Since you are on a speck in the Indian Ocean, swimming out is more appropriate. There's in-room dining, too, because it can be tough to leave your luxurious abode.īy submitting your email you are agreeing to Nine Publishing's Onu Onu, with its soaring bamboo roof, is all about the cocktails and snacks. Kata Japanese is a sushi-at-sunset option closer to the water bungalows. Have date night at Azure, a seafood experience suspended over the lagoon where you might find Alaskan crab meat and yuzu mayonnaise or steamed white snapper and squid ink risotto. Evenings at Raha might include Italian night with fresh pasta and a salad bar that stretches almost the length of the island. THE FOODĪs your go-to lunch spot, Raha Market is casual, with local touches such as the Maldivian fish curry and a spicy Malaysian laksa. A Bose stereo allows you to play your tunes throughout the villa, an extensive mini bar means you want for nothing and there are thoughtful touches such as sunscreen and a disposable underwater camera. Grab a snorkel and flippers from the dive centre and keep them handy. Outside, your 25-metre deck leads to a day bed, private plunge pool and steps into the lagoon. The rooms are spacious and hit the right note for simple barefoot luxury crochet mats sit at the foot of your California king bed, glass buoys decorate the bathroom mirror in a cascade of knotted rope and a giant copper bathtub has the best view in the bungalow. The water villas are split into two main categories – the aptly named Sunrise and Sunset – with two- and three-bedroom options available. The open-air art studio offers adults and kids alike the chance to make casts of local corals or get creative on canvas.Īt the end of the island, 42 water villas form a giant Egyptian Eye of Horus, making the most of the lagoon, while lush beach villas are hidden throughout the island, as are the region's first tented jungle villas (glamping doesn't really cover it).Ī bathroom of a Water Villa Premium, Fairmont Maldives. The heart of the resort is the Raha Market where you will have your barefoot breakfast or grab a simple lunch. You can swim the 200-metre infinity pool that is bracketed by the Willow Stream Spa and the Balinese-inspired Onu Onu beach bar (which is home to a fun permanent resident made from rope).
This island is yours to explore, with several spaces to just chill. A natural lagoon surrounds you with pale blue water and is rich with sea life hermit crabs scatter under foot at the beach, manta rays glide past your bungalow, and you might even see a just-born sea turtle rowing across the sand in a bid to make it to the sea. This tiny atoll, held together by lush green mangrove forest, is so petite you can walk from tip to tip in 10 minutes. Sirru Fen Fushi – Secret Water Island – sits so far north of the Maldives you are almost on the fringe of the Arabian Sea.
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