Banyan Tree Madivaru

With just six luxurious tented villas, each with a private pool, this intimate hideaway is the ultimate in peace and privacy. Palms whisper in the breeze and sparkling sands are gently splashed by lagoon waters…

Rooms

6

Airport transfer time

20 minutes

Location

On the northeast of Ari atoll.

Facilities

A tiny resort with pristine shores and breathtaking reefs. Attentive service (and your holiday price) includes in-villa dining, selected excursions, a dedicated island host, boatman and chef and one in-villa spa treatment per person. There is a little all-day restaurant, unique tented lounge bar, open-air dining area, snorkelling and diving centre and souvenir shop.

Accommodation

Just six tented Pool villas, each comprising three interlinked Bedouin tents - a bedroom, bathroom, and living area - with fine facilities including two outdoor showers, indoor bathtub, wine cooler, telephone, internet, combined flatscreen television/DVD/stereo surround sound system, outdoor terrace with daybeds, sunloungers and a private pool and canopied al fresco dining area.

Restaurants

Boa Keyo - An all-day dining restaurant and a bar lounge. Named after an indigenous tree that covers large parts of the island, guests can take in a refreshing cocktail and cool off indoors in the welcome shade of this elegant restaurant. In-Villa Dining

Swimming Pools

6 private pools

Beach description

Pristine white sands, a beautiful lagoon surrounded by breathtaking house reefs.

Destination introduction

Maldives holidays conjure up images of white sands, swaying palm trees and crystal blue waters, creating a picture-perfect holiday bliss. Kuoni’s hand-picked islands offer first-class, luxurious accommodation, spectacular diving and enchanting, dazzling sunsets for romantic memories.

Shopping

If you visit Malé, you’ll see plenty of street merchants offering beautiful Maldivian postage stamps. Those ragged dentures suspended outside gift shops are sharks’ jaws. Attractive T-shirts are stencilled before your eyes, generally with brilliantly coloured tropical fish.

The islanders are expert in carving coconut wood and use it to decorate their houses. Mat-weaving, basket-making and coir rope-making are long-standing crafts. Mats are woven from haa grass. There is some highlydeveloped lacquer work and you may see examples of handloom weaving or jewellery handcrafted in gold and mother of pearl.