Maldives family resort and room eligibility checker

How to use the checker

Type the children's ages at the time of travel, separated by commas. Tick if grandparents are coming, if someone has limited mobility, and if you want a kids club.

Then choose the transfer the family can handle: a short speedboat of 30 minutes or less, any speedboat, speedboat or seaplane, or anything including a domestic flight. Tick budget tiers if you want to limit them, or leave them all clear for any tier.

The shortlist shows how many resorts fit and up to eight of them, best first. Each card lists why it fits, what to check, the children's policy from our research where we have one, and the official website. Below, a list of questions builds itself from your family, ready to copy, print or send.

How resorts are scored

The checker reads our resort file, researched on 11 October 2026, and adds or removes points for each family feature. A feature confirmed on an official source scores more than one that is only reported.

Questions follow the same logic. A child under 3 adds a cot question, under 2 adds a Green Tax and transfer fee check (under 2s are exempt from Green Tax), under 16 adds a water villa age question, and any child adds occupancy, extra bed and meal plan questions.

Worked example 1: young children and grandparents

A family enters children aged 2 and 7, ticks grandparents and kids club, chooses "Any speedboat, no seaplane", and leaves budget open. On the current file, 24 resorts fit.

Bandos Maldives comes first: kids club confirmed, positioned for families, a children's policy on file and a speedboat of about 15 minutes, with a caution that water villas may have a minimum age. Centara Mirage Lagoon and Meeru follow, both with a confirmed kids club.

The question list covers cots, water villa ages, occupancy, extra beds, child meals, babysitting, kids club ages, interconnecting villas and buggies or steps. That last one matters with grandparents.

Worked example 2: older children and a seaplane

A family with children aged 10 and 13 chooses "Speedboat or seaplane", ticks the mid-range, luxury and ultra-luxury tiers and does not need a kids club. The shortlist now leans to resorts further out, with the seaplane shown as part of the transfer.

Because the 13-year-old is over 12, a teen programme question appears. With a 10-year-old, any resort whose policy mentions an age limit shows the water villa caution. At Kuredu, for example, our file notes some villa areas are for guests 12 and over or 15 and over.

Who it suits, and what to do next

The checker suits families with children and multi-generation groups who want a shortlist they can defend. It does not show prices; once you have two or three resorts, compare them in the resort comparison worksheet and cost the trip with the trip cost calculator.

If you land on an evening flight with small children, check the flight arrival and transfer planner before you commit to a seaplane resort. The family and multi-generation hub covers the wider planning.