One&Only Reethi Rah

A Forbes Five Star resort spread across 109 acres of a shaped private island in North Malé Atoll, with 3.7 miles of coastline divided into 12 separate beaches so no villa has to share its strip of sand. A small bridge splits the island in two; the channel beneath it is famously calm and famously photographed. You arrive by seaplane in twenty minutes or, if you have the sense to, by the resort's 56-foot yacht in forty-five.