Malé, Maldives – October 01, 2025 – Maldives Magic is proud to announce the winners of its prestigious 2025 Maldives Resort Awards, recognising the islands elevating hospitality, design, and immersive guest experience across eleven curated categories. From vibrant lifestyle escapes to architectural masterpieces and ultra-private retreats, this year’s winners exemplify the highest standards of Maldivian luxury.
Every winning resort stands apart, each earning distinction in a carefully judged field where island exclusivity, thoughtful design, service excellence, and creative spirit matter as much as pristine nature.
Key Winners — Highlights from the 2025 Awards
- Best Lifestyle Resort — LUX* South Ari Atoll Celebrated for its blend of island energy and refined comfort, LUX* South Ari captures the essence of “luxury with personality.” With multiple restaurants, live music, pop-up surprises, and a social atmosphere balanced with elegance, the resort offers a lively but relaxing escape.
- Best Over-Water Villas — Soneva Jani Soneva Jani’s over-water villas remain a benchmark in sheer imagination and splendour. With private pools, retractable roofs for stargazing, and access to the lagoon via slides, they evoke fantasy while delivering function.
- Best Sustainability / Eco-Leadership — Soneva Fushi Long known as the eco pioneer of the Maldives, Soneva Fushi continues leading with zero-waste systems, renewable energy projects and community conservation initiatives, proving that luxury and sustainability can thrive hand in hand.
- Haven for Families — Four Seasons Landaa Giraavaru This award honors resorts that provide both indulgence and child enrichment. Landaa Giraavaru excels with its Marine Discovery Centre, turtle rehabilitation programmes, and family-friendly amenities that allow both parents and little ones to delight in island life.
- Best Romantic / Honeymoon Experience — Gili Lankanfushi Offering barefoot intimacy at its finest, Gili Lankanfushi delivers a cocoon of romance with water villas, private butlers, and quiet, personalised service. It remains a time-honored favourite for couples seeking multi-sensory luxury.
- Best Unique Dining — Hurawalhi (5.8 Undersea Restaurant) Dining here is as much spectacle as sustenance: a multi-course menu framed by panoramic coral views, in one of the world’s largest all-glass underwater restaurants.
- Best Wellness & Spa Retreat — Six Senses Laamu A sanctuary for body and soul, Six Senses Laamu offers holistic wellness programming, open-air spa suites, yoga over water, and signature rituals that blend seamlessly with its natural setting.
- Best Design & Architecture — Patina Maldives (Fari Islands) Marcio Kogan’s modernist, minimalist sensibility yields a resort where architectural purity meets tropical serenity. Patina’s villas and communal spaces blur lines between indoor and outdoor, creating an elegant gallery of contemporary tropical living.
- Best Ultra-Private Island — COMO Cocoa Island With just 33 villas set over a whisper-quiet lagoon, COMO Cocoa Island emphasizes calm sophistication, intimate surroundings and low-key luxury in a discreet setting.
- Best for Diving & Marine Life — Baros Maldives Baros’s spectacular house reef, mere moments from your villa, continues to delight snorkellers and divers — a living tapestry of vibrant corals, reef fish and rare marine encounters.
- Best Overall Island — Velaa Private Island Crowned as the best all-round performer. With its private golf academy, bespoke services, underwater excursions, superb dining, and supreme privacy, Velaa epitomizes uncompromising Maldivian luxury.
Quotes & Reflections
“Every year, the Maldives throws up new contenders and fresh creativity,” said Eamonn Burns, Director at Maldives Magic. “2025’s winners illustrate that luxury in the Maldives is no longer just about seclusion or views — it’s about personality, responsible practices, design narratives and meaningful guest experience.”
Each winner was selected based on criteria such as design vision, service excellence, guest feedback, sustainability credentials, distinctive programming, and the ability to carve out a unique voice in a crowded luxury landscape.
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