Budget Hotels & Hostels
Guesthouses and B&Bs
Baros Maldives
Understated, sophisticated class jumps out at you from the moment you arrive at Baros, the jewel in the crown of Universal Resorts, one of the country’s largest resort groups...
Veligandu Island Resort
A charming island fringed with white beaches and featuring a huge 80m sandbank at one end, Veligandu is a great midrange option now that it’s undergone a full refit, with attractive and stylish rooms for this price range that run fr...
Chaaya Reef Ellaidhoo
Chaaya Reef Ellaidhoo has a reputation as the most hard-core diving destination in the Maldives, with over 100 dive sites within a half-day trip, making it one of the top choices in the country for keen divers...
Aw Dhiggiri Sea Club All Inclusive
Dhiggiri caters largely to the Italian market and so its general style is that of an all-inclusive resort, with all guests on packages that include activities, a couple of excursions, all meals, drinks and nonmotorised water sports...
Angsana Velavaru
This ultra-chic resort is Angsana’s second Maldivian property and a welcome international brand in the southern atolls...
Kuredu Island Resort
Kuredu Island Resort is about as close as you can get to a resort city in the Maldives – this truly is the resort that has everything, and people will love it or loathe it in equal measure for this very reason...
Vilamendhoo Island Resort & Spa
Vilamendhoo is a very lush, well-vegetated island that still has some sense of space. The beaches are narrow around most of the island, but there’s a big sandy area at one end, or both ends, depending on the season...
Coco Palm Dhuni Kolhu
Coco Palm Dhuni Kolhu is a favourite with honeymooners and counts an enormous number of its guests as repeat visitors...
Conrad Maldives Rangali Island
Sumptuous barefoot luxury is the name of the game at the Conrad Maldives Rangali Island, the Hilton Group’s long-standing Maldivian resort, which was rebranded into a Conrad, one of the groups most exclusive brands, in 2007...
Sheraton Maldives Full Moon Resort & Spa
Magnificently laid out with real style and class, Sheraton Maldives Full Moon Resort & Spa has the ambience of an upmarket country club rather than a remote tropical island...
Gili Lankanfushi Maldives
Soneva Gili is essentially Swiss Family Robinson meets Cond é Nast Traveller and we’re smitten...
Coco Bodu Hithi
Rejuvenated in a post-tsunami refit, Coco Palm Boduhithi is now right up there with the big names of the Maldivian luxury market...
Angsana Ihuru
Angsana Ihuru is just across the water from its sister resort Banyan Tree, and characterises itself with an innovative management team who combine luxury with thought...
Soneva Fushi
Rightly one of the most famous resorts in the country, eco-fabulous Soneva Fushi is a place to get back to nature in some serious style...
One&Only Reethi Rah
One & Only Reethi Rah is still a king of the Maldivian resorts. There may be plenty of resorts that cost more, but none have surpassed this extraordinary place, which remains the most famous and gossiped about in the country...
Island Hideaway Resort And Spa
Island Hideaway is certainly true to its name – located about as remotely as you can imagine in the Maldives’ most northerly atoll...
Taj Exotica Resort And Spa
Taj Exotica was the only Taj resort functioning in the Maldives at the time of writing as the Taj Coral Reef was being transformed during a luxury refit. This elegant, understated resort is all about quiet luxury and indulgence...
Banyan Tree Madivaru
Banyan Tree Madivaru is the exciting second venture for the famous luxury chain in the Maldives (its first resort in North Male’ Atoll is one of the best in the country)...
Kurumba Maldives
Established in 1972, Kurumba Maldives was the first resort in the country. It was completely refurbished in 2003 and reopened as a very high-quality place with a relative sense of history...
W Retreat & Spa Maldives
W Retreat & Spa, in the middle of Ari Atoll, is sleek and imaginative, a boutique luxury venture loaded with more cool than any other in the country...
Bandos Island Resort & Spa
One of the largest resorts in the country, Bandos Island Resort has developed and expanded enormously since it opened as the second resort in the Maldives in 1972...
Chaaya Lagoon Hakuraa Huraa All Inclusive
Chaaya Lagoon Hakuraa Huraa, which reopened in 2005 after a post-tsunami refit, is now a well-designed resort combining romance and water sports...
Adaaran Select Hudhuran Fushi All Inclusive
Adaaran Select Meedhupparu is the place to go to truly get away from it all...