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Best of the Maldives: Nautical Kids Club – Anantara Dhigu

Published 6 May 12 10:49 PM | Maldives Complete

     No it’s not a shipwreck (though you can imagine that if you like) nor a bad dhoni parking job. It’s the dhoni-inspired Anantara kids club. Who needs a big body of water at their kids club when you can have an entire ocean in your imagination...

Filed under: Anantara Veli, Anantara Dhigu, kids

Best of the Maldives: Honeymoon Registry - Anantara

Published 23 April 12 11:52 AM | Maldives Complete

    Tis indeed the season for taking the plunge . The nuptial plunge. Bridal magazines are cascading off the newsagent shelves, harried betrothed are scrambling for church bookings, and couples are getting vase.into their charming first rows...

Filed under: best of, service, Anantara Veli, Anantara Dhigu, Anantara Kihavah Villas

Best of the Maldives: Floor Decoration – Anantara Veli

Published 1 February 12 3:11 AM | Maldives Complete

    Bed decoration, with petals and blossoms from local gardens, is a longstanding tropical resort tradition practiced with great panache in the Maldives. Kuramathi has innovated on the concept with towel sculptures . And Anantara Veli provides...

Filed under: best of, service, Anantara Veli, art

Best of the Maldives: Therapeutic Arrival – Anantara Dhigu

Published 2 December 11 6:42 PM | Maldives Complete

    “ I don’t even know half these people!” – 12 pains of Christmas , Twisted Christmas As delightful as holiday greetings are to receive, sending them can be an exhausting tasks. If hours hunched over the kitchen table scrawling out notes can...

Filed under: best of, Naladhu, Anantara Veli, Anantara Dhigu, greeting

Best of the Maldives: Thai – Anantara Veli

Published 10 November 11 11:33 AM | Maldives Complete

  Happy Loy Krathong ! “On the eve of the 12th lunar month, Anantara Resorts Maldives is proud to present a traditional evening of Thai cuisine and Krathong – flower-shaped candlelit rafts – in celebration of Loy Krathong, The Festival of Lights...

Filed under: best of, Naladhu, Anantara Veli, Anantara Dhigu, ambience, nationality

Best of the Maldives – Fusion: Anantara Veli

Published 2 August 11 7:30 PM | Maldives Complete

My fortnight tour of the Maldives identified 89 potential new ‘ Best of Maldives’ features (to add to the 169 I have already posted and the further 94 that I have drafted in the wings). Over the upcoming fortnight, I will be featuring the...

Filed under: best of, Anantara Veli, dining

Maldives Tour 2011 – Day 2: Anantara Dhigu, Anantara Veli, Naladhu

Published 17 July 11 11:58 AM | Maldives Complete

  The Maldive Trio . We live on a farm in a converted barn quite close to our other neighbours who also live in charming conversions. We are quite remote, being out on a farm, but we don’t feel isolated because we have our neighbours with whom we...

Filed under: Naladhu, Anantara Veli, Anantara Dhigu, tour

Best of the Maldives: Closest Neighbours – Dhigu / Veli / Naladhu

Published 11 September 10 8:9 PM | Maldives Complete

  While Olhuveli and Fun Island might be a football pitch apart, if you want a little neighbourhood of tiny companion islands, then the Anantara resorts – Dhigu , Veli - and Naladhu . Each resort is just under 300 yards apart. So if you are apprehensive...

Filed under: best of, Naladhu, Anantara Veli, Anantara Dhigu, location

Best of the Maldives: Romance – LUX Maldives

Published 21 March 10 1:50 PM | Maldives Complete

On the subject of Diva and being in the awards season, a second hat tip to Diva for being ranked the highest for ‘ Most Romantic’ in its ‘ Travellers Choice Awards’ . A big kudo since the Maldives are perhaps most famous a honeymoon...

Filed under: best of, Diva, Chaaya Reef Ellaidoo, Anantara Veli, romance