![]() ![]() The buffet selection here is smaller and features pretty much the same dishes as the Samuga restaurant, but if non-Water Villa and non-Premium Beach Villa guests want to dine here, they can - for an extra fee. Located next to the AVI cocktail lounge, this buffet has one wall open to the ocean. ![]() ![]() Guests staying in the Water Villas and Premium Beach Villas have a much smaller and more enclosed place to dine. There's plenty of breezy, open seating available for tables of two and larger parties. This casual beach and poolside spot has a large, central buffet featuring international items (though there are a lot of curries and Chinese dishes), live cooking stations, and a large dessert table. When and where you'll be dining is set by the hotel, with most guests (those in non-villa rooms) grabbing their breakfast, lunch, and dinner at the large, open-air Samuga buffet restaurant. Water Villas have all of this, but lack the outdoor bathrooms due to their overwater locations, though there is a glass peekaboo cutout in the floor on each for easy underwater views. Another bonus to the Premium Beach Villas are the introduction of the Nespresso machine to the list of additional room amenities, as well as a designated changing area, whirlpool tub, and stocked minibar in each. ![]() In blocks of four, with Superior Beach rooms on the bottom and Superior Vista rooms on top, these rooms have just a little less space than the Premium Beach Villas. While you can get beach views with the next bump up to Superior Bungalows, you won't get direct beach access until you hit the Superior Beach Rooms. They come with all the standard amenities - like fully private outdoor bathrooms with (smaller) rain showerheads, faux-stone tiled floors, wicker patio furniture, air-conditioning, tons of outlets and lights (there's not much natural light), and blackout curtains that you can pull over the wooden blinds that hang over the glass windows and doors. While you will be sacrificing a beach or ocean view choosing these, the Garden Rooms are also the smallest rooms but, they're big on bang-for-your-buck. All rooms have contemporary, minimalistic wood furniture, coffee and tea facilities including kettles, flat-screen TVs with satellite channels, CELYON Summer Island bath products in glass pump containers, stocked minibars or mini-fridges, and sitting areas - and all but Superior Vista rooms have outdoor bathrooms. Light woods, tile, fabrics, and wall paint serve to create a larger sense of space as well as mimic the surrounding colors of the sea and beach. Summer Island Maldives has 156 rooms and villas across six categories, plus one suite. That's not to say there is no privacy at Summer Island - just that guests here appear more open to interacting than those other islands. In this sense, the island and its guests are usually very sociable, so if you like making new friends, this place is ideal - but if you'd rather be completely left alone, you might want to consider a boutique property on a larger set of land. This gives the island a very welcoming and warm vibe that is only compounded by the fact that everyone seems to be in high spirits. Many guests and staff know each other, stopping to have quick conversations that go beyond polite pleasantries. Actually, If you choose to take a speedboat from Male, the details start during the ride when free bottles of water and cool towels are handed out to guests.Įven before the renovations, Summer Island attracted return guests. The upgrades brought things like contemporary style to the rooms and villas (including beautiful black limestone from India), a row of slightly dim Garden Rooms (that are a bargain), an expanded deck off the main bar, a new infinity pool, and small details such as aromatherapy scents and fresh flowers in the public bathrooms. Opened in 1993, Summer Island Village underwent a massive renovation, reopening in March 2015 with a stylish makeover, added features, and a (sort of) brand-new name - Summer Island Maldives. ![]()
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