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The Enviroment:
Maldives – Lhaviyani Atoll
Kanuhura is a 5 star 100-room hotel located on Lhaviyani Atoll to the North-East of the Maldives in the Indian Ocean, slim oval island, one kilometre long and 200 metres wide.
Award winning Kanuhura, one of the first luxury resorts in the Maldives, offers the most unique experience to its visitors. Time is all yours on this small island. Every moment is a point of pleasure, a celebration of nature, on this hideaway. Kanuhura is a place of beautiful and natural enchantment which has been created by Indian Ocean civilisations. At Kanuhura, guests may experience successful laid-back island living with a contemporary and stylish feel. Kanuhura clearly stands out among other hotels of the Maldives as an indigenous and elegant hideaway with a contemporary feel and stylish service. The island boasts unrivalled natural beauty and offers natural aesthetic features with uncompromising five star luxury facilities and services.
Being Responsible
The resort also prides itself on innovation and offers guests the chance to experience ‘Haruge’, the first traditional Arts and Cultural Centre to be showcased at a Maldivian resort. Local artists demonstrate the production of a variety of crafts, which are available for sale, and guests are also able to sample local delicacies - allowing them to enjoy a real taste of the Maldives.
How you will reside
Beach Villas are dotted along both lengths of the island, opening out onto the fine white sand and azure sea, while an elevated wooden path extends out beyond centre of the eastern shore, splitting into two runs of stilted Water Villas and Grand Water Villas set over the lagoon, all of which feature individual verandas with wooden steps that lead down into the water. All guest villas have spacious bathrooms with an outdoor shower and freeform bath.
The casual elegance of the island is preserved with the choice of natural materials and a colour palette pulled from the sea. The villas have floor-to-ceiling glass and wood doors that slide back to reveal either the beach or a private deck and the amazing turquoise lagoon.
How you will eat
Kanuhura provides cuisines of unimaginable variety: restaurants and bars at the resort include three distinctive restaurants and one bar.
Thin Rah is a large airy restaurant with its fold-back louvre windows, immense thatched roof with inverted funnels letting in the light and air, and outdoor eating area with sand floor and view of the main pool and lagoon, serving the best of European and Asian cuisine for breakfast and dinner. Nightly international buffets with live cooking stations offer an array of cuisines: Maldivian, Indian, Indonesian, Japanese, Oriental, Italian and Continental European.
The Mediterranean-influenced à la carte Olive Tree is open for lunch and dinner. Poolside open-air tables and a breezy interior offer shady refuge by day, while in the evening an intimate atmosphere is created when the lights dim and candlelight glimmers.
Candlelit romance on the shores of the Indian Ocean sets the tone for Veli Café, open for lunch and dinner, with its elegantly decorated timber tables and chairs set amidst the palm trees on the beachside wooden terrace.
The spacious, partly sand-floored Handhuvaru Bar on the other side of the pool from the two main restaurants has been dressed with comfortable over-sized daybeds and chairs both in and outdoors, by the pool and on the beachfront. The interior is with inviting, cosy seating and windows wide-open to the daylight.
Amenities
Adjacent to the resort reception on the island’s west side is a large freeform freshwater pool, two restaurants, one bar and the award-winning Spa – while at the northern tip there is the water sports centre and a nightclub and a shore side restaurant. Beach volley, two floodlit tennis courts, an air-conditioned squash court, table tennis, games room, library, and a lifestyle boutique. A tennis/squash instructor is available as a playing partner or for coaching sessions.
Guests can also enjoy darts, table soccer and billiards in the games room, or just relax with a good read in the library. Kids club with dedicated trained staff.
Lava Lounge can be used as a private movie cinema with popcorn, for watching big-screen sporting events during major world competitions, or as a conference and meeting room. A range of audio-visual equipment is available. Whether a complete beginner or an experienced sailor, Kanuhura's huge, protected coral-free lagoon offers some of the finest windsurfing and catamaran sailing conditions in the world. The Dolphin Watersports Center is a member of the VDWS (International Association of Windsurfing Schools).
The Wellness Choice
The Veyoge Spa has its own lavish pavilion, complete with a health and beauty center, with separate amenities for ladies and gents. Aerobics, meditation and workouts at the Gymnasium are also part of the spa. The air-conditioned gymnasium boasts state-of-the-art equipment from Life Fitness, while the spa’s weekly activity programme at the Fitness Studio includes yoga, meditation and stretching group classes. A personal trainer is available to tailor special fitness programmes for guests, and private classes with an instructor can also be arranged. The spa also offers a beauty salon, boutique, and separate steam bath, dry sauna, cold plunge pool, and Jacuzzi, both for men and women.
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