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This is a question lingering on every traveller’s mind and the Maldives provides a safe haven for those who are looking for freedom of space. Added to the safe bubbles created by one island-one resort experience, the Crown & Champa properties also offer travel flexibility with free cancellation up to 3 days to arrival.

For those who muse about a holiday on a paradise island away from the chaos, here are 8 reasons why the Maldives is becoming the ideal destination to travel now;

1. The unique island nature of the Maldives makes the Resort islands a safe bubble to relax. All our Resorts are “One Island, One Resort“ properties and are the only resort on each of the private island.
2. Our resort beaches are crowd-free. Expansive beaches offer the required physical distancing. No masks on beaches.
3. With Maldives reopening borders, more airlines are flying into the Maldives. Air Seychelles, British Airways [Resuming on Oct 17, 2020], Edelweiss Air, Emirates, Etihad, Gulf Air [Resuming on Oct 4, 2020], Qatar Airways, Turkish Airlines and SriLankan Airlines ( with connections to Alitalia, Oman Air and Malaysian Airlines) . Check with your tour operators for seasonal charter flights.
4. Opportunity for an extended family getaway and celebrate festivities together, on a tropical island Celebrate Christmas, festive season or new year’s eve in the Maldives.
5. Escape the winter, escape the crowds to sun, sand and clean ocean and blissful relaxation.
6. Diving, snorkelling, yachting, good food, spa, entertainment and Maldivian hospitality.
7. Surprise a loved one. Catch up and celebrate all those anniversaries, missed sunsets, ruined honeymoons and cancelled holidays.
8. Facilitation of departure PCR testing as required by your home countries and airlines for onward travel.

The resort collection currently provides a choice of Special Offers and flexible cancellation to help plan travel in 2020 and 2021 plus to allow you to the opportunity to linger longer in the Maldives.
Book direct or through your travel agent or OTA.

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Is Maldives Safe To Travel?

Yes. Maldives is a WTTC Global Safe Travels Destination and received the ‘Safe Travel Stamp’ for implementing health and safety measures, in line with the World Travel & Tourism Councils’ Global Safe Travels protocols.

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Living in the ‘new normal’ – A Safe Holiday Experience In Paradise
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The Maldives offers so much more than just sun, sand, sea and a honeymoon for two. This island destination offers something for everyone including the solo traveller, couples, family with young children, families with teens, multi-generational and even extended groups of friends and families to enjoy and create lasting memories.

Contemplating a trip to celebrate life’s special moments, yearning for a holiday to relax and refresh or planning and underwater exploration with dive tanks included, Crown & Champa Resorts has an island perfect for you.

Young Family  |   Travelling With Teens   |   Time For Moms  |   Families Looking For Adults-Only   |   Family Friendly Resort Offers

Fun family holidays in the Maldives

Leave the pressures of everyday life a few thousand miles away and spend some wholesome quality time together as a family in the Maldives.

Travelling with a young family?

Our islands resorts offer wide sandy beaches, family-friendly garden rooms and beach villas, restaurants and bars that cater to family dining, pools, separate child-friendly facilities and playgrounds to keep our youngest guests entertained.
Babysitting services can be arranged as an add-on at our properties for when you need some time.

 

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The Fun Islands

Meeru Island Resort & Spa and Kuredu Island Resort & Spa are islands where children can enjoy the kids club, wading pool, a choice of land sports and cafes for ice-cream. Meeru just a 50-minute speedboat transfer from the Velana International Airport, ideal for a quick transfer with your young children.
Vilamendhoo Island Resort & Spa offers the Boashi pool set in the tropical gardens is a safe environment for families and the island offers a children’s playground and sports facilities for the active members of the family.

Innahura Maldives Resort is where the entire island is a playground with wide beaches, shallow waters and life is easy for the whole family.

💡Travel tip: Ask your dive centre for information on bubble maker dive and snorkelling lessons are available for budding divers from the age of 8 years old.

Need more inspiration for travelling with your young family?
May we recommend the privacy of Kudadoo Maldives Private Island by Hurawalhi which comes equipped with separate quarters for your children’s companion.
Veligandu Island Resort & Spa, too accept guests of all ages.

Travelling with teens?
Older kids and teens can spend hours on the beach, swim, snorkel, dive, participate in excursions with adults consent, experience a choice of cuisine and restaurants, enjoy the swimming pools. Each resort also offers a wide array of land sports from football, tennis, badminton and more. Children can rent bicycles on Kuredu and Meeru. Watersport, motorized and non-motorized including fun tube rides can be a great activity for families.

💡Travel tip: The Maldivian theme night provides good exposure for families to experience the local history, through dance, cuisine, stories and presentations. Guests at Meeru Island Resort & Spa can also visit the Meeru Museum and the get up close to a giant whale skeleton.

Time for mums in the Maldives

While dad and kids are snorkelling, playing on the beach or at the freshwater pool spending quality time together, there are plenty to help Mum relax and recharge. Duniye Spas offers a range of spa treatments, body treatments, massages and facials. There are regularly scheduled Yoga classes by the spas in the properties.

 

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One holiday, many relaxation options. Experience the resort Spas in our collection
Guests at Meeru Island Resort & Spa and Kuredu Island Resort & Spa seeking me-time can experience the over-water spa and the land-spa set amidst the gardens.

For a garden-inspired spa experience look no further than in Komandoo Island Resort & Spa and if it is a room with a view Innahura Maldives Resort offers spa treatment room with an uninterrupted view of the sunset beach,

Guests can experience over-water spa with uninterrupted sea views in Veligandu Island Resort & Spa, Vilamendhoo Island Resort & Spa and at Hurawalhi Island Resort.

Awe-inspiring 1500sqm over-water spa complex awaits guest of the well-being resort Kagi Maldives Spa Island.

If it is effortless luxury then unlimited spa treatments are included in Kudadoo Maldives Private Islands’ fully inclusive Anything. Anytime. Anywhere stays on the A.A.A plan.

Families, couples and travellers looking for Adults-Only resorts

For those who seek the Maldives for Adults-Only, the collection offers a choice just right for you.
• The Maldives’ only truly adults-only (18 years+) Komandoo Island Resort & Spa
• Guests 15 years+ Hurawalhi Island Resort
• Guests 12 years+ Kagi Maldives Spa Island

Resorts with separate Adults-Only areas, facilities and a choice of beach and over-water villas;
• Sangu Resort of Kuredu Island Resort & Spa (18 years+)
• Meeru Island Resort & Spa (18 years+)
• Vilamendhoo Island Resort & Spa (18 years+)
• ‘O’ Resort of Kuredu Island Resort & Spa (12 years+)

With all of us craving to spend more quality time with our loved ones, the interconnecting Beach Bungalows in Vilamendhoo Island Resort & Spa and Innahura Maldives Resort are created with the much-needed family bonding in mind. Located close to all the facilities, these interconnected rooms with direct access to each other and adjoined to each other without interleading doors or passages are bound to help you make the most of your time on your island escape. A true home away from home. The Two Bedroom Ocean Pool Residences at Kudadoo Maldives Private Island are spaciously designed and perfect for families. Large groups can also request adjacent villas or get together for family dining and activity sessions.

💡Travel Tip: When travelling as a group, you can contact the airline directly for group rates and assurance that everyone in your group will get on the same flight.

 

Energy and water are two resources often taken for granted but in recent years the environmental impact of their production has been highlighted prompting Crown & Champa Resorts to lead the way in balancing luxury tourism and sustainability with their eco-friendly Maldives offerings.

As the world comes together to switch off its lights on 28th March in celebration of Earth Hour, a global movement drawing attention to climate change, we take a look at how our Maldives’ resorts are taking a sustainable approach to their power needs.

One of the most important ingredients for a tropical holiday is sunny days and here in the Maldives, sunshine is in plentiful supply. Tapping into the power of the sun makes perfect environmental sense. Hurawalhi Island Resort, Kuredu Island Resort & Spa, Innahura Maldives Resort, Komandoo Island Resort & Spa and Meeru Island Resort & Spa all have solar panels in place to contribute towards their electricity requirements, whilst at Kudadoo Maldives Private Island by Hurawalhi, that commitment has been taken even further with the entire resort’s power needs are capable of being powered by its extensive solar panels.

Also marked this month is World Water Day, an initiative bringing to the fore the need to protect the World’s most valuable resource, water, and limiting the environmental impact of producing clean drinking water as the population grows. At CCR we are very proud to have water desalination and bottling plants at our resorts, which are able to supply all the guests’ and team members’ drinking water requirements. Water is supplied in reusable glass bottles, eliminating the need for single-use plastic bottles and associated disposal issues. In-house production also prevents the need for transporting water to our resort islands and therefore reduces our carbon footprint further.

There are many more sustainable practices running through our resorts in the Maldives and they can be found in detail in our Sustainability Report.

Choose a Crown & Champa Resort for your eco-friendly Maldives holiday, resorts where luxury and sustainability go hand-in-hand.

As Crown & Champa Resorts, we are delighted and honoured to have received numerous nominations in the 2019 Maldives Travel Awards. Organised by the Maldives Association of Travel Agents and Tour Operators (MATATO), the Maldives Travel Awards recognise commitment, excellence and expertise in the tourism industry. The Maldives Travel Awards’ winners are announced in an exclusive gala, which brings together travel professionals and executives for an evening of celebrations.

This year, we have received 63 nominations in various categories as a collection and each of our resorts. This is a testament to the excellence we strive for and the level of expertise we bring to the hospitality industry in the Maldives. Voting is open till 30^th November. To vote for Crown & Champa Resorts:

• Visit: https://www.travelawards.mv/vote/maldives-travel-awards-annual-gala-2019
• Vote for Crown & Champa Resorts in the categories we’ve been nominated
• Fill in your name and email address and press ‘submit’
• Confirm your email address

Here is a full list of all our nominations. Thank you for your continued support.

Leading Private Island

Kudadoo Maldives Private Island

Leading Luxury Resort

Hurawalhi Island Resort

Veligandu Island Resort & Spa

Kudadoo Maldives Private Island

Leading Romantic Resort

Hurawalhi Island Resort

Komandoo Island Resort & Spa

Meeru Island Resort & Spa

Veligandu Island Resort & Spa

Kudadoo Maldives Private Island

Leading Family Resort

Kuredu Island Resort & Spa

Meeru Island Resort & Spa

Vilamendhoo Island Resort & Spa

Leading Designer Resort

Hurawalhi Island Resort

Kudadoo Maldives Private Island

Leading Beach Resort

Kuredu Island Resort & Spa

Meeru Island Resort & Spa

Veligandu Island Resort & Spa

Leading Dive Resort

Vilamendhoo Island Resort & Spa

Veligandu Island Resort & Spa

Hurawalhi Island Resort

Komandoo Island Resort & Spa

Kuredu Island Resort & Spa

Meeru Island Resort & Spa

Leading Wellness and Spa

Kudadoo Maldives Private Island

Leading Wellness and Spa Brand 

Duniye Spa

Leading Local Hotel/Resort Brand

Crown & Champa Resorts

Leading Eco Resort

Hurawalhi Island Resort

Komandoo Island Resort & Spa

Kuredu Island Resort & Spa

Meeru Island Resort & Spa

Vilamendhoo Island Resort & Spa

Veligandu Island Resort & Spa

Kudadoo Maldives Private Island

Leading CSR Program

Kuredu Island Resort & Spa

Crown & Champa Resorts

Hurawalhi Island Resort

Komandoo Island Resort

Meeru Island Resort & Spa

Veligandu Island Resort & Spa

Vilamendhoo Island Resort & Spa

Leading Human Resource Management

Hurawalhi Island Resort

Komandoo Island Resort

Veligandu Island Resort

Kuredu Island Resort & Spa

Meeru Island Resort & Spa

Vilamendhoo Island Resort & Spa

Leading All-Inclusive Resort

Hurawalhi Island Resort & Spa

Komandoo Islannd Resort & Spa

Veligandu Island Resort & Spa

Kuredu Island Resort & Spa

Meeru Island Resort & Spa

Vilamendhoo Island Resort & Spa

Kudadoo Maldives Private Island

Leading Airport/City Hotel

Champa Central Hotel

Leading Food and Beverage Resort

Hurawalhi Island Resort

Kuredu Island Resort & Spa

Meeru Island Resort & Spa

Veligandu Island Resort & Spa

Kudadoo Maldives Private Island

Leading Food and Beverage Outlet bar/restaurant

Hurawalhi Island Resort

Kuredu Island Resort & Spa

Meeru Island Resort & Spa

Leading Business Hotel

Champa Central Hotel