In 2005, I went to French Polynesia to write a story about the last two surviving “Bali Hai Boys,” the trio of Newport Beach guys who chucked it all to move to Moorea in the early 1960s and ...

Moorea was only 12 miles from the main city of Papeete. ... “The Club Bali Hai is really our style, what we had in mind at the beginning,” Jay said.

Some of the best bargains in travel now are in destinations abroad that depend on planes to deliver tourists. For instance, a week in Moorea in French Polynesia starts at $699 per person, double ...

MOOREA, Tahiti–It’s 5:30 p.m. and a guy with a silver-haired crew cut and a grey sweatshirt that says “Hammered and Happy” is sitting poolside at the Club Bali Hai hotel.

One of the most haunting love songs of American musical theater is not about a man or a woman. It’s about an island, your special island, Bali Hai, calling you to come, come away. Author James A ...