Anantara Kihavah

This residence houses 4 adults and 4 children, or alternatively 6 adults. High ceilings and wooden floors allow for a cool residence throughout the day and private bedrooms when night arrives. This residence is equipped with a living room, kitchen, wine fridge and a private gym as well as a couple’s spa treatment room. Alongside this there will be a 24-hour Villa Host to ensure your stay is comfortable. Complete with both indoor and outdoor dining, a private pathway leads you to the white sandy beach and clear water.

This floating residence sits at the end of the boardwalk, available for 4 adults and 4 children, or alternatively 6 adults. Highlights include your very own private pool and sundeck, over water hammocks and a 24-hour Villa Host to ensure you have a comfortable stay. This residence is equipped with a living room, kitchen, wine fridge, al fresco bathroom with a glass-bottomed whirlpool bathtub and a private gym as well as a couple’s spa treatment room.

Perfect for families or groups, this villa can accommodate up to six adults and six children, or alternatively nine adults. Each bedroom has its own outdoor en-suite bathroom. Complete with a private walkway to the beach and famed house reef, the villa itself is equipped with indoor and outdoor dining for quality time, a fully-equipped private gym, private pool and hammocks and a couple’s spa treatment room.

The largest private residence at the resort, this villa can house eight adults and four children, or alternatively twelve adults. Perfect for extended family or large groups, it combines the three-bedroom residence and a beach pool villa. With two infinity pools and access to a private beach, the villa comes complete with its own spa treatment room, private gym, living and entertaining room and your own 24-hour villa host to ensure your stay is comfortable. The outdoor BBQ and well-equipped kitchen and win fridge allows this villa to be the perfect residence for privacy and entertainment.

The resort is home to varying pool villas, all equipped with Wi-Fi, direct access to either a beach or lagoon and a 24-hour villa host to ensure that your stay is as comfortable as possible. The varying villas can host small families or groups and are each equipped with a private pool and sundeck for sunny days at the resort.

SEA provides a dining experience like no other, allowing you to dine in an underwater restaurant, totally surrounded by a view of the ocean. The dining experience provides the freshest of seafood, paired with wine specially chosen to match the menu. Dining is available for both breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Fire provides Japanese cuisine located underneath a thatched roof, right next to the ocean. Chefs prepare your meal right before your eyes as you choose your wine or finish the evening with a Japanese tea.

An Asian menu paired with cocktails, Spice offers a variety of appetisers, curries, fresh local seafood and soups made by specialty chefs. Watch the meal being prepared for yourself in the show kitchen, or watch the sunset roll in as you dine.

SKY is aptly named. This rooftop bar is located on a private island and is the perfect location to watch the sunset and stay to wonder at the stars as the night rolls in. This is a once in a lifetime opportunity for both romantic couples and for families with children. Listen to the SKY guru as they teach you about the constellations above and peer through the telescope to peer even closer to what lies before you. The bar provides both tapas and a curated wine list to choose from.

Plates is an open-air dining experience to kick start your day. With a focus of wellness on the menu, signature dishes include cold cuts and freshly prepared salads. Drinks include juice or coffee to start your day, and even chilled wine to enjoy the beautiful beach setting.

Complete with a pool bar open from 9am, the Manzaru restaurant provides light bites and seafood over a Mediterranean lunch.

A romantic dining experience, Dining by Design is an experience where you can curate your own menu with a private chef, served in a variety of locations by a private butler. Enjoy your candlelit meal against the backdrop of the ocean, or enjoy a private yacht experience. All meals are paired with award-winning wine of your choice.

Available for breakfast, lunch and dinner, enjoy your meal in the comfort of your own villa at a time that suits you, or book yourself a ‘floating breakfast menu’ from the comfort of your pool, with a variety of freshly-baked pastries and exotic fruits available.

Available upon request, book yourself a private cooking class with our trained chefs to perfect the meals you have been enjoying for the duration of your stay at Anantara Kihavah. Leave with new skills and recipes under your belt and enjoy your freshly-prepared meal with a glass of wine as you gaze at the beautiful views surrounding you.

Enjoy an award-winning wine menu in the underwater Restaurant SEA. Enjoy wines curated by our wine guru and pair with a meal prepared by a private chef. With a choice of over 450 bottles from more than two dozen countries, enjoy the experience as you take in the ocean surrounding you through the glass surfaced walls.

Enjoy a day at sea aboard a luxury yacht with a personalised entertainment and dining menu. Sail to secluded nearby islands or stay out at sea and sunbathe on the deck; it’s your choice. Up to eight people can board this luxury yacht with a variety of experiences available. Go for the day or just in time for sunset. Enjoy an overnight stay aboard the cruise with your own private chef, or take part in an afternoon diving experience with your own personal PADI instructor.

The choice is all yours

Experience the clear blue ocean up-close in the manta-ray’s natural habitat between the months of May and November. Swim alongside these magnificent creatures as they make their way across the waters. Situated in the protected environment of Hanifaru Bay, plan ahead to ensure that you can witness this once in a lifetime opportunity. These gentle but large fish are without a stinger and is the perfect experience for families.

Anantara Kihavah is home to its own reef, perfect for diving. Peer below the surface with the fins and snorkel provided to witness the natural habitat of the Indian Ocean; from Hawksbill turtles to a variety of fish, allow yourself to be fully immersed in the waters that surround you.

Anantara believes in water and energy conservation throughout their hotels as well as waste management. Initiatives are in place to ensure that specific goals are met, such as reducing energy consumption by at least ten percent and purchasing the most energy-efficient lighting. Water is conserved on the island through the installation of low-flow showers and sink aerators. Waste management at Anantara follows local guidelines but they also know that more can be done. Anantara has its own composting programme and only purchases products that are both durable and easy to repair and recycle.

By working in partnership with local communities, programmes are in place to offer local artisans and performers opportunities within the hotel. Employing locally empowers the community as does sourcing locally, reducing air miles and providing business to local fishermen and farmers when possible. By integrating indigenous culture into the resort’s experience Anantara is raising awareness and the importance of employing local people wherever possible. Anantara encourages guests to participate in efforts and learn how food is sourced locally in the gardens as well as how it is prepared in collaboration with specialist chefs.

A series of mini documentaries have been created in collaboration with marine biologists and conservationists who do vital work that protects the wildlife and marine life across Anantara’s resorts. The videos that feature the Maldives centre round the work done to protect the coral life and sea turtles. Involving guest who visit, the video provide a further outreach of education in the work that they do and how their money is well spent in aid of such projects.

Anantara works hard to preserve their destinations and contributes to social and environmental projects in each country they operate by actively supporting local communities. Anantara believes in reef protection more specifically in the Maldives, protecting coral and the surrounding organisms. The team work with experts to restore coral that has been bleached and damaged and allow guests to play an active role in its protection. The HARP approach allows a team to start restoring and growing the colonies of coral and guests are invited to witness this coral being grown, aided by funding provided by Anantara alongside the ‘Dollar for Deeds’ foundation which involves both guests and the Maldives resorts.

The HARP foundation is an initiative aided by the finding of Anantara Kihavah and its resorts. It stands for ‘Holistic Approach to Reef Protection’ and is a non-invasive method of re-growing damaged coral colonies, allowing guests to aid in the replanting process. In collaboration with HARP is an initiative called ‘Dollars for Deeds’, giving guest the option of donating 1 USD for each night they stay at the resort, which is then matched by the hotel.

This foundation funds programmes to rescue turtle eggs from surrounding beaches. Given to the Phuket Marine Biological Centre and Royal Thai Navy, they provide a safe environment for the eggs to hatch before helping them find their way to sea once strong enough. Involving guests in this project aids the foundation whilst giving them the opportunity to explore and rescue the marine life in this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Guests are welcomed to help release turtles back into the ocean whilst educating them on the programmes in place. The foundation focuses on reef cleaning, beach cleaning, tree planting and education within the community to ensure that the natural beauty is preserved for future generations.

Anantara is hoping to start a movement that eradicates single-use plastic from their resorts and have begun doing so with the ‘sustainable straw initiative’. An initiative that began in Asia, Anantara employed a local artist named Khamchan Yano who introduced the resort to a fast-growing bamboo that could be used and reused as natural straws at the hotels. As plastic is one of the main polluters of the oceans and the marine life, something Anantara is committed to protecting, they are hoping to inspire other resorts as well as guests themselves.