Kandooma
Ladled with cool, contemporary island design, this innovative Holiday Inn managed island resort brings a funky vibe and original style to the Maldives. Experience utter relaxation but with myriad entertainment and activity on hand.
Dine on Western and Asian cuisines at the poolside Kandooma Café, recline on lounge pillows enjoying tapas and the perfect sundown location at The Deck, or experience live show cooking before a grandstand ocean view at the fabulous The Kitchen restaurant. Relax in the expansive lagoon pool or with a romantic stroll along the beach, there’s a fitness centre and spa, kids’ club, watersports, a dive centre, complimentary daily snorkelling trips and live music, movie nights and even crab racing in the evening.
Accommodation
The 160 stylishly furnished rooms are bright with attractive splashes of colour; each featuring a television, iPod docker, minibar, tea and coffee maker, an orange squeezer with fresh oranges supplied daily, hammock and an outdoor bathroom.
Villas (48m²) have either garden or beach vistas.
Seaview beach houses (71m²) are duplex with an upper bedroom and balcony with lagoon views plus an open ground floor living area.
The Overwater villas (85m²) have a large deck with a fabulous overwater net hammock.
Restaurants
• Kandooma Café - Western and Asian cuisine • The Deck - Tapas • The Kitchen restaurant - Live show cooking in front of a grandstand ocean view
All Inclusive
- Buffet breakfast, lunch and dinner at the Kandooma Café restaurant
- Selected house brand alcohol, house wine by the glass, draught beer from 11am to midnight
- Mineral water, soft drinks and canned juice
- 1 snorkelling trip per person per stay.
A La Carte All Inclusive (Optional)
As above, plus:
- Breakfast served at Kandooma Café, lunch served at Kandooma Café or Bokkura Coffee Club, dinner served at Kandooma Café, Bokkura Coffee Club or The Kitchen, tapas menu at The Deck and lobby lounge
- Selection of premium house spirits, cocktails and mocktails
- 1 dolphin or sunset cruise per stay
- Non-alcoholic beverages in minibar.
Kandooma
Ladled with cool, contemporary island design, this innovative Holiday Inn managed island resort brings a funky vibe and original style to the Maldives. Experience utter relaxation but with myriad entertainment and activity on hand . . . a perfect combination at this fabulous addition to the Kuoni Maldives portfolio!
Facilities
- Restaurant, café and tapas deck
- Watersports and snorkelling trips
- Crab racing in the evenings
Location
Amidst azure lagoon waters of the South Malé Atoll, approx. 40 minutes speedboat transfer from Malé airport.
Kandooma
Explore the surroundings
Destination introduction
Holidays in the Maldives conjure up images of white sands, swaying palm trees and crystal blue waters, creating that quintessential picture-perfect holiday bliss. Kuoni’s hand-picked island resorts offer everything from all inclusive Maldives holidays, to rustic island retreats and the world’s finest luxury accommodation. Savour gourmet dining, sensuous spas, spectacular diving and the most enchanting ocean sunsets.
Maldives holiday highlights - Admire sea views with a stay in a water villa, elevated over turquoise waters.
- Whilst most of our resorts have fabulous spas, look out for our ‘SPA’ labelled resorts for the finest in pampering indulgences.
- Discover a vibrant underwater world with a professional, supervised scuba-diving expedition. Browse some of our comprehensive dive packages.
- For the ultimate experience join the Atoll Explorer for a Maldives cruise around this beautiful country’s most magical atolls.
- All Inclusive Maldives holidays - For the complete hassle-free holiday look out for our specially negotiated All Inclusive deals.
- All Maldives holidays travelling on scheduled flights include access to the VIP lounge in Malé International Airport on your departure.
Diving
These idyllic coral islands rank amongst the best dive destinations in the world. In conjunction with Euro-Divers, we can offer quality diving packages in the Maldives which can be pre-booked in the UK.
The rare beauty of the magnificent underwater world has made these islands one of the most enchanting diving destinations in the world. When conditions are good the underwater visibility is at the highest level – sometimes exceeding 50 metres – and the warm water temperatures year round make diving in the Maldives a pleasure.
The North Malé Atoll is home to the Lion’s Head and Wattaru Kandu dive sites both of which are frequented by reef sharks. Wattaru Kandu is also home to stingrays and
garden eels whilst Lankanfinokhu, or Manta Point as it’s locally known, is a great place to see manta rays being cleaned by local colonies of cleaner fish.
Hukrueli in the South Malé Atoll is another place to see rays and cleaner fish and Maaya Thila, a protected marine area in this atoll is home to white-tip sharks, turtles, zebra morays and the elusive guitar shark.
Hanifaru lagoon in the Baa Atoll is one of the best places to see whale sharks and manta rays. June to September is the best time to see them as this is during the monsoon season and equinox when the lagoon is filled with plankton.
Important Notes: A medical certificate of physical fitness may be required and qualified divers must bring proof of diving certification and logbook. Please ensure that you purchase adequate insurance.
If you are travelling with any other form of insurance, we strongly recommend that you check the terms of your policy and if necessary take out extra cover. Dive prices shown do not include boat trips to and from dive sites. Boat trips approx. $10 per dive are payable locally. If you intend to learn to dive whilst you are in the Maldives, you must book a holiday of at least eight days duration (five days for the Scuba Diver courses). Open Water and Scuba Diver courses include the necessary equipment as required. Cost for logbook, certificate, course book and other course materials are not included. Costs per person approximately: US$140 (Certification alone: $85).
* Extra equipment required including mask, fins, snorkel, regulator with octopus and pressure gauge, BCD with inflater, 10 litre tank, weightbelt, weights and dive computer (compulsory for every diver) can be obtained locally at an extra charge. Full terms and conditions available on request.
Shopping
In Malé you’ll see plenty of street merchants selling beautiful Maldivian postage stamps. Those ragged dentures suspended outside gift shops are sharks’ jaws. Attractive T-shirts are stencilled before your eyes, generally with brilliantly coloured tropical fish.
The islanders are expert in carving coconut wood and use it to decorate their houses. Mat-weaving, basket-making and coir rope-making are other long-standing crafts. Mats are woven from haa grass. There is some highly developed lacquerwork and you may see examples of handloom weaving or jewellery handcrafted in gold and mother of pearl.