Kandolhu Island is a paradise resort where you will feel like a real celebrity

Kandolhu Island receives prestigious awards

Kandolhu Island Resort, located on the picturesque North Ari Atoll, just 25 minutes by seaplane from Male, is one of the most romantic and secluded places in the Maldives. Most recently, he immediately received two honorary awards from TripAdvisor Traveler & Choice. Kandolhu Island received the title of "Best Hotel in the World" and "Best Hotel in Asia." The TripAdvisor Travelers Choice Award is awarded annually to the best of the best based on traveler reviews on the TripAdvisor.

Kandolhu Island is designed for only 50 villas, and guests of each of them feel like kings of this paradise island. Especially for them, they constantly come up with new services and entertainment.

You are a star in Kandolhu Island!

Hotel Kandolhu has created all the conditions for you to feel like a real celebrity. Ipad in the room will fulfill your every wish - from ordering dinner to a map of the night sky. After all, where if not in the Maldives, study the constellations that are visible without additional instruments. There are four gourmet restaurants, the most sophisticated spa menu, collection wine tasting at the bar overlooking the sunset. As well as a 50-meter yacht, which you never want to leave. During a leisurely sailing, you will be served champagne and canapes. And you can meet and see off the sun in your own bedroom with a glass wall, because no one except the ocean will dare to look into your villa without demand.

Here, everyone is on guard of your privacy! 30 villas are located so that the owners do not see each other because of the dense vegetation that separates the territory. Each of them has its own beach and a small garden. If you wish, you can spend your entire vacation alone, because even with the staff you can communicate here using devices. Is this not a paradise for businessmen and TV stars tormented by excessive communication!

Kandolhu Island - Romantic Escape

On the most secluded beach of Kandolhu Island, couples can organize a sumptuous dinner with sunset views. The chef will agree on a menu with you in advance, and you can be sure that it will be an unforgettable gastronomic experience. Everything is thought out to the smallest detail, the waiters appear exactly at the right moment and silently disappear. And even the sky this evening shows you its best colors. And this is not the only surprise that the hotel team prepared for Valentine's Day. There are specially created 3 types of menus that are served in any secluded place - this is the second floor of the library, overlooking the ocean, on a private pier or in a secluded corner of the beach. Everything is thought out to hide you from prying eyes. Take a romantic escape on Kandolu!

Personal approach at Kandolhu Island

Everyone wants to settle on a personal island for at least a few days, and Kandolhu Island Resort provides such a rare opportunity. It is designed for only 50 villas equipped with the latest technology. If you are traveling alone, the best choice is a two-story house with its own pool and ocean views. From the bedroom located on the second floor, an unusually beautiful sea landscape opens in the morning. A small terrace, your own beach with sunbeds and even your own pool create a feeling of privacy and comfort. Another important advantage of this resort is the complete lack of a schedule - for breakfast, lunch and dinner you will be expected at almost any time. And this means that here you can sleep for a long time, and also take sunbathing and swimming, "without watching the clock!"

Updated Varu Spa menu at Kandolhu Maldives

Kandolhu Maldives - Small Luxury Hotel. That is, a small luxury hotel that has received worldwide recognition. With the onset of the new season, the spa menu has been significantly updated at Kandolhu Maldives.

The island spa-center Varu Spa, the name of which is translated from Maldivian as "energy", offers more than 20 treatments using Irish natural organic cosmetics VOYA.

Among the new treatments is a toxin-free full body massage using seaweed and hot stones. The list of new procedures includes innovative face lifting with a rejuvenating and firming effect using natural ingredients. In a couple of sessions, specialists at Varu Spa Kandolhu Maldives are ready to remove the "bags" under the eyes and small wrinkles on the face. These treatments were added at the request of the guests of the resort. The Kandolhu Island team expects that this procedure will be in demand among most hotel guests outside the age category.

Today, the specialists of the island spa-center offer a full range of procedures to get rid of stress, rejuvenate, bring skin and hair in full order.

Since the New Year, the spa has a well-equipped gym that will help Kandolhu Maldives guests stay fit during their holidays.

Kandolhu Maldives - new Ata-Roa restaurant opens in April

Kandolhu Maldives, known as a stylish small diving resort with 30 villas, is constantly striving for innovation. In April, the fifth restaurant, Ata-Roa, opened in Kandolhu Maldives, which serves the best dishes of the Latin American continent according to Mexican and Peruvian recipes.

Ata-Roa ideology - Mexico and the best street food in Peru. Ata-Roa is located on the Noovilu Sports pier and is open daily (except Wednesday) from 12 to 16 hours.

The restaurant's menu is simple and light, with classic and unique dishes based on ceviche and tacos. The idea belongs to executive chef Mikael Farina, who toured South America last year to develop a concept for mouth-watering Latin American dishes.

All dishes are traditionally prepared in the presence of guests. The cooking process turns into a real food show. Meals are served with a Mexican beer or Mescalan cocktail.

Ata-Roa design and branding draws inspiration from Mexican folk traditions that add extra authenticity and are already gaining widespread recognition from Kandolhu Maldives guests.

Maldives menu at Kandolhu Island

This time, guests are offered a real gastronomic journey called Dhivehi raha. This is the name of the 5-course set, developed by chef Mikael Farina and representing the quintessence of the main Maldivian tastes.

The tasting takes place in a romantic setting: a table is served right on the ocean, and the sound of the waves becomes the perfect musical accompaniment to this authentic dinner. Mikael reverently redesigned traditional Maldivian dishes, creating real masterpieces based on them. The menu contains variations on the theme of the legendary Maldivian breakfast Roshi and Mashuni - tortilla with tuna and coconut, tuna broth garudhia and classic local dessert banbukeo bandibai.

Mediterranean cuisine on Kandolhu island

On the island of Kandolhu you feel like a real Robinson, with the only exception that the role of Friday is the helpful staff, instead of a man-made hut - a wonderful two-story villa, and the modest meal of the islander is replaced by delicious Mediterranean cuisine.

The latter is famous for the local restaurant Olive. Its two-story building is located on the ocean, and at dinner you can watch with pleasure as the sunset falls directly into the shining expanse of the water. The menu is composed of Mediterranean classics with light adjustments that bring the gifts of the Indian Ocean. The seafood here is truly magical! Among the most popular of them are risotto with lobster, Maldivian sea bass in vije sauce with vegetables and spinach, as well as scallops in bechamel sauce. Refined French recipes perfectly complement the clean and delicate tastes of freshly caught seafood.

Maldives via GoPro HERO 5 at Kandolhu Maldives

Kandolhu Maldives, a romantic and modern resort located on the North Ari Atoll, is famous for its innovative service.

A new offer at Kandolhu Maldives is to capture the moments of scuba diving and traveling in the clouds with the latest technology.

For the first time in the Maldives, each guest villa in Candola is now equipped with the latest GoPro universal camera. This is the GoPro HERO 5 Black Camera, for use by guests of the Kandolhu Maldives Hotel throughout their stay.

Cameras featuring the latest waterproof technology are also equipped with an underwater housing for shooting in water.

Guests can take the GoPro HERO 5 for scuba diving as well as deep sea diving. 4K camera resolution allows you to completely "capture" into the lens almost the entire house reef of the hotel with an infinite number of turtles, nanny sharks, schools of fish. And most importantly - immediately post your shot on social networks.

GoPro HERO 5 features include Time Lapse, a favorite of many tourists. When clouds run across the sky at the speed of a train, and the sun at sunset quickly goes beyond the horizon.

Kandolhu Maldives team intends to conduct in-depth seminars to demonstrate the immense capabilities of the camera, and also to tell hotel guests how to use the camera accessories kit correctly with the hope that many videos will appear on social networks telling about paradise in the Maldives, which rightfully is Kandolhu Maldives.

The underwater world of Kandolhu Island

Located 70 kilometers southwest of Male in the North Ari Atoll, Kandolhu Island is surrounded by a picturesque home reef. The rich and colorful underwater world welcomes guests almost at the foot of their spacious and stylish water villa. And if you sail a little further away, you can get acquainted with turtles, black-feathered reef sharks and stingrays. The hotel has three exits to the edge of the home reef: two from the north and south, and one from the east. A detailed exploration of the local underwater world, before facing it face to face, will help with a snorkeling tour around the island with a local guide. If you forget the mask and snorkel at home, then in the diving center of the island of PADI you will find all the necessary equipment.

Those who are ready for serious underwater adventures should definitely go to one of the nearest dive sites (there are about 30 of them here) or to one of the four marine reserves. Here you can conduct a serious photo hunt for such amazing inhabitants of the Indian Ocean as reef sharks, moray eels, and also giant Napoleon fish.