Experience unforgettable family moments at luxury family resorts in the Maldives. Enjoy pristine beaches, and exciting kids’ activities. Dive into the vibrant marine world, savor gourmet dining, and create lasting memories in this tropical paradise. Ideal for families seeking a blend of relaxation and adventure in a luxurious setting.
Resorts in the Maldives cater to families with spacious villas, many featuring private pools and direct beach access. Kids can enjoy a variety of activities such as snorkeling in vibrant coral reefs, dolphin-watching cruises, and fun-filled water sports. Many resorts offer dedicated kids’ clubs with engaging programs, allowing parents to unwind while children are entertained. With its safe environment, stunning natural beauty, and exceptional service, the Maldives provides a perfect backdrop for creating lasting family memories.
Anantara Dhigu Maldives Resort
Anantara Dhigu Maldives Resort is the picture-perfect destination for tourists who are traveling with their families. The resort offers luxurious and spacious villas, a fantastic kids club, and multiple water-based activities for your little ones.
This resort will ensure that your kids will have the vacation of their dreams! The place offers water activities including puffer fish and baby reef shark-seeing, a kids’ pool, a jetty ride, and whatnot!
Anantara Dhigu Maldives Resort also offers a special children’s menu which is loaded with scrumptious treat options. The place offers various affordable holiday packages for families.
Best price guarantee with direct booking on this hotel.
Atmosphere Kanifushi Maldives
This five-star all-inclusive resort is not only spectacularly beautiful but world-class in service, too. It’s very family friendly and the resort’s Kanifushi Residence villas are designed with the needs of both children and adults in mind. Outside of the villas there’s plenty to keep you busy including a relaxing spa, water sports, a restaurant – the first of its kind in the Maldives – serving environmentally responsible dishes. There’s also a great kid’s club, playground, nursery, and babysitting services for those evenings when you want a romantic adult’s only dinner.
COMO Maalifushi
Best for the little ones!
Play by COMO focuses on young jet setters! Their dedicated program offers incredible wellness menus (for kids!) and loads of unique family activities such as snorkeling with a Marine Biologist, splash net dolphin cruises, and surfing. Their dedicated Play by COMO Space is designed to inspire purposeful and creative child-directed play for children aged 4 – 12, with carefully-selected toys, books, games, and art materials.
Finolhu
Best for snorkelling!
Grab your bucket and spade — the big draw at this flamboyant resort is its magnificent white-sand beach and sandbank, which swoops through the Baa Atoll like a comet. There’s an inflatable waterpark set just offshore, a lagoon-shaped swimming pool and fantastic marine life with colourful corals and swirls of tropical fish in the house reef and spinner dolphins, sea turtles and manta rays all nearby. The Oceaneer’s Club has a long list of daily activities — pirate workshops, sand art, kayaking competitions — and can throw birthday parties with gifts, games and cake.
Hideaway Beach Resort & Spa
Winner of a Tripadvisor Travellers’ Choice Best of the Best Award 2022. If the adults need a break from their offspring, the resort has the solution: the excellent Tender Hearts Kids’ Club. Let your little ones loose in the 50sqm kids club and watch them participate in the curated activities guaranteed to impress. These include sandcastle making, fishing lessons, treasure hunts, painting, drawing, cooking classes, cycling, hide-and-seek, educational tours and so much more.
Kandima Maldives
The exciting family-friendly hotel, Kandima rocks with its cool modern vibe, relaxed ethos, and huge playground and splash area for kids. They are all about their little VIPs and have a dedicated Kandiland, Kandima Kids Club run by a multilingual team of fully certified child carers, and offers activities plus an adventure splash playground, trampoline, climbing wall, table tennis, and indoor play areas. The island offers over three kilometers of beach and two pools including a 100-meter pool – the largest in the Maldives.
LUX* South Ari Atoll Resort & Villas
Best for sporty types.
Parents will love the hip Ibiza-esque design, feel-good spa treatments and choice of five different bars. Children, meanwhile, will love the club houses (one for wee tykes and one for teens), beach sports and adventure trips. The all-inclusive is likely to keep everyone smiling; it covers everything from tennis and yoga classes to in-room minibars and barista-made coffee, as well as unlimited ice cream and non-motorised watersports. Family lagoon villas are the accommodation of choice, rolling straight onto bright white beach and into placid Tiffany-blue waters.
Meeru Island Resort & Spa
Meeru Island Resort & Spa Maldives is an ideal resort island for families with small children. Meeru’s Family Plan makes for a more affordable holiday. Your children’s room, meal plan and Speedboat transfer rates are reduced to 50% of the adult rate. Family Plan rates are applicable to children of less than 15 years of age. There is a children’s game room. Near the Dhoni Bar Pool, there is a children’s wading pool, an outdoor play area and the Komas Kid’s Club, separate facilities, toys, games and fun for Children ages (3-12) and Teens (13-17).
Best price guarantee with direct booking on this hotel.
Niyama Private Islands Maldives
Best for surf school.
This twin-island family-friendly resort in the southern Dhaalu Atoll has its own surf break within paddling distance of the shore. Lessons cover every level and every member of the family, beginning with the basics in Niyama’s tranquil blue lagoon before graduating to duck dives and cutbacks in the open sea. Back on land, you’ll also find an all-singing, all-dancing kids’ club, a treehouse restaurant, an underwater restaurant, an overwater spa and big family villas, both on the beach and stilted above the Indian Ocean.
Best price guarantee with direct booking on this hotel.
Ozen Life Maadhoo
Best for a sporty all-inclusive.
The incredible all-inclusive resort program at OZEN Life Maadhoo ensures that the whole family is smiling and enjoying the Maldives their way. Enjoy the benefit of one fabulous adventure experience and one authentic sunset fishing excursion included as part of the all-inclusive offering. You’ll also gain access to complimentary non-motorised watersports and snorkelling excursions. Parents, meanwhile, receive one complimentary spa treatment per four to five-night stay.
Patina Maldives
A lot of things for kids. Footprints is the kids education inspired activity centre set in beautiful grounds with climbing frames and a splash pool. The indoor activities include a 3D printing and laser cutting technology, cooking classes etc. The children can also enjoy interactive island experiences and marine conservation. Parents will be overjoyed to know that their children can spend countless hours staying busy.
Siyam World Maldives
Siyam World is the new kid on the block where kids come first! However, we all know kids comes in all shapes and sizes and when a slide into the Ocean is attached to all water villas, they comes in all ages too!
This all-inclusive resort which opened in October 2021 offers 19 stylish accommodation categories, all with private pool – villas, rooms, pavilions and residences – spanning from 89 to 3,000 square metres both on land and over water.