Hilton Maldives Amingiri Resort & Spa

A 5-star resort of the Hilton Hotels & Resorts brand, its first in the Maldives, on its own island in North Malé Atoll. Hilton’s opening release dates it to 30 June 2022 and counts 109 beach and overwater villas, each with a pool; it is owned by Amingiri Holdings and managed by Hilton. Expedia lists 108 rooms. The 6-bedroom Residence was announced for November 2022. It is the group’s fourth resort in the country, with Waldorf Astoria Ithaafushi, Conrad Rangali Island and SAii Lagoon.

6 types, all with a private pool, according to the villas page. On the beach: the One Bedroom Beach Pool Villa, 138 m² for up to 3; the One Bedroom Family Beach Pool Villa, 138 m² with a sofa bed for 2 adults and 2 children; the Two Bedroom Beach Pool Villa, 306 m² for up to 6. Over the water, with direct access to the ocean: the One Bedroom Overwater Pool Villa, 154 m²; the One Bedroom Overwater Suite with Pool, 181 m² with a living room; the Two Bedroom Overwater Pool Villa, 338 m² for up to 6. All have a king bed, a separate bath and shower, an espresso machine and an outdoor shower.

The Residence has 6 bedrooms for 12 guests, 2 suites with pools, a cinema, a music lounge, a kids’ club and a private spa; its size is not published. The website steers families towards the beach villas.

On Amingiri island in North Malé Atoll, 20 minutes by speedboat from Velana airport. The Google listing’s address, Malé 08540, is the postal one; the resort has its own island, about 1.4 km from Kodhipparu on Google’s coordinates.

The capital is close and in view: in 2026 some guests wrote of Malé on the horizon and of building sites on the islands around, visible from some villas, though in July one found them unobtrusive. A wooden walkway links the water villas, and the buggies use it too. Every villa comes with bicycles for getting about.

By the resort’s speedboat, 20 minutes from Velana airport, round the clock: on arrival a member of staff takes guests to the jetty. The Location page asks $300 an adult for the shared return transfer, $150 for ages 6 to 11 and nothing up to 5; a private boat costs $1,500 each way for up to 8 and $2,300 for up to 14. These prices exclude tax and service, and no other transport is allowed.

Booking.com, read on 3 October 2026, gives $386 an adult and $193 a child for the shared boat in 2026, and $3,860 each way for a private one, more than double the website. The Maldivian Bliss and Amingiri Discovery offers take money off the shared boat from 3 and 4 nights.

No: it is an island, and the resort policies mark every kind of parking as unavailable. The home page FAQ explains that the resort is reached only on its own speedboats.

From the water villas by steps down into the lagoon; from the beach villas straight onto the sand, as the villas page and the fact sheet describe. The sea changes from one side to the other, though: between August and September 2026, 3 Google reviews describe a beach that is stony or hard to swim from, in one case on the open-sea side, which takes the waves; anyone who wants to swim off the sand should ask which side the villa faces before booking. Google lists a lifeguard.

In part. The website promises eagle rays and reef fish in the resort’s lagoon, and its dive centre goes to more than 30 sites in the atoll. It depends where you are on the island: in August 2026 a couple described fine reefs metres from the water villas, and in July a family watched reef sharks and rays from the restaurant; others, in 2025 and 2026, describe a man-made island whose reef is less rich than in other atolls. Shark snorkelling is a paid boat trip.

Every villa has its own. Shared by all are the main pool, with a shallow children’s pool attached, and the kids’ club pool with its mini splash park, according to the activities page. Aura Pool Bar sits by the main pool. The Residence has pools in its 2 master suites and a pool beside the sunken fire-pit lounge.

The Aura pool opens from 10am to 6pm, according to the dining page; villa pools are there whenever their guests want them. No official source mentions heating or water temperature. The Aura Pool Bar & Cocktail Lab, by the pool, serves from 10am.

In 8 restaurants and lounges, according to the dining page. Habitat serves breakfast from 7am to 10.30am and dinner from 6pm to 10pm, alternating à la carte and themed buffets, and is closed at lunch. Origin, Italian over the water, serves dinner from 6.30pm to 10pm; Beach Shack, on the sand, lunch from noon to 2.30pm and dinner from 6.30pm to 10pm. Aura Pool Bar & Cocktail Lab runs from 10am to 11.30pm and on some evenings turns into an Asian restaurant; Eden, the overwater champagne and gin bar, is adults-only from 5.30pm to 11.30pm. Sip Tea Lounge, Skye and Re:Fuel complete the list.

Hilton’s 2022 release counted 6 restaurants, and Expedia still says 6. Dinners must be booked: in 2026 more than one guest describes times to fix in advance, and on busy nights service at the table takes longer.

The website publishes no meal-plan price list; the plans come with its offers. Maldivian Bliss, from 3 nights until 20 December 2026, adds half board free; Amingiri Discovery, from 4 nights, covers breakfast, lunch and dinner with a selection of drinks. Google and Expedia also list all-inclusive rates.

Half and full board leave out drinks, water included, as many 2026 reviews note; on half board, more than one guest wrote in August 2026, dinner is in one restaurant only. The Tropical packages cost $110 a person a day with alcohol and $75 without, plus tax and service.

Amingiri Spa & Hammam offers hammam rituals modelled on Turkish baths, massages, wraps, facials with acupressure and baths to book in your villa, plus a salon and grooming. The home page mentions the hammam room and the sauna; in May 2025 a guest wrote that the gym has a steam room and sauna free to use, and in June 2026 another watched the sea through the glass beneath the massage bed. The gym and yoga pavilion are open around the clock, and the Skye Deck offers express 30-minute treatments. Neither the spa’s size nor its number of rooms is published.

Treatments are paid for. The honeymoon and anniversary offer gives $120 net of spa credit a person from 4 nights, and a 60-minute massage for 2 from 7 nights. The gym’s sauna and steam room, according to a guest in May 2025, are free for those staying.

No resort page publishes a day pass for non-residents, and the only way across is on the resort’s own boats.

The spa page does not publish treatment hours; it gives those of the gym and the yoga pavilion, open around the clock. In-villa baths must be booked in advance. Expedia says the spa opens every day.

Hammam rituals, signature massages, wraps, facials with 16-point acupressure, ritual baths in the villa, the salon and grooming, according to the spa page; there is also a sleep menu of massage and guided meditation in the villa. No price list is published. Guests in 2025 and 2026 often single out the massages.

Yes, it is built around families. The Krakengiri Kids Club, which the website calls one of the largest in the Maldives, has a pool, the mini splash park and a daily programme; teenagers have Re:Fuel, a rooftop lounge with its own entrance, and the spa runs Young Zen for ages 5 to 18. Cots and babysitting are available, the latter at a charge according to Expedia.

Under the family policy, children under 6 stay free, ages 6 to 11 get 50% off and from 12 they pay as adults. The resort recommends beach villas: booking a water villa with children means signing a waiver. Check-in requires an adult of at least 18.

According to the website: a seaside padel court, a multi-purpose court for tennis, badminton, volleyball and basketball, a futsal pitch, the 24-hour gym, the yoga pavilion, the dive and water sports centre, the art studio, the photo studio, a boutique and a jewellery shop. Wi-Fi is free, the island is smoke-free and the accessible rooms have doorways 32 inches wide. In August 2026 a guest wrote that padel and tennis are charged.

Read on 6 October 2026 on the offers page: Maldivian Bliss, from 3 nights until 20 December 2026, with half board free and money off the speedboat; Amingiri Discovery, from 4 nights, with 3 meals a day, a selection of drinks and money off the speedboat; then Hilton Honors advance-purchase rates, up to 17% off, and rates for seniors and AAA members. Hilton Honors rates exclude taxes and fees.

The website offers a renewal of vows: a barefoot ceremony on the beach, with an open-bar cocktail reception, a gin and tonic cart and after-dinner drinks, quoted on request from the dining page. The pages read on 6 October 2026 publish no wedding packages or prices. For couples within 8 months of their wedding, the honeymoon offer gives Champagne, fruit, a decorated bed and $120 of spa credit a person from 4 nights.

Yes, and it is compulsory. The website warns that the gala dinner on 31 December is charged at $600 an adult, with 50% off under 12 and free under 5. Booking.com, read on 3 October 2026, confirms $600 an adult and $300 a child, and adds the compulsory Christmas Eve dinner at $400 an adult and $200 a child, before tax and service; Expedia gives them with tax, $772.20 and $514.80.

In late September 2026 the resort announced its festive brochure on Instagram; the evenings’ programme is not on the website pages read on 6 October 2026.

No: the official pages list no course or golf package. The island has padel, tennis, badminton, volleyball, basketball and futsal, according to the activities page.

All year: the website announces no closures, and on Google Hotels, read on 3 October 2026, 119 of 120 nights from 4 October 2026 to 31 January 2027 had a price, the only gap being 30 December. The resort opened on 30 June 2022.

The dearest nights are the festive ones, from 21 December to 9 January. In August 2026 a first-time visitor described almost unbroken sunshine in the wet season.

Google Hotels, read on 3 October 2026, for 2 adults and one night: $974 on 7 October 2026, $1,193 on 16 November, $1,185 on 1 December, $1,697 on 24 December, $2,473 on 29 December and $1,465 on 11 January 2027. There was no price for 30 December.

Taxes and fees are already in these figures: for 4 October the Booking.com link on the same listing carried a total of $1,439.69, of which $339.69 was tax and charges, matching the $1,440 shown. The calendar names no villa or meal plan; the speedboat, drinks and the compulsory dinners of 24 and 31 December are extra.

On 3 October 2026 Google showed 4.8/5 from 773 ratings, Tripadvisor 4.9/5 from 2,208, with a 2026 Travellers’ Choice award and seventh place among 178 hotels in North Malé Atoll, Booking.com 9.3/10 from 242 and Expedia 9.6/10 from 39. In the 500 most recent Google reviews, service pleases 89% of those who mention it, the villas 91% and the location 87%; what guests write about the bill is the drinks, which the meal plans leave out, and the extras that add to the rate.

The website’s rates include a 10% service charge and exclude taxes and government charges, as the villas page states; the speedboat, the drinks packages and the compulsory festive dinners are quoted before tax and service. The resort does not publish the tax rate. Google Hotels’ prices for the Maldives market, by contrast, already include taxes and fees. Payment is in US dollars, by American Express, UnionPay, Diners, JCB, Mastercard or Visa.

Check-in is from 3pm and check-out by noon, according to the resort policies. A late check-out costs half a day until 5pm and a full day after; leaving early because of bad weather still means paying for the nights booked. Guests with an evening flight leave the villa at midday unless they pay for the late check-out.