About Overwater Bungalow Resorts

Last updated November 7, 2026

Who we are

Overwater Bungalow Resorts is an independent planning guide to resorts with overwater bungalows and villas, rooms built on stilts over a lagoon or the sea, in the Maldives, Bora Bora, Moorea and Tahiti, the Caribbean, Mexico, Belize, Panama, Honduras, Fiji, Malaysia and the Philippines. It is not an official tourism website, and it is not run by a hotel, a tour operator or a booking platform.

What we publish

We write guides to resorts with rooms built over the water. For every resort we check the official website to confirm it sells an overwater room category, and note whether those rooms have a private pool, glass floor panels or steps into the lagoon, who is allowed to stay in them, whether there is an all-inclusive plan, and how you get there, then say who each resort suits and what its drawbacks are, so you can judge whether it fits your own trip.

How we choose areas and hotels

We start with location: what you can walk to, how far the drive is to the beaches, parks and sights people come for, and what the roads are like. We then pick named properties at each budget from their Booking.com listings, official websites and guest reviews, and note drawbacks such as steep access roads, noise or a long walk to the beach. Practical details such as park hours, ferries and drive times are checked against official sources, which we link from the guides.

Every guide shows the date its hotel details were last checked. Prices, room types and availability change, so the live booking page is always the final word before you pay. No hotel pays to be listed.

Unless a guide says otherwise, our recommendations are based on research into published listings, guest reviews and official sources, not on staying at every hotel ourselves.

How the site is funded

Some links earn us a commission when you book, at no extra cost to you. Our affiliate disclosure explains how this works.

Corrections

We update guides when listings or official information change.

Photo credits

Photos on this site come from Wikimedia Commons and are used under the Creative Commons licenses linked below. We have resized and cropped them. Most show the areas we cover. A hotel card photo labelled "Area photo" shows the place where the hotel is, not the hotel itself; a card photo without that label shows the hotel.