Kuramathi Cottage and Spa Resort | Maldives
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Kuramathi Cottages and Spa, the second resort located in the middle of Kuramathi island is a health-oriented holiday destination.
On arrival at the reception in Kuramathi Village, you are taken by minibus to a heavily vegetated and secluded resort, scented by the aroma of frangipani, hibiscus and other flora and fauna indigenous to the Maldives archipelago.
Accomodation
The Cottage Club has 50 water bungalows erected on stilts and standing in the middle of a crystal clear lagoon. The 31 beach bungalows are situated just a few steps from the beach, in full view of the azure lagoon. All the water bungalows and standard beach rooms are equipped with modern amenities.
Water Bungalows [50]
Facilities
Air Conditioning | Mini Bar | IDD Telephone | Coffee/Tea Making Facilities | Beach Towel | |
Hair Drier | Balcony/Terrace | Bath ad Shower | Pipe-in Music | In-room Safe |
Beach Bungalows [31]
Facilities
Air Conditioning | Mini Bar | IDD Telephone | Hair Drier | Balcony/Terrace |
Bath and Shower | Open Air Shower | Pipe-in Music | Beach Towel | In-room Safe |
Suites [2]
Facilities
Air Conditioning | Mini Bar | Balcony/Terrace | IDD Telephone | Satellite TV | Coffee/Tea Making Facilities | Beach Towel |
Hair Drier | Jacuzzi | Open Air Shower | Bath and Shower | Pipe-in Music | In-room Safe |
Dining
Since Kuramathi is a big island it is divided into three hotels where you have the option of eating in different outlets through out the island. The food and beverage production team do their best to ensure that everything is perfect. Guests are welcome to eat at any restaurant or coffee shop. Throughout the month theme dinners are present at different locations of the island. Kuramathi offers a choice of five restaurants, including Indian, Thai, Grill and few coffee shops.
Apart from the main restaurant an Indian Restaurant opens for dinner and a Coffee Shop where you have the choice of eating outside sitting under the palm trees or if you like to sit inside while enjoying the very Maldivian style interior. If you prefer a light snack for your lunch visit to Palm Court, an open air restaurant in the middle of the island among the palm trees over looking the lagoon of Kuramathi.
Island Barbecue – located in Kuramathi Village. This grill is open for dinner, situated on the beach just few feet away from the shoreline. Enjoy the beautiful scenery and fresh air from the ocean while you enjoy the fantastic cuisine. Selected flambé dishes and prime cuts of meat and fresh seafood is available.
A Thai restaurant situated in the lush vegetation of the island is definitely a place you must visit for a dinner at least once. With a variety of authentic dishes, you will be able to enjoy wonderful Thai food in a beautiful Thai setting.
La Laguna Grill located at the very edge of the beach overlooking the huge lagoon of Kuramathi is a very popular place. It’s the perfect place to enjoy that special occasion by candlelight.
At La Laguna Grill, guests are offered an excellent a la carte menu including prime cuts of meat, chicken and seafood that is prepared in front you by the grill. The speciality is sizzling steaks.
Activities
You can play tennis or relieve stress at the gymnasium while taking a dip at the swimming pool. The island’s water sports center offers sailing, water skiing, catamaran sailing, windsurfing, and water skiing for the adventurous.
Water Sports
There is no end to range of water sports to be enjoyed at Kuramathi.
- Available Sports at the Water Sports Centre
- Windsurfing
- Sailing
- Glass Bottom Boats
- Canoeing
- Water Skiing
- Banana Riding
- Catamaran Sailing
- Robinson Trips
- Sunset Sailing
- Snorkelling
The resort provides qualified instructors at the Water Sports Centre who can speak English, German and Italian.
Land Sports
Knowing how difficult it can be for energetic fun-loving people to keep still, Kuramathi have come up with a host of options to keep you occupied. Table tennis, badminton and volleyball can be played and there’s a football pitch, which guests from all three resorts may use.
Visiting Local Island
Here is your great chance to visit a typical Maldive island to experience what Maldivian life is like. It’s a ten minute journey by boat to the neighboring island of Rasdhu, where you spend two-hours going around the island and if you are interested in shopping there are several souvenir shops where you can buy printed T-shirts and sarongs and lot of other souvenirs.
Island Hopping
On this full-day excursion you will have the opportunity to see three different islands and enjoy a barbecue lunch and great snorkelling. First stop will be a local island about one hour boat ride from Kuramathi. This island is home to a Maldivian fishing and farming community. You will have the chance to stroll the island and even meet some local Maldivians. Next stop will be a resort island where you can relax, swim or go snorkelling you might see some new fish, which you haven’t seen in Kuramathi. Last stop will be an uninhabited island where you will be served a barbecue lunch, which is cooked over an open fire. Afterwards you can go snorkelling or you may even explore this small island and be Robinson Crusoe on your own deserted island.
Snorkelling Safari
Enjoy a couples of hours snorkelling over some of the best coral reefs in the area. Where you will get the chance to see some amazing fishes and colourful corals. On this trip you can visit three different reefs and you may compare how different these three reefs are. You will also be accompanied by a Marine Biologist who is very keen to answer your questions and explain to you about his underwater world and coral reef.
Big Game Fishing
If you’ve always wanted to try your luck at catching some really big fish, here’s your chance. A specially adapted boat for big game fishing can take up to five people with the cost of the trip being divided among the people on board. There are three options to choose from: the morning session between 5.00-10.00 am, the afternoon session between 2.00-6.00 pm, or if you’re really smitten with the idea, you can go for the full day’s fishing lasting between 5.00 am-5.00 pm. Be ready for an exciting time. You could catch anything from wahoo, marlin, sailfish, barracuda or tuna.
Discotheque & Live Music
This open-air disco is just a few steps away from the sea facing the beach next to the “Dhoni Bar”. This unique Bar is made out of a traditional Maldivian boat where the Bartenders are eagerly waiting to refresh you with exotic cocktails. Disco, Live music, Traditional local music, Karaoke and games are performed through out the week in different locations of the island.
Kuramathi Sports Centre
This is the ideal place to keep up your fitness limit while you are on holiday. If you want to burn off some extra pounds or build more muscles the gymnasium is well equiped and waiting for you. Or if you prefer to simply play tennis, there’s a flood lit tennis court.
Please be adviced to book tennis courts in advance as there is big competition for the court among the players. To relax after your tennis or after training in the gym, massage therapists are readily available for a relaxing massage or why not treat yourself with a facial or a manicure or even a pedicure.
Facilities available at the Sports Centre
- Fresh water swimming pool
- Children’s pool
- Sauna
- Jacuzzi
- Gymnasium
- Flood lit tennis court
- Pool Bar
- Spa
- Saloon
Kuramathi Spa
At the Kuramathi Spa, you can get a wide range of relaxation treatments in both European and Eastern tradition. Separated into open-air sections for women and men, the spa has a sauna, steam room, cold plunge pool, Jacuzzi and showers. At the Kuramathi Spa, you can get a wide range of relaxation treatments in both European and Eastern tradition. Separated into open-air sections for women and men, the spa has a sauna, steam room, cold plunge pool, Jacuzzi and showers.
Scuba Diving
Maldives is world renown for its exquisite dive spots and Kuramathi Village is most fortunate to be in the midst of some of the best dive spots in the Maldives archipelago. The diving school at the Village offers you open water diving courses certified by PADI, which can pave the way for you to visit these famed dive spots and witness the rich underwater coral gardens brimming with tropical rainbow fish.
The rich natural coral formation of these tropical islands makes Maldives a perfect place for Scuba Diving. The underwater world is fantastic and full of colourful and lively fish. The sheer diversity of the species is impressive, the small clown fish, the huge manta rays, the sharks, the turtles, the eagle rays, morays, the colourful parrot fish and many many more beautiful creatures. You can also simply relax by snorkeling around the home reef of Kuramathi or set sail on a romantic sunset cruise. Excursions and island hopping are golden opportunities for you to visit nearby and faraway islands, either to get a taste of the native island culture of the Maldives or for a deserted barbecue in an uninhabited Robinson Crusoe island.
Rasdhoo Atoll Divers – The diving centre can offer courses for beginners and professionals alike, certified by PADI, NAUI or CMAS. The main features, include :
– A minimum of 2 dives per day – Morning and Afternoon
– Twice a week early morning dive to The Hammerhead Sharks.
– Twice weekly Dive Safari Excursion in Ari Atoll.
Medical Centre
A modern Medical centre was opened in 2000. This centre was constructed in co-operation between Universal enterprises limited (Republic of Maldives) and the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg (Germany) .
A decompression chamber (built according to technical standard [DIN]), for the therapy of specific illnesses which can occur while diving activities (diving related disorders, e.g. decompression sickness) received the “Kuramathi Medical Centre“ as a special feature. It is at the present time the biggest available pressure chamber in the Maldives. It houses four persons. Beyond exists the possibility to supply major diving accidents in the decompression chamber with intensive care.
The decompression chamber is also available for HBO-therapy of other illnesses or emergencies simultaneously, e.g. for the treatment of carbon monoxide poisoning, gas gangrene, non-healing wounds a.s.o. In addition, the Medical centre of Kuramathi is equipped with modern diagnostic divices for ECG, X-ray, blood analysis and audiometry (audible listening test). A stationary treatment is even possible in the case of necessity. For this purpose, a small ward is available with two beds.
The clinic offers a 24-hour emergency supply which does not only limit to diving related disorders. Among other things, a respirator, infusion apparatus and a patient monitor is available for this. The equipment with medicine and further medical instrumentation corresponds to international standards and allows a comprehensive medical supply to all emergencies.
Two German doctors are employed at the clinic, one of them is a specialist for diving accidents and emergency medicine. The other one is a general practitioner and a specialist for Ear-Nose-Throat diseases.
A nurse and a chamber operator support the doctors in their work. The clinic also looks medically after the entire staff of the hotels of the island. Regular consulting hours are arranged daily where both doctors are available.
Modern EDP and information technology support the work of personnel at the clinic. There is E-Mail or Internet technology available to consult colleagues in the case of difficult problems or to use medical databases.
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