Six Senses Laamu

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About The Hotel

Beautifully remote, yet accessible by plane and boat from Malé (MLE) International Airport, Six Senses Laamu is set in a palm-fringed lagoon to fill you with wonder and fuel your wanderlust. Villas with all the creature comforts are set either on stilts over the water or on the beachfront and are an easy wander from the resort's restaurants, lounges, and amazing Maldives attractions and destinations. All make the most of natural materials, and their clever design allows for the utmost space and privacy.
INTERNET
  • Public areas: free
    In room: free
CHILDREN POLICY
  • Children are welcome
CHECK-IN / CHECK-OUT
  • Check-in: 2 pm
    Check-out: noon
TRANSPORTATION AND TRANSFERS
  • Subject to supplement
ROOMS
  • 97 beach and ocean water villas
PARKING
  • No parking available.
PETS
  • Pets are not allowed.
SPA AND LEISURE
  • outdoor pool
  • fitness center
  • spa
  • diving
  • windsurf
  • surf
  • snorkeling
ENTERTAINMENT&FAMILY SERVICES
  • outdoor play area
  • babysitting
  • family rooms
FOOD&DRINK
  • restaurant
  • bar
GENERAL
  • room service
  • free wifi
  • non-smoking rooms
  • air conditioning

Sustainable Initiatives

The Manta and Sea Turtles Trust

The Manta Trust is a registered charity with the mission to conserve mobulid rays and their habitats through research, education and collaboration. Since 2014, the Manta Trust has been working with the resort to study the local manta ray population and educate guests and the local community about the importance and vulnerability of manta rays. Just a 15-minute boat ride from Six Senses Laamu and 20-meters below the surface is Hithadhoo Corner, a series of large coral blocks teeming with cleaner wrasse eager to clean Laamu’s resident manta rays. Innovative research techniques allow the team to learn more about mating behavior and pregnancy. Olive Ridley Project (ORP) exists to protect Maldivian sea turtles from threats. Since 2018, they are making this dream a reality through their work as part of the Maldives Underwater Initiative. ORP continues to safeguard Laamu’s turtles through a wide range of research projects including studying the local turtle populations, monitoring turtle nests laid at Six Senses Laamu as well as neighboring islands and collecting data on ghost nets found in and around the atoll.

Sustainable fisheries and Seagrass

Six Senses Laamu works with the reef fishers of Laamu Atoll to ensure all fish served on the resort’s menus are caught using sustainable fishing practices. Laamaseelu Masveriya means ‘exemplary fishermen’ in Dhivehi and is a code of conduct developed by Blue Marine Foundation for the fishers and the resort. This ensures that the entire process, from fishing to purchasing, is done sustainably. In return, the local fishers’ livelihoods are protected, and they are rewarded through a benefits scheme. Over time the fishers collect points which can be used to purchase equipment such as new lines, ice buckets and lights. This is the first code of conduct of its kind in the Maldives and the hope is that other resorts will implement it too, creating a nation-wide sustainable reef fishing model. Over 50 percent of resorts in the Maldives actively remove their seagrass meadows. To address this, the Maldives Underwater Initiative, together with partners Blue Marine Foundation, collaborated with scientists to produce a seagrass monitoring protocol and campaigned to raise awareness, resulting in the protection of over 900,000 square meters of seagrass at resorts across the country. Six Senses Laamu’s 115,000 square meters of seagrass meadows have been protected for several years, and the ecosystem is surveyed annually. These meadows are essential nursery grounds for many species of fish, rays and sharks, they are the primary diet for green sea turtles, they stabilize the sediment preventing erosion and they are one of the most effective carbon stores thus are vital in the fight against climate change.

Coral Conservation

In 2016, the sea rose beyond a bearable temperature for corals, particularly those in the tropics. This resulted in a loss of over 75 percent of shallow water corals in Maldives. Six Senses Laamu has since conducted a survey of our house reef every six months, focusing on corals, fish and invertebrates. The results from this contribute to a national project run by the Maldives Government. Beyond this, the resort has also conducted a reef restoration project and is currently investigating species diversity and the natural replenishment of the reefs, starting with coral spawning, which is not well known in the Maldives. In the first year of this research project they have recorded 11 species of coral spawning at Six Senses Laamu’s House reef on five different months of the year- something previously thought to only happen once or twice a year. The hope is that the results of this research will contribute towards better a understanding of coral reefs at a national level, feeding into better marine resource management.

Plastic free Laamu Atoll

The resort is encouraging all suppliers to reduce packaging when delivering supplies and ordering in bulk whenever possible, banning single-use plastics and recycling all organic waste for mulching and converting to organic garden soil. Six Senses Laamu is one of the three hotels in the world that makes its own artisan chocolate, allowing them to eliminate all packaging. The same goes for microgreens, mushrooms and many types of vegetables, which are produced onsite. The resort also funded many plastic free initiatives in Laamu’s community. Water filters sponsored by the resort eliminate the need for approximately 6 million plastic water bottles in Laamu atoll each year. Six Senses supports L. Maamendhoo’s Women Development Committee which employs local tailors to produce reusable cotton bags for all households on their island, thus reducing plastic waste and creating new jobs in the community. In L. Kunahandhoo, reusable bags are also distributed to schools, recruiting a new generation of plastic free ambassadors.

Water Conservation

Fifty percent of water sales in all restaurant outlets goes into a project fund providing clean, reliable drinking water to local communities in need. This fund contributed to a reverse osmosis water plant to the regional hospital, thirty household water filters to a local island and larger water filters to all 23 schools and preschools in the atoll. In 2019, water filters were donated to all five of Laamu Atoll’s police stations and one Maldives National University - Gan Campus, providing plastic-free drinking water to 380 more people. This brings the total number of filters donated to date to 97, providing clean, plastic-free drinking water to the entire atoll, and avoiding an estimated 6.8 million single-use plastic water bottles annually.

Social Responsibility

The program educates school students about the environmental issues facing their communities and encourages them to devise solutions to tackle these problems and mitigate their detrimental impacts. Hello Hallu focuses on promoting gender equality, as well as developing practical skills such as such as swimming, snorkeling and experiencing the marine environment first-hand. Since the program was launched, the resort has brought 568 students on snorkeling excursions, around half being female students. Eku-Eky community forum is an initiative to strengthen relationships with Laamu Atoll communities, work towards sustainable development and achieve environmental conservation. Through Eku Eky quarterly meetings, representatives from the atoll council and 11 island councils, women’s development committees, 13 schools, 5 police stations, and active local NGOs, come together to represent the voices of Laamu’s 18,500 residents.

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Sustainable Initiatives

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Travel Sustainable Measures

  • Water-efficient toilets
  • Water-efficient showers
  • Option to opt out of daily room cleaning
  • Option to reuse towels
  • Recycling bins available to guests and waste is recycled
  • The property makes efforts to reduce food waste
  • Single-use shampoo, conditioner, and body wash bottles not used
  • Single-use plastic stirrers not used
  • Single-use plastic straws not used
  • Single-use plastic bottles not used
  • Single-use plastic cups not used
  • Single-use plastic cutlery/plates not used
  • Wild (non-domesticated) animals are not displayed or interacted with while kept at the property, nor are they harvested, consumed, or sold.
  • Green spaces like (rooftop) gardens at the property
  • Most food provided is organic
  • Bicycle parking
  • Bicycle rental
  • Most lighting throughout property uses energy-efficient LED bulbs
  • Key card or motion-controlled electricity
  • Invests a percentage of revenue back into community projects or sustainability projects
  • Provide guests with info about local ecosystems, history, culture, and visitor etiquette
  • Local artists are offered a platform to display their talents
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