The Brando Resort The Brando Resort The Brando is a private resort located on the atoll of Tetiaroa in French Polynesia. The Brando serves as a regulated airstrip, research facility, eco-resort and spa on the Motu of Onetahi. The resort consists of 80 staff and facilities management personnel. The atoll's inside on which The Brando is located is on a 99-year lease contracted by Marlon Brando. Traveling to The Brando can only be commercially done by air. Air Teti'aroa flies private planes between the island of Tahiti and Teti'aroa. The airline's departure is located in a private terminal at the Fa'a'ā International Airport
Tetiaroa Teriipaia, who had played his on-screen love in "Mutiny on the Bounty". The hotel operated for more than 25 years, even after Brando left French Polynesia to return to Los Angeles. Many hotel guests lamented the lack of amenities normally found at an island resort. In 1980, the famous maxi yacht S/Y "Condor of Bermuda" ran aground on the Onetahi reef, which caused it to be shipwrecked and written off by insurers. Purportedly, Brando and the owner of the yacht engaged in a brief bidding war for rights to the vessel’s polished mahogany hull (as reported by its owner in