Beautifully remote yet easily accessible by 12- seater luxury “Flying Turtle” seaplane. With white sands, untouched beaches, lush vegetation and turquoise waters, this resort offers an individual natural style along with a wonderful sense of privacy. The Six Senses experience begins with arrival to one of the biggest, most breathtaking over water structures in the Maldives. Fashioned out of bamboo and sun-bleached wood, with winding staircases over multi-levels and glass panels in the floor through which you can admire the sea life below it is home to the lobby, gift shop, dive centre, wine cellar, library, 3 of the 4 restaurants, the Chill Bar and Ice Cream Bar. Shoes are cast off and your barefoot Robinson Crusoe holiday is underway!

There are 96 one or two-bedroomed beachfront and overwater villas with The Retreat being the latest addition with 3-4 bedrooms. Accommodations are carefully designed to complement the outstanding natural beauty of the island and are crafted from environmentally sustainable materials, providing enchanting, bohemian, rustic luxury, with well-appointed design, cosiness, comfort and spectacular ocean views. Beach villas are enveloped by tropical jungle and have total privacy. They include fantastic outdoor jungle bathrooms, immediate access to the stunning white-sand beaches and a Robinson Crusoe-style treetop dining terrace. The overwater villas are equally sensational, with submerged glass bathtubs, dining terraces, outdoor overwater bathrooms and access to the crystal-clear lagoon for swimming and snorkelling. Villas have roof decks for stargazing, daybeds for sunbathing and several little sitting areas, strewn with brightly coloured cushions. Each guest is provided with a bicycle to flit around the island and each villa is assigned a ‘GEM,’ (guests experience managers/butler) to attend to all guest needs - including making late night phone calls to inform you that baby turtles are hatching on the beach!

Pure and nutritious flavours flow throughout the 6 restaurants and bars. There’s an array of dining experiences, with many handpicked and harvested ingredients and creations which are often free from sugar, gluten and soy. Breakfast is a thing of beauty at Longitude. This open-air restaurant begins each day with a bountiful breakfast buffet - mountains of tropical fruit, home-made granolas, freshly baked pastries, kombuchas, smoothies and healing juices, alongside a la carte options and daily changing live cooking stations.

Dinners are themed with nights from South Asia and around the world; chefs will also prepare fresh dishes to order. Positioned above the organic garden, is Leaf - the adults only (12 years+) restaurant. Talented chefs work with local fisherman and farmers to create an ever-changing Mediterranean inspired dinner menu. A delectable Omasake (trust the chef) Japanese fusion cuisine dining experience with a modern twist beckons at the overwater Zen restaurant. For laid-back lunches, it’s all about Sip Sip. Set back from the beach with a swim-up bar sunk into the main pool, this is the place to order salads, pizzas, pasta, burgers, or catch of the day as well as locally inspired desserts.

With over 300 wine labels available, the five-course dinner and tasting at the dazzling Altitude spun-glass wine cellar is bound to delight. Stilted overwater Chill Bar is situated just meters away from the house reef and provides an international and South Asian menu throughout the day. Complimentary treats await, with around 50 ice-creams, sorbets and plant-based flavours to try at Ice and temptations from the in-house Chocolate Alchemist.

If chilling on the resort’s cotton white beaches is not enough, you can paddleboard around the island, water ski, wake board, kite surf, sail, fish, snorkel, dive, learn to surf, spend the day island hopping, take part in a cookery class or recline at the outdoor cinema. A private sandbank is just minutes away where you can sunbathe, or picnic on nearby islands and watch the stingrays and dolphins dancing by. Options for snorkelling are numerous - from the untouched house reef, luscious seagrass meadows just outside your villa or by joining one of the many snorkelling boat trips guided by one of the resident marine biologists. Divers will find variety with both inner and outer reef as well as channel dives just a 10-minute boat ride away, where there are dramatic overhangs and submerged pinnacles to explore. You can spot everything from tiny leaf fish and harlequin shrimp to reef sharks, turtles and year-round manta rays.

Surfing at Six Senses Laamu is exclusively operated by their partner in surfing, Tropicsurf. Six Senses Laamu is surrounded by a great variety of waves with something to satisfy all levels of abilities. The beginner to intermediate 'Shoulders’ wave is just a short paddle from the beach, with many more exciting waves all within a short boat ride away, including the famous wave 'Yin Yangs’.

The world-famous Six Senses Spa offers blissful, personalised care in treatment rooms that are designed to look like bird’s nests. Discover your Dosha (body type), destress with Ayuverdic and Balinese therapies, enjoy nourishing spa massage treatments or restorative facials, and nurture your soul with sound healing meditation and open-air rooftop yoga. The fitness studio provides Personal Training sessions and houses all the equipment any gym junkie could wish for. Next door you’ll find a juice bar with resting loungers, where you can relax whilst looking out onto the pristine white sand and turquoise sea.

The SHELL (Sea Hub of Environmental Learning in Laamu) is one of the most comprehensive marine science education and research centres in the Maldives. It houses the MUI (Maldives Underwater Initiative) team, who lead a range of engaging marine-related activities, such as guided snorkels, daily presentations, and virtual underwater experiences. The SHELL is a multi-use space, designed for education and immersive marine conservation experiences. There's an open-air exhibition space, virtual glass bottom boat, research lab, theatre, and interactive room that has virtual and augmented reality technologies.

The younger VIP guests from age 3-12 years can make use of The Den, with indoor and outdoor games, alfresco cinema nights on the beach, junior baking, treasure hunts, arts and crafts and many other activities. For our slightly older guests, 6-12 years, there’s the Junior Marine Biology program. Young ocean lovers will complete exciting science experiments, explore the ocean in snorkelling adventures, and learn to make their own conservation videos. The more sessions they complete, the more knowledge and equipment they receive and the more ready they are to become a marine biologist!

The resort’s impressive sustainability hub invites you to see innovation and experimentation in action at the Earth Lab, as the island aims to turn its Waste to Wealth with their reuse and re-purpose workshops, local production, and organic Leaf garden.

Location:
65-minute luxury seaplane journey directly from Velana International Airport (Malé) to Laamu Atoll, which is located 150 miles south of Malé and five-degrees north of the equator. For those arriving or departing outside of daylight seaplane flying times, Six Senses Laamu can endeavour to organise a combined domestic flight and speedboat transfer to resort via Kadhdhoo Domestic Airport within the Laamu Atoll.