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Sun Island Resort and Spa

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Sun Island is surrounded by the beauty that Maldives typically represents and offers all the modern comforts, conveniences and facilities that you can ever think of. A mature island with dense tropical vegetation and tall coconut palms, you can wander into the trees and loose yourself amongst them if you like. With wide beaches of fine white sand all around the island there is no difficulty in finding your own private little cove for a day. At Sun Island Resort you are spoilt for choice. The resort can serve your every whim and desire- be it sports, games, food or even shopping.
Location : South Ari Atoll
Distance from airport : 99 Km
Transfer by Dhoni : n/a
Transfer by Speedboat: 160 Minutes
Transfer by Seaplane : 35 minutes
Number of rooms : 350 Rooms
Credit Cards accepted :

 

Room Types


Deluxe Room
Super Deluxe Room
Water Bungalow
Presidential Suites

Deluxe Room

All the Deluxe rooms are with air-conditioning, hot & cold desalinated water, hair dryer, veranda, shower, mini bar, electronic safe, Satellite TV with in-house movies and internet access. IDD Telephones in room with voice mail facility.

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Super Deluxe Room
All Super Deluxe rooms are with air-conditioning, en suite bath facilities with hot & cold desalinated water, bidet, bath tub, hair dryer, veranda, open shower, mini bar, electronic safe, satellite TV with in-house movies and internet access. IDD Telephones both in room and toilet with voice mail facility.

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Water Bungalow
A wooden jetty leading out over the lagoon takes you this luxurious accommodation. Air-conditioning, hot & cold desalinated water, hair dryer, bidet, bath tub, mini bar, electronic safe, private sun deck, private stair case to the lagoon, satellite TV with in-house movies and internet access. IDD telephones both in room and bathroom with voice mail facility.


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Presidential Suites
The Water Suites built either side of the far end of the jetties provide accommodation for those who want to spend their holiday in style. Each unit is made up of two bedrooms; one master bedroom furnished with a double bed and a twin bedroom with en suite bathrooms, living room with private bar with tea and coffee making facilities and a large private terrace with a Jacuzzi and corner bath in both bathrooms.

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Wine and Dine

Under the direction of our Executive Chef, Mohamed Waheed, who for years has been in Villa hotels, our restaurants rank well in the county. Our 5 restaurants including Italian, Thai, 24hour A La Carte Coffeeshop / Southern Star Grill and the Main Restaurant features, good views, romantic setting, healthy dishes and good wine lists. Our guests rave about our selection of fresh island fish and seafood . Everyday the the Chef features a uniquely themed menu with a mix of local and international favorites, a perfect opportunity to sample new-to-you taste sensations which will fuel up for your holiday activities. Our 10 bars including 24hrs main bar with disco floor serves number of alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks and varieties of cocktail.

Maaniyaa Restaurant - Main Restaurant
Sun Star Thai Restaurant & Bar
Ristorante Al Pontile & Bar (Italian Restaurant & Japanese Corner)
Club Green House Bar
MekunuBar - Main Bar
VANI Coffee Shop & Bar
Beach Bar
In Room Dining
Lobby Bar
Pool Bar / Swim-up Bar
Southern Star Restaurant & Bar

Maaniyaa Restaurant - Main Restaurant

 

Open daily at hours stated below for the guests accommodated on board inclusive terms. The meals are served in Buffet style. The beverage menu covers a wide choice of world wines, fresh and canned juices among other regular premium beverages.

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Sun Star, Thai Restaurant & Bar

 

Mouth Watering Thai and Oriental delicacies from an exclusive Reef top restaurant offering a magnificent view of Sunrise and Sunset over the Indian Ocean & fascinating Romantic dinners under the twinkling Southern Cross. (Open from 10am till midnight).It’s beautiful with an ocean view that’s subtly lit up at night. Ask for a table along the open oceanside edge. The service here is attentive and even anticipatory.

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Ristorante Al Pontile & Bar (Italian Restaurant & Japanese Corner)

 

Al Pontile (meaning “the jetty”) – with breathtaking view of the resort’s house reef serves traditional Italian cuisine and Japanese specialties in a Novel Italian Elegance.

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Club Green House Bar

 

Set amidst the corner of the lawn area in the heart of the island where you can quench your thirst. Favorite location for pre and after meal drinks.

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MekunuBar - MainBar
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AOpen 24 hours with a wide selection of both alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages. Exclusively comfortable, facing the lagoon, the resorts main bar offers thirst-quenching exotic and colorful international cocktails with a variety of entertaining programs and animations.

Seating Capacity Indoor: 304 Covers

Seating Capacity Outdoor: 210 Covers

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VANI Coffee Shop & Bar
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For light meals, Fishermen’s display, Ice creams or simply a variety of international dishes to choose from. (Open 24hrs.)
A perfect setting for guests wishing to linger over morning coffee and afternoon tea while sitting under the palm trees.

Restaurant Theme: Continental, a la carte menu and snacks / 24hours
Seating Capacity: Indoor: 86 Covers
Seating Capacity: Outdoor: 70 Covers


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Beach Bar
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The most convenient bar for the water lovers, located near the windsurf school providing fruit juice and alcoholic drinks from 0900-1700 hrs.

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In Room Dinning
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Dial our Room service for cuisine and drinks.

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Lobby Bar
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Personalized service in a quite and comfortable setting for special meetings and discussions. A wide selection of wines, beverages, cocktails and champagne to check. Open from 1700-0000 hrs.

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Pool Bar / Swim-up Bar
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Take a sit at the pool bar, feel and enjoy the warm sweet waters and just get tanned while sipping your favorite choice.

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Southern Star Restaurant & Bar
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For light meals, Fishermen’s display, Ice creams or simply a variety of international dishes to choose from. (Open 24hrs.)
A perfect setting for guests wishing to linger over morning coffee and afternoon tea while sitting under the palm trees. A Specialty restaurant for clients from over water bungalows. Offers a Specialty Indian Menu for those who like spicy food.


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Services and Activities

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The Water Sports Center of Sun Island is located on the East Side of the island. We have three English-speaking instructors to help you in your need and through the lessons. Rental catamaran and windsurfing, water-ski, knee boarding, banana riding, rental canoe’s (single & double) and Jet Ski riding are the activities offered.

Fishing
To let you make acquainted with the Maldivian way of life and customs, we organize a number of excursions to the neighboring islands where the centuries old culture and simple life style still remain unchanged. Since time immemorial, the Maldivians have relied on fish as a basic food item for its inhabitants. Not surprisingly, per capita consumption of fish in the Maldives is one of the highest in the world, and fish is the main source of protein for the inhabitants of the archipelago. Fishing is done from dhonis, wooden boats of excellent craftsmanship. It is manned by a crew of eight to ten men or sometimes fourteen. Dhivehis (Maldivians) go fishing everyday when the weather permits, except Fridays. On Fridays they beach the boats and service them, taking time out for noon prayers. Dhivehis like to eat tuna fish and sometimes reef fish. The traditional fishing practiced by the Maldivians is an art by itself that has evolved over the centuries.

Island Discovery
Make it a pleasure to explore more on the locality of the islanders by joining our full day island hopping tour. This includes a barbecue lunch in an uninhabited picnic island, takes you to a local island and gives you the opportunity to swim and sun bathe. You will then be visiting to another Resort Island before the tour ends.

Reef Explorer
This journey is to explore the hidden secrets beneath the ocean where the aquamarine beauty and amazing multi-coloured corals and fauna are found. The trip is lead by skilled guides who will take you to the best reefs in the vicinity. Snorkelling equipment is available to rent from diving center.These equipment are also available to purchase from our souvenir shop.

We provide a wide range of sports and recreational facilities with modern equipment and experienced instructors.

 

Health and fitness
Concerning health & fitness, we have a wide variety of activities available to ensure absolute relaxation for your tired muscles. These activities include aromatherapy massage, aerobics, gymnasium, sauna, steam bath, chilled pond, Jacuzzi and saloon, etc.

Clinic
The resort’s clinic is open daily to attend to your medical needs. Staffed with a doctor and nurses, the clinic’s facilities include a well-stocked pharmacy, private rooms for in house treatment.

Entertainment
Sun Island presents you with an exciting weekly entertainment program comprising of live band, disco, Karaoke, competitions, poolside shows and many more to make your evening a lively and an enjoyable one.

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Diving

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The Diving School of Sun Island is located on a small island connected by a wide jetty to the resort. The Diving School is about 30m wide and 12 m deep. Two dry rooms, one A/C classroom, one non-A/C classroom, Two equipment rooms, workshop, compressor room with three Bauer K14 Vertical III compressors, two dry rooms, four showers, four toilets, eight changing rooms and lockers are available.

The Diving Center is equipped with 100 full gears of Scuba equipment, all regulators are with octopus and pressure gauge (for training also depth gauge), 150 tanks (10 liter) and 30 tanks (12 liter), 200 ABC's (mask, snorkel and fins), rental Aladin diving computers (80 x), under water photo camera's (5 x MX 10) are also available.

The Diving School offers courses of:

- PADI (Open Water Diver, Advanced Open Water, Rescue Diver,
Dive master, Assistant
Instructor and different Specialty Courses).
- Medic First Aid.
- DAN Oxygen provider course

The causes can be taught mainly in the following languages: English, German,
Dutch, Japanese, Korean, French and Russian.

Boat Dives are made three times a day, night dives two times a week (or more often on special request), day trips will be scheduled two times a week. The diving boats are leaving 10-20 meter from the diving school. The boat trips are normally about one hour to the Dhigurah channel. Boats are equipped with radio communication, spare-box, tools, first aid and oxygen set (DAN). For the guests' safety surface floats are provided.

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Spa

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Sun Island is a magical island, with its lush greenery and tranquility, truly a breathtaking tropical paradise. “Nalaguraidhoo”, its local (Dhivehi) name, depicts beauty, as “Nala” means beautiful.

It’s known to be having the most charming white beaches and turquoise shallow lagoons among the garland of islands known as the “Flower of the Indies’. Nalaguraidhoo presents you the opportunity to experience the unaffected fascination of the Maldives in surroundings that have been developed to give you the best of modern comforts, while in no way detracting from the island's natural splendor. Sun Island wraps you in comfort, provides you with the best of culinary delights, and leaves you to have some of your most invigorating experiences.

We invite you to visit our Spa which is really a created sanctuary, just for you!

Indulge yourself, rejuvenate body and mind and allow your spirit to transcend with scented oils, gentle music and caring hands. Delight and assuage your senses.

Enhance your vacation experience through our special treatments which embrace the usage of flower, marine and plant essences and relive the mystery of the primeval arts of healing.

 

Herbal Massage

Tropical Dreaming

Skin Deep & Beautiful

 

The Herbal Massage
Release Up with a deep and exotic Massage ..........

Our massage room offers the traditional Thai Ayurvedic therapy techniques using rare herbal oils.

Aroma Therapy
Experience the therapeutic powders of essential oils in a relaxing, restorative massage that combines the sense of smell with the healing value of touch. The beneficial properties of these pre-blended oils are used to treat common aliments, promote good health and emotion well being.

Deep Tissue
A full body massage which combines long gentle strokes, kneading firm circular movements to help you feel both relaxed and invigorated. Your sour muscles will be further soothed with the heeling effect “Oil of intention” specially blended for you.

Traditional Thai Massage
An art of ancient traditions, by force of pressure points, muscles and ligaments, and stretching and bending, the spine is elongated and relieved of tension and the joints stretched. The sense of well being, energy and flexibility brought back into your body is extraordinary.

Oriental Foot Massage
Oriental Foot Massage 30 Min. US$ 35.00. This traditional oriental foot massage is highly recommended to aid relaxing and promote a sense of well being. By carefully localizing the points and measured amount of pressure it is possible to revitalize the body speedily.

Back &Shoulder Massage
A treatment that specially eases muscles tension by concentrating on the tight and stressed muscle of the back and shoulders. Extensive therapy work provides relaxation to lower and upper back, shoulder and neck areas.

Neck & Shoulder Massage
Using the healing properties of essential oils, you will be invited to select the oil, which appeals you most on that day. This type of aroma therapy massaged will refresh and heal the skin while the body and the mind is totally relaxed and ultimately re-energized.

Asian Blend Massage
Asian Blend uses the therapist’s body weight rather than muscular force for the transmission of pressure, force or energy, creating a highly therapeutic effect.

 

Tropical Dreaming
Treatment of the islands......

Island Theyo Dhenmun
The local traditional massage with “patience” healing oil using short firm strokes, pressure points and a deep scalp massage using coconut oil. A must try while in Maldives.

Indian oil Massage
An very old Indian Massage that has been practiced for centuries. A full body treatment, which improves blood circulation. It helps body organs to function properly and it eliminates physical, mental and spiritual tiredness of the body.

Bondithaan Kurun
It is a special Maldivian treatment by a process in which leaves or other parts of herbal plants or herbal powder are applied to the whole body. The substances is tied into boluses which are dipped in hot medicated oils and applied to the whole body for thirty minutes or an hour per day. This is used in the treatments of arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis with inflammation, spondylitis and injuries sustained during sports, accidents, diabetes, obesity etc. It cleanses the body and improves blood circulation.

Veli Modun
Maldivian sand massage, a treatment of islands. The person lies lightly clothed on the beach where waves break gently. The masseur collects hand full of fine wet salty sand and massages using kneading movements. Ideally the massage is followed by an oil massage.

Hoonu Theyo Dhemun
This is specially for the aged and is done by using herbal warm oils. Helps improved the blood circulation and gives easy flexibility to the joints and muscles. It is kind of exercise for those who are not able to do so.

Spa treatment hour from 09:00 – 22.00Hrs. Last treatment starts from 21.00Hr

 

Skin Deep & Beautiful
Layer Upon Layer.....

Full Body Massage
This is a full body treatment that improves the blood circulation. It helps the human organs to be flexible and function properly. It eliminates physical, mental and spiritual tiredness and removes unnecessary fat from the body.

Meyva Fani Dhemun (A Fruit Juice Combination)
An exhilarating story of all the tropics has to offer. The massage is done by applying the juice of fresh fruits. This helps the skin complexion by reducing aging, sunburns and brown pigmentation.

Baby Massage
A massage only for kids by using special mild herbal oils it improves the physical appearance for growth of the body and muscles.

Split Massage
Face & Head
Neck & Back
Leg & Foot

Swedish Massage
A full body massage which combines long gentle strokes, kneading form circular movements to help you feel both relaxed and invigorated. Your sour muscles will be further soothed with the heeling effect of “Oil of intention” specially blended for you.

Aroma Therapy Massage
Using the healing properties of essential oils you will invited to select the oil, which appeals you most on that day. This type of aromatherapy massaged will refresh and heal the skin while the body and mind is totally relaxed and ultimately re-energized.

Sports Massage
This massage derived from ancient Polynesian methods is ideal for restoring balance to the body, mind & soul. Essentially a deep tissue massage with pressure applied by forearms and hands in long sweeping strokes all over the body.

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