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OPENING DATE:
May 1998
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GENERAL MANAGER:
Didier Jardin
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
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
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
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
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
Total Size: 84 sq m / 1,033 sq ft
Meet and Feed Capacity: 16
Outdoor Banquet Capacity: 30
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
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
Singapore,
247729
