Finding superior accommodation in The Maldives depends on what you are looking for. Unbridled luxury comes at a price. The better rooms at Baros are perched at the water’s edge with a daybed and dining table on deck so you need never depart from designer comfort. Even basic Water Villas at Conrad Maldives contain Bulgari accessories, and they get more outrageous up the scale. The Deluxe Beach Villas on the Rangalifinolhu side are the largest in the country. The priceless commodity on Cocoa Island is light, streaming through three walls of full length windows onto stylish dark furniture.

Mirihi is expensively furnished, their rooms made in gorgeous woods with uplifting natural colours and thatch roofs. Natural materials also feature at Angsana Velavaru, whose modern refurbishment sparkles in the unusual round villas under thatched domes. At Soneva Gili the unadorned, organic forms find their zenith: huge land, water, and castaway waterbungalows have rooms and levels tumbling out from each other, merging with nature and concealing the luxury within.

On Soneva Fushi a similar beauty is found but in a class (and price range) of its own. Many different styles and sizes of lodging all follow the lines of nature and consist of original, rustic materials. The incredible rooms are matched with phenomenal service for an overall experience unlike any other.