Nautilus Maldives Wins the Award for Hottest Independent Hotel in the World


Maldives
PUBLISHED November 24, 2018

The Nautilus Maldives has won a Hottest Independent Hotel award in the 2018 Vision Style Awards.

The Awards, which are run by global textiles giant Vision Support Services, are an online incentive aimed at rewarding and recognising excellence in the interior design of hotels, restaurants, spas and bars around the world.

The resort has 26 private beach and ocean houses and is located on it's privately owned island in the heart of Baa Atoll; centrally situated in the Baa Atoll UNESCO Biosphere Reserve. The luxury resort also includes private pools, ocean views, tropical greenery, three restaurants and a poolside bar.

The Awards were judged by a number of renowned and esteemed professionals from across the hospitality and travel industry including:

  • Lori Pinkerton-Rolet Director of Park Grove Design
  • Mark Wynne International Sales Director for Visions Hospitality Division
  • Nigel Haworth Chef and Ambassador to the Northcote Group
  • Abigail King Award-Winning Photographer, Journalist and Blogger
  • Bill Lumley Editor of Luxury B&B Magazine
  • Fraser Donaldson Group Hospitality Sales & Marketing Director for Vision Support Services

The judges sat down and deliberated over three finalists, from each of the seven categories, in order to crown their final seven winners.
"The Awards are in their sixth year now and its astounding to see how much they grow year-on-year. Last year, we opened our search up to include Europe and this year, for the first time, we opened our search up to include worldwide entries," said Fraser Donaldson, Group Hospitality Sales & Marketing Director for Vision.

"The entries weve seen this year have reached far and wide and its fantastic to see that the winners, and finalists, span almost every continent. These awards are a testament to the skill, hard work and determination of hoteliers and owners and were very proud to be able to reward each and every one of them."

The winners of each of the seven categories will each receive a glass trophy and certificate, choice of champagne or hamper and cash voucher. They will also receive a double-page spread in Visions annual look-book and guide to hospitality interiors, The Vision Style Guide, due to be published in early 2019.

With only 26 beach and ocean houses on a tiny coral reef-encircled island, The Nautilus Maldives is a bohemian hideaway located in Baa Atoll, a UNESCO biosphere reserve.  Here, a kaleidoscopic wonderland of incredible marine life awaits discovery: trips to world-renowned Hanifaru Bay to swim amongst whale sharks and manta rays; diving on iridescent coral reefs; exploring remote sandbanks and deserted islands or just cruising the ocean on a custom-built yacht are among the many adventures guests can look forward to. 

Built by a Maldivian entrepreneur, this is his ultimate project in the country, created to express his personal vision of the best that luxury can be not just in the Maldives, but worldwide.  A celebration of the individual spirit, The Nautilus offers liberation and freedom unconditional. Space to share, to meet, where guests are encouraged to be themselves and shape their own personal journey. And, most of all, to celebrate the people theyre with, in any way they choose.  Because in the end, its these simple, elemental pleasures that ability to simply be that form the greatest luxury of all.
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