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Maldives Resorts Guide for Luxury Resorts : 7 Best

Maldives Resorts Guide to the 7 Best Luxury Resorts

Even at the very top end of the market, the best luxury Maldives holidays are to be had in resorts that perfectly blend what the Maldives itself has to offer with the finest creature comforts the rest of the world has to offer. A few of the luxury Maldives resorts provide a rich and beautiful built environment that somehow removes the guest from the wonderful natural environment. It is as if the amazing view through the room's floor to ceiling glass wall or the stunning sightline through the Michelin-starred restaurant and out over the swimming pool is all you'll actually need.

Some great resorts are just unlucky in not having an accessible or half-decent house reef. Or they might have a beach erosion problem. Or they might be trying to turn around an island that wasn't built as a five star resort. But other resorts are lucky with their geography and beautifully built and superbly well-run. This is my list of those Top7 Luxury Maldives Resorts.

Every one of them is in the top price bracket but each is very different in their own way and that is the beauty of the Maldives. You take what your island gives you and show it off to the best of your ability in harmony with your own vision and philosophy.

Take Cocoa Island, for example. Essentially it is little more than a large sandbank in a beautiful lagoon and surrounding house reef. Christina Ong and her team have taken it and created the most peaceful, zen-like, resort in the country. All the rooms are over water (and the one room villas are among my favourite) so you glide over to land only to eat and drink, walk the long beach and visit the destination spa.

In contrast, Soneva Fushi is on one of the largest of all resort islands and so has been able to offer extraordinary variety, from a restaurant in the tree-tops beside the observatory to al fresco lunches created by a chef in the vegetable and herb garden; from cinema nights on the beach to a large new kids' club and a destination spa with visiting gurus. And all delivered in the rustic chic style that brings you close to nature and keeps you there.

Park Hyatt Hadahaa delivers something different again. A small island like Cocoa but this time a perfect circle with an unmatched softness of deep sand running all the way around. Beyond that, an encircling reef that is almost unmatched for its corals. The high design hospitality company, Alila, built the resort before it was taken over by Park Hyatt. The rooms are exquisite and the public area is expansive and breath-taking. Yet this resort was built from concept forward as a green resort, and it is certified as such. Who says you can't have it all?

Maldives resorts vary hugely in size, geography, style and management. When you're looking for luxury Maldives holidays you want all of these to come together at the highest level. it's a big ask but a few resorts absolutely deliver this, at a price.

Anantara Kihavah

The new super-luxurious direction of Anantara brings rooms, views and cuisine together in a brilliant modern setting to delight high net worth couples.
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Price:Luxury
Notable for:Water VillasSnorkeling
Anantara Naladhu

As expected in a 6-star resort, the rooms are indulgently equipped and nattily modern, and everything from meditation to cuisine comes with personalised service.
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Price:Luxury
Notable for:Quiet & Private
Cocoa Island

Exquisite is a word made for Cocoa. The showy and the unnecessary are excluded to enhance the beautiful. Luxury is the backdrop to your own mental and spiritual renewal.
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Price:Luxury
Notable for:Quiet & Private
Constance Halaveli

Halaveli's new 5-star incarnation has understated opulence, impressive facilities and fine service - not to mention a wraparound beach, snorkeling access and great diving.
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Price:Luxury
Notable for:Water Villas
Dusit Thani

Cuisine, hospitality, Kids' Club and Spa lead the way for this still new five star resort in one of the most exciting locations in the country. The housereef is closeby, the legendary Hanifaru reef is closeby and the local islands are exceptional.
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Price:Luxury
Notable for:Water Villas
Park Hyatt

Opened in August 2009, luxurious Alila sets new standards for ecological design. Located in the biggest, most beautiful atoll, it promises great new dive sites, enriching local encounters and service to match the best.
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Price:Luxury
Notable for:Quiet & Private
Soneva Fushi

A faultless resort. Natural, luxurious, a destination for gourmets of wine and food, mind and body. And with a green conscience second to none.
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Price:Luxury

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Adrian Neville - Seven Holidays : Your Guide to the MaldivesAdrian Neville lived in the Maldives and writes the definitive guide book: "Resorts of Maldives", now in its fifth edition. Having tirelessly reviewed every single resort, he is now continually asked ‘which is the best Maldives Hotel for my holidayholiday or vacationvacation?’ Enter SevenHolidays.com – his comprehensive independent guide to Maldives holidaysholidays and how to book your perfect holiday. We cover everything from the cheap island resorts through to the luxury five star Maldives resortshow to book your perfect holiday. We cover everything from the cheap island resorts through to the luxury five star Maldives resorts