A digest of news and opinion from the Maldives.
Soneva, the luxury resort operator with sustainability at its core, has announced the launch of Soneva Jani, Chapter Two. The award-winning Maldives resort is synonymous with over-water luxury, superlative hospitality and rare guest experiences, and this new chapter marks the beginning of an incredible new era. Now open to guests, Chapter Two expands upon Soneva […]
Soneva Jani, the iconic luxury resort located in the Maldives’ Noonu Atoll, announces 85 new job positions, to be filled over the next few months as part of its Chapter Two expansion. The positions include eighteen positions in Housekeeping, sixteen openings for butler roles, two in the water sports department, two boat crew, six in […]
Soneva Jani’s general manager Andrew Whiffen presents donations to Noonu Atoll School, received by its principal Abdulla Eesa. Soneva Jani resort made a generous donation to Noonu Atoll School on Monday on the occasion of Children’s Day. The five-star luxury resort presented books and sports equipment to the school at a special ceremony held on […]
When it comes to Maldives travel, you have to try pretty hard to have a bad vacation. Made up of more than 1,000 islands that sit in 26 reef-framed atolls, this tiny nation’s waters of seemingly infinite shades of blue and green slide into patches of white sands and dark corals. There are now over 100 […]
Chef Edwin Vinke If you were planning on travelling to the Maldives in October, between the 21 and 25 October, you are in for quite the treat, in addition to the pleasures that come with being in a gorgeous island paradise, obviously. Soneva, the luxury resort group, is collaborating with Dutch chef Henk Savelberg to […]
‘I can’t even talk about it.’ Remember that? I used that phrase solidly between 1987, when I was 15, and 1989. New Diet Coke ad – can’t even talk about it. Tom Cruise in Cocktail – can’t even talk about it. Lucy’s grown-up brother – can’t even talk about it. When something was just too […]