Where the ocean becomes your home

Twelve overwater villas on a private island, where the only schedule is the tide.

Twelve villas. One untouched island.

Our story

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Considered luxury, on every tide.

Why Mareva

  • A private island, not a resort trip

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  • House reef at your doorstep

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  • One menu, written each morning

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  • Quiet, by design

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  • Your own dohni and crew

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  • Solar, desalinated, considered

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Twelve sanctuaries. No two alike.

Our villas

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  • Lagoon Pavillion

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    • 110m
    • 2 guests
    • Plunge pool

    Water Villa

  • Lagoon Pavillion

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    • 2 guests
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Days unfold in their own time

Experiences

Spear fishing at dawn. A long lunch on a sandbank. Nothing at all, if that is what the day calls for. Your butler will arrange it without a word.

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  • The house reef

    01 / The Sea

    Snorkel a living coral garden a few strokes away from your deck, turtles, reef sharks and the occasional manta ray.

  • The house reef

    01 / The Sea

    Snorkel a living coral garden a few strokes away from your deck, turtles, reef sharks ajd the occasional manta ray.

  • The house reef

    01 / The Sea

    Snorkel a living coral garden a few strokes away from your deck, turtles, reef sharks ajd the occasional manta ray.

  • The house reef

    01 / The Sea

    Snorkel a living coral garden a few strokes away from your deck, turtles, reef sharks ajd the occasional manta ray.

A portrait, in stillness.

The island

Photography by John Smiths, Summer 2026

A small island, looked after carefully.

Stewardship

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Solar by day

100% of daytime power drawn from on-island solar arrays.

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Solar by day

100% of daytime power drawn from on-island solar arrays.

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Forty minutes from Male. A world apart.

finding us

A private seaplane transfer collects you directly from Velana International. Your butler is on the dock before the propellers stop.

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    Landing in Male

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Guest Reflections

Mareva is the rarest kind of luxury - the kind that makes you forget you are anywhere at all. We came for a week. we are already planning to return for our anniversary.

Eloise & Henri Bennett

Lagoon Pavillion | March 2025

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