Beach Hotels in Baa Atoll

Great food and drinks served 24 hours - from international buffet breakfast at Maakanaa restaurant to Seafood / Italian ala-carte lunch or dinner at Raabondhi restaurant, to drinks at Boli Bar. Great facilities. We started our day early playing tennis, then followed with snorkelling around the house reef just in time for the turtle’s feeding time (before 8 am). There are lots of beautiful and colourful coral reef fish around the island, we saw 3 turtles and 2 baby sharks while snorkelling just in the house reef. Activities in Boli Bar is also noteworthy - from chilling by the pool, playing billiards, live bands, to DJ night - and all of that while drinks are overflowing 😉 Excellent staffs - April our Filipina Island host kept us informed of daily activities and attended to all our requests including restaurant reservations. Vinod made our beach villa clean, Himali and Akash from Raabondi restaurant, Maria who gave us private salsa class, Liani and Sita from the Spa who gave us great treatment and massage, and all the friendly staffs in Maakanaa and Boli Bar - everyone made our stay very pleasant. Transfers to/from island is bit time consuming, but forgivable considering the experience we had at the Island. All we had to do was Eat. Drink. Chill. Beach. Tennis. Sleep. Repeat.

We were happy about everything. Transfer via hydroplane is well organized. Check-in,check-out are quick. The island is beautiful ,very green and clean. The stuff is polite and service is excellent. Stand alone villas are comfortable and big with open air bathrooms. Snorkeling is fantastic! The house reef is amazing with live corals and reach sea life! The food in the main restaurant is good quality,always fresh,delicious and beautifully presented. Relaxing and calm holiday atmosphere. Simply amazing!

Experience in Avani + We are a couple that travel every year to Maldives in different resorts always for long stays, this time was our first time Avani + and was an amazing surprise, we can walk around the island and choose wish type of room fits you, the beach isn’t full of guest, nice for snorkeling, is truly an peace of paradise on earth, this time we stay shortly because an personal accident my wife broke a leg sleeping on stairs 4 days before our departure. The support of resort staff was perfect, medical center, management director Mr Judd and also Mrs Murey and Rashiid, were extremely helpful to arrange all emergency procedures, first was transported to Baa Atoll hospital by boat to X-ray and be prepared to return home, first to Male by hidroplane and than to Portugal by ourselves. In Europe the doctors said that Maldivian hospital and resort medical center made everything correct. So don’t be afraid to go to Maldives even something goes wrong we get appropriate support in worst case scenarios. The resort is wonderful and being there is excellent and unforgettable we fully recommend and thank for all to be save at home again. We will be back soon.

Everything is perfect 👍👍👍

Exceptional service. Beautiful island. Great food. This one of the best hotel I have been in my life. You start relaxing very quickly - even despite long flight and head full of thoughts brought from home. Our butler Yana did an excellent job in making sure our stay is perfect. Her sand drawings were very heartwarming. Kids club is great. I would personally add more sport activities to kids club. Especially for kids 8+. All restaurants were great, we personally liked Lagoon bar, Onu and Vakku. Italian place could be better, but it’s a common issue with Italian food in Asia. Children menu was fantastic. Breakfast was also exceptional, they even try to cook syrniki, but no successful so far. We hope this will be fixed next time we visit! :) Island itself is very green and well maintained. Snorkeling experience was above expectations.

We stayed in March 2025 — everything was perfect. The island is small but very picturesque and well-maintained. We stayed in a beach villa with a private pool — surrounded by lush greenery, beautiful scenery and a sense of complete privacy. Right across from our villa was a golf simulator, which we used several times since we enjoy playing golf. The main restaurant pleasantly surprised us — the food was tasty and varied. Among the à la carte options, the Japanese restaurant was our favorite. We dined there several times, and the dishes were truly outstanding. The spa was also a highlight — the massage was absolutely amazing and deeply relaxing. Special thanks to the staff — polite, attentive, and very detail-oriented. We were left with only the best impressions of our stay.

It has been a week since we've come back from paradise on Earth. The beauty of the Maldives cannot be described, but the amazing experience of staying at Dusit Thani Maldives, which was simply perfect, can. To be perfectly honest, almost everything exceeded my (very high) expectation. The resort is a beautiful jungle/garden and cycling through it is a pleasure for all the senses (especially in the evenings, when you can smell frangipani). We have stayed in one of the ocean villas. The views were simply stunning. The villa was very spacious and cosy, and even though the furniture is not brand new, it is full of drama. Plus, they have the most comfortable pillows my head had ever touched. The big highight-and what convinced us to stay in the resort-is the Thai restaurant Benjarong with it amazing chef and staff-we were usually attended by Novika (foodie as myself, so she could provide great recommendation) and James, who was also super nice and attentive. After having dinner at Benjarong the first night, we booked all of our meals there (with the exception for the night of Eid celebration, when we dined on the beach with live local music and dancing-thanks Sharif. I especial recommend the soft shell crab with curry - powder, the lamb chops, and my favourite dish in the universe-the Thai green curry. My husband fell in love with the dessert with water chestnuts and ended up eating it twice a day 🙂 (and of course I ended up taking the Thai cooking class). Another highlight for the foodies was breakfast. while the choices of "western" food, pastries is impressive, my very favourite (and I had it every single day) was the noodles station. Also, make sure you try the passion fruit jam which is to die for. You can always ask Mona (yet another, cheerful foodie) for recommendations. Moving from the food... Above the Thai 'restaurant is the Sata bar. My husband took the cocktail making class there and we met a very gifted bar attender Amita.

Staying at Anantara Kihavah for our honeymoon exceeded all our expectations,and our holiday on the beautiful island was truly magical! We were greeted onto the island by bongo’s,the staff welcoming us on the pier and serving us fresh coconut water before our lovely villa host,Harnie drove us on a buggy through the lush island plantations to our incredible, newly renovated,spacious and private over water villa,which offered full sea and beach view,and from where we enjoyed complete tranquility. The staff was impeccable! They always went out of their way to make each of our experiences memorable and personalized,remembering our names,surprising us with honeymoon cake, champagne and decorations and always offering us our preferred drinks for breakfast and dinner. Every night, we were taken on an amazing culinary journey at one of the five incredible restaurants,that offer cuisines from around the world and each in a beautiful setting,overlooking the water. Our favorite restaurants were “spice” and “sea” - Sea is the under water restaurant, from where we were taken on a gastronomic journey of a five course meal, six meters under water,experiencing the “message in a bottle” immersive dinner whilst marveling at the sharks, stingrays and more fish than you can imagine, peacefully swim around us in unison. The amazing execute chef,Joachim prepared our dessert on the table,like a masterpiece too beautiful to eat,and he was always present at the restaurants, ensuring guests were enjoying their outstanding meals. Another “wauw” experience was the snorkeling, which we thoroughly enjoyed and we were so impressed by the abundance of marine creatures and sea life, swimming around, just feet below the surface of the Indian Ocean. It felt so calm under the water,and as though the fish were inviting us to join them in their underwater World. Anantara Kihavah is truly one of the BEST resorts we have ever stayed at and we loved every moment of this unforgettable honeymoon.

We really enjoyed staying here. It was a good choice, and we met amazingly friendly people, experience that totally missed afterwards, when we went to an island resort. In this place we found the possibility of experiencing more of Maldivian lifestyle, try local food, and got nice affordable trips for the sand banks and the coral garden. We learned so much from the team of this hotel, they were so passionate about the beauty of the nature, and they were eager to share with us, we truly want to return someday.

Drinks: We paid for all inclusive and the drink selection was huge! Several straight liqueurs (like vodka, two types of rum, tequila etc) you could mix with any soft drinks, about 10 cocktails to choose. Food: The buffet was incredible, the choices varied every meal but with some staples that were always there. The chef would cook in front of you - some days was burgers, some pastas, always eggs in the morning but with waffles as well! The table service was amazing, always making sure you had drinks. Dinner outside was great, with mood lighting on the tables as well. Rooms: We stayed 3 nights in a pool beach villa and it was HUGE and room service included every day. They cleaned the pool every day as well. They even set up a honeymoon decoration. The outdoor shower was brilliant! We then spent 2 nights in an over water villa and it was STUNNING! Smaller but it doesn’t matter, the views are unbelievable and there’s a reef about 100 metres up from the over water villas. We saw two black tip reef sharks which was just incredible, they didn’t bother us and was AMAZING to swim so close to them. People: The workers went above and beyond, always making sure you were comfortable and happy. They memorised our drink orders by the end of our stay. Afa handled most of our stay and moved us into a nicer room for our honeymoon - she really was amazing, thank you Afa! The workers were always doing something to make sure the island looked perfect: raking the sand footpaths, organising people’s beach chairs etc. passing anyone on the footpaths, they always said good morning or hello. Activities: I did a scuba dive and my husband snorkelled - we were the only ones on the boat, we were able to sit on the roof and look around. A pod of dolphins swam to the boat and my husband saw a sea turtle. I saw dozens of lion fish and moray eels, as well as abundant fish of all kinds. Easy dive and extremely enjoyable.