Vilamendhoo Island Resort & Spa Vilamendhoo Island Resort & Spa

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Vilamendhoo is the quintessential island resort, encapsulating everything that is wonderful about the Maldives. Surrounded by a beautiful lagoon that is stunning even by the high standards of the Maldives, Vilamendhoo stands as a magnificent gateway into the incredible opportunities that await you in this island paradise. An excellent house reef and long stretches of white, sandy beach give you a wealth of fabulous opportunities to spend your days loving life as you drink up the tropical sunshine. As the only resort on the island of Vilamendhoo, in the South Ari Atoll, there is plenty of space to feel comfortably liberated, where time passes at your own pace, and life is as peaceful as you make it. This really is paradise, so make Vilamendhoo your next holiday.

  • Plethora of dining options.
  • Great children's facilities.
  • Short transfers - start your holiday sooner.
Overview

At a glance

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Awards

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2025

  • Travelers Choice

2024

  • Travelers Choice

2023

  • Travelers Choice 2023
  • Travelers Choice

2022

  • Travelers Choice 2022

2021

  • Travelers Choice 2021

2020

  • Certificate of Excellence 2020
  • Travelers Choice 2020

2019

  • Certificate of Excellence 2019

2018

  • Certificate of Excellence 2018
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Accommodation

All accommodations include:

  • King size or twin beds
  • Private porch with furniture
  • Air-conditioning
  • Overhead ceiling fan
  • Sitting area
  • Stocked mini bar with refrigerator
  • Tea and coffee making facilities
  • IDD telephone
  • 32 inch flat screen cable TV
  • DVD/CD player
  • High speed WiFi
  • Safety deposit box
  • Nightly turndown service
  • Partially open-air bathroom with rain shower and double sinks
  • Hairdryer
  • Bathrobe
  • Pool and beach and beach towels

Garden Rooms

Luxuriate in plush garden views fro the privacy of your very own private sundeck.

Beach Villas

Facing the unspoilt waters and with direct access to the beach, private terraces featuring armchairs, tables and sun loungers.

Jacuzzi Beach Villas

Jacuzzi Beach Villas are spacious, with wood floor, an iPad docking station. Luxuriate in lush tropical gardens and a beautiful lagoon views from the privacy of your own wooden sundeck with Jacuzzi, chaise lounges and umbrellas.

  • iPod docking station

Jacuzzi Water Villas

Jacuzzi Water Villas feature a large private terrace with direct access to the sea and a private hydromassage Jacuzzi tub. Each villa has a large living room with a comfortable sofa bed.

  • Bluetooth mini speaker
  • Rain shower
Dining

Restaurants

Funama Restaurant

Guests in the Garden Rooms and Beach Villas can enjoy buffet style meals with a variety of international and regional cuisines for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Ahima Restaurant

Adult guests in the Jacuzzi Beach Villas and Jacuzzi Water Villas can enjoy buffet lines including live action cooking stations where food is prepared to your order.

Asian Wok Restaurant

This over the water restaurant specialises in Asian cuisine and Teppanyaki. Reservations recommended.

  • Dinner - 19:00-23:00.

Hot Rock Restaurant

Adults can enjoy seafood, steak, chicken or exotic game cooked at your table on 'hot rocks'. Located at the Sunset Bar beach. Reservations recommended.

  • Dinner - 19:00-23:00.

Snacks

The Snack Menu is served at Bonthi Bar and Sunset Bar.

Bars

Bonthi Bar

The Bonthi Bar, on the beach beside the Funama Restaurant, with satellite TV coverage of international sporting events and a Disco. There is also outdoor seating on a wooden deck.

  • Open - 24 hours.

Boashi Bar

Located beside the Boashi Bar Pool, at the eastern end of the island.

  • Open - 10:00-20:00.

Sunset Bar

Beside the Ahima Restaurant and Sunset Pool, designated for guests of 18 years and older. Enjoy the best view of sunset with a choice of seating, either inside, on the pool decks or beach.

  • Open - 10:00-23:00.

Asian Wok Bar

Serving drinks in the Asian Wok Restaurant.

  • Open - 10:00-23:00.
All-inclusive

All-Inclusive Plus Package

  • Breakfast (07:30 – 10:00), lunch (12:30 – 14:00), and dinner (19:00 – 21:00) is served in Funama Restaurant for guests staying in the Garden Rooms and the Beach Villas, while Ahima Restaurant is for guests staying in the Jacuzzi. Beach Villas and Jacuzzi Water Villas, both feature ‘all you can eat’ buffets with a variety of menus to please everyone’s taste.

  • Snack Day and after hours Menu, served at the Bonthi Bar and Sunset Bar from 11:00 – 22:00

  • A 20% discount on all food itemsfrom Asian Wok menu or at the Hot Rock (not valid for special events and teppanyaki).

  • Dine Around Option of one 3-course set menu for Lunch and Dinner in the Asian Wok (pre-booking required and are subject to space availability)

  • A 20% discount from selected spa treatments taken during the first two days of the guest stay (not all treatments are entitled for this discount. Subject to space availability).

  • Unlimited ‘all you can eat’ specialsnack menu including pizzas and burgers from 10:00 – 19:00,served in Bonthi Bar and Sunset Bar, Ice cream can be enjoyed at Boashi Bar.

  • Unlimited ‘all you can drink’ alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages ‘all day and night’, as follows:

  • Vilamendhoo bottled water-non-carbonated,housebrand

  • Soft drinks

  • Fruit juice - packaged

  • Draught beer

  • Coffee,tea, iced coffee, iced tea, espresso, cappuccino, latté, macchiato and hot chocolate.

  • Milkshakes and Smoothies

  • House Wine -red, white and rosé

  • House Spirits- gin, vodka,rum, whisky,tequila and brandy

  • The cocktails and mocktail selection are served with house brand ingredients

  • Minibar- A selection of alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages and snacks:

  • Vilamendhoo bottled water – non carbonated, house brand (2 x 1 liter)

  • Softdrinks

  • Juice

  • Beer

  • Wine -red, white and rosé

  • Coffee, tea, iced coffee and iced tea

  • Assorted snacks.

  • The mini-bar is refilled once per day on a regular schedule.

  • One 1/2 bottle of Champagne, per room, per length of stay.

  • One Sunset Cruise, as per schedule.

  • One 1/2-hour Group Snorkeling Lesson (equipment not included), as per schedule.

  • One Dhangethi Island Excursion, as per schedule.

  • One 1/2-hour Group Windsurf Lesson(equipment included), as per schedule.

  • One 1/2-hour Group Tennis Lesson (equipment included), as per schedule.

  • Free use of the fitness centre, daytime use of the tennis, padel tennis, volleyball and badminton courts, table tennis,billiards,snooker, darts and football grounds(equipment included).

  • Free use of Padel court for one hour during daytime, (rackets and used balls are included)

  • Free use of the kayaks and windsurfers (equipment included).

  • Free Yoga Session in Duniye Spa: group sessions, as per schedule; includes Pranayama, Asanas and Yoga Nidra.

The All-Inclusive Plus Package Excludes

  • Food from other resorts’ restaurants, room service, gift shops, mini-bar items and excursions not listed above.
  • Beverages from room service, gift shops, mini-bar items,sports centre and excursions not listed above.
  • Beverages not listed above,such as; other liquors, liqueurs, premium selections of wine on the menu and fresh fruit juice.
  • Blended drinks and cocktails(premium brand spirits).

Important Points

  • Food and beverage are for your own consumption; beverages are served one glass at a time, while at the resorts restaurants or bars.
  • All guests registered in the same room must be on the All-Inclusive Plus Package.
  • Alcoholic beverages will not be served to anyone younger than 18 years of age.
  • Vilamendhoo only accepts guests 18 years and older in the Sunset Bar.
  • Management reserves the right to not serve alcoholic beverages to inebriated guests.
  • There are no refunds or substitutions, and benefits are not transferable to another guest.
  • The All-Inclusive Plus Package is available only for the guests entire length of stay.

Procedures

  • Guests must sign all food and beverage bills, except buffet meals. Bills do not include prices and no charges will be posted to your hotel account for the benefits included in your All-Inclusive Plus Package.
  • All Inclusive Plus Package benefits may be enjoyed until the time the guest departs the resort.
  • Please remember that charges not included in the All-Inclusive Plus Package must be paid upon check-out.
  • If you have any questions, please contact Vilamendhoo Reception or your Tour Guide.
Facilities

All-Inclusive Plus Package

  • Unlimited alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages
  • Fully stocked mini bar
  • 24 hour afternoon tea
  • One half bottle of Champagne
  • One Sunset Cruise
  • Half hour group lesson for snorkelling, windsurfing and tennis
  • Daytime use of the tennis, volleyball and badminton courts
  • Access to the Games Room
  • Access to kayaks and windsurfers

For the Family

  • Children's playground
  • Children's wading pool
  • Indoor play area
  • Board games and puzzles
  • Babysitting services*

Facilities

  • English speaking staff
  • Free WiFi
  • 24 hour front desk
  • Concierge service
  • Luggage storage
  • Room service*
  • Internet café
  • Shopping arcade*
  • Meeting and banquet facilities*
  • Laundry service*
  • Medical clinic*
  • Barber shop*
  • Beauty salon*

*Additional charges apply, payable locally.

Leisure

Sports and Recreation

  • Private beach
  • House reef
  • 2 swimming pools
  • Flood-lit tennis courts
  • Putting green
  • Volleyball
  • Badminton
  • Games room
  • Petanque and football grounds
  • Fishing excursions including morning, afternoon and deep sea trips
  • Fitness centre

Duniye Spa

Duniye Spa over-the-water provides a tropical spa experience for women and men, focused on wholeness, simplicity, purity and quality. The Therapist's healing energy combined with Asian massage techniques and using only chemical free, pure organic compounds, follows a natural, holistic, personalized approach to caring for each guest's health, beauty and well being

Evening Entertainment

Nighttime programme of:

  • Maldives culture and history presentation
  • Marine preservation slide show
  • Bodu beru culture dance show
  • DJ disoc
  • Divers' video
  • Movies
  • Quiz night
  • Live band
  • Lending library

Activities

  • Snorkelling
  • Sunset cruise*
  • Island hopping*
  • Robinson Crusoe Island*
  • Whale Shark, Manta and Turtle spotting*
  • Football and sports tournaments
  • Board games available at Bonthi Bar

*Additional charges apply, payable locally.

From the Blog

Vilamendhoo Island Resort & Spa: A Secluded, Tropical Hideaway

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The Maldives has become a synonym for paradise whether it’s for scuba divers, honeymooners or beach lovers. Set on a picturesque lagoon, Vilamendhoo Island Resort offers an array of diverse beauty; powder-soft white sands, lush tropical gardens, and miles of cobalt blue waters, encapsulating all that is wonderful about the Maldives. Vilamendhoo’s postcard-perfect beaches present a kaleidoscope of colours and earthly pleasures. Here, everyone can find their own patch of paradise.

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