The Maldives is an archipelago comprising approximately 1,200 coral islands in the Indian Ocean, stretching 750 km from north to south. The archipelago can be divided into three parts: northern, central, and southern, each with its own advantages. The concept of Maldivian resorts is “one island — one hotel.”
The travel time to the hotel and the mode of transfer depend on the distance from the international airport. The Maldives has more than a hundred hotels, each with its unique feature. The most expensive hotels in the Maldives are the perfect blend of luxury, style, and seclusion. Surrounded by beautiful lagoons, magnificent house reefs, and long white sandy beaches, they are designed to win the hearts of even the most demanding tourists from all over the world.
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Soneva Jani 5*
The concept of “no shoes” and utmost care for all living things is the hallmark of this resort. Numerous moving shells on the white sand, home to adorable crabs, cycling on the long island among mangrove forests filled with other beautiful large crabs and flying foxes.
A pleasant illusion that you are alone on the island because it is big, and you can get lost. Superb villas, like eco-palaces in wood, with personal pools on the water. The bedroom has an open roof, allowing you to fall asleep under the open sky.
Ideal breakfasts/lunches/dinners for every taste, a beachside restaurant, and a skilled chef. Sometimes, you might want to skip dinner at the restaurant, just to stay in your villa, order delicious Indian paneer, and dine on the terrace with a sunset view.
Activities include snorkeling, kayaking, tube riding, and beach parties. For relaxation, there’s an amazing spa.
In two words — a paradise corner. Those who say it’s boring in the Maldives probably haven’t been to this place.
Kudadoo Maldives Private Island 5*
Located on the magnificent private coral island of Kudadoo, covering 30,000 square meters, this retreat offers perhaps the best service imaginable. A personal butler is available round the clock to fulfill any guest’s whim. The crowd is mostly foreign and decent.
Luxurious villas impress with their design (in Japanese style), cleanliness, and meticulous attention to detail. Each has a large bathroom with a tub and shower, and a makeup table. You can swim not only in the aquamarine-colored ocean but also in the island’s pool.
Meals are organized on an all-inclusive basis, with no limit on the number of dishes. You can dine right on the beach or on your private terrace. There is a private wine cellar with a selection of premium wines, a cheese room, and a bar.
Guests enjoy ordering relaxing and cleansing spa treatments and various types of massages. Activities include personal diving and other water sports with an instructor, diverse and amazing excursions, yoga, and meditation. There is a playroom for children.
This place is a sanctuary of tranquility for those seeking luxurious rest, complemented by a constant feeling of seclusion.
Heritance Aarah 5*
This option can surpass even the wildest expectations. The island is lush with greenery, the water is azure and clear. White sand with a perfect beach. Any wish or even a personal request is fulfilled by a personal butler within 10 minutes.
In the beach villas, the bar is replenished daily: wine, champagne, vodka, gin, beer, cola, sprite, and more. Comfortable beds, a workspace, robes, a safe, a beach bag. Shampoo, hair conditioner, shower gel, body lotions, creams — all luxury brands and unlimited.
Meals are on a premium all-inclusive basis. For adults, there is a huge selection of dishes from all nationalities: grilled fish, beef, shrimp, baked duck, chicken, Thai dishes, Italian, international. A huge selection of cheeses and sausages. If you ask, the chef will cook something special for you, as is customary here. Excellent signature cocktails, both alcoholic and non-alcoholic. There is a wonderful children’s menu, and the kids are happy.
Guests highly praise the Spa and Balinese massage. For children, there’s a large building with an outdoor playground, creative circles, and English-speaking nannies. The most wonderful thing, of course, is the views. The ocean, where it’s pleasant to have a cup of coffee in the morning or a glass of champagne in the afternoon. Turtles, sharks, and rays swim by.
The perfect combination of luxury, style, and seclusion.
Kuda Villingili Resort Maldives 5*
A new place, so everything is very modern and stylish. A large luxurious pool with a bar and hydromassage is located in the center of the island, which is situated in the Indian Ocean, 30 minutes from Male airport (transported on a comfortable yacht with Wi-Fi).
The villas are simply huge, and the staff is attentive and looks after the children. For kids, there is a play club, and a library. Above the library is a chic cigar lounge. Lunch for the entire island is held in a restaurant with a varied menu. You can order food and drinks to your room. The villas are equipped with everything necessary, including hydromassage baths.
Guests have access to a spa area and a modern fitness center. In their free time, guests can play billiards, table tennis, and darts. Cycling and canoeing are popular in the surrounding area. Here, you will rethink your attitude towards time, swimming with manta rays or turtles and enjoying barbecue on secluded sandbars.
JOALI, Maldives 5*
This is not just a beautiful island, but an open-air modern art museum with incredible and stylish designs. It has its own plane and a pleasant lounge at the airport. The meeting at the pier is very quick, followed by a tour of the island accompanied by a personal butler. The highest service, friendliness, and kindness of the team and administration. Every day, guests are surprised with various gifts and compliments, especially appreciated by the children.
Guests are fed in four restaurants. They say the Japanese one is impeccable in terms of both dishes and presentation. On Fridays, there is a seafood BBQ buffet. A separate menu for children is provided, so there is always something to choose from for both lunch and dinner. By the way, children under 6 eat for free.
There is also a play club, well-located in the shade, with a pool and indoor areas. Activities include yoga programs, a good gym, and a game center where you can play not only PlayStation but also billiards or table football. In the center of the island, there are a football field and a tennis court.
Those who have been here dream of returning again.
Soneva Fushi 5*
A luxurious option for accommodation, located on one of the largest islands of the Maldives archipelago. There is a private business lounge at Male airport. The island is very green, with tall trees. It creates the impression that you can get lost. If you move around by bike, you can see not only a large number of birds but also rabbits that live here carefreely.
The design of all the buildings on the territory is amazing. It’s like a paradise in a rustic style. The concept is aimed at minimizing the impact of human amenities on nature. The paths are clean, surrounded by pristine greenery. The food is gorgeous. The island has its greenhouses, and a lot of greens and vegetables are grown by themselves. The tree restaurant is highly praised — an unusual atmosphere.
For a holiday with children, the conditions are also excellent. There is a children’s complex, which includes a Lego room, a cinema, and a music room. Many activities for children. Excellent attentive educators, there are two pools and a slide. Children dress up and play musical instruments.
The beach is next to the villa. The entrance to the water is excellent. There are a lot of fish to see without swimming far. Staying here, you will not be able to leave without a lot of pleasant impressions.
One&Only Reethi Rah 5*
This is an ideal place to come with children because the island is large and the infrastructure allows it. If you are set for a romantic getaway and seclusion, it is better to look for another option. Soft white sand, well-groomed green territory, a clean beach, an entry into the ocean, and some special incredible energy of this place captivate you at first sight.
It’s just paradise for kids. In the KidsOnly club, everything is at the highest level, games and quests are constantly held, inflatable slides in the water, clay modeling, and cup painting.
The food is very high quality, with a lot of different exotic fruits, and a varied children’s menu. A very good selection of wines. The sommelier will always advise which wine to try. The “Tapasake” restaurant has the best cuisine on the island. The pasta with seafood and crab ravioli in the Italian restaurant are especially good. Live music in the bar in the evening.
An incredibly cozy and professional SPA with therapists who master different massage techniques. Spacious villas are located far from each other, creating a feeling of complete privacy. Beach slippers, a bag — free for personal use forever.
The quality of bed linen and towels is top-notch. Each villa has bicycles, you can ride around the island, yoga classes are held. Absolute feeling of carefree rest and complete reboot.
Four Seasons Resort Maldives at Landaa Giraavaru 5*
An amazing place with impeccable and extraordinarily friendly service. There are very interesting eco-programs, a beautiful white sandy beach, and a living reef. The villas are spacious and surrounded by jungles.
There is special treatment for kids here. In the kids club, they not only play with them but also teach them the basics of the English language.
The food in the restaurants is very tasty, with varied cuisine, interesting themed dinners, and the ability to get a doctor’s consultation at the beginning of the holiday and combine the pleasant with the useful — rest and eat according to an individual menu. This is just for those who do not want to bring extra pounds from vacation but, on the contrary, dream of getting slimmer and healthier.
The SPA area has very interesting rituals. Particularly good is the Ayurvedic massage, which is performed synchronously by two masseurs.
There are enough entertainments. You can rent a yacht for half a day and go snorkeling with turtles, observing a large number of dolphins along the way. There are individual and group trips to the natural habitat of manta rays — amazing and absolutely harmless creatures, swimming with which causes unforgettable emotions.
The St. Regis Maldives Vommuli Resort 5*
Incredible sunsets, gentle sun, warm ocean, private lagoon, spa with hydromassage and panoramic views, luxurious infinity pool are waiting for you on this wonderful island.
The villas are magnificent, equipped with everything necessary — a coffee machine, robes, slippers, cosmetics, even sunscreen SPF 30 (very good) and aloe vera gel. All management, namely turning off the light, opening curtains, turning on, off, and rotating the TV, ordering food to the room, is controlled by an iPad, which is in every room. Cleaning is twice a day, very high quality, and unobtrusive.
Restaurants (six to choose from) are stylish and comfortable. The cuisine does not get boring, as the menu combines Italian, Indian, Chinese, and Japanese food. There is a chic bar with a sunset view.
There are many entertainments on the island: diving, snorkeling, fishing, jet skiing, etc. In general, all conditions are met for both a peaceful and active holiday. The dive center deserves special attention. The equipment and the approach of the instructors to diving make you love diving even more.
If you are looking for an ideal option for a holiday in the Maldives, pay attention to this place, it is highly praised.
Amilla Maldives Resort & Residences 5*
Offers vacationers a choice of 60 water and beach villas located over the aquamarine water among lush greenery and a magnificent living house reef with rays, turtles, and many fish.
You can dine in a luxury Japanese restaurant, an Indian restaurant, a beachside gastronomic cafe, drink exquisite wines, and try cheeses in the restaurant next to the kids club. Breakfasts feature a wide selection of fermented and gluten-free products, with great attention paid to healthy eating.
Very attentive and hospitable staff, a rich daytime program, evening cocktails, and events. Everything is at a decent level. The managers are always among the vacationers, hospitable and caring. The spa salon, cozily located in the shade of a banyan, has several treatment rooms. The yoga hall is arranged in a very beautiful place over the water.
In general, every detail is thought out to the smallest detail. Two weeks before the holiday, the administration sends out questionnaires with wishes regarding food (allergens, diet, etc.), air temperature in the villa, robe and slipper size, pillow filler. They are always one step ahead, and you don’t have to ask for anything. This place is definitely worth visiting for those who appreciate the highest level of service.
Ozen Reserve Bolifushi 5*
Great location, 30 minutes from the airport by a comfortable boat, and you are in paradise. The island indeed resembles paradise. Everything here is conducive to a pleasant and relaxing time. The hotel staff is very friendly and attentive to any requests.
Around is a rich house reef where you can enjoy snorkeling at your leisure. The evening feeding of rays is something special, moray eels come to feast, and big black fish are the stars of this program. By the way, water rescuers patrol the perimeter of the entire island, which is important.
Special attention should be given to the size of the villas and pools — huge villas and pools. The territory is also large and very green, you can move around both on foot and by bicycles attached to your villa. There is even a trailer for children.
Meals are all-inclusive, and include really high-quality drinks and excellent food. Any freshly squeezed juices are made to order without any problems. Many good fruits and local fish, meat, and seafood. All confectionery products are made using Belgian chocolate.
Many who come here more than once consider it the best place for true connoisseurs of service, delicious food, and luxurious villas.
The Nautilus Maldives 5*
The villas, both water, and beach, are well-equipped, the space is thought out to the smallest detail, with excellent cosmetics, and the air conditioners work evenly without blowing you off the bed. A personal butler takes care of everything. Such service is hard to find: the general manager lives the life of the guests, greets them upon meeting, asks in the restaurant if they are satisfied with the food, if they are happy, and this is priceless.
At 6:00 PM in the main bar, free cocktails and snacks are served, live music plays, and everyone tries to please you because you are a welcome guest here, and this is sincere. You can have breakfast whenever you want. Have you ever had to rush to the restaurant 15-20 minutes before it closes, unwashed and sleepy, to avoid staying hungry?
Forget about it, and eat whenever you want. For dinner, all three restaurants always work, regardless of how many villas are occupied. They can even set a table on the beach with lanterns — it’s unforgettable. There’s nothing to complain about — a daily fruit basket (mango, mangosteen, etc.), free laundry, pastries before bed for pleasant dreams, and French champagne that you can drink in your pool with a star mosaic, looking at the stars in the sky. The devil is in the details, and they have succeeded in this.
The Ritz-Carlton Maldives, Fari Islands 5*
Another new place for a holiday in paradise is located on the island of Baa, which has the status of a reserve. Very atmospheric: modern design, luxurious huge, and thoughtfully designed villas with their descent into the ocean.
The team is very coordinated, and nature presents amazing gifts every day: you can see and photograph unforgettable landscapes with exotic birds and marine animals. The food is quite typical for the Maldives, but if you ask the chef to cook for you separately, it will be a real gastronomic masterpiece.
There are enough entertainments: a children’s play club with educators, a tennis court, yoga and meditation classes, the main bar with a DJ and live music, there is a SPA area with massage programs, and a gym equipped with the latest technology. A wonderful place for a family holiday.
Anantara Kihavah Maldives Villas 5*
An incredibly beautiful island with magnificent tropical nature, white sandy beaches, and blue pools. There are many activities: a star observatory (show various constellations, the moon very close (children are especially impressed), a large kids club with educators-animators, a trampoline center, various master classes, a sandbox with many toys, a children’s town with slides and swings and water fountains, tennis, diving, bicycles, a pool party with large inflatable circles.
A special joy is bicycles with children’s seats: you put the baby in and ride around the island, stopping by the plantation where they grow greens for the restaurants and treat you with local nightshade, basil, mint, rosemary — the scents are indescribable.
The villa design is typically Maldivian, with a small pool and wooden floor. Guests dine in several restaurants with different cuisines and themed dinners. Guests are especially delighted with the underwater restaurant — unforgettable impressions.
Waldorf Astoria Maldives Ithaafushi 5*
Everything is perfect here: the staff who meet from the airport on a luxurious yacht and make your entire stay comfortable, a personal cleaning manager who, in addition to impeccable twice-daily cleaning, fills the bathtub daily, offering an incredible view.
The territory is large and green. A compact but convenient gym with various types of training, a volleyball court, a magnificent spa center with hydrotherapy. A beautiful reef near the diving center, where you can meet turtles, sharks, rays, many bright fish, and even dolphins. Fresh fruits are always in the room.
Evening entertainment includes beach parties and live music in the lobby. The restaurants are luxurious. Simply impeccable. The kids club is excellent, with good toys, dancing, cooking activities, a trampoline, swings, a mini-waterpark twice a day.
For older children, there is a schedule of activities. Dining is in several restaurants and very decent. The asparagus cream soup, shrimp risotto, and Angus steak in the Glow restaurant are especially praised. Overall, an amazing place for a family holiday.