The 5 Most Anticipated Luxury Hotel Openings for 2024 In Maldives

If your visualization of a luxury resorts in the Maldives vacation is more akin to a life on a desert island à la Robinson Crusoe. The hotel, which celebrates its tenth anniversary this year, has adopted its literary encouragement literally, naming its butlers Mr. Friday in honour of the protagonist's devoted assistant. With a "no news, no shoes" position on the road to island life, it also maintains the 18th-century concept.

The over-water villas are prehistoric in the best manner imaginable. Some of the rooms forgo the customary Maldivian walkways and are as an alternative suspended in the water, only accessible by boat. They include a deck where guests can paddle from and a hammock strung up that you can swim to.

The Gili Garden offers a plant-based dining experience, or visitors can opt for a more sybaritic getaway with a sommelier-suggested "drink and soak" spa treatment. Other activities include learning to hang ten on some of the Maldives' best waves, and after education all about coral reimbursement and psychoanalysis, you can adopt a coral. Your dependable Mr. (or Ms.) Friday can be tasked with everything from planning candlelit dinners on the beach to erecting a bed for stargazing on the roof of your villa.

 rything from planning candlelit dinners on the beach to erecting a bed for stargazing on the roof of your villa.