The St. Regis Maldives Vommuli Resort

The St. Regis Maldives Vommuli Resort is Marriott’s St. Regis in the Maldives, on the private island of Vommuli in Dhaalu Atoll. It opened in November 2016; the exact day is not published. It has 77 villas, every one with a private pool: 44 over the water and 33 on land, between beach and jungle. WOW Architects designed it, with overwater villas shaped like manta rays and a Whale Bar modelled on a whale shark. The resort’s page lists a Forbes Travel Guide 5-star rating for 2024, 2025 and 2026. See the official website and the resort's design page.

11 types, all with a private pool. Over the water: the Overwater Villa, 182 m² with a king bed; the Sunset Overwater Villa, king bed, facing the sunset, with no published size; the Overwater St. Regis Suite, 282 m² with living and dining rooms and a cabana; the Two Bedroom Sunset Villa, one king and 2 queens, with no published size; and the John Jacob Astor Estate, 1,725 m² on 2 levels, 3 bedrooms, a 92 m² infinity pool and 2 plunge pools, for up to 10 guests. On land: the Garden Villa, 150 m² in the jungle; the Beach Villa, 182 m² on the sand; the Two Bedroom Ocean Villa, 380 m², one king and 2 queens; the Knickerbocker and the Cesar Balsa, 531 m² with 2 bedrooms and a 67 m² pool; and the Caroline Astor Estate, 620 m², 3 bedrooms and a 67 m² pool. Marriott notes that sizes are approximate, allows a rollaway bed in every villa and has no accessible rooms. The 380 m² Ocean Villa with 2 bedrooms stands on the beach, on 2 levels, with sand running from its deck to the lagoon and a 30 m² infinity pool, according to the resort’s announcement of 15 April 2026, read on 15 October 2026. See the rooms page, the signature villas page and the announcement of 15 April 2026.

Vommuli is one of the 56 islands of Dhaalu Atoll, south-west of Malé; Velana International Airport is 160 km away. The atoll opened to tourism in 1998 and has 7 inhabited islands, reached by boat. Robb Report India puts the island at 9 hectares. Its interior is dense jungle, kept during construction, ringed by a beach of coral sand and the lagoon; on the south coast the 2-storey family villas sit on the rocks and the shoals. How quiet it is depends on the villa: the Whale Bar has DJ sets until midnight. The comparison site tropki.com places the resort on Velavaru; the official address is Vommuli Island, Dhaalu Atoll, 13080. See the experiences page, the resort's design page and Robb Report India.

The transfer is compulsory: a shared seaplane, US$870 per person return, about 45 minutes from Velana airport; the resort’s design page says 40. Anyone landing in Malé after 3.30pm must spend a night in the city. The baggage allowance is 30 kg including hand luggage, and each extra kilo costs US$5.80. The page gives no child fare and does not say whether the price includes tax. Alternatively, Norma, the resort’s yacht, can be chartered for a direct transfer or one with a night on board. One offer, Family Escape with Seaplane Transfers, valid from 15 August 2026 to 15 August 2027, carries the seaplane in its name. See the official website and the resort's design page.

No. Vommuli is reached only by seaplane or boat, and the official page confirms it: no parking and no electric-vehicle charging. On the island guests get about by bicycle, provided by the resort, and on its free shuttle. See the official website.

It depends on the villa. The Beach Villas and the beachfront signature villas open onto the sand; the overwater villas have a deck above the lagoon, and the official photograph of the Two Bedroom Sunset Villa shows a ladder down into the sea. The Garden Villas sit in the jungle with no beach of their own. Paddleboards, canoes and windsurfers are free for anyone heading out without an instructor; lessons and guided trips cost extra. See the rooms page and the dive centre page.

The resort describes a house reef around the island, beneath the overwater villas, and more than 40 dive sites around the atoll, 25 of them within 20 minutes by boat. The dive centre is PADI-recognised: lessons from 8, certification from 10, Bubblemaker for 8- and 9-year-olds, nitrox and night dives. The water stays between 27 and 29 °C all year. Excursions go looking for manta rays and whale sharks, which nobody can promise. In the reviews many guests snorkel straight from their villa; in 2021, 2022 and 2026 some found little coral or rough water. See the official website, the dive centre page and the Google reviews.

Every villa has its own: the estates list 92 m² for the John Jacob Astor, with 2 plunge pools, and 67 m² for the Caroline Astor, the Knickerbocker and the Cesar Balsa; the Two Bedroom Ocean Villa has 30 m² since its rebuild. Shared by everyone are the infinity pool, free and with towels, and the Kids Pool, closed for maintenance until 10 October 2026. At the spa is the Blue Hole, a hydrotherapy pool with whirlpool jets beneath the covered terrace, which closed for works from 9 to 19 September 2026. See the signature villas page, the experiences page and the announcement of 15 April 2026.

The infinity pool opens 11am–6pm, the Blue Hole 10am–6pm. The resort publishes no pool temperature and does not say whether the pools are heated; the sea, according to the dive centre, stays between 27 and 29 °C all year. See the experiences page and the dive centre page.

7 venues, with hours read on 2 October 2026. ALBA, Mediterranean with a Middle Eastern accent: daily 7–10.30am, noon–4pm and 7–10.30pm. T•Pan, Japanese kaiseki with few seats: Monday, Wednesday and Friday 12.30–2.30pm and 7–11pm; Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday 7–11pm; closed on Saturdays. Orientale, Asian cooking on the beach: Monday to Saturday 7–10.30pm. The Whale Bar, tapas and cocktails over the water: daily from 5pm to midnight. Cargo, Indian Ocean cooking in the garden: Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday 7–10.30pm. Crust & Craft, a beachside pizzeria: daily noon–5pm. Decanter, a wine cellar with a 6-course menu: Monday to Saturday 7.30–10.30pm. The dress code is smart casual, casual at Crust & Craft, and the resort warns that some venues may close on certain days of the season. See the restaurants page.

That depends on the rate: Marriott lists breakfast as charged when the rate leaves it out, and the offers of 2 October 2026 included no all-inclusive plan. Some offers add meals: the Festive Getaway breakfast at ALBA for 2, the Full Board Escape, from 15 August 2026 to 15 August 2027, the full board in its name, and the signature-villa offers half board. Among the private dinners, Decanter serves 5 courses with wine; its dining-room menu has 6. See the official website, the restaurants page and the Festive Getaway offer.

It stands over the water, modelled on a crustacean, and covers 1,850 m². It has 6 treatment suites, 2 of them Ayurvedic with private steam rooms, each with its own bathroom and a terrace with a bath; then saunas, steam rooms, cold-drench showers and the Blue Hole, one of the largest hydrotherapy pools in the Maldives by the resort’s account. Visits begin in the Iridium Room, whose glass floor looks down into the lagoon. It uses Biologique Recherche products, with an Ayurvedic specialist and an acupuncturist. The hair and nail salon is at Vommuli House. According to the resort’s page, the World Travel Awards named it the Indian Ocean’s best resort spa in 2021. See the spa page and the official website.

Treatments are booked separately, through the butler; the page does not say whether the Blue Hole is free for guests and offers no day passes for non-residents. During pregnancy the spa performs no massages or body treatments in the first trimester and rules out some treatments throughout; the dive centre follows PADI guidance, which advises against diving. See the spa page.

Daily from 11.30am to 8.30pm, by appointment; the Blue Hole opens 10am–6pm. The Vommuli House gym is open 24 hours. See the spa page and the experiences page.

Balinese and Thai massage, herbal scrubs, facials, manicures and pedicures, Ayurvedic Shirodhara, the Caviar Journey with a lavender bath, the Iridium Signature Touch, a Biologique Recherche jet-lag massage, a lava-shell massage and two 40-minute bath rituals with champagne. Couples have a treatment with a grapeseed scrub and a rose-petal bath. Yoga takes place in the open-air Yogasala, for up to 8 people, anti-gravity included, with packages of 3, 5 or 7 days; acupuncture is offered too. The spa page publishes no prices; the salon’s appear on the wedding page: a 60-minute classic manicure at US$200, a 75-minute pedicure at US$240. See the spa page and the weddings and events page.

Yes. The Children’s Club at Vommuli House takes children aged 4 to 12, free of charge and always watched by trained staff, with yoga, painting, origami and games. Socialite, with pool, table tennis, air hockey and video games, is for those aged 16 and over. The resort keeps a list of babysitters, at an unpublished price, supplies cots and children’s bathrobes and runs family dhoni trips from 4.30 to 8pm, booked 24 hours ahead. Diving starts at 8. The 2-bedroom villas and the estates are designed for families. The check-in age of 18 applies to whoever registers. Under the Festive Getaway children up to 11 stay and eat free; the Kids Pool reopens after 10 October 2026. See the family page, the official website and the Festive Getaway offer.

Vommuli House, at the centre of the island, holds the 24-hour gym, with Jumping Fitness, the Children’s Club, the library and the salon; in front is the tennis court, free to use, with a coach for private lessons, and there is a padel court. Activities include jet skis, waterskiing, sailing and kayaking; snorkelling gear and bicycles are included. The butler unpacks and packs, brings coffee or tea with the wake-up call and presses 2 garments per person a day. Room service runs 24 hours and housekeeping comes twice a day. Norma, the yacht inspired by John Jacob Astor IV’s Nourmahal, takes up to 8 guests with a butler, chef and crew. Drones are banned. See the experiences page, the rooms page and the official website.

On 2 October 2026 the website showed 4. The Festive Getaway, code EVE: stays from 15 December 2026 to 15 January 2027, minimum 4 nights, booked by 30 October 2026; 30% off the best available rate, breakfast at ALBA for 2, children up to 11 free, a resort credit of US$400 in the signature villas, US$300 in the 2-bedroom villas and US$200 in the one-bedroom ones, non-motorised watersports and snorkelling. The credit covers the spa and selected restaurants, excluding alcohol and the Christmas and New Year’s Eve gala dinners. Then Celebrate Lavishly, from 1 February to 31 December 2026, and Family Escape with Seaplane Transfers and Full Board Escape, both from 15 August 2026 to 15 August 2027. The signature villas offer 20% off 4 nights or 25% off 7, with half board, cooking classes, the Blue Hole, a photography session and a cruise on Norma. See the Festive Getaway offer, the official website and the signature villas page.

The resort holds beach weddings, vow renewals and honeymoons, with a dedicated wedding specialist, a 5-course wedding dinner with wine and champagne and a party at the Whale Bar. Extra services carry published prices: photography at US$500, US$700 or US$1,000, video at US$600 or US$750, a make-up trial at US$135 and a hair trial at US$150. The packages are priced for the couple, exclude rooms and meals, add 10% service and 12% T-GST, are paid in full 14 days before arrival and cost 100% if cancelled after that. The page does not say whether the ceremony is legally binding or how many guests it can take. See the weddings and events page.

The resort announces a Christmas and New Year programme of dinners, cultural moments and island experiences, still being completed when read on 2 October 2026. The Festive Getaway terms mention Christmas and New Year’s Eve gala dinners, excluded from the credit; their price is not published. The Google Hotels calendar read on 12 October 2026 showed US$9,884 a night for 2 from 23 December to 9 January, US$19,891 on 25 December, US$45,522 on 1 January 2027 and no price for 29 and 30 December. See the festive season page, the Festive Getaway offer and Google Hotels.

The resort lists no golf course among its activities: it offers tennis, padel, watersports and diving. Among the hotels in the guide, Velaa Private Island in Noonu Atoll has a golf academy. See the experiences page.

The resort is open, and the Google Hotels calendar had prices for almost every night between October 2026 and January 2027. The resort gave 2 facilities as closed for maintenance until 10 October 2026: the Kids Pool and the library. The resort renovated widely in 2025: its letter to partners of 14 October 2025 listed ALBA’s beach and reception as finished, with the Beach Villa beach, the 2-bedroom family villas, Cargo, the gym, tennis, padel and the Children’s Club due between late October and 1 December 2025. On 15 April 2026 it unveiled the rebuilt Two Bedroom Ocean Villa: from 334 to 380 m² and, in the same text, 66 m² of extra indoor space, with the pool enlarged from 15 to 30 m². 2 guests describe summer closures for works, in 2022 and from June 2025, whose dates the resort has not published; on 1 December 2025 Robb Report India headlined the reopening with its new padel court. See the experiences page, the partner letter of 14 October 2025, the announcement of 15 April 2026 and Robb Report India.

Google Hotels, read on 6 October 2026 for one night and 2 adults, taxes and fees included: US$4,280 on 7 October, US$4,279 on 5 November, US$4,576 on 18 December and US$8,888 on 24 December 2026, and US$4,634 on 15 January 2027. For 7 October the lowest price was the official website’s, for a Garden Villa for 2; the other villas’ prices for that night are in the answer on booking, and the compulsory seaplane, charged separately, in the one on getting there. See Google Hotels and the official website.

On 2 October 2026 Google showed 4.8/5 from 647 ratings, Tripadvisor 4.9/5 from 1,772 and Expedia 9.6/10 from 25. We read the 417 Google reviews with text written between 24 December 2016 and 1 October 2026. Service satisfies 91% of the 290 guests who discuss it, and the credit nearly always goes to the butler; the villas satisfy 92% of 132, the location 90% of 138 and breakfast 88% of 60. Guests who find the price justified give the butler as their reason; restaurant and bar prices also recur in reviews. Lunches and dinners are charged separately when the offer does not include them; in 2025 the resort renovated reception, the gym and the 2-bedroom villas, and it is worth asking whether works fall on your dates. See the Google reviews, Tripadvisor and Expedia.

The resort publishes no summary of the taxes on rooms and transfers. The wedding page adds 10% service and 12% T-GST to its packages; on Marriott’s pages for the Ritz-Carlton Maldives, read on 5 October 2026, the same tax stands at 17%. Google Hotels’ nightly prices for the Maldives market include taxes and fees; the seaplane price does not say whether it includes tax. See the weddings and events page, the Ritz-Carlton Maldives website and the official website.

No: the official page says pets are not allowed. Drones are banned too, for guests’ privacy. See the official website.

In-room Wi-Fi is free for Marriott Bonvoy members who book direct, according to the resort’s FAQ; the rooms page calls it complimentary without conditions. Every villa has a desk, and there is a business centre with computers and printers. For events and groups the resort has an event space and banquet layouts with tables for 8 or 10; capacities and prices are not published. See the official website, the rooms page and the weddings and events page.

On 6 October 2026, for the night of 7 October, the official website asked US$4,280 for the cheapest villa, a Garden Villa for 2; the same price appeared on Booking.com, Agoda, Hotels.com, Priceline and Qantas Hotels, while Vio.com asked US$4,282. The same night the official website priced an Overwater Villa at US$4,332, a Beach Villa at US$4,383, a Sunset Overwater Villa at US$4,576, the St. Regis Suite at US$4,673, the Two Bedroom Sunset Villa at US$7,169 and the Two Bedroom Ocean Villa at US$8,765. Booking direct gives Marriott Bonvoy members free Wi-Fi and the members’ rate; the resort’s own offers, such as the Festive Getaway, are booked with their code on the website or on +960 676 6333. See Google Hotels and the Festive Getaway offer.