Nala Maldives by Jawakara

A Crown & Champa Resorts island for guests aged 12 and over, 10 hectares in Lhaviyani Atoll: the official fact sheet lists 80 villas, on the beach and over the water. It is the group's eleventh resort in the Maldives and opened on 1 December 2025, after 2 years of work on Innahura Maldives Resort, according to Hotelier Maldives, which quotes the chief executive calling it a 5-star «entry-level» resort.

The resort publishes no star rating; its group, Crown & Champa Resorts, classes it as an adults-only luxury resort (read on 15 October 2026). The name is Dhivehi for beauty; «by Jawakara» refers to Jawakara Islands, the group's sister island on the same lagoon.

4 types, all with a king bed, according to the fact sheet and the accommodation page. On the beach: 20 Sunrise Beach Villas of 98 m²; 8 Romantic Beach Villas of 98 m², with an outdoor bath and swing; 22 Sunset Beach Pool Villas of 130 m², with a private pool. Over the water: 30 Ocean Pool Villas of 119 m², with a private pool and steps into the lagoon. Each villa takes at most 3 guests, according to the offers' terms.

All have air conditioning, a ceiling fan, a safe, a wine fridge, a minibar, an espresso machine, a Bluetooth soundbar, free Wi-Fi, UK sockets and indoor and outdoor rain showers; the Sunrise and Sunset villas run on solar power. Booking.com lists a sofa bed in every type; extra beds and cots are not available, according to Booking.com and Expedia.

On Innahura island in Lhaviyani Atoll, which the fact sheet measures at 600 metres by 180. Jawakara Islands is 3 minutes away by boat according to the fact sheet, 2 according to Hotelier Maldives, and the same atoll holds Kuredu and Hurawalhi, sister resorts in the group. Tripadvisor places the hotel at Olhuvelifushi, Google on Innahura island.

Guests describe it as small, quiet and easy to walk, with few guests about; in the evening Velu Bar has live music, DJs and bodu beru drumming.

By seaplane with Trans Maldivian Airways: 35 minutes according to the transfer policy of 2 April 2026, 35 to 40 according to the contact page, 40 according to the Crown & Champa website. The official website gives no price; Expedia, read on 3 October 2026, puts it at $430 a head return.

The seaplane usually leaves 1 to 3 hours after you clear customs, flies from 6am to 6pm and meets international arrivals between 6am and 4pm; the last one leaves by 5pm, and check-in closes at 4.30pm. Later arrivals spend the night at a Malé hotel or a nearby resort. The Vilu lounge is free on arrival and $45 a head for 3 hours on departure.

No: Nala is an island, reached by seaplane according to the journey page, with speedboats also mentioned in the booking terms. Google Hotels lists «free parking», but no official page mentions any, and the island is explored on foot: guests describe all of it as within walking distance.

The 50 beach villas open straight onto the sand and the lagoon, and the 30 Ocean Pool Villas have steps down into the sea, according to the fact sheet. The lagoon round the water villas is shallow: in December 2025 one guest waded across it to breakfast.

The hotel's rules ask guests never to swim alone, always to wear a mask and fins and to stay out of the water after dark. On the all-inclusive plan kayaks and windsurfers are free for an hour a day.

The house reef lies just offshore, according to the snorkelling page, and the hotel takes guests there by boat: 2 one-hour trips a day, at 10am and 3pm, free, from the dive centre, according to the resort app. From their water villas 2 guests who wrote in February 2026 saw rays in the shallow lagoon, and one of them turtles and plenty of fish.

The dive centre is run by Prodivers, with PADI courses. The fact sheet gives snorkelling gear free; the app says it is hired from the dive centre or bought in the shop. The nearest hyperbaric chamber is at Kuredu, the sister resort.

One shared freshwater pool beside Velu Bar, according to the fact sheet; the relaxation pool at Sulha Spa; and the private pools of the 30 Ocean Pool Villas, infinity-edged over the sea, and of the 22 Sunset Beach Pool Villas. The Sunrise and Romantic Beach Villas have no pool; the Romantic villas have a large outdoor bath.

The official pages say neither whether the pools are heated nor when they open; Google Hotels also lists a hot tub. The contact page gives the sea at 29°C and the air at 30°C on average all year, and Velu Bar, by the pool, is open from 8am to 1am.

On the island, according to the dining page and the resort app: Velu, the international buffet with live stations, from 7.30 to 10.30am, 1 to 2.30pm and 7.30 to 9.30pm; Milos, Greek cooking on a deck over the shallows, and Kumo, Asian on the top floor, from 12.30 to 2.30pm and 7 to 9.30pm; Kumo's teppanyaki in 2 dinner sittings, at 6 and 8pm; Snack Lab, quick plates including vegan and gluten-free. The bars are Velu Bar, from 8am to 1am, Milos Bar, the wine cellar and Bubbles, champagne from 5.30 to 8.30pm.

Milos, Kumo and Snack Lab are booked by 10am on the day; in-villa dining runs from 8am to 10pm. Beach dinners cost $200 a head by candlelight and $300 for the Veli Dinner; the 5.8 undersea restaurant is at Hurawalhi, another island, where the 7-course dinner is $315 a head plus $365 for the return boat. Guests nearly all prefer Milos and Kumo.

On 7 October 2026 the official website sold 4 plans for the same night on Google Hotels: bed and breakfast at $1,694, half board at $1,894, full board at $2,008 and Premium All Inclusive at $2,518. Premium All Inclusive covers buffet breakfast, lunch and dinner at Velu, Velu Bar's snacks from 10am to noon and 3 to 7pm, drinks at Velu Bar from 8am to 1am, with 55 spirits, drinks at Milos, Kumo and Snack Lab during booked meals, a minibar restocked once a day and a bottle of champagne on arrival.

Once every 5 nights it adds a 3-course à la carte lunch and dinner at Milos, Kumo or Snack Lab; then a sunset cruise, yoga, tennis and padel, kayaks and windsurfers for an hour a day, 2 reef trips a day, a bag of laundry and, for adults, 30-minute spa treatments, one on stays of 4 to 7 nights and 2 on 8 to 11. It leaves out Bubbles, beach dinners, in-villa dining, excursions, motorised sports and the gala dinners, and everyone in the villa must be on the same plan. Dinner at Velu starts at 7.30pm in the plan's PDF and at 7pm in its version in the app.

Sulha Spa is built over the water, according to the spa page. The fact sheet lists 7 couple treatment rooms, 5 with sea views and 2 on land, an outdoor Ayurveda pavilion, a beauty salon and a shop; then a sauna and an infrared sauna, a red light room, 3 tropical showers, a cold plunge, a Himalayan salt cave, the Salus thermal water bed, the Gravity Reset bed and a pool to unwind by before and after treatments. The website gives no floor area.

The Elemental Renewal circuit, in the resort app, moves from heat to cold to rest: sauna, red light, rain shower, cold plunge and salt cave. A caption on the spa page also mentions a steam room, which the fact sheet does not list. The products are Healing Earth; at the opening Hotelier Maldives counted 8 kinds of treatment.

Treatments are charged, with the 10% service charge and tax included, according to the resort app. Premium All Inclusive gives adults aged 18 and over 30-minute treatments of their choice: one on stays of 4 to 7 nights, 2 on 8 to 11, 3 on 12 to 15 and 4 beyond; none under 4 nights.

No page publishes a day pass for anyone not staying on the island, which is reached only by seaplane or boat, nor says whether the sauna and salt cave are open without a treatment. In the first 2 days of a stay some massages are 20% off, and the Wellness Wednesdays offer prices a 60-minute massage at $115.

From 10am to 8pm, last booking at 7pm, according to the resort app; from 9pm to midnight some treatments are given in the villa, with a 30% surcharge. Book with the «Spa» button on the villa phone or through the app, and arrive 15 minutes early; cancelling with less than 6 hours' notice costs 50%.

From the menu in the resort app: Balinese, Lomi Lomi, Thai, warm stone and the Sulha Signature massage are $155 for 60 minutes and $205 for 90; Ayurvedic Abhyanga $170 and $220, Shirodhara $125 for 45 minutes; hour-long facials from $150; the Salus bed or the Gravity Reset $185 for 60 minutes; for 2, Him & Her is $420 for 90 minutes and Under Moonlight $540 for 135. Multi-day programmes run from $750 for 3 days to $1,250 for 5.

Prices include service and tax. In March 2026 one family called the massages unforgettable on Tripadvisor, and the reviews left since the reopening praise the spa.

Not under 12: the fact sheet welcomes guests from 12, and Expedia states that younger children are not admitted. There is no kids' club and no cots or extra beds; alcohol and the plan's spa allowance start at 18.

Teenagers from 12 are welcome: in March 2026 a family described a holiday in a Sunset Beach Pool Villa on Tripadvisor. For younger children there is Jawakara, the sister island on the same lagoon, which takes families according to Hotelier Maldives. Booking.com, by contrast, says «children not allowed».

According to the fact sheet: tennis, padel, futsal, volleyball and badminton, a gym open from 6.30am to 7pm, a games room with billiards, pinball and air hockey, the Prodivers dive centre, a water sports centre with jet skis, wakeboarding, kitesurfing and flyboarding, a resident doctor and free Wi-Fi in the villas. The Sea Turtle Health Institute, a turtle hospital, can be visited daily at 4pm for $15: the app places it on Nala, the sustainability page on Jawakara.

Excursions are charged: the local island $50 a head, the dolphin cruise $65, the Maldivian picnic $95, the romantic sunset cruise $250 a couple; the manta search with Prodivers $149. Drones may fly only where and when the management allows.

Read on 6 October 2026: Indulge More, 35% off villas for stays from 1 October to 26 December 2026, booked by 30 November; advance booking, 30% off from 27 December 2026 to 29 March 2027 and 35% from 30 March to 31 October 2027, booked by 30 November 2026; and the honeymoon and anniversary benefits for silver and gold anniversaries, all year: a bottle of sparkling wine, a decorated bed and a fruit basket.

Each offer sets its own basis: Indulge More quotes rates before taxes, service charge and green tax, the advance-booking offer with taxes and service charge included, according to the official offer pages, read on 15 October 2026. The honeymoon benefit applies within a year of the wedding, with the certificate.

The romance page offers vow renewals, proposals and honeymoons, with a ceremony on the beach, private dinners and photo shoots; no page mentions a legally binding wedding or prices the ceremony. Pix Maldives' photo packages run from $260 for 30 minutes to $780 for 90.

For a honeymoon within a year of the wedding, with the certificate, the hotel adds sparkling wine, a decorated bed and fruit; one couple who wrote in September 2026 got engaged on the island.

Yes: the programme for 31 December 2026 has cocktails on the water sports beach from 7 to 8pm, the New Year's Eve Gala Dinner at Velu from 7.30 to 9.30pm, then a live band and DJ at Velu Bar from 9pm. The website gives no price; according to Expedia the gala dinner is paid at the hotel, $330 per adult and per teenager aged 12 to 18, and the Christmas Eve dinner $210.

The booking terms count gala dinners among the charges due even on an early departure, and the all-inclusive plan gives no discount on them. For arrivals from 24 December to 10 January a cancellation within 45 days is charged in full.

On Jawakara, the sister island 3 minutes away by boat: the Jawakara Golf Club has a 9-hole pitch and putt course, a driving range, a putting green and a simulator, with equipment included in the price. It is charged on every meal plan; the pages read publish no golf packages or green fees.

All year since 1 December 2025: the official pages announce no closures and the offers cover stays to 31 October 2027. On Google Hotels, read on 12 October 2026, the calendar left the nights from 13 to 29 October, 2 to 22 November and 20 to 25 December 2026 without a price and stopped at 10 April 2027; no source mentions a closure on those dates.

According to the contact page the air stays around 30°C all year, and from May to November there may be brief showers; the booking terms' peak season runs from 24 December to 10 January.

Google Hotels, read on 12 October 2026, for 2 adults and one night: $469 on 31 October 2026, $647 on 1 November and on 11 December, $934 on 31 December and $734 on 15 January 2027. On 6 October 2026, for the night of the 7th, the calendar showed $1,690 and the official website $1,694.

The calendar shows the lowest price among the sellers and names neither the villa nor the meal plan. For 7 October the official price included the transfer, which the cheapest nights cannot include; the seaplane and the gala dinners of 24 and 31 December come on top.

On 3 October 2026 Tripadvisor gave 5/5 from 465 reviews, with a Travelers' Choice award and first place in Olhuvelifushi, and Expedia 9.8/10 from 35. Google showed 4.7/5 from 360, but 328 of those ratings date from the old Innahura Maldives Resort: since the reopening there are 32, all 5 stars.

Nala’s guests mostly praise the staff, starting with the host who looks after each villa on WhatsApp, the cooking at Velu, Milos and Kumo, and the lagoon. The island reopened on 1 December 2025: the reviews cover its first 10 months.

Under the 35% offer rates are quoted before tax, service and green tax; the other offers' terms include them. Expedia lists a green tax of $12 per person per night and the transfer at $430 a head; menu and spa prices include 17% GST and service.

The bill for 7 October 2026 shows it: the official website's link on Google Hotels carried $1,694, of which $1,064.66 was taxes and fees. The figure adds up from $629 for the villa, 10% service, 17% GST, a green tax of $12 each and $860, 2 transfers at $430: the calendar's nights from $469, read on 12 October 2026, therefore do not include the transfer.

Jawakara Islands, 3 minutes away by boat, is the sister island on the same lagoon, made up of Mabin and Dheru: the restaurants Molo, Mediterranean, Umi, Asian, and Hideout, at the golf course, a second Sulha Spa, golf and more sport. Nala’s home page talks of unlimited access; the fact sheet adds that charges apply, and the resort app states that everything there is charged, on any meal plan.

Molo and Umi serve lunch from 12.30 to 2.30pm and dinner from 7pm, booked by 10am on the day; menu prices include 17% GST and service.

Check-in is from 2pm and check-out by noon, according to the reservation policy, and the island keeps its own time, an hour ahead of Malé. Early arrival and late departure depend on availability, and the accommodation page suggests booking the night before to have the villa straight away.