The Best Hotels Near Hideaway Beach Resort and Spa, by the Record
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Glass floors over the Indian Ocean are the design choice that either sells you immediately or leaves you cold, and Hideaway Beach Resort is built around that bet. The overwater villas come with plunge pools at the water's edge and butler service for everything else. Restaurants cover seafood to wood-fired pizza, the spa is expansive, but the real pull is the ocean itself, with diving, deep-sea fishing, and dhoni trips all on offer.
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Banyan trees and screw pines line the sandy paths between villas here, which means the greenery does the privacy work most resorts leave to concrete walls. JA Manafaru is a full private island resort in the Maldives, with beach villas whose enclosed garden pools are among the roomier ones in the archipelago, and overwater villas with glass floor panels for watching fish go about their day. The staff are the kind that remember what you mentioned at breakfast.
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Each villa at this private island resort comes with its own team of three, a guardian, an assistant, and a personal chef, which is either deeply relaxing or mildly unsettling depending on your relationship with solitude. Overwater and shoreside villas face a clear blue lagoon in a remote northern atoll. Diving, spa, wine tasting, or a curated "Secret Day" fill the hours. It holds a spot on the World's 50 Best Hotels.