Bandos Island Resort Maldives

Standard Rooms

The 103 Standard Rooms here at Bandos, with their simplistic elegance quite strongly reflect all that is good about Bandos; the unyielding attitude towards settling for anything less than the highest quality and unrivalled customer satisfaction. It is in this sprit that we strive to ensure that all our guests experience a really memorable holiday and towards which we have equipped each standard room with.

Deluxe Rooms

The deluxe rooms at Bandos are similar to standard rooms save for their partitioned living and bedroom facilities – a feature highly preferred by vacationing families. Our high standards for customer satisfaction and comfort ensure that the amenities such as:

Garden Villas

The Garden Villas with their neatly trimmed hedges and flower gardens are designed for those who want to while away their vacation in the elegance of a carefully tended garden environment. Located in the middle of the island, near the new swimming pool facilities, these wooden chalets are elegantly furnished and come with their own private patio. As usual the amenities present are of the highest order and includes:

Jacuzzi Beach Villas

Set on a strip of white sandy beach overlooking a crystal-clear lagoon blessed with abundant sunshine and tropical flora of unspeakable beauty, the Jacuzzi Beach Villas at Bandos will singularly make your stay on Bandos a most memorable occasion. Fashioned as a duplex, the living and bedroom facilities boast all the requisite amenities necessary for your comfort and satisfaction. The balcony provides a pleasant view of the beachfront, while the gentle rumble of the surf is constantly soothing. In the seclusion of your Beach Villa, surrounded by lush tropical vegetation, is the open-air Jacuzzi with its thatched roof shade designed for your relaxation and enjoyment.

Water Villas

The crown jewels of our accommodation catalogue, the two Water Villas at Bandos were designed to inspire delight in the most discerning of customers. In tandem with the bountiful delights of nature, Bandos Water Villas virtually offer everything to make your holiday experience truly special. The living quarter comes with state-of-the-art plasma television, minibar, IDD telephone and tea and coffee facilities, while the defining feature of the bedroom (also with plasma TV) is the ornate four-poster bed whose elegance is certainly worthy of royalty. The ultra-luxurious and roomy Jacuzzi, set amongst lush tropical indoor plants and imported river pebbles, affords one an uninterrupted view of the ocean and the unending horizon. At Bandos Water Villas, one can simply while away many a moment on such simple pleasures as enjoying the sunset, a romantic soak with a loved one or, as they say in these isles, learning the art of doing nothing.

Hotel & Recreational Facilities

The Maldives has earned a reputation as a tourist destination famous for its excellent recreational facilities. Bandos, in this regard, is known to have excelled among the local tourism industry for both the range and quality of its recreational services. From idling away at the beach, or attempting to exhaust our wide variety of watersports including diving, snorkelling, windsurfing and catamaran sailing, Bandos certainly has something on offer for almost everybody. Scuba professionals and snorkelling enthusiasts alike will delight in the knowledge that the Bandos house reef itself stands prominent among the many acclaimed dive spots of the Maldives. Equally popular are our exciting range of excursions which include island-hopping, Male' shopping, night fishing, and barbecues on the adjacent island of Kuda Bandos. For those customers wishing to keep fit in a more professional manner, the Paradise Club at Bandos offers a range of fitness options from gym, tennis, badminton and even exotic massages.

Activities

• Dive School
  It would not be an exaggeration to claim that Bandos has the best dive centre in the entire country. Dive Bandos is one of the longest established centres in the country and our professional staff will ensure that you experience the lush underwater gardens, colourful fishes and magnificent seascapes in total safety. The recently constructed Dive Centre is a spacious facility complete with air-conditioned audio visual classrooms, library, hot water showers, and spacious storage rooms. Located nearby is the Sundowners bar for your relaxation after an invigorating dive. It goes without saying that the equipment we employ is the best and features internationally reputed brands such as Mares, Scubapro, Aqua Lung, Dive Rite and Suunto, to name but a few. It should also comfort our customers that we have an in-house service shop to ensure that all our equipment is up to standard.
  
  Dive Bandos has a fleet of up to 4 modern, spacious fibre glass dhonis, all equipped with life vests, First Aid equipment, DAN Oxygen kits and radio to enable communication with the dive centre and the island. The experienced and well-trained boat crew is always ready to help you in any way they can. All our staff are regularly trained in emergency first aid techniques. In all emergencies, our Medical Clinic with decompression chamber is at your disposal. While diving with us, All the divers to be insured free of charge for against DCS requiring chamber treatment up to € 6000.00.
  

• Island Hopping
  Hop on board a local mechanized dhoni and sail away across the north male’ atoll to discover the unique identity of a resort island of Maldives scattered across Indian Ocean. Snorkel or swim and take a snap while you top up that tan in our tropical Paradise. Explore a local island and see Maldivians at work and live in their island life. Visit a local souvenir shop, barter and buy some to remember on the trip before we land on our own picnic island for lunch. The full day tour include the picnic lunch on the beach of our very own uninhabited island of KUDA Bandos (Little Bandos) and half day tour starts after breakfast and come back to resort for lunch.
  

• Big Game Fishing
  Popular statistics have it that the average Maldivian consumes an average of 75 kilograms of tuna annually. Our love for fishing should then come as no surprise, and Bandos is proud to share the Maldivian flair for fishing, particularly the art of baitless fishing, with our guests. One needn’t be a professional as our team includes professional fishermen who will be able to assist you through out the course of entire trip. Geared towards this end is our state of the art vessel, Prowler equipped with fish finder, global positioning systems, radar and so forth.
  
  The type of fish caught is heavily dependant upon the monsoon. The country experiences two main seasons, the South West Monsoon and the North East Monsoon. The South West Monsoon, which usually starts in May and continues until August, is the rainy season. However, given that these coral isles have an abundance of marine fauna, there hardly goes a time when a trip fails to yield a good catch.
  

Dinning

Bandos strives to redefine the art of dining. Geared towards this goal are our selection of restaurants and bars, including a 24 hour coffee shop that will offer you a great many variety of culinary options from a la carte to Indian, from local cuisine to continental delicacies and so much more. Bandos’ proficient team of world-class chefs will readily ensure that dining at Bandos will be an experience that will leave even the most discerning of appetites satisfied.

• Gallery Restaurant
  Open for breakfast, lunch and dinner, the Gallery is the main restaurant at Bandos and usually has elaborate buffet setups during mealtimes. Although open to all guests, the Gallery specialises in catering to those who have pre-booked their meals. Guests who have pre-booked their meal arrangements are also welcome to patronise our other restaurants and are eligible for discounts at both The Harbour and Sea Breeze Café (Coffee Shop).

• Sea Breeze Café
  Aptly named, the recently commissioned Sea Breeze Café is situated at the edge of the water where customers can lounge on the enormous outdoor over-water deck and enjoy the breathtaking view of the lagoon while languishing in the gentle breeze. Open round the clock, the restaurant offers a wide variety of dining options from a la carte offerings such as spaghetti or even authentic Indian curries to more alternative fast-food fixes such as pizza and hamburgers?.

• Sundowners Bar
  Situated near our world class diving facility, the Sundowners Bar is so named because it is the best place to watch the setting of the sun. Frequented often by divers wishing to have a quick bite and drink after a dive, the bar is open daily between 0730hrs to 1930hrs.

• Sand Bar
  The classic island-beach bar, the Sand Bar’s modern facilities blend well with the tropical atmosphere. The sand floor and island-ambience of the bar is ideal for customers to enjoy one of our many tropical cocktails or any other beverage that suits your fancy. The Sand Bar is designed with fun in mind and we assure you that our guests would have a wonderful time either with our top-notch karaoke facilities, live band or discotheque. The Sand Bar is open from 7.30 in the morning till late at night.

• The Harbour Restaurant
  Artful and elegant, the Harbour restaurant at Bandos is designed with the art of fine-dining in mind. With an option of dining either indoors, in a comfortable air-conditioned atmosphere or outdoors where you can savour the view and gentle breeze, The Harbour specialises, among many other culinary delights, in Maldivian game fish, innumerable seafood delicacies, and the finest in Italian pastas.