Maldives at Kuda Huraa

  • OPENING DATE:

    May 1998
  • GENERAL MANAGER:

    Didier Jardin
Physical Features

Total Number of Rooms: 96

Design Aesthetic:

  • Inspired by Maldivian villages with thatched roofs, timber floors and decorative lattice panels and columns
  • Tropical-style interiors with teak wood
  • Beach and over-water bungalow accommodations with floor-to-ceiling ocean views

Architect:

  • Grounds Kent Architects (guest rooms and public areas)
  • One Degree North Landscape Architects (landscaping)

Interior Designer(s): Hirsch Bedner Associates (guest rooms and public areas)

History: Reopened in September 2006

Location: North Malé Atoll

The Island Spa

Design Aesthetic:

  • On its own island, reached by two-minute boat ride
  • Thatched-roof treatment pavilions feature wooden floor decking, louvred side walls and sliding doors opening directly to the ocean
  • Below each massage bed, a portal is built into the floor decking for guests to gaze at the marine life below

Interior Designer: Hinke Zieck

Number of Treatment Rooms: 7

Signature Treatment:

  • Enchanted Reef - A Journey to Serenity (2 day program)

Special Features:

  • Private garden courtyard with open-air shower
  • Night Spa

Spa Director:  Maxime Lureau  

Dining

   

Examples of Locally Sourced Ingredients:

  • Coconut
  • Tuna, mahi mahi, jack fish and white snapper

Restaurant: Baraabaru

  • Signature Dish: Baraabaru raan pot - roasted organic young lamb leg finished in the tandoor
  • Indoor Seating: 48
  • Outdoor Seating: 40 plus 5 at the tandoori bar and 4 in the gazebo
  • Designer: Grounds Kent Architects

Restaurant: Reef Club

  • Cuisine: Italian
  • Signature Dish: Pappardelle alla Bolognese, signature homemade pasta with braised short rib ragu
  • Indoor Seating: 40
  • Outdoor Seating: 40 on the deck, 16 in the courtyard and 9 at the bar
  • Designer: Grounds Kent Architects
  • Junior Sous Chef: Amrish Pandoo

Restaurant: Café Huraa

  • Signature Dish: Maldivian curried lobster - spiny lobster with Maldivian marinade served with coconut rice, chapatti
  • Indoor Seating: 74
  • Outdoor Seating: 24
  • Designer: Grounds Kent Architects
  • Junior Sous Chef: Ahmed Kischan Fahmy

Lounge: Poolside Bar

  • Designer: Grounds Kent Architects

Restaurant: Kandu Grill

  • Signature Dish: Corn fed half baked black chicken
  • Outdoor Seating: 32
  • Junior Sous Chef: Adam Naseer
Recreation

On-site Activities:

  • Boating
  • Cooking classes at Baraabaru Restaurant
  • Dolphin cruise
  • Fishing
  • Jogging
  • Kayaking
  • Parasailing
  • Scuba diving
  • Shark snorkel safari
  • Snorkelling
  • Turtle snorkel safari
  • Wakeboarding, water skiing, jet skiing
  • Water toys and equipment
  • Windsurfing

Off-site Activities:

  • "Robinson Crusoe" private island picnic excursion
  • Maldivian village visit
  • Sandbank picnic
  • Tour of capital city, Malé

Pools:

  • Number of Pools: 2
    • Main Pool: An infinity edge freshwater pool with a large sun deck. Attendants regularly provide fresh towels and cooling spritzes of mist. Pool service and a swim-up bar provide refreshments
    • Children's Pool: An oval-shaped children's pool, adjacent to the main pool, overlooks the ocean

Fitness Facilities:

  • Size: 150 sq m / 1,615 sq ft
  • Special Features:
    • Overlooks infinity pool on the sunrise side of the island, with panoramic ocean views
    • Jogging trail on a central pathway of white sand amidst coconut palms and tropical blooms
  • Sample Fitness Activities:
    • Group yoga (morning sun salutations and evening meditation) held daily on the yoga platform facing the ocean
    • Private yoga sessions available with resident yogi
For Younger Guests

Kuda Mas ("little fish") Kids' Club has a wide range of supervised activities indoors and outdoors, including creative crafts, beach games, snorkelling, yoga sessions and cooking classes

The Furaavaru Teen Centre provides a place for teens to relax with a book, watch a movie or play one of the centre’s video games or engaging board games

Kuda Spa Kids & Teens menu featuring 12 treatments specially formulated for children and teenagers ages 6 to 16 years old

Meeting Rooms

Total Size: 84 sq m / 1,033 sq ft

Meet and Feed Capacity: 16

Outdoor Banquet Capacity: 30

Corporate Social Responsibility

One-year apprenticeship programme provides young Maldivians with a firm platform of theoretical knowledge and practical skills to perform successfully in the country's number one industry

Deep commitment to environmental programs

  • Coral Propagation Project
Special Features

Home port of Four Seasons Explorer, a catamaran available for three-, four- and seven-night cruises

Dedicated surf school

Resident marine biologists offer education programmes for guests and staff and oversee environmental programme


PRESS CONTACTS
Juliana Ang
Senior Director of Public Relations and Communications
Tourism Court, #04-00, 1 Orchard Spring Lane
Singapore,
247729