Luxury is synonymous with Maldives hotels, but Soneva Fushi has just upped the ante. The resort opened what it claims are the world’s largest one- and two-bedroom overwater villas on September 25.

The world’s most beautiful over-water villas and bungalows (that aren’t in the Maldives) - A water-adjacent abode isn’t unique to the Maldives, says Tamara Hinson; try one of these just-as ...

From afar, The Muraka overwater villa at Conrad Maldives Rangali Island resembles a mammoth Palm Springs bungalow, but its defining attribute in fact lies 17ft beneath the sea’s surface.

With the first over-water villas opening in the UAE this year, we hear from leaders who have excelled in the Indian Ocean. Top tips from 11 Maldives GMs on running over-water villas. Anantara Kihavah ...

With each villa measuring 584 sq m, they're the largest over-the-water villas in the world. Think a huge double bedroom, a separate dining area and kitchen, a living room, and of course your very ...

Price: US$6.5 million (The U.S. dollar is the standard currency used across all resorts at Soneva) Perched above the clear turquoise waters of the Indian Ocean, this over-water villa in the Soneva ...

My InsiderThe recently reopened Lux North Male Atoll in the Maldives lets guests stay in luxurious overwater villas that come with their own pools and roof decks. A stay at the luxury resort ...

The 6,727-square-foot, two-story villa, with a two-story water slide down to the ocean, was built in 2016 as part of the Soneva Jani resort using reclaimed telegraph poles, eco-friendly bamboo and ...