Living and travelling as a European since over 30 years in the Indian Oceans islands and its luxury high end hotels, I did not expect another top up for me and my family.
The four or five restaurants offer the “local and the world’s best at its best”. The staff in all the restaurants and bars are so overwhelming friendly, helpful and attentive.
A special star and bravo has to go to the breakfast buffet ! ( open till 11 am). For example, I never seen a GM or the Chef in a 5-star hotel so often presented and helpful. - Not to mention the respectful and charming gestures to some guests to carry their plate to the table or removing empty ones.
Going through the islands natural paths you never see a gardener trimming grass or cutting on trees or bushes. Nature has been left alone even on the various snow-white beaches. – Well done – not done.
We had 5 nights in the over-water-villa and 5 nights in the beach villa. Till now we are not sure which we liked best. All of those villas are designed and decorated with the best materials and exquisite taste.
The Anantara Kihavah Villas are indeed on our list for coming back.

It's one of most beautiful hotels in Maldives. The hotel is still new to the Maldives but because of its location, beauty, white sand beach, great offers on Restaurants and huge Pool Villas, it becomes well-known now.

The beach Pool Villa and Over-Water Pool Villa are both huge and lovely in design and decoration.

There are five restaurants for you to choose and A Must Try Restaurant is the under water restaurant where you sit in a room under water with the view of variety of fish. The restaurant offers a 4-course menu with wine pairing. The food is delicious and it's worthwhile as a once in a life time experience.

The breakfast and lunch buffet are great with a good quality and variety of choices. What I love the Most is the Pizza at lunch buffet. It tastes really good Than I expected.

Especially, the design of the breakfast area is so beautiful and I love how they selected the furniture. Everything matchs just so right for the place.

The main pool area is wonderful and the pool size is really wide and long. As the hotel has approx 70 villas, even when the hotel is at its high occupancy, you won't feel disturb by other guests as there are many choices in restaurants and activities.

The staffs are friendly and polite. We did enjoy the stay very much. Maldives itself is already a paradise but if you choose to stay at the right hotel, you will know how to enjoy and spend your time on the real paradise.

Anantara is diffinitely one of my favorites hotels in the Maldives.

I did a lot of research to choose a resort to spend our honeymoon. After reading the Tripadvisor comments and some suggestions by friends, we decided to go to Anantara Kihavah. At the Male' airport we were welcomed by very helpful airport staff who quickly took us to the Anantara sea plane lounge in a luxury limousine! That was completely beyond my expectation. I never expected a limousine in a small island airport. The Anantara seaplane lounge was just as comforting as the welcoming staff. It was nicely decorated with beautiful artwork and modern furniture. Coffee, tea, juice, fresh fruits and pastries were provided in the lounge. The best part is you have free Wifi internet in the lounge itself which is equipped with iPads and iMacs.
We truly enjoyed the 30 minute sea plane ride from Male' airport to the resort, watching the beautiful islands of the Maldives from the sky. At the resort jetty, we were welcomed by the General Manager and many other staff. We were quickly escorted from the jetty to our villa by our villa host who prepared a fresh welcome drink in front of us in our beautiful villa. After a short but perfect room orientation the villa host inquired about our dining plans for the day and helped us book the Italian restaurant for lunch. An itinerary of activities was prepared for us by our Villa Host.
We stayed in an over water pool villa which is very spacious with a stunning glass bottom bath tub! The pool is large and the ocean view is amazing while you relax on the large swing day bed in your sun deck. Upon arrival our bed was nicely decorated for honeymoon. The romantic ritual bath prepared by our housekeeper (sorry I could not remember the name) was so romantic!
The selection of breakfast is probably the best you can get in a five star resort. There are items from every corner of the world. The staff at the breakfast restaurant, plates are so warm and friendly. They recognize our preferences from the first day and we never had to repeat our preferences throughout our stay.
We dined in all the restaurants which includes Fire, the Japanese restaurant, Salt the Asian restaurant and of course the most unique Sea, the underwater restaurant. We had lunch in the Sea restaurant and were lucky to sea turtles! Don’t forget to take a romantic beach dinner, the food and decoration is awesome!!
All the staff at Anantara Kihavah are friendly and very helpful. They have created a homely environment where every guest feels like at home. Unlike some of the comments mentioned in some reviews here, I have experienced no issues or any inconveniences during my stay. Each staff went out of their way to fulfill our needs. The food in all restaurants are great. The breakfast selection i s the best I have seen so far in entire life, and I am a very well-travelled around the world. I have already booked my next trip to Kihavah!