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...
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...
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 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...
This ultra-chic resort is Angsana’s second Maldivian property and a welcome international brand in the southern atolls...
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 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 is a favourite with honeymooners and counts an enormous number of its guests as repeat visitors...
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...
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...
Soneva Gili is essentially Swiss Family Robinson meets Cond é Nast Traveller and we’re smitten...
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 is just across the water from its sister resort Banyan Tree, and characterises itself with an innovative management team who combine luxury with thought...
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 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 is certainly true to its name – located about as remotely as you can imagine in the Maldives’ most northerly atoll...
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 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)...
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, in the middle of Ari Atoll, is sleek and imaginative, a boutique luxury venture loaded with more cool than any other in the country...
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...
Adaaran Select Meedhupparu is the place to go to truly get away from it all...
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