Best hotels in the Maldives 2022: Where to stay for luxury, private beaches and relaxation

You’ve determined to splurge on a dream journey to the Maldives. Now comes the onerous half – deciding the place to remain. With the whole variety of resorts anticipated to succeed in 179 by the top of 2022 and a head-spinning selection of various vibes and types – far-flung castaway piles, laid-back fly and flops, lavish seashore palaces, design-driven spa retreats, romantic hideaways – selecting the place to remain has by no means been tougher. Right here, we’ve helped to slender it down.

The most effective inns within the Maldives are:

Neighbourhood: Raa Atoll

The primary luxurious island resort within the Maldives totally devoted to wellness is ready within the ravishing Raa Atoll, a 30-minute seaplane experience from the capital Malè. The biophilic (nature-inspired) design soothes the soul from the second you go by the Gate of Zero welcome pavilion, sculpted by Turkish artist Seçkin Pirim. It encourages company to reset and take full benefit of the resort’s ‘transformational areas’, which embrace a hive of hydrotherapy amenities – watsu, banya, hammam – sound discovery paths, cryotherapy chambers which burn 800 energy in three minutes, yoga studios, meditation pavilions and a herbology centre.

Worth: Doubles from US$2,142 (£1,699)

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Neighbourhood: Laamu Atoll

The one luxurious resort within the secluded southern Laamu Atoll, situated simply 5 levels north of the equator, Six Senses feels about as far-off from the surface world as you may get. The design faucets into the castaway setting, with company arriving at a fantastical triple-storey timber, bamboo and driftwood hub housing eating places and bars that open to the weather and have glass-panels within the ground to observe the fish swishing beneath. Villas are equally adventurous, all bleached woods, multi-level decks and netted beds. The encompassing reefs are stuffed with wondrous marine life and just about no different vacationers. Go to between Could and August to witness child turtles hatching on the seashore.

Worth: Doubles from US$1,072 (£824)

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Neighbourhood: North Malé Atoll

Jumeirah Maldives’ bright-white artwork deco-inspired structure splashed with pops of cerise pink brings the appear and feel of Miami’s South Seashore to the North Malé Atoll (a 50-minute speedboat experience from the capital). The villas are a few of the largest within the Maldives, with round dwelling rooms, personal rooftops (excellent for stargazing), rambling loos and personal swimming pools large enough to swim in. The meals is persistently wonderful, the bars buzzy and there’s no finish of issues to do, from dawn yoga, to jet-skiing to the sting of the atoll to hang around with bottlenose dolphins, to using a yellow submarine to photoshoots with an expert photographer.

Worth: Doubles from US$1,300 (£1,034)

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Neighbourhood: North Malé Atoll

You’ll shortly flatten your battery snapping the placing tropical modernist structure and arty interiors at this trendy new resort, situated a 45-minute speedboat experience from Malé. There’s loads of substance too; a museum-worthy artwork assortment with a James Turrell gentle set up the star of the present; plant-based, Japanese-Nordic and South American eating places worthy of any main metropolis; a deep-reaching spa; and an ocean conservation programme. A part of the man-made Fari Islands complicated (alongside the Ritz-Carlton and Capella), company also can benefit from shared amenities which embrace yacht docks and a seashore membership.

Worth: Doubles from US$1,990 (£1,585)

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Neighbourhood: Gaafu Alifu Atoll

A 55-minute home flight (somewhat than a seaplane journey) from Malé, this reasonably priced five-star resort has a location that its ultra-luxury resort counterparts would kill for. Unfold throughout a jungly 2km-long island flanked by pure white sands and linked to a sister island through a kilometre-long picket bridge, company flit from breakfast to the infinity pool to the spa and eating places by bicycle, alongside the way in which recognizing a large number of inexperienced sea turtles which bob round simply off shore. And whereas the room design isn’t going to explode Instagram, all are extraordinarily spacious with huge comfy beds and enormous personal swimming swimming pools.

Worth: Doubles from US$525 (£415)

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Neighbourhood: Shaviyani Atoll

This implausible all-rounder set on a whale-shaped island situated inside an atoll teeming with megafauna – manta rays, eagle rays, marble stingrays, sea turtles, reef sharks – is one for water infants. Apart from sensational snorkelling, diving and deep sea fishing, company also can swim contained in the resort’s chrome steel coralarium, the one underwater sculpture gallery within the Maldives, and do laps within the 100m-long swimming pool. The Willow Spa, too, focuses on water, with a separate serenity swimming pool and yoga pavilions overlooking the Indian Ocean. The grand water sundown villas are the rooms to bag.

Worth: Doubles from US$1,098 (£900)

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Neighbourhood: Baa Atoll

The unique Maldivian barefoot luxurious resort is situated within the coronary heart of the Baa Atoll, the place Sir David Attenborough got here to movie the world’s largest aggregation of manta rays for the Blue Planet II. If you wish to swim with the aqua-giants, go to between June and November. In any other case, swing by for the large, stunning back-to-nature villas; the impressed eating – looking for visiting Michelin cooks; and singular experiences, from spending the evening alone on a sandbank, to staring on the Rings of Saturn on the observatory, to a well being reset on the new Soneva Soul Spa, which mixes historic therapeutic practices with vitamin IV infusion and hyperbaric chambers.

Worth: Doubles from US$1,735 (£1,375)

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Neighbourhood: South Malé Atoll

For the final word fly and flop look no additional than COMO Cocoa Island. Positioned an easy-breezy 40-minute speedboat experience from the airport, with broad champagne-gold seashores and simply 33 overwater villas, the island exudes tranquility. Begin your day with a protracted lazy breakfast, adopted by a protracted lazy lunch, maybe a dip within the bath-warm Indian Ocean earlier than whiling away the afternoon underneath a palm tree studying a e book. For a change of scene, there’s the great Como Shambala Spa, the place you may drop into day by day complimentary wellness courses, use the hydrotherapy amenities at no cost or e book a signature ylang-ylang scented therapeutic massage.

Worth: Doubles from US$1,130 (£899)

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Neighbourhood: Alifu Dhaalu Atoll

The Conrad Rangali hit the headlines in 2018 with the opening of The Muraka, a Bond-worthy three-bedroom overwater residence with a mesmerising underwater master bedroom. However this resort has bought loads extra going for it. Between the 2 massive pure islands (one for socialising and one for hiding away) there are 12 top-notch eating places, together with Ithaa, which is underwater, and Mandhoo, which serves scrumptious spa delicacies, in addition to two swimming swimming pools, an overwater spa and dive centre the place you may e book journeys to swim with 7m-long adolescent whale sharks that congregate close by.

Worth: Doubles from $560 (£405)

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Neighbourhood: Baa Atoll

Pack your greatest kaftan for a keep at this hip resort, a 30-minute seaplane journey from Malé within the Baa Atoll Unesco Biosphere Reserve. The big modern villas had been designed for lingering in, with massive dwelling rooms, huge soaking tubs, loads of out of doors area and personal swimming pools. However drag your self away and also you’ll discover a host of fantastic cafes and eating places, a tip-top spa and loads of free actions to maintain you busy – yoga, meditation, artwork courses, kombucha-making, soccer academy, hula-hooping, DJ-ing and snorkel excursions inside a singular blue gap formation discovered on the home reef.

Worth: Doubles from US$825 (£653)

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