Perfectly situated amid a beautiful turquoise lagoon, Komandoo Island with its superb sandy beaches is an immensely attractive tropical holiday destination. Spectacular sunsets, soft white beaches and an aquamarine lagoon with exciting diving combine to make Komandoo a popular island honeymoon destination. This is an intimately romantic getaway for two, where you can celebrate your love for each other…

Komandoo Island Resort offers excellent accommodation with beautiful 45 beach villas. Each villa has a private sun terrace that overlooks the soft powdery white sand and turquoise crystal clear waters of the Indian Ocean. Amenities includes partly open air bathroom equipped with hair dryer, air conditioning, safe, telephone, beach towel, CD player and coffee/tea maker.
 

Water sports are extremely popular in this island resort. Komandoo boasts world class scuba diving and a Pro Divers PADI five star dive facility with resident multilingual instructors. Apart from this one can also go for snorkeling, Canoeing, Beach Volley, Fishing, Excursion, Windsurfing, Catamaran Sailing and swimming.

Bandos Island Resort is a beautiful coral island covered with numerous palm trees, surrounded by a pearl white beach and the crystal clear waters of an azure lagoon. One of the larger Maldivian islands, located about 7km from Male International Airport, this resort offers great facilities for all ages. A holiday in Bandos would be fun-filled, relaxed and will have you wanting to come back again.

The resort is equipment by the modern amenities, ensuring that your stay is comfortable. The Bandos’ rooms are spacious designed, offering a wide range of amenities. Facilities available on Bandos are numerous – everything from child-care to sports complex with gymnasium and swimming pool. Also the resort hosts world-class restaurants that will offer you great many varieties of culinary options from a la carte to Indian to local cuisine and continental delicacies.

The Maldives is one of the most coral-rich regions of the world with over 70 species found here. The island owns one of the excellent house reefs, just meters away from the beach. There’s an excellent diving school providing a choice of dive excursions to explore this colorful marine life than to Scuba Dive or simply snorkel.

Kurumba is the first resort opened in the Maldives in 1972 and fully reconstruction in 2003 as a grand resort. The name is derived from the coconut trees that grow here. Kurumba Maldives offers a wide range of luxurious accommodation dotted throughout the island – 1 Royal Kurumba Residence, 4 Presidential Villas, 8 Pool Villas, 16 Private Villas, 74 Deluxe Bungalows, 39 Deluxe Rooms and 38 Superior Villas.

Kurumba Maldives is traditional in style and elegance, a unique holiday resort newly built to ancient Maldivian designs. The resort’s lovingly nurtured tropical gardens include an orchid nursery. Intimate white beaches are protected by eco-breakwaters of weathered coral. Watersports include windsurfing, sailing, snorkeling and a diving centre.

Kurumba Maldives offer Chinese, Mediterranean and the Indian restaurants, swimming pool, children’s pool, spa and fitness centre, table tennis and tennis courts, karaoke bar, lounge area with entertainment most evenings.

Official site –  http://www.kurumba.com/

This is a perfectly rounded island offers luxury resort with 99 beautifully designed guest villas surrounded by a beautiful coral reef. The private island spans the length of the island and is only accessible by boat. The resort also provides a full-service health spa, good ranges of dinning options and an outdoor pool. With white sandy beaches, clear water, and first-class facilities, Cinnamon Island Alidhoo is a must stay.

All the villas are designed in harmoniously with the environment. With tasteful interior design in traditional Maldivian style it features overlooking the panoramic views of the ocean. They also feature a connecting lounge area and an open veranda. The guests can choose from a wide range of activities, from adventurous to romantic – diving, snorkeling trips and etc.

 Credit cards accepted – Amex, DC, EC, JCB, Master, and Visa.

The resort features luxurious 30 thatched-roof villas, with spacious verandas nestled on the sand. Only15 minutes from Male International Airport by speedboat, here you find excellent sandy beaches, surrounded by turquoise clear water and tropical coconut palms. The wooden villas are built on stilts in the sea, providing the ultimate Ocean romance.

Luxurious villas are created with natural materials such as wood, stone and coconut thatch. Some have outside lavish bathrooms in private gardens. Guestrooms boast chic fashionable interiors, well appointed with modern facility that promotes perfect place for travelers that want a magnificent holiday location.

The Baros Resort provide various activities: scuba diving – PADI certified, snorkeling on the reef with marine life, seaplane photo flight, big game fishing, private cruise on a traditional Maldivian boats – dhoni with a own staff. Also are available over-water restaurants, fashionable bars and fitness center. You can experience a total relax at the Aquum Spa Center which offers a range of health and beauty treatments.

Also there are six luxuriously personified traditional Maldivian boats – Dhonis. These 65 ft handcrafted Maldivian yachts are with own crew. In-cabin entertainment includes 20” LCD televisions, Bose DVD players, air-conditioners and king-size beds. 

Resort Facilities:
- Thakuru – butler services. It is all yours from the moment you alight from your intercontinental jet, until you return.
- Dining – be it on your private Dhoni or a secluded spot on the beach and enjoy with exotic dishes, freshly prepared at any time of day or night
- Spa – The Aquum Spa offers treatments to satisfy body, mind and soul
- Diving – PADI certified
- Water sports center including kayaking, sailing, canoeing, windsurfing and snorkeling
- 65ft Luxury Cruiser
- Catamaran Sailing
- Beach Volley
- Private excursions – including night fishing, deserted island snorkeling

Huvafen Fushi Resort is the world’s only underwater resort reopened after a basic refurbishment. The underwater spa, which constitutes part of the elegant Huvafen Fushi resort, consists two double treatment rooms and a separate relaxation area with breathtaking views under the Indian Ocean.

This is the most sensory appealing spa in the world. Guests enter the underwater spa along a passageway lit with colour-change lights in the ceiling to enhance the overall sensory experience. Inside, the walls allow the space to be opened up to make the most of the spectacular views or closed to create a more intimate space for treatments.

The transformation also includes lifting the interior wall colour from a light wood to a double curvature organic form. The resort offers 43 naturally modern rooms located both on the beach and on stilts over the Indian Ocean.

Looked the horizon and imagine that you are walking on it and it is quietly spilling and under your feet are shining wonderful colors – like a treasure hidden in the depths of the sea. Suddenly worm like a star shine sand takes you along the lines of almost invisible shores to the lake blue lagoons. These are the heavenly coral gardens of 1190 ths islands of the Maldivies and the horizon there is sensual like an ice crystal in a cocktail glass.

Anantara Maldives is located on the South Male Atoll and is spread over the two islands of Dhigufinolhu and Bodu Huraa. Private villas with an expansive deck or your own stretch of pristine beach. Over-water bungalows with a traditional Maldivian flair. The fantasy of a luxurious, private sanctuary in the tropics comes true at Anantara Resort Maldives.

Anantara Maldives is a five-star boutique hotel located on the South Male Atoll and it is the newest in the small chain of luxury Anantara resorts. The resort has 68 beach front villas, two beach front pool villas and 38 deluxe over-water suites and two deluxe over-water pool suites around a private lagoon.

Facilities: championship tennis court, beach front swimming pool, Anantara spa, high-speed internet-equipped computers, infinity pool, gym and fitness center – fully equipped, yoga classes, water sports, cooking classes, snorkeling, excursions to neighboring islands or visit the Maldives capital, private island picnics, scenic flights, deep sea game or sport fishing. Other amenities include the Anantara Spa which offers Ayurvedic and Indian mud therapies. Seven-night packages start at $2,300.

Let the beauty of Anantara touch you…in the Maldives.

The 26 natural atolls, which make up the Maldives, contain some 1200 coral islands, infinite sandbanks and reefs that stretch 820 kilometers across the equator from North to South, and 120 kilometers East to West. Covering a total area of 90,000 square kilometers in the Indian Ocean, only 200 of these islands is inhabited, while an additional 90 have been converted into resorts.

One & Only Kanuhura, Maldives, opened in February 2000, is a luxurious five star hotel, offering the highest standard of accommodation, service and culinary experience. Accommodation is in villas either on the island’s coral sand fringe or in a little village on stilts at the end of a wooden pier. Close by are some of the world’s best diving sites, with the outer reef dropping down nearly two thousand metres. Only one third of the island surface has been used for buildings, leaving a feel of spaciousness and tropical slendour. Kanuhura offers a choice of pure relaxation, or for the more sports oriented, an active holiday experience. It is home to the largest state of the art spa in the Maldives, the first disco and an excellent kids club, along with some of the world’s best diving, as the outer reef here drops to 2000m.

On a kilometre-long island on the eastern of the Lhaviyani atoll, this attractive luxury hotel dedicates itself to offering a very high standard of beach and Overwater villa and suite accommodation – all in a relaxing environment where the skilful use of local water sports and spa facilities are the ingredients of a very special welcome and hospitality. The island is blessed with white powder beaches, coconut and palm trees, and crystal clear turquoise waters of the Indian Ocean. To ensure that every guest is made to feel extra special, personal villa hosts are assigned to cater to all their needs.

108 Garden, Beach and water Villas, 5 Beach Duplex Villas, 2 Beach Suites and 2 water Suites – all offering very spacious accommodation. The pretty villas and suites blend in with their natural surroundings, so as not to detract from the riot of tropical colour, with thatched roofs and private gardens outside and rich dark wooden furniture and stone baths within. They use natural materials throughout, are appointed with quality timber furniture, and feature air-conditioning, four poster bed, private verandah, natural stone free-shaped bathtub (shower in Garden Villas). Outdoor shower deliver an extra touch of the tropics, some with the water spilling from the mouth of a quirky carved stone effigy, minibar, television and CD player, stereo system and safe. Duplex Villas consist of two villas joined together with a private garden – ideal for families. Families can share two connecting villas for maximum space and luxury. Strung out on a wooden jetty in the lagoon like a little village are the Water Villas, set over the water on stilts, where you fall asleep each night to the ocean’s own lullaby.
The Resort has a large fresh water swimming pool, volleyball area, 2 floodlit tennis courts, an air-conditioned squash court, table tennis, and games room, library, and a lifestyle boutique. A tennis/squash instructor is available as a playing partner or for coaching sessions. Guests can also enjoy darts, table soccer and billiards in the games room, or just relax with a cozy read in the library. The Lava Lounge has state-of-the-art audio and visual equipment, which makes the room ideal for karaoke, conferences and presentations. Music and video CDs are also available at reception for in-villa use.
The resort of Kanuhura boasts the Maldives biggest spa “Veyoge Spa” – pronounced “vay-yo-gay”, which means “Bath House for Royalty” in Dhivehi (the national language).
A diverse range of treatments, and a comprehensive array of facilities within beautifully designed wooden interiors, provide guests with a sanctuary for relaxation and overall body care. Offering a complete selection of treatments, such as aromatherapy, reflexology, Thai and Indonesian massages, herbal scrubs, facial & hair treatments, steam sauna, dry sauna, hot and cold plunge pools. Signature massages like the Manawa and Maldivian Theyo Dhemun is a “must-try”. In addition, the Spa’s beauty salon features the famous Bastien’s pedicure from France. The spa also has a fully equipped fitness centre, aerobics studio, spa boutique, and separate steam bath, dry sauna, cold plunge pools, and Jacuzzis, for ladies and gentlemen.
Sun Dive Center – Lhaviyani Atoll is known for its stunning underwater fauna and marine life, offering some of the best diving sites in the world. Over 40 dive sites, including 2 shipwrecks and a manta point are accessible within minutes from the Resort. The PADI
Gold Palm certified dive centre offers newcomers a first-class introduction to diving and unique excursions for experienced divers. Nitrox diving is also available.

Thin Rah main restaurant with themed menus. Olive tree a la carte Mediterranean restaurant specialising in fresh pasta and offers Mediterranean cuisine and a wide selection of fine wines, grilled seafood and steaks. Classic tropical island dinning by the sea at Beachfront Veli Cafe for lunch barbecue dinner (Halfboard guests receive daily US$30 dinner credit). On private, “Robinson Crusoe” island Jehunhura, provides al fresco lunch with your feet in the sand. Enjoy cool drinks, cocktails and snacks all day at the Handuvaru bar. At night indulge in your favourite cocktail; enjoy soft music entertainment, liqueurs and cigars at the Havana Lounge with piano music and fine wines. Or dance the night away at the discreetly sited Nashaa Club.

The island setting is breathtaking and provides a beautiful, tropical backdrop for a world of easygoing elegance, blissfully free of schedules, routines and cares. One & Only Kanuhura is possibly one of the most romantic settings in the world. Resort Weddings coordinators are at hand to make arrangements specific to the couple’s requests and preferences. It should be noted that this is a ceremonial, rather than legal wedding: couples exchange vows in front of a Maldivian master of ceremonies and celebrate with the feast of their choice.

Tropical in climate with two significant seasons – the north-east monsoon (from December to March) is light and fairly dry, while the south-west monsoon (from June to November) occasionally brings brief downpours followed by sunshine. Prices from £1,788 per person…

Located in the South Ari Atoll, the Hilton Maldives Resort & Spa is a luxurious resort spread over 2 islands, 95 kms from Male airport the transfer is an approximately 30 minute scenic flight by seaplane. A resort within the resort, the Spa Retreat has its own reception and a spa with 9 treatment pavilions (5 with private steam room, sauna and jet bath).

The ultimate romantic spa getaway includes a luxurious stay for two in a Spa Water Villa, daily breakfast, one 55 minute massage per villa per day, one 30 minute session in a private steam and sauna pavilion, one fitness activity class (Yoga, Pilates etc.) per person per stay, free snorkeling equipment and non-motorised water sports, Lifestyle and wellness consultation and one freshly blended spa juice per person per day.

Hilton Maldives Resort & Spa offers you full list of the following activites:

* Beach
* Jet Skiing
* Jogging Track
* Paddle Tennis Table
* Pool
* Pool Table
* Sailing
* Scuba Diving
* Sight Seeing Tours
* Snorkeling
* Tennis Court
* Water Skiing
* Glass bottom boat and canoes
* Windsurfing

I can say that after the diving with this little boaty here

watching amazing marine life, it will be real pleasure to have a dinner in Ithaa Undersea restaurant. At 16 feet below sea level in this unique underwater restaurant you see a marvel at 360 views of reef and marine life, sip champagne cocktails and sample Maldivian-Western fusion cuisine. world’s only aquarium-style restaurant will surprise you for sure.

I don’t want to leave aside the other facilities, which Hilton Maldives Resort & Spa offers you : the Atoll Market restaurant, Koko Grill restaurant, Mandhoo Spa restaurant, Sunset Bar and Grill, The Wine Cellar, Vilu Restaurant, Rangali Bar, Vilu Bar and The Wine Bar. I will be happy to mention them in future with my own impressions.

Google Earth Placemark – Maldives