Luxury Hotels in Bathala

Everything it was a perfect place for peace and tranquility

Everything was perfect, and I couldn't get anything more for the last stop of my honeymoon. When I said goodbye at my departure, I was already thinking about when to come back.

Amazing hotel with great reef, laid back atmosphere, good kitchen and nice rooms (not that you will spend a lot of time there). I’d like to put emphasis on cleanliness- one of the few hotels I know where your room is cleaned twice per day. Hotel does a lot to help local environment - resigning from plastic water bottles is a nice idea indeed.

We stayed at Aria Beach for our last week of a wedding anniversary holiday. When we arrived and told Sam, our host, that it was a wedding anniversary trip he upgraded us to the duplex apartment at no extra charge. Sam is a fabulous host and has done a great job of ensuring that the rooms are comfortable and luxurious and very well equipped. The breakfasts were absolutely delicious and it's obvious that they pay much attention to detail. Sam was in the process of opening up the smoothie bar while we were there so we enjoyed many delicious fresh juices and smoothies. The hotel is right on the beach and has lovely deck chairs set up under the trees right at the ocean. The hotel has a number of lovely areas to chill from the seating in the dining area to the pool to a fabulous 'tree house' deck with bean bags. We highly recommend this accommodation!

The property is fantastic, clean and the staff is very friendly. It feels boutique, but has facilities of a large hotel (5 restaurants, gym, spa..)

Literally everything!! The entire key staff welcomed us upon arrival which was very courteous. We felt extremely special during our stay. Big thanks to Alexander, Ibrahim, Muhaiman and the entire staff for making our stay very special and private. The food was extraordinarily delicious everywhere. We will definitely come back again and again and again.

We just came back from this resort and are already planning our next vacation at the same place. We stayed for two weeks in a standard beach villa and liked everything, the most important for us being the house reef. The house reef: simply outstanding, daily encounters with the sharks, turtles, whole families of the eagle rays, porcupine and boxfish, moray eels and so on. We enjoyed snorkeling at least twice a day and were never disappointed. The food : simple but good, with Italian influence. One could find pizzas and pasta at a daily basis (pasta with speck and safran sauce is my favorite). Every day the resort changes the theme of the diner, my favorite being Maldivian, we had it twice during our stay. Live barbecue with meat and fish, live naan station (just excellent) as well as other dishes from all around the world. We also booked the lobster dinner, while being a bit too expensive, it was one of the best we had so far. The Chef prepared an excellent lemon butter sauce that was just perfect for the lobster, highlighting its delicate taste. Thanks to the General manager Jaco we also had one diner at the a la carte water villa restaurant, we liked a lot the romantic setting, lounge music, service and of course the food. The excursions: we went on a whale shark excursion and were lucky to see two different of them. In our sixth’s time in Maldives it was the first encounter, what a beautiful experience ! We also went on the night sharks snorkeling and had seen at least 30 friendly nurse sharks of different size, it was impressive and beautiful. Finally, we went on manta safari and unfortunately haven’t seen any, but we will try again the next year. The resort also organizes the house reef snorkeling excursions twice a day (free of charge) with the marine’s biologists. If you are not a confident swimmer and/or would like to know better the marine’s life, I highly recommend to give it a try. The shop: I loved this shop.

Everything. Staff was friendly, island was beautiful and the food was just amazing.

Lovely staff, very helpful and kind. Extremely clean rooms. Interesting and well organized activities.