Marriott Bonvoy members don’t have any scarcity of Maldives resorts they’ll guide with factors. However Marriott Bonvoy simply gained its first Autograph Assortment resort within the island nation: The Halcyon Personal Isles Maldives, Autograph Assortment.
The Halcyon Personal Isles Maldives is an opulent 38-villa resort located on two personal islands. One island homes the beachfront villas, whereas the opposite is dwelling to the overwater retreats. The villas vary in measurement from 2,367 sq. toes to over 13,454 sq. toes, presumably together with outside areas.
Regardless of the resort solely having 38 visitor villas, you will discover three eating places. Thari is an all-day restaurant that includes a mix of Asian and Mediterranean delicacies and providing indoor and outside seating. In the meantime, Yuzu is open for breakfast and dinner 5 days per week, serving a fusion of Japanese and Peruvian dishes. And The Firepit is open for beachfront eating two nights per week.
The resort additionally provides two bars. Yapa Sundown Bar is a good place to benefit from the sundown, however it additionally provides cocktails, tapas and sashimi with South American and Japanese influences. In the meantime, Bell Bar is the place to go for signature cocktails and uncommon spirits.
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Friends have entry to a health heart, PADI-certified dive heart and the Halcyon Spa. In the meantime, younger visitors can make the most of the supervised children membership and participate in marine biology workshops, eco-focused seaside video games and coral planting.
Though each villa encompasses a personal pool, the resort additionally provides two public swimming pools, full with lounge chairs, towel service and cabanas.
The press launch notes the resort is “situated throughout two pristine personal islands, fringed by vibrant coral backyard and turquoise lagoons.” Nonetheless, it is unclear whether or not the resort has a home reef and, in that case, how accessible it’s to visitors.
Like most Maldives resorts, Halcyon Personal Isles Maldives pairs visitors with a devoted butler once they arrive. In line with the press launch, this butler is a “discreet but intuitive presence who orchestrates each component of the keep.” Some providers you may request out of your butler embody custom-made itineraries tailor-made to your pursuits, guided marine excursions (together with diving, snorkeling and line fishing) and bespoke in-villa eating experiences.
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The Halcyon Personal Isles Maldives is within the Gaafu Alifu Atoll. This atoll, which is within the southern a part of the Maldives, can also be dwelling to the Park Hyatt Maldives Hadahaa. Nonetheless, whereas the Park Hyatt makes use of a home flight and speedboat journey for transfers, The Halcyon Personal Isles Maldives depends on 90-minute seaplane transfers, which price $1,090 per individual round-trip.
Award prices vary from 112,000 to 200,000 factors per evening for normal room awards in an oceanfront seaside pool villa or an overwater pool villa.
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Understand that Marriott provides a “Keep for five, Pay for 4” perk when redeeming factors. So, for those who redeem Marriott factors for a five-night keep, you’d solely have to redeem factors for 4 of the 5 nights. You probably have versatile dates, you might guide a five-night keep for 2 adults in an overwater villa with a pool for as little as 448,000 factors, plus $120 in authorities taxes and charges and $2,180 in switch charges.
In the meantime, paid charges for these villas begin at round $1,115.80 per evening, together with taxes, charges and repair expenses however excluding switch charges. In spite of everything, you will should pay the above-mentioned switch charges no matter whether or not you guide a paid or award fee.
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Marriott Bonvoy now has 11 resorts within the Maldives. This implies Marriott loyalists can select from resorts suited to quite a lot of pursuits, vibes and budgets when planning a Maldives trip. The Halcyon Personal Isles Maldives appears greatest suited to vacationers who do not thoughts an prolonged seaplane journey and worth privateness, spacious villas and an intimate ambiance over entry to quite a lot of eating places and proximity to Male (the capital metropolis of the Maldives that almost all worldwide airways serve).
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