Say ‘Ahhhh’ at Maldives’ most indulgent Spa retreats

1 Conrad Maldives Rangali Island: The Spa Retreat

Best Experience:  for Couples, for Families, underwater restaurant, underwater villa, Beaches, Spa, Gourmet Dining

This luxurious and sophisticated Maldivian resort is located on two idyllic islands combining the best beaches and over-water accommodation, both with dense vegetation and palm trees that create a natural tropical paradise. Suitable for couples and families alike, Conrad is all about glamorous splendor in a luxury setting with some of the most exciting underwater adventures in the Maldives. The two private islands connected by a 500m bridge and both are designed for true enjoyment. A wine and dine destination itself, Conrad Maldives is a true epicurean experience with a choice of 12 restaurants and bars, including Ithaa, the world's first all glass underwater restaurant. On a delicate theme - what to do in Conrad Maldives - guests do not have a headache, every day is filled with fun activities and busy with exciting entertainments. Conrad Maldives Rangali Island has many excellent facilities to offer including a fully equipped gym, a spa, infinity pool, eight restaurants, three bars, a library, yoga, PADI dive centre, water sports centre, and a Kid's Club. Located in the South Ari Atoll, Conrad Rangali is accessible by a 30-minute seaplane flight or a short domestic flight to a nearby island, followed by speedboat transfer.

Located 100 meters off the tip of Rangalifinolhu Island, the tucked-away Spa Retreat provides a luxurious sanctuary where every aspect of your health and wellbeing is addressed – from diet and body treatments to beauty. Sitting on stilts above the gentle waves and marine life, Mandhoo Restaurant calms your senses as you dine. The menu, created to energize and nourish the body, uses organic produce – with many ingredients grown on the island. Setting the precedence for luxury travel in the Maldives, each over-water spa villa has its own private double treatment room and sun deck with whirlpool. With complete separation from the rest of the resort, these villas offer blissful seclusion READ FULL REVIEW

2 The OZEN COLLECTION: ELE | NA Spa

Best Experience for:  Luxury All Inclusive, Couples and Family, Wellnes, Activities

The OZEN COLLECTION runs two luxury all inclusive resorts in Maldives: OZEN LIFE MAADHOO and OZEN RESERVE BOLIFUSHI. The collection of resorts is among the best hotels in the island nation offering an escape with all-encompassing stay and heartfelt, personalised hospitalit into pristine Indian Ocean destinations with refined elegance. Bliss out on The RESERVE™ Plan or The INDULGENCE™ Plan – a uniquely exclusive holiday plans that encompasses exotic dine-wine-around options, exciting activities, and naturopathic wellness journey at spa!

ELE | NA spa is one of the premier and sought-after wellness destinations in the world. The resident practitioners at the resort provide know-how and services to guests who are embarking on a unique journey of wellness at the resorts with RENEW, REJUVENATE, REVIVE offer.

3 The Sun Siyam Iru Fushi

Best Experience for:   Couples, Families, Wellness, Beaches, activities

An award-winning Maldives resort Sun Siyam Iru Fushi is outstanding natural beauty combined with top luxury and world class service. This five-star resort boasts spacious beach and water villas, an awarded spa, 14 top level dining options including kids buffet for dinner and play area, and wine vault to make even the most discerning oenophile swoon. There are 2 swimming pools, water sports and PADI diving center, underwater park in the lagoon, plenty of kid-friendly amenities and activities, and house reef with rich marine life - no two days are ever the same. READ FULL REVIEW

Huge and calming, The Thalgo Spa is stunning, this is a must as you get a feeling relaxed, refreshed and reconnected. Signature treatments are offered across the spa’s 20 rooms, as well as hydrotherapy pools, steam rooms and saunas. The setting is beautiful, very tranquil and the therapists are highly skilled, the spa menu is extensive and children can go too.

4 Centara Ras Fushi Resort: Spa Cenvaree

Best Experience for:  Adults only, Spa, Beaches, activities, all inclusive, value, weddings

Less than 20 minutes away from Velana International Airport by speedboat, set on a pristine island blessed with tropical beauty in North Malé Atoll, Centara Ras Fushi Resort & Spa Maldives is an adults-only retreat that is ideal for couples and honeymooners. Pure white sand and a sparkling blue lagoon make this a perfect playground for beach games, snorkelling and water sports, while the magical underwater world of some of the top dive sites in the Maldives. Exciting dining with a choice of dining programmes, along with a sublime spa, make this intimately scaled resort a haven for those seeking a tropical honeymoon. The Gold All-Inclusive plan represents pure island indulgence featuring unlimited culinary delights, daily spa credits for treatments, a complimentary house reef snorkelling excursion by boat, and more. READ FULL REVIEW

The award-winning SPA Cenvaree, a realm of complete calm and tranquillity situated in this paradisiac resort, has played a pivotal role in creating this stunning environment. Offering experiences inspired by Ayurvedic and Thai healing traditions, SPA Cenvaree provides guests with a range of treatments and multi-day programs that immerse them in pure serenity and rejuvenation.

5 Anantara Veli Maldives Resort: Anantara Spa

Best Experience:   for Couples (only), Privacy and Tranquillity, Fine Dining, Activities

Escape every day cares with indigenously inspired luxury over-water treatments for your body and soul. Anantara Overwater Spa lets you choose between nine sumptuous spa suites, each perched over the lagoon on Dhigufinolhu. The spa menu features holistic therapies and advanced skincare designed to enrich and detoxify, all while you relax and take in your perfect island holiday. Built on stilts over clear turquoise waters, this sanctuary of serenity captures the very essence of fluidity and calm. Open a window to a colorful underwater world, glancing through glass peephole floors to glimpse puffer fish and baby reef sharks swimming peacefully below. Relinquish every last sign of stress and strain to our world renowned signature treatments, or let time glide by in unhindered intimacy with rituals designed romantically for couples. Download SPA Menu

For an unforgettable beach experience, like anywhere else, go to Anantara Veli Maldives - quite simply because the resort ticks all the boxes and brings the best of both worlds together. The hotel 'for adults only' is ideal for couples who prefer not to force children to interrupt their hard earned vacation. Not one, but two magnificent islands to relax with the healing properties of massage, facial and Ayurveda. A total of seven restaurants share your meals between them. Possibility to make the most of the water surroundings with surfing, deep-sea fishing and sailing. And, of course, there are ideal pristine sands, clear turquoise waters and iconic water bungalows, that makes the Maldives so desirable destination - all encompassed by five-star hospitality and luxury. And the last reason to book is an exellent location. Anantara Veli is 30 minutes by speedboat from Male airport. READ FULL REVIEW

6 The Residence: Spa by Clarins

Best Experience:  Water Villas, for Couples

The Residence Maldives is an elite 5-star resort, which was designed and opened almost completely behind the scenes. Perfect for a honeymoon in the Maldives, it took a while to reveal all its merits. The company itself is gaining more and more popularity due to its very well thought-out luxury hotels in Tunisia, Mauritius and Zanzibar.

Divine relaxation can be found in Spa by Clarins - this is the first and only spa in the Maldives from this exclusive brand. Anyone who knows this name knows his fame for being a pioneer in using the purity of plants, and the fact that the treatment rooms are also located over the water expands the sense of closeness to nature. In fact, the abundant use of glass almost makes you feel that you are swimming in the space between the sea and the sky, and this feeling is intensified after you have undergone a procedure - their branded massage gives you incomparable bliss, so after you have enjoyed it aromatic tea on the outer deck, you will feel almost weightless. Here, also, morning yoga classes take place, while the golden ball of the sun rises above the horizon - an unforgettable impression. READ FULL REVIEW

7 Lily Beach Resort and Spa: Tamara Spa by Mandara

Best Experience:   for Families, House Reef Snorkeling, All Inclusive

The peaceful atmosphere of Tamara Spa by Mandara is filled with an attractive flavor of exotic scents, and a gentle sea breeze blows through the bright rooms of the sanctuary. Glass floors provide a unique look at the fascinating underwater world of the Indian Ocean, while the body and soul stand on the holistic path of absolute relaxation.

Tamara Spa by Mandara is located over the water opposite the main swimming pool. Using the popular and high-quality Elemis products this clean and modern spa has a variety of healing and wellness treatments that flow from various Asian rituals. The large peekaboo floor has a glass cutout in the lobby - a unique touch, while the central, open air pavilion under the reed canopy, with sea breeze, views, magazines, and drinks is where most of the procedures begin. Each treatment (in addition to manicure) will be performed in one of the nearby private water villas. Download SPA Menu

Today, Lily Beach Resort and Spa ranks among the leading resorts in the country with Premium All Inclusive, which was the result of an excellent redesign and reconstruction of the hotel. Reopened in 2009 as a 5-star resort, Lily Beach is a romantic place for a family holiday with All Inclusive that includes food, drinks and various activities. The stylish and spacious rooms have open air bathrooms with hydromassage baths, outdoor terraces with direct access to the ocean or to the beach, as well as other facilities: from sunscreen and quality toiletries to the packed mini bars and large flat-screen TVs. The resort's family facilities include a kid's buffet in the restaurant, a swimming pool and a game club. Active guests can enjoy land and water sports, while couples have many romantic options and places to seclude. READ FULL REVIEW

8 Six Senses Laamu: Six Senses Spa

Best Experience: for Couples, Family, Surfung

The best Ayurvedic luxury spa in the Indian Ocean where the principles of sustainable development supported by Six Senses apply to all Maldivian resorts, including their own spa. In addition to the usual thatch huts Six Senses Spa also has four unusual treatment 'nests' for couples woven from natural wood materials, surrounded by the island's natural vegetation. Some of the best visiting practitioners offer guests personal consultations and holistic therapies to achieve a better state of mind and more fulfilling life experiences.

Professional therapists use organic products for a whole range of signature treatments and therapies where coconut, ginger and basaltic stones are the main ingredients. For a truly unique experience, try Asian Fusion Journey - four and a half hours - body scrub, Balinese massage, Indian head massage and foot acupressure. There is also the Detoxifier Journey, which lasts for half an hour longer and includes a steam bath, scrub and wrap, facial massage, detox foot massage and acupressure. Also worth a try: MUKHA CHIKITSA (Purify, hydrate and nourish the skin with this holistic facial treatment) or ABHYANGA AND SHIRODHARA (A traditional Ayurvedic massage using warm herbal medicated oil to relieve fatigue, improve sight, induce sleep, strengthen the skin and promote longevity.) 

A real paradise, Six Senses Laamu is a sustainable luxury resort surrounded by clear turquoise water and white sandy beaches. Lacked a resort on the tiny Laamu atoll, Six Senses made it. Olhuveli Island has become home to Six Senses Laamu, opened in April 2011. Another who wants to be more beautiful than any others, and who accepts the philosophy of ecological luxury inherent in the hotels of the Six Senses group is fantastic. And it's not missing, there's more than magic. READ FULL REVIEW

9 JA Manafaru: Calm Spa & Salon

Best Experience:   for couples, family, Beaches, Spa

Meander through the lush island pathways to discover the hidden oasis of Calm Spa & Salon. A haven of pure relaxation, guests can experience a blissful journey to revitalize, rejuvenate or simply retreat. Calm Spa & Salon together with world renowned partner, Elemis offers a sophisticated collection of aromatherapy massage and treatments, enhancing the invigorating properties of essential oils for relaxation, anti-aging, deep hydration and mental clarity. Guests can also enjoy a bespoke selection of customized treatments including Shirodhara, Ayurvedic or experience a traditional Maldivian massage or healing ritual. Calm Spa & Salon's professional therapists can customize treatments and programmes according to your needs and each of the ten ultra-private treatment rooms features an open-air rain shower and bath tub. Guests are also welcome to enjoy complimentary access to Calm Spa's hydrotherapy bath, sauna and steam room, before or after a treatment and also relax in the Relaxation Garden. 

The award-winning resort is located on a 35-acre private island with a soft, white sandy beach on the northern-most Haa Alif atoll and can be accessed via a 75-minute seaplane flight from Malé International Airport or speedboat transfer from Hanimaadhoo Airport. This hidden tropical paradise houses a total of 84 welcoming villas and suites all with private pools. Guests can also sample some of the world's finest cuisines across seven dining experiences on the island. Since JA Resorts & Hotels acquisition of the island, the property has established itself as an ideal honeymoon and romantic getaways, picking the awards for Best Luxury Honeymoon Hotel in the Indian Ocean at The World Luxury Hotel Awards. READ FULL REVIEW

10 One & Only Reethi Rah: ESPA

Best Experience:   Honeymoon, Water Villas, family, beaches, spa, activities

Nature never copies art, rather the last has long been rated an effective form of meditation - even if you are not a creative type in the palette of natural colors there is always something therapeutic to impose on canvas. Artist Studio in One & Only Reethi Rah offers a wide range of activities, covering everything from painting to ceramics. Australian Christopher Hogan is the acting artist of the resort hotel, and his classes involve getting to know his vision of modern abstract style, and the opportunity to create his own masterpieces based on the wild nature of the Maldives.

Still crave classic spa techniques? ESPA has a more than sufficient list of treatments and wellness programs to choose from, including two full hours of relaxation with the 'Unwind Signature Experience' with the hot volcanic stones, and the rejuvenating 'Sun Ritual' that nourishes your skin and prepares it for a safe, sunny procedures at Sun Spa, the only one of its kind in the Maldives. It is also worth trying a variety of comprehensive programs aimed at full relaxation, increasing vitality, or improving overall well-being, for two. The cost of the treatments includes: a hydromassage pool, a steam room with amethyst crystals, a sauna, a branded cold or hot tea. 

Before stay there, Reethi Rah for the island resort seems a bit conservative. Smooth, majestic, but perhaps lacking some details of the bounty in Maldives rural style (call it what you like) that are in fashion today. Going ashore, you will realize that refusal to follow a fashion trend is the same point: you simply do not need it when you are the best. Reethi Rah adheres to his own One & Only style. Purposefully not 'trendy', in the development stage to the top level of luxury, specializing in high quality service to its guests, such an experience you would have hard to find somewhere else in the Maldives.   READ FULL REVIEW

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