World’s Top 10 Underwater Hotels: Dive into Unparalleled Luxury

Conrad Rangali Island, Maldives

Conrad Maldives Rangali Island’s Ithaa restaurant, rated ‘the most beautiful restaurant in the world’ by the New York Daily News in 2014, is 5 metres or 16 ft below the surface, affording 180-degree panoramic views of the vivid coral gardens surrounding it. Ithaa (meaning’mother of pearl’ in the Maldivian language of Dihevi) restaurant usually seats 12, but for $11,710 per night, it may be transformed into a stunning suite for two. You can expect top-notch lodgings for your one-of-a-kind overnight stay, with the restaurant delivering pleasures such as caviar in a six-course set dinner menu.

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Atlantis The Palm Dubai, UAE

The grandiose Atlantis is located on the kingdom’s man-made, palm tree-shaped island. The Palm is one of Dubai’s most stunning resorts, combining a blockbuster luxury hotel (almost 1,500 rooms and suites!) with an aquatic wonderland. The hotel’s famous underwater rooms provide magnificent underwater vistas, including the “ancient” ruins of Atlantis and its 65,000 marine creatures. You’ll be blown away by the floor-to-ceiling windows that stare directly into the hotel’s Ambassador Lagoon. If that isn’t enough, the suites include a personalized butler 24 hours a day, massages, and a dolphin encounter.

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Lovers Deep, St Lucia

Lovers Deep is a recreational submarine located just off the shore of a lovely Caribbean island of your choice. It is designed for couples who wish to spend a private night together submerged beneath the ocean waves. The breathtaking vistas of the marine world will take your breath away, and the vessel is fully staffed with your very own team to ensure you never have to take your eyes off the view, or each other. The airline sector has the Mile High club, but this is the first time you can join the Mile Low club. What exactly are you waiting for?

Manta Resort Zanzibar, Tanzania

Manta Resort in Zanzibar, elevated and constructed along an ideal island beach, offers privacy, romance, adventure, and water sports on East Africa’s finest island hideaway. While the resort includes some lovely seafront villas and garden rooms, it is best known for its underwater accommodation, which is a tiny floating island with a bedroom 4 meters (13 feet) below the surface. It is yours to enjoy for $1500 per night while sunbathing and stargazing on the top deck, sitting and dining on the water deck, and sleeping surrounded by a tropical marine environment.

Poseidon Underwater Resort, Fiji

Fiji is now building the world’s ultimate underwater resort. The resort says that when it opens, it will be the realization of every wealthy vacationer’s dream. The resort’s 25 suites will be placed forty feet under the sea in an off-shore lagoon, accessible via a lift from the shore of Viti Levu island, and will have wall-to-ceiling windows and underwater lights, promising eye-popping views of multi-colored marine life. There are concerns that it will fail: the resort has delayed its launch until 2020, despite 150,000 visitors lined up to pay $10,000 to stay.

Per Aquum Niyama, Maldives

Subsix, the world’s first underwater club, is also in the Maldives, though not on the same island as Huvafen Fushi. Subsix, located within the magnificent Niyama resort, is 500 metres (1650 feet) out in the ocean and six metres (20 feet) below the waterline, and it is open to the public. You can relax and enjoy the good life with private Champagne breakfasts, intimate subaquatic lunches, wedding blessings, wine tastings, themed evenings, and club nights. Alternatively, you can dance the night away in this spectacular underwater club while gazing down into the Indian Ocean’s depths.

Shimao Wonderland Intercontinental, China

The 380 room Shimao Wonderland InterContinental is currently being built on the site of an abandoned quarry in Songjiang, China, around 30 miles from Shanghai. It will become one of the flagship hotels of the InterContinental Hotel group, and, notably, will features several rooms underwater as the abandoned quarry will be partially filled with water to create an artificial lake. There will be two underwater floors, the lowest of which will have a swimming pool.

Resort World – Sentosa, Singapore

Guests here are treated to five-star accommodation and individual butler service while enjoying breathtaking views of the world’s largest aquarium, which is discreetly tucked away on one side. Each of these 11 premium rooms is created in the style of a magnificent two-story townhouse, providing visitors with the finest of both land and sea. The upper level features an open living room with access to an outside patio and Jacuzzi, while the lower level provides visitors with an underwater view of over 40,000 marine fishes from the comfort and privacy of their own suite.

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Anantara Kihavah Villas, Maldives

A really remarkable dining experience awaits you at Sea, Anantara Kihavah’s restaurant in the Maldives, where you may savor a great dinner while gazing out over the sea. The world’s first underwater wine cellar can be found inside one of just a few underwater restaurants. Prepare to be astounded as a spectacular assortment of water life swims, darts, and dances before your eyes. The international gourmet meal, complimented by a selection of wines spanning nine decades and paired by the resort’s personal Wine Guru, is truly world-class.

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Per Aquum Huvafen Fushi, Maldives

Boutique hotel Huvafen Fushi was one of the Maldives’ pioneer hotels and still delivers. It is located in a ridiculously clear lagoon, where you can relax on your own private stretch of sugar white sand, snorkel in one of the Maldives best house reefs, or swim in the lagoon-like infinity-edged pool. Huvafen Fushi’s spa, LIME, has 6 overwater pavilions in addition to the world’s first underwater treatment rooms. Soft cushions evoke the tactile versions of the corals and sponges and the slow rhythmic flow of the water, punctuated by the spectral colours of tropical fish.

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