Villa Nautica, Paradise Island is twenty minutes from Velana International Airport by speedboat, and the boat runs around the clock. Land close to midnight and you still sleep on the island that night, with no seaplane cut-off to plan around.
It is a big, lively resort in North Malé Atoll rather than a hideaway, with eight places to eat and drink and a kids' club, Wavy Navy. Ten villa types are priced here, from a Beach Villa to a two-bedroom suite over the water.
What you pay
Pick your dates and a villa and the price is the whole stay for two: the villa, breakfast, lunch and dinner, the return speedboat and every tax, green tax included. Nothing more is payable at the resort for those.
The dry season is the dearest stretch, about two fifths above the green season for the same three nights in a Beach Villa.
Five nights is not priced on this page, but we can book it. Ask us and we will quote a Beach Villa over five nights against the shorter stays already shown.
Choose the beach over the water. The Deluxe Beach Pool Villa is 150 m² with its own plunge pool. The Water Villa is 77 m² with no pool, and it is the dearer of the two in every season here.
What's included, and what isn't
In the price: your villa for two, breakfast, lunch and dinner, the return scheduled speedboat, airport meet and greet, a litre of drinking water each a day, Wi-Fi, and every Maldivian tax including green tax.
Not in the price: your international flights, travel insurance, drinks at the bars and with meals, the three all-inclusive plans, spa, diving and excursions, the compulsory Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve dinners, Indian TCS, and anything not named above.
Who this isn't for
Anyone booking for the snorkelling. The reef is not a continuous wall but clusters of rock and coral in a shallow lagoon. It is a forgiving place to learn, with blacktip sharks and stingrays common, but it is patchy. Ask the water sports desk where to swim.
Anyone after a small, quiet island. Malé is close, and you will hear the boats and seaplanes. If whale sharks and a quieter lagoon matter more than a short transfer, its sister resort, Villa Park Sun Island in South Ari Atoll, is the better fit.
Families expecting children to stay free. Children aged 2 to 11 are charged on these prices, with their own boat and green tax. Most villas take two adults and one child, so a family of four needs one of the two-bedroom villas.
Before you book
The festive fortnight is not priced on this page. Four nights is the minimum, nobody checks out on 24 or 31 December, and the gala dinners are compulsory: US$260 per person on Christmas Eve and US$350 on New Year's Eve. We can still book it.
Tell us straight away if your flight changes, because the boat is booked to your arrival time.
Check-in is 14:00. Landing at night, ask us to add the night before. Dates not shown here are priced on request.
Send us your flight times, your dates and who is travelling, and we will price two or three villas side by side, with five nights if that suits you. Message our Maldives specialists on WhatsApp or send us an enquiry. We reply within 24 hours.