Sun Siyam Iru Fushi

A 5-star resort of 221 villas on its own 52-acre island in Noonu Atoll, the resort Sun Siyam Resorts files under its Luxury Collection; the group’s official site also lists Siyam World, Iru Veli, Olhuveli, Vilu Reef and Pasikudah in Sri Lanka. Its factsheet counts 15 restaurants and bars, a Thalgo spa with over 165 treatments and a dive centre.

Tripadvisor still lists its former name, Iru Fushi Beach & Spa Resort, and Booking.com’s address carries it too. Tripadvisor also files it under «Hilton Maldives Iru Fushi»; today the hotel is Sun Siyam’s, and no official page mentions Hilton.

11 types, all with a private pool, according to the accommodation page and the factsheet. On the beach: Beach Villa with Pool, 192 m², 24 villas; Deluxe Beach Villa with Pool, 192 m², 99; Family Deluxe Beach Villa with Pool, 206 m², 10; Private Pool Beach Villa, 200 m², 5. Over the water: Water Villa with Pool, 123 m², 40; Horizon Water Villa with Pool, 129 m², 16; Sunset Horizon Water Villa with Pool, 129 m², 19; Infinity Water Villa, 174 m², 5.

3 retreats, one of each: the Aqua Retreat over the water, 408 m², and the Hidden Retreat in the garden, 277 m², both with 2 bedrooms for up to 6; the Celebrity Retreat, 698 m² on 2 floors with 3 bedrooms for up to 10. 2 pages give other sizes in their text: 155 m² for the Infinity Water Villa and 600 m² for the Celebrity Retreat. Guests since February 2026 describe the water villas as newly refurbished: for a new villa, book there.

In Noonu Atoll, north of Malé, 45 minutes by seaplane from Velana airport, according to the destination page. The Google listing gives the address as Medhafushi; its sister resort Siyam World is in the same atoll.

The island is large for the Maldives, 52 acres, with a wooded interior crossed by paths and buggies to get about. Guests describe it as calm despite 221 villas: in February 2026 a couple never found the beaches crowded. You call a buggy when you need one; the villas do not come with bicycles, 2 guests noted in December 2025 and January 2026.

By the resort’s seaplane from Velana airport, about 45 minutes, flying from 6am to 4pm, with the latest check-in at 3.30pm, according to the destination page. A return trip costs $490 per adult and $295 per child aged 2 to 11.99 for arrivals until 31 October 2026, and $515 and $310 from 1 November 2026; a private seaplane costs $8,890 net each way. The transfer must be booked through the resort, with 20 kg of checked luggage and 5 kg of hand luggage each.

The free-transfer offer covers 2 guests staying at least 7 nights, not between 26 December 2026 and 10 January 2027, according to Booking.com; the Oktoberfest offer halves the fare for 2 adults from 4 nights. Before the flight you wait in the seaplane lounge, which has drinks, snacks and showers, according to the factsheet.

No: it is an island reached only by seaplane, and no page of the resort names a car park. Google Hotels lists «parking» among the amenities, which does not apply to an island with no roads; guests move about by buggy.

From the beach, which runs round the island, and from the decks of the 81 water villas, which guests describe with direct access to the lagoon. The beach villas open on to the sand; the Private Pool Beach Villa’s terrace leads straight to the shore.

Guests praise the sand as soft and the water as calm: in August 2026 a honeymoon couple found the sea below their water villa the most beautiful spot on the island.

Yes. The destination page places the house reef «steps from your beach villa» and a short swim from the water villas, with the Nemo Garden beside it, and the official site calls it the «Nemo house reef». A marine biologist leads conservation snorkels; the all-inclusive includes snorkelling gear and one guided snorkel at Nemo Park.

Guests in 2026 describe sharks, turtles and rays seen from their decks, and in July 2026 one guest found the Nemo house reef right for beginners with a mask and fins. The seabed drops away quickly and the best stretch is often choppy, a family noted in August 2026.

Every villa has its own, from 14 to 79 m², according to the factsheet. Shared, there is a main pool with a children’s area beside Fluid, and an adults-only infinity pool, for 16 and over, beside Reflections; the Koamas Kidz Club has its own pool, 1.07 m deep.

The site gives neither heating nor temperature, nor the pools’ own hours. The bars beside them do publish theirs: Fluid, by the main pool, from 8am to 6pm, and Reflections, by the adults-only pool, from 8am to 10.30pm. The villa pools are the guests’ own at any hour.

15 venues, according to the factsheet. Restaurants: Iru, buffet, 6.30 to 10.30am, 12.30 to 2.30pm and 6.30 to 10pm; Bamboo, Southeast Asian on the beach, lunch and dinner; Flavours, French over the water, dinner; The Trio, Italian on stilts, dinner, booking required; Taste of India, dinner; Islander’s Grill, seafood on the sand, lunch and dinner; Teppanyaki, with sushi; the Spa Café and La Cremeria.

Bars: Waters Edge, open around the clock, No Mistake on the beach until midnight, Reflections, Fluid, Bubble Lounge for champagne over the water, The Cellar on request and the adults-only Beach Club. Google Hotels counts 8 restaurants and 4 bars. Every à la carte dinner must be booked, in the resort’s app or through the butler; in 2026 guests single out Taste of India, Bamboo, The Trio and Islander’s Grill.

4, according to the meal plan valid from 1 November 2026 to 31 October 2027: breakfast at Iru; half board, adding dinner at Iru or 3 courses at Bamboo, Flavours, Taste of India or The Trio, and Islander’s Grill with 50% off its food; full board, adding lunch at Iru, Bamboo, Fluid or Reflections; and the 24-Hour Premium All-Inclusive Dine Around.

The all-inclusive adds premium drinks at every bar and restaurant, Waters Edge around the clock, over 66 wines by the glass, the minibar refilled daily with soft drinks, beer and wine, ice cream at La Cremeria, snorkelling gear, a sunset cruise and a local-island trip once each, an hour of catamaran or windsurfing and one of kayak or paddle board per villa each day, $50 of spa credit per adult and 24-hour butler service. Teppanyaki and special events are not included in any plan, and the dine-around dinner does not apply on 24 and 31 December.

The Spa by Thalgo, set in the island’s interior between Iru and Islander’s Grill, according to the spa page. The factsheet lists over 165 treatments, specialists in Ayurveda, Traditional Chinese Medicine and naturopathy, a hydrotherapy area with sauna, steam and hot and cold plunge pools, a beauty salon, yoga and Pilates, the Spa Café, the Sweet Pea kids’ spa and the Seashore Spa, open-air by the beach.

The weddings page gives over 140 treatments rather than 165. The site publishes no size or number of rooms; a guest visiting the group’s resorts in August 2026 counted 20 treatment rooms.

Treatments are paid for and charged to the villa; the spa page says its prices include the 10% service charge and taxes. Spa guests use the hydrotherapy area, sauna, steam room and plunge pools free. The all-inclusive adds $50 of credit per adult on treatments of 60 minutes or more, a 30-minute facial for women from 15 and one hour of hydrotherapy per villa; the family offer includes the hour of hydrotherapy too.

No page publishes a day pass for anyone not staying on the island, and the island is reached only by the resort’s seaplane. The spa is not suitable for children under 3.

Daily from 9am to 9pm, according to the spa page, with hours that may vary by season, the factsheet adds. Booking ahead is advised, by phone on extension 189; arrive 15 minutes early, and cancel at least 12 hours ahead to avoid a 50% charge, 100% without notice.

Thalgo marine facials and rituals, Swedish, Thai, Balinese and shiatsu massages, Ayurveda with a consultation and packages of 3 to 14 days, acupuncture, cupping, moxibustion and gua sha, according to the spa page. The site publishes no full price list.

The wedding brochure, valid until 30 September 2026, priced the Heart of the Ocean ritual and the Ocean Facial at $136 each and Maldivian Sensations, 90 minutes of coconut scrub, coconut-milk bath and coconut-oil massage, at $314, plus 10% service charge and 17% GST; the spa page says its prices already include them.

Yes: children of all ages are welcome, according to Booking.com, which charges them as adults from 15. The Koamas Kidz Club takes ages 3 to 11 from 8am to 9pm, with a pool 1.07 m deep, a movie room and an infant sleep room; a teens’ club runs activities for ages 12 to 16, and babysitting is charged on advance booking, according to the factsheet.

On the Kids Stay and Eat Free offer, up to 2 children under 15 stay and eat free with 2 paying adults, with seaplane fees and Green Tax due. The meal-plan terms give children under 15 a free kids’ menu in the à la carte restaurants except Teppanyaki. Booking.com says no cots are available.

According to the factsheet: an SSI dive centre and a water sports centre, a 24-hour gym, tennis and badminton courts, a recreation centre with chess, table tennis and a family games area, a club house with karaoke, a library, boutiques, a clinic and a photo and video studio.

The experiences page adds jetcars, jet-ski safaris, paddle boards, a day on the uninhabited island of Thanburudhoo, cookery and craft classes and the Cinema by Moonlight on a dhoni; excursions are charged.

Read on 3 and 6 October 2026 on the offers page: a Free Transfer Offer, up to 30% off with the seaplane free for 2 guests from 7 nights; the Oktoberfest offer, booked by 31 October 2026 for stays until 31 October 2027 outside 27 December to 4 January, up to 30% off, half-price seaplane for 2 adults from 4 nights, a floating breakfast and $100 of credit; the Honeymoon offer and the Kids Stay and Eat Free offer.

The Siyam Rewards membership, free to join, promises the dine-around, an upgrade and a 1-hour spa treatment, according to the home page, which marks these benefits with an asterisk and no terms.

In a symbolic ceremony: the wedding brochure states that its ceremonies are not legally recognised. It prices the Devotion package at $2,575 and Amoura at $1,356, with a wedding planner, master of ceremonies, a beach set-up, champagne and cake, plus 10% service charge and 17% GST, without photography; its packages were valid until 30 September 2026, and the weddings page still linked it on 6 October.

The weddings page names its packages Simple & Elegant and Classic and publishes no guest numbers. The all-inclusive includes a symbolic ceremony with a master of ceremonies and a palm arch for stays of 10 nights or more.

Yes. The festive programme 2026–27 sets a cocktail at 5.30pm on the water sports beach, then from 7 to 10pm a buffet at Iru, a French set menu at Flavours and an Italian one at The Trio, and the Radiant Party at Waters Edge with live music, a DJ, the countdown and fireworks.

The programme prints no price. According to Booking.com the gala dinner is compulsory: $525 per adult and $265 per child on 31 December, $500 and $255 on 24 December. The dine-around dinner does not apply on 24 and 31 December.

No: the factsheet lists no course and no golf packages. The island has tennis and badminton courts, a 24-hour gym, the dive centre and the water sports centre.

All year: no official page announces a closure. On Google Hotels, read on 6 October 2026, 114 of the 117 nights from 7 October 2026 to 31 January 2027 had a price; 7 October and 29 and 30 December showed none, which leaves them unknown, not closed.

The festive season, Bohemian Reverie, runs from 22 December 2026 to 4 January 2027 in the programme and from 23 December on the events page. On Google’s calendar the nights from 23 December to 10 January cost 2 to 3 times those of November.

Google Hotels, read on 6 October 2026, for 2 adults and one night: $571 on 8 October 2026, $738 on 28 October, $572 on 17 November and on 1 December, $1,445 on 24 December, $1,201 on 31 December, $1,516 on 3 January 2027, $1,654 on 10 January, the calendar’s peak, and $1,070 on 20 January.

For the Maldives market Google’s calendar amounts already include taxes and fees. The calendar names no villa and no meal plan, and each night is searched alone: booked together as 7 nights from 16 November 2026, the lowest seller Google listed asked $661 a night, and the resort’s own listing $758; the seaplane and the compulsory gala dinners of 24 and 31 December are extra. On 7 October and on 29 and 30 December the calendar showed no price.

On 6 October 2026 Google Hotels showed 4.8/5 from 2,245 ratings, 93% of them 5 stars; on 3 October Tripadvisor 4.8/5 from 8,597, with a Travellers’ Choice 2026, and Booking.com 9.4/10 from 462, with comfort at 9.8, staff at 9.7 and value for money at 9.1.

In the latest 500 Google reviews with text, July 2023 to October 2026, 96% of those who mention the staff and services are positive, 95% of those who mention the location and 91% of those who mention the villas. On the bill, the all-inclusive is what wins them over, with premium drinks at every bar and restaurant; excursions and à la carte drinks come on top, with service charge and tax.

The website’s rates exclude them: a 17% Goods and Services Tax, a 10% service charge and a Green Tax of $12 per guest per day, according to the destination page; Booking.com exempts infants up to 2 from the Green Tax. Meal plans, excursions and the wedding packages are quoted before service charge and tax as well.

Google Hotels’ prices for the Maldives, on the other hand, include taxes and fees, and so do the spa’s, according to its page. Booking.com charges an extra bed for anyone from 15 at $360 a night.

Check-in is from 2pm and check-out by noon, according to the destination page and Google Hotels. The seaplane flies until 4pm, and the honeymoon offer’s terms ask for international arrivals before 3.30pm and departures from 9am.