Visión general

Perched around an idyllic secluded island in a crystal-clear coral lagoon, Baros boutique hotel in the Maldives will exceed your highest fantasy-island expectations. Encircled by clear, warm waters and sugar-white sands, and dotted with swaying palms and fragrant flowers, this intimate resort’s scenery is swoon-worthy. Team this with serene contemporary rooms (including overwater villas), tantalising fine-dining options, a blissful spa, expansive pool and aquatic activities from yachting to yoga, and you have the ultimate atoll escape.

Aspectos destacados:

  • Shoreside romance

  • Eco-friendly diving and snorkelling

  • Seductive spa treatments

Smith extra

A bottle of Champagne and a fruit basket on arrival

Al día

También debe saber:

For the definitive Maldivian experience the Nooma, the Baros’ 19.4 metre traditional wooden sailing dhoni, can be chartered for diving expeditions during the day or private sunset dining at night.

Consejos para hacer la maleta:

Leave your heels at home; they’ll just sink in the sand-lined pathways strewn across the island. Fashionable types should pack several swimwear options, some cover-ups and a maxi or two for island chic. Budding Jacques Cousteaus can hire dive gear here, so just bring your documentation.

Dress code:

Upscale beach chic.

Mr & Mrs Smith Opiniones de

All airport transfers should be like this. Having negotiated a queue of three people at passport control, we stroll a few yards from the terminal to a speedboat stocked with a lifetime’s supply of cold flannels. Just 20 minutes later, having cruised past the president’s ‘picnic island’ (they know how to do things properly in the Maldives), we arrive at our palm-fringed atoll.

A Water Villa on the sunset side is our home for the next few days, a conical, thatched overwater pavilion raised on stilts with full-height windows and a deck overlooking the sea. Mrs Smith’s sun-worshipping proclivities kick in immediately, and she disrobes and parks herself on a lounger for the afternoon. Meanwhile, I quickly establish what is to become my favourite activity: marine twitching. I take a particular liking to the Needlefish, which float around in the shallows like miniature javelins. Occasionally, one propels itself out of the water, perhaps to secure a better view of Mrs Smith in her birthday suit.

Mrs Smith has passed into an open-mouthed slumber when I suddenly shake her awake. ‘What’s the matter? Are we sinking?’ she yelps. Swimming magisterially beneath our feet is a manta ray. It pauses for dramatic effect, eyes us lazily, then flaps off to the next-door villa. We speculate whether the creature is in fact a highly trained employee whose schedule is orchestrated by hotel management: ‘Ray, go and do another round of the overwater villas would you?’

After watching the sun go down, we retire to the Lounge at the Lighthouse bar for a pre-dinner cocktail. Nearly everything at Baros is geared towards couples, so the kidney-shaped sofas invite reclining and canoodling. Unfortunately, they also cause Mrs Smith to throw her Cosmopolitan over her Jil Sander dress. Twice. I plump for a Lighthouse Blazer, a potent potion that is ignited by Lucky the barman and arrives smoking hot. As it turns out, the majority of our evening is dedicated to pyrotechnics – in the fine-dining restaurant beneath the bar, we order the lobster soup and the truffle-infused beef fillet, both of which are cooked in front of us with lashings of brandy that cause theatrical balls of fire.

Flip-flopping over to breakfast the following morning, we wander around in a daze trying to decide what to eat (having arrived with every pair of shoes from her wardrobe, Mrs Smith spends the entire stay in the complimentary footwear). In the end I take the pain out of the process by having one of everything – fruit followed by cereal followed by French pastries chased up by Belgian chocolate waffles, fried eggs and tuna sashimi.

Seeking sunloungers for a chill-out session, we enquire at reception about using a pair from one of the unoccupied beachfront rooms. When we arrive at the shoreside villa, it becomes clear that we have been beaten to it. Reclining on one of the loungers is a heron, who shields himself from the midday rays beneath a straw parasol (perhaps he too has enquired at reception). Mrs Smith shoots him an old-fashioned glare, and he stalks off like a bandy-legged David Hasselhoff to resume his fishing duties. We watch him for a while, and conclude that being a heron at Baros is as easy as being a guest. The shallows teem with thousands of fish, which offer themselves up to him like shimmering sacrifices.

Some snorkelling is in order, so we borrow some equipment from the dive centre. You can scuba dive here without any qualifications, but we find that floating on the surface is awe-inspiring enough, like peering into a tank of tropical fish at a pet shop. The joy of Baros is that it has its own house reef, so you need only paddle out a few metres from the beach to see piscatorial specimens of every size in kaleidoscopic colours, as well as little sharks and the occasional turtle.

A sandbank dinner is in the offing for our final evening in the Maldives, which sounds schmaltzy but turns out to be just about the most romantic thing we’ve ever done. We are gently ushered on to a speedboat by no less than four linen-clad members of staff (the ratio of employees to guests at Baros is two to one) and whisked off to a tiny sand bar in the middle of the ocean. Awaiting our arrival are our own personal maître d and chef, who ply us with champagne and barbecued seafood as the sun melts into the horizon. Our only company is a fleet of scuttling sand crabs, their eyes lighting up like little torches in the darkness.

 

Datos del alojamiento

Dirección:

PO Box 2015, Male' 20-02, North Malé Atoll, Male, Republic of Maldives
Male
Maldives

Ubicación:

9.4 mi / 15.2 km desde el centro de la ciudad

Servicios generales

  • Lavandería interna
  • Spa
  • Gimnasio de fitness
  • Servicio de Internet
  • Servicio de habitaciones

Información de restauración

Restaurante:

Set over the water, circular fine-diner The Lighthouse Restaurant is shaded by a soaring sail-like white-tented roof that is dramatic by day and luminous by night. The lounge is the perfect setting for sipping champagne as the sun sets, and the restaurant offers fusion food with Asian and Mediterranean leanings. Sitting on a large wooden deck under the cover of palm thatch gazebos, Cayenne Grill is a more casual affair, where food offerings alternate between Maldivian, Indian and Japanese. The open kitchen means you can watch the chefs as they prepare your meal. The Lime Restaurant is perched on stilts above the water and dishes up an all-day menu of global à la carte dishes.

Top Table:

Outdoor patio-front tables at any of the restaurants (we love the wave-side lower deck at the Lighthouse). You can also dine in private at your villa, alfresco anywhere on the island or out on a romantic sandbank.

Last Orders:

10:30pm for dinner at the Lighthouse and Cayenne Grill and Lime Restaurant. Sails Bar keeps the drinks coming until 11pm.

Room Service:

Available on demand 24 hours. The room service menu offers breakfast (including champagne breakfast for two), snacks, lunch and dinner options. The Light House and Cayenne Grill can whip up in-room dining between 7pm and 10pm.

Hotel Bar:

With sugar-white sand underfoot and palms overhead, Sails Bar and Palm Garden is a seductive spot to sip a pomegranate margarita or a sommelier-selected wine as the day winds up. Live music acts play every Tuesday and Saturday night. The Lounge at The Lighthouse offers a more intimate drinking experience. Guests lounging by the pool can order cocktails from the roving waiters; pick from classic piña coladas, margaritas and daquiris, or order a more modern concocotion. We like the Baros Island iced Tea with vodka, shochu, peach and orange liqueurs, lemon juice, honey and green tea. A snack menu has dim sum, mini burgers, gourmet pizzas and sushi.

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