JOALI sits in Raa Atoll (see our Raa Atoll guide), one of the newer wave of resorts in that northern atoll, and differentiates itself from the standard barefoot-luxury template with a deliberate focus on art and design.
What it's known for
Commissioned art installations are woven throughout the resort's public spaces and villas, positioning JOALI as much toward design-forward travellers as toward the classic beach-and-reef Maldives pitch — a genuinely different emphasis to most of the resorts in this directory so far.
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