Malahini Kuda Bandos

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Well-placed in the sports, beaches, romance area of near capital city Malé, Malahini Kuda Bandos Resort provides a most conducive spot for you to take a break from your busy days. From here, guests can enjoy easy access to all that the lively city has to offer. With its convenient location, the hotel offers easy access to the city’s must-see destinations.

Malahini Kuda Bandos Resort also offers many facilities to enrich your stay in the Maldives. The hotel provides free Wi-Fi in all rooms, 24-hour security, daily housekeeping, fax machine, gift/souvenir shop to ensure our guests the greatest comfort.

The ambiance of Malahini Kuda Bandos Resort is reflected in every guestroom. television LCD/plasma screen, complimentary instant coffee, complimentary tea, free welcome drink, linens are just some of the facilities that can be found throughout the property. The complete list of recreational facilities is available at the hotel, including boats, canoe, dart board, watersports equipment rentals, wind surfing. With an ideal location and facilities to match, Malahini Kuda Bandos Resort hits the spot in many ways.

Ranveli Village

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Located in South Ari Atoll in the Maldives — Ranveli Village is 35kms from Ibrahim Nasir International Airport (Malé), transfer to Ranveli from the airport is a journey of adventure. A 30 minute hop by seaplane to a landing platform jetty in the middle of the turquoise lagoon right in front of Ranveli and a leisurely boat ride on to Ranveli.

As you step off the seaplane the romance and adventure of Ranveli village will embrace you. Ranveli village is an idyllic island resort cocooned in unspoilt natural splendour, a quiet haven surrounded by pristine white sand, lush tropical vegetation and coral reefs flourishing beneath a warm crystalline sea.

Ellaidhoo Maldives by Cinnamon

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Housing one of the best diving reefs in the world, a school of a 100 giant jack fish come by the hotel decks each evening to be fed by the hotel staff. Ellaidhoo Maldives by Cinnamon, connects the marine life to the people on the island, a beautiful sense of symbiosis and possibly a guideline for how resort’s base for tourism.

Ellaidhoo’s dive site sits right off the hotel decks, so all you have to do is put on some diving gear or snorkels and jump into a reef so spectacular that you’re going to want to stay there until your tank runs out.

Located about 42km away from the capital and a quick 25-minute seaplane ride away, the Ellaidhoo Reef sits on the eastern fringe of North Ari Atoll – the largest of the 22 natural atolls that make up the Maldives. Abundantly lush, with shady palm trees and soft white sand, Ellaidhoo combines luxury living and star-class service with a family spirit and connection to mother earth. An award winning, Green Globe-certified resort, also holding ISO 12,000, 14,000 and 16,000 certifications. Ellaidhoo’s quaint interiors and curated trimming meet the island’s 100-year old island trees in a way that brings the best of every world into the palm of your hands.

Visit Ellaidhoo Maldives by Cinnamon, the turtle-shaped island and its underwater paradise.

All of the rooms at the Maldives beach resort are fitted with 4-star amenities, and have been designed to make you stop and take a moment to breathe in the fresh ocean air. Choose from standard and superior rooms to beach bungalows and dreamy water bungalows – they’re all a treat to experience. For mealtimes, explore some of the mouthwatering dishes at the resort’s main restaurant. If you’re staying at the water bungalows you have an even better treat – dining at your very own exclusive restaurant and bar.

Ellaidhoo’s values lie in the preservation of environment, and the efforts have been solidified by the Green Globe certification. The coral reefs this resort was named after are astounding here, and are home to some incredible underwater life. It’s no wonder that this calm little island is known as one of the top spots for divers in the Maldives. Settle into your room and get ready to dive in. Just ask resort’s diving centre about an excursion and let yourself go to the heart of the reef.

Bathala Island Resort

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Bathala is a pure and simple paradise for scuba divers and snorkellers alike. This Maldives resort boasts one of the best house reefs in the area frequented by a host of exciting marine life including grey reef sharks, nurse sharks, manta rays and eagle rays. There are six entry and exit points for direct access from the spectacular white sand beach. What’s more, there are more than 50 dive sites in the vicinity to explore. Start your day by diving with grey reef sharks on the house reef, exploring coral-encrusted caves and overhangs or taking a morning boat excursion to a fascinating thila or wreck.

If you’re already a certified diver the friendly Werner Lau Dive Centre team can kit you out with equipment and then you’re free to dive the house reef with your buddy at your leisure, or if you’re a novice you can learn to dive with us. Perhaps you want to expand your experience, skills and knowledge with a diving course, taking you to the next level of certification. Bathala offers a comprehensive range of SSI, CMAS and PADI courses for all levels, from beginners courses right up to divemaster level. There are also daily dive boat excursions to the incredible dive spots across Ari Atoll.

Bathala itself is a charming and lush tropical island, to which guests keep coming back year after year. This rustic resort harks back to the early days of tourism in the Maldives when adventurous travellers could revel in the natural beauty of their surroundings without the desire for the latest high-tech gadgets. Today as it was then, Bathala is an unfussy, laid-back, affordable retreat which offers excellent value for money.

Simple villas open out onto a powdery white sand beach and glorious turquoise vista. Within seconds you can be in the crystal clear water surrounded by shoals of reef fish, sharks and turtles.

 

Summer Island Maldives

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Summer Island Maldives is a truly beautiful, new ‘barefoot’ resort owned and managed by people from the Maldives. Truly the perfect Maldivian Barefoot Holiday.

A holiday at Summer is really a journey of discovery more than a holiday.

Take a seaplane to a fairytale lagoon and walk barefoot on fine sand the colour of icing sugar and feel it tickle your soles. Learn to navigate a coral reef and fulfil your Maldivian adventure with dolphins and turtles. Live in ocean villas suspended over jewelled waters or stay in land villas with sublime ocean views – the choice is yours. Feast on international cuisines touched with a hint of Maldivian flavour and unwind at the overwater spa with our classic offerings to knead your tension away.

Discover your destination playground at Summer Island Maldives where Summer never ends.

LUX* South Ari Atoll

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LUX* South Ari Atoll (formerly LUX* Maldives), a luxury resort in the Maldives made for peaceful off-the-grid retreats.

Dreamy atolls of tropical islands scattered across the Indian Ocean, the Maldives are a kaleidoscope of colours and earthly pleasures. Get away from it all at LUX* South Ari Atoll, the only settlement on the postcard-perfect island of Dhidhdhoofinolhu.

Fuss free and laid-back, the resort surprises with pop-up cinema screenings right on the beach, impromptu musical performances and strolls along secret pathways through the lush tropical gardens. Just steps from the thatch-roofed suites and ocean-perched villas, the island’s unspoilt beaches are yours to claim.

A prime spot for snorkelling and whale-shark spotting, the resort’s unblemished lagoon is a diver’s dreamworld. Back on land, island street food and fine dining await in the tempting restaurants and bars. In the shade of coconut palms, lounge by the two turquoise pools, luxuriate in the ocean-view spa and surrender to the charms of this castaway idyll.