\"https:\/\/dreamoverwater.com\/places\/france\/french-polynesia\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">French Polynesia<\/a> still have many, especially <a href=\"https:\/\/dreamoverwater.com\/places\/france\/french-polynesia\/bora-bora\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bora Bora<\/a>, but these days the world capital is <a href=\"https:\/\/dreamoverwater.com\/places\/maldives\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Maldives<\/a> which boasts dozens of luxury overwater resorts. They are also though to be found in other parts of Asia, the <a href=\"https:\/\/dreamoverwater.com\/places\/tags\/caribbean\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Caribbean<\/a>, and in some parts of Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-primary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-a2ae7f33802c8ed85097c38ad3a9dfea\">Why Are They So Popular?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Overwater bungalows have come to almost define luxury accommodation in exotic seaside locations, especially for honeymoons and romantic getaways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They have prices to match though and can be now seen, relatively speaking, as some of the world&#8217;s most expensive per square-meter accommodation. Despite this, or maybe because of this, their popularity continues to grow exponentially.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The reason is that no other type of hotel room or suite can give the same sense of romance, of peace, and of almost being at one with the sea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fresh salty breezes waft through and soothing shallow waves pass undisturbed beneath your feet. Sea life goes about its business below you too, and you can wade gently in among it all yourself at a moment&#8217;s notice as if it were the most natural thing in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are more practical reasons too though &#8211; supply and demand. The demand is there but the supply is lacking. As briefly mentioned above, overwater bungalows are specialist structures that need certain conditions to be viable, i.e. shallow, sheltered, consistently very calm sea bays or lagoons, the type of conditions that are relatively rare except in certain fortunate regions of the world like the Maldives or French Polynesia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-primary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-a2ae7f33802c8ed85097c38ad3a9dfea\">Environmental Concerns<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>There are around 200 overwater bungalow resorts in the world and the aim of Dreamoverwater.com is to document and review only the best of them. One of the criteria in which a resort can fail to be included is if it appears to not grant sufficient respect to its marine environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many resorts are side by side with delicate coral reefs, something which instinctively seems like a negative, but we see that, just like safari tourism in Africa depends on protecting the animals that people come to see, the vast majority of overwater resorts view the coral reefs as something of great value, and as something which they cherish and protect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Any resorts that we find do not share these principles will, as mentioned, be excluded from our listings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-primary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-d64808ce6dd8463d99003a6efbeb304e\" id=\"affiliate\">What is Our Review Process?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Learn all about our <a href=\"https:\/\/dreamoverwater.com\/our-review-process\/\">review processes here. <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-primary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-a2ae7f33802c8ed85097c38ad3a9dfea\">Affiliate Disclosure<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p2\">If you make a booking through some of the links on this site we may earn a small commission. As we are entirely ad-free, and we do not accept any kind of paid listings, this is the only way we keep our site running.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p2\">Please know that this absolutely does not affect the price you pay in any way, nor does it in any way affect our reviews or recommendations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-primary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-a2ae7f33802c8ed85097c38ad3a9dfea\">Tips\/Suggestions<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Any other overwater bungalow resorts out there you think we should investigate? Drop us a line: info (at) dreamoverwater.com.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-primary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-a2ae7f33802c8ed85097c38ad3a9dfea\">Press Inquires\/Contact Us<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p1\">For further information about Dreamoverwater.com, or about overwater bungalows in general, feel free to contact us and we will get back to you promptly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Ronan McLoughlin &#8211; Founder\/Editor<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>info (at) dreamoverwater.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/ronan-mcloughlin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"me noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"56\" height=\"56\" src=\"https:\/\/dreamoverwater.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/imageedit_3_9487568063.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2922\" style=\"width:25px;height:auto\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:8px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:23px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>At Dream Overwater we are IATA-accredited through The Travel Society LLC, members of the Virtuoso Travel Advisor Network, and certified Sandals Elite Advisors specializing in <a href=\"https:\/\/dreamoverwater.com\/places\/tags\/caribbean\/\">Caribbean overwater bungalows.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:13px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"130\" height=\"83\" src=\"https:\/\/dreamoverwater.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/rsz_iata-travel-agent.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2875\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.566521910777734;width:61px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"276\" height=\"98\" src=\"https:\/\/dreamoverwater.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/imageedit_1_6609923918.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2877\" style=\"aspect-ratio:2.7590106007067137;width:113px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is an Overwater Bungalow? 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