LIVING ON ISLAND TIME

Following the opening of Soneva Secret, located on the most remote atoll in the Maldives, Tatler caught up with Soneva founder Sonu Shivdasani to talk about “intelligent luxury”, the importance of play and his recent OBE

By Coco Marett

A water slide that drops from your private villa into the crystal blue ocean. Ceilings that open at the push of a button to reveal a starry sky. A zip line to dinner at an overwater restaurant. Cold rooms filled with artisanal chocolates and ice cream, cheese and charcuterie, open to raid 24 hours per day. A “no news, no shoes” policy. Soneva Secret, a new luxury resort in the Maldives, really brings out the inner child in you. “When we started Soneva, [his wife] Eva and I envisioned our resorts as places where people could reconnect with the pure, unfiltered joy that often gets buried under the weight of adult responsibilities in big cities,” says Sonu Shivdasani, co-founder and CEO of Soneva, which operates resorts in Thailand and the…

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Tatler Hong Kong (Digital) - 1 Issue, October 2024

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