The Best Hotels Near Soneva Secret, by the Record
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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.
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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.