Taj Exotica Resort and Spa, Maldives

It enjoys a truly breath-taking setting beside a picture-perfect lagoon, just fifteen minutes by boat from Malé. The Taj Exotica Resort and Spa Hotel in the Maldives is the sort of place Hollywood comes to make movies.

Most of the visitors to this unrivalled Maldives hotel, however, come to relax. There are just over sixty villas clustered around the lagoon. Six of them stand on the edge of the white sand beach and feature plunge pools and al fresco showers.

The others actually stand in the Indian Ocean, on stilts. Steps lead down to its warm waters, and their private sundecks naturally provide horizon-wide views of the sea.

The dream doesn’t end there. The Taj Exotica Resort features a world class spa with treatment rooms overlooking the lagoon, a gym and a pavilion devoted to yoga and tai chi.

Wind surfing, parasailing, snorkelling, PADI diving, catamaran sailing and evening champagne cruises make the most of the sea, whilst this astonishing Maldives hotel even offers island-hopping by seaplane!

Then stingrays join you for dinner – swimming through floodlight waters beneath the circular, Deep End restaurant.

A scene from a movie? No, from the Taj Exotica Resort and Spa Hotel in the Maldives.