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The 140-foot "Adastra"'s triple hulls, light weight and shallow draft gives it exceptional seaworthiness and range. Plus, it looks super cool.

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Adastra , or to the stars , as the poet Virgil once said, is not your average superyacht . With its striking spaceship profile, it might look like a concept. Delivered in 2012, this 140-footer has spent nearly a decade exploring the globe.

“We have been lucky enough to spend at least three months on board every year since the build, crossing the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, and exploring the more traditional cruising grounds of the Mediterranean and Caribbean,” the owner, requesting anonymity, told Robb Report . “ Adastra is a truly stable and safe oceangoing yacht.” It also happens to be one of the most innovative vessels on the water.

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British designer John Shuttleworth has won multiple awards, not to mention nonstop praise, for Adastra . What sets the boat apart are its unusual trio of silver hulls that resemble an outrigger canoe. “The structure is a major engineering achievement,” says Shuttleworth in a video describing the design. “Nobody had ever designed or built a boat like that.”

This one-off design maximizes interior space but has a minimal eco-footprint compared to other yachts its size.  Courtesy Burgess Yachts

Built by McConaghy Boats in Zhuhai, China, the custom design went through structural analysis, while a computer model of Adastra was tested for wave impact, slamming and the potential durability of the outriggers running through big seas. Constructed from e-glass and Kevlar, these hulls are mated to a carbon-fiber superstructure, so the boat weighs only 49 tons, or the equivalent weight of a 60-foot conventional yacht. Since weight reduction was critical to the trimaran’s performance, McConaghy custom-designed all the components—hatches, port lights, ladders and hinges—to be made of carbon fiber. This lightweight design delivers hydrodynamic efficiency, stability and performance, as well as low fuel consumption and low environmental impact. “It uses a seventh of the amount of fuel” of conventional motor yachts its size,” said Shuttleworth.

“Our hope at the time was that the design would represent consciousness of the environmental issues facing the world, while also giving impetus to changing attitudes towards reducing carbon emissions and fossil fuel consumption,” Shuttleworth told Robb Report .

Adastra has weathered 50-knot storms and boasts a vast 10,000-nautical mile range at 10 knots. Powered by a single 1,150 hp Caterpillar C18 engine, the boat’s top speed is 23 knots, with a friendly cruise of 17 knots. Adastra also has two 110-hp Yanmar outrigger engines to power the three onboard generators. For transoceanic crossings, the two 800-gph water makers keep the 730-gal. freshwater tanks full.

The design team used its curves and natural light to full effect, with the minimalist, Scandinavian-themed interior.  Courtesy Burgess Yachts

Adastra ’s 3.9-foot draft can get into shallow areas that more traditional yachts can’t access, making her ideal for shallow-water areas like the Bahamas. The yacht also has a custom anchoring system, with three anchors that deploy across the bow, stern and along the main hull.

Despite its eco credentials, Adastra is still very much a luxury yacht. With the main hull flared over the water for additional space, the exterior layout allows guests to enjoy several secluded areas and superb communal spaces. The Scandinavian-influenced interior by Jepsen Designs, is minimalist and dominated by the natural light flowing in from curved, wraparound windows and skylights, highlighting the honey-colored woods and neutral color palette of the open-plan living areas. Adastra was designed for nine guests and up to six crew. The full-beam master cabin is aft, connected directly to the main salon, while two guest cabins and the galley are located near the engine compartment.

Adastra ’s 52.5-foot beam features a spacious aft deck with lounges and a sheltered alfresco dining area, while forward of the main salon, guests can relax on the roomy foredeck, with its large sunbed. The yacht’s garage door folds out to create a diving platform.

The open plan gives the sense of being outdoors, especially with the skylights.  Courtesy Burgess Yachts

Adastra is currently listed through Burgess Yachts for $10 million. Here are more images.

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42.5m  /  139'5   mcconaghy boats   2012.

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Special Features:

• Impressive 4,000nm range
• Multi-award winning
• Sleeps 6 guests
• 4.8m/15'9" Tender
• Shallow draft and fast speeds for reef exploration

Primed for discerning charter guests, luxury yacht Adastra offers the height of luxury living

The 42.5m/139'5" 'Adastra' motor yacht built by shipyard McConaghy Boats is available for charter for up to 6 guests in 3 cabins.

Motor yacht Adastra boasts a wealth of convivial spaces, perfect for luxury yacht charters with families of friends, offering ample opportunities to kick back and relax, or enjoy the water on the yacht's array of water toys, the choice is yours.

Exterior Design

The hull of Adastra is constructed from a glass and Kevlar sandwich using Corecell foam with the superstructure moulded from a carbon fibre laminate on a Nomex honeycomb core. All the hull structures were resin infused to ensure high quality and reduce weight and virtually every part of the yacht is custom built.

Guest Accommodation

Built in 2012, Adastra offers guest accommodation for up to 6 guests in 3 suites comprising a master suite, one VIP cabin and one twin cabin. There are 4 beds in total, including 1 king, 1 double and 2 singles. She is also capable of carrying up to 5 crew onboard to ensure a relaxed luxury yacht charter experience.

Onboard Comfort & Entertainment

Adastra benefits from some excellent features to improve your charter, notably Wi-Fi connectivity, allowing you to stay connected at all times, should you wish. You can stay comfortable on board whatever the weather, with air conditioning during your charter.

Performance & Range

Adastra is built with a aluminium hull and aluminium superstructure. Powered by 1 x Caterpillar engines, she comfortably cruises at 17 knots, reaches a maximum speed of 22 knots with a range of up to 4,000 nautical miles from her 32,000 litre fuel tanks at cruising speed. Her low draft of 1.12m/3'8" makes her primed for accessing shallow areas and cruising close to the shorelines.

Adastra offers you and your guests the perfect platform from which to enjoy your next luxury yacht charter. Please enquire for details of her summer and forthcoming winter cruising grounds and availability.

With its superlative combination of luxurious styling and superb amenities, motor yacht Adastra has everything you could possibly want for unforgettable yacht charter vacations.

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For your relaxation and entertainment Adastra has the following facilities, for more details please speak to your yacht charter broker.

• 1 x 4.8m  /  15'9 Tender
• 1 x 3m  /  9'10 Tender

For a full list of all available amenities & entertainment facilities, or price to hire additional equipment please contact your broker.

Adastra Awards & Nominations

• The World Superyacht Awards 2013 Best Displacement Motor yacht of below 500GT (30m to approximately 49.9m) Finalist
• The ShowBoats Design Awards 2013 Exterior Design & Styling Award: Displacement Motor Yachts 100′-199′ Special Commendation
• The ShowBoats Design Awards 2013 Naval Architecture Award: Motor Yachts Winner
• The ShowBoats Design Awards 2013 Holistic Design Award Finalist
• The World Superyacht Awards 2013 Judges' Special Award Winner
• The ShowBoats Design Awards 2013 Newcomer of the Year Award Winner
• Asia Boating Award 2012 Best Yacht Design of the Year Winner
• Asia Boating Award 2012 Best Asian Built Yacht Finalist
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October - April

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The beautiful superyacht has an exceptionally low fuel consumption and yet boasts excellent sea keeping qualities and luxurious accommodation.

Adastra’s 16 metre beam creates a spacious saloon area on the main deck which offers superb views through a panoramic window and accommodates a lounge area, dining table, and navigation station. A forward-facing door through the saloon window gives easy access to a large sunbed on the foredeck.

The main helm station, which has seating for two, is positioned in a raised pilot house situated between the aft deck and the saloon area and forms part of the cross beam structure.

The aft deck has a sofa and bar area to port and a dining area to starboard, further aft of this there is space for a 4.9 metre tender and directly below is a garage which can store a 3.1 metre tender. The garage door has been designed to fold out and create a large swim platform.

Below deck, extra space was created by slightly flaring the central hull just above the waterline. This area has been split into two sections with a full-width master cabin located aft with access from the deck saloon, and two further guest cabins, accommodation for the crew, and the galley located forward of the engine compartment.

Adastra offers comfortable accommodation for nine guests in total and up to six crew members.

The vessel has a fully automated fuel management system which includes an Alfa Laval system for cleaning the fuel.

The anchoring system is unique, with three anchors all driven by carbon fibre drum winches run by hydraulics. The primary anchor is a custom 130kg Bruce style anchor that deploys out of the starboard wing. The bow anchor is 80kg and deploys out of the bow with a carbon fibre arm. The third anchor is 60kg which deploys out of the port wing and will be used as a stern anchor.

The yacht’s superstructure is constructed from carbon fibre with Nomex honeycomb core, the hull is Glass/Kevlar foam sandwich and the interior features lightweight oak cabinetry using honeycomb panels. To help reduce weight, virtually every aspect of the boat is custom built. This includes carbon fibre hatches, portlights, ladders and even hinges, which are all built specifically for the vessel.

Adastra takes the power trimaran concept further than has ever been attempted before. The challenge of turning this concept into a viable luxury yacht led us to further research on stability and comfort at sea for this type of craft. Extensive tank testing and radio controlled model tests in waves were carried out to analyze stability and performance. Outrigger height was optimized for ease of motion at sea, and a new outrigger shape was developed to increase stability in waves. We undertook a state-of-the-art structural analysis of all the major components in the yacht in order to achieve the light weight required for very low fuel consumption.

Today, Adastra remains one of the most iconic superyachts on the water.

“One of the world’s most amazing super yachts, that could spell the future for efficient long range cruising” Boat International

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John Shuttleworth

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Jepsen Designs

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1 x 1,150hp

Outrigger Engines

Fresh Water

Range at 17 knots

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Futuristic Trimaran, Adastra to Arrive in Maldives Next Week

The futuristic trimaran was built for exploring the world and continues her round the world journey and arrives in Maldives next week.

This 42.6 metre superyacht was designed by British Naval Architect John Shuttleworth and built by MaConaghy Boats.  Adastra – “to the stars” – has been the centre of attention in South East Asia, Pacific Islands, Caribbean Islands, North and South America, West Europe, Mediterranean Countries, Saudi Rea Sea and Dubai. She has crossed the Pacific, transited the Panama Canal and Suez, crossed the Atlantic many times and is able to do so twice on one tank of fuel. 

Adastra  was made for adventure. Perfect for island hopping, her shallow 1.6 metre draft allows her to access hard-to-reach anchorages, shallow bays and anchor close to shore.

Adastra’s 16 metre beam makes for comfortable and stable crossing, guests onboard can enjoy the open living spaces to the fullest. The main saloon benefits from large wrap-around windows with an overhead skylight, while below, extra space has been created by flaring the central hull above the waterline. She can sleep up to nine guests in three cabins.

There are spaces for soaking up the sun on board. The foredeck is accessed through the main saloon and features a large sunbed that can be shaded with an awning suspended from carbon-fibre poles set into the deck. In the evenings, guests can retreat to the aft deck and dine al fresco, come rain or shine, thanks to a hardtop bimini and a set of sliding covers. At night, its underside glows blue, which only adds to its Bond aesthetic. 

For more information and charter requests in Maldives, please contact Ahmed Naushad at +960 7777312, or email [email protected] .

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Patina Maldives

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• Typical Nightly Rate: ☀️$3,000 , ☔️$2,400
• Stay Type: Hosted stay
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The Maldives is perhaps the country which is most synonymous with luxury travel.

There are a huge number of hotels that charge north of $2,000 per night, so the addition of another into their midst would usually not be cause for a huge deal of fanfare.

However when Patina launched in May of 2021, it promised to offer a revolutionary concept in the Maldives: It would host Fari Marina Village, an area containing bars, shops and restaurants, accessible not only to its own guests but also those staying at the Ritz Carlton Maldives (which we fell in love with) and Capella Maldives (scheduled to open in 2024).

Not only that but the design style appeared to be supremely aesthetic, with both rooms and public spaces decorated to the standard of homes featured in Architectural Digest or Wallpaper* magazine.

However, when guests are paying top dollar they not only expect impressive aesthetics; they expect top level service, incredible food and access to all the water based activities for which the Maldives is so rightfully famed.

Given that Patina is located on a man-made island, with sand dredged from the ocean floor, I had my reservations.

Read on to see if these were justified…

Our clients are able to enjoy additional Virtuoso benefits when booking Patina Maldives:

• Upgrade on arrival, subject to availability
• Daily breakfast for up to two guests per bedroom
• $100USD equivalent Food & Beverage credit utilized during stay (not combinable, not valid on room rate, no cash value if not redeemed in full)
• Early check-in / Late check-out, subject to availability
• Complimentary Wi-Fi

Room rates and payment terms match the Patina website exactly, with payment taken directly by Patina during your stay.

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Arrival / Speedboat transfer

The arrival experience for Patina was almost identical to that of Ritz Carlton Maldives . The sole difference being that the staff from Patina seemed a lot less polished and professional than the airport team from the RC.

Much like the RC, Patina also doesn’t have a lounge at the airport, so you will be kept waiting at Dairy Queen if your boat isn’t immediately available.

Thankfully we were able to pass the time at the Four Seasons lounge, since we were arriving from Landaa Giraavaru . Once the speedboat was ready, the Patina staff came to find us and whisk us over to the speedboat dock, just outside the main terminal building.

Despite the $730 per adult price tag for the round trip transfers, make no mistake – this is just a speedboat.

Where the Waldorf Astoria uses Princess yachts with bedrooms, sun decks and free flowing champagne, Patina and Ritz Carlton have made do with a speedboat that features some recessed lighting and fancy toiletries.

The boat featured two main indoor sitting areas, with a bathroom located in between them. Small touches like the Bamford diffuser, lacquered tissue boxes, throws and cushions set this apart from standard speed boats used by Four Seasons Kuda Huraa.

The speedboat staff barely spoke English and didn’t offer water to guests. We had to wander over to the kitchen area and start looking for ourselves before the youngest staff member was sent back to assist us, by the group of ‘big boys’ at the controls.

Once we were past Malé and in some relatively open water, we decided to venture back for some fresh air (and lots of engine noise!) at the rear of the boat.

After around 40 minutes we entered the lagoon of the Fari Islands, stopping first at the Ritz Carlton, to drop off some guests.

Patina Maldives – dropping off guests at the Ritz Carlton.

Passing the sunset water villas at Ritz Carlton Maldives.

As we passed the Sunset Water Villas at the Ritz Carlton, I couldn’t help noticing how little privacy they had . The setting sun did a fantastic job of illuminating every corner of the decks and bedrooms, allowing everybody on the boat to peer inside from a distance of 100 feet or so.

The advantage that Patina has over the Ritz Carlton is that it has been shaped into a bay, with the water villas all facing out to the ocean. Many of them have direct sunset views and sit close to a very vibrant and healthy reef (although the island is artificial above water, the reef is most assuredly natural).

Patina Maldives – aerial shot.

As we approached the Patina arrival jetty, it was hard not to be impressed by the beautifully manicured beaches…

Patina – arrival beach.

…as well as this imposing silver yacht, shaped like a space lord’s intergalactic battle cruiser.

Patina Maldives – Adastra yacht.

A team of staff was waiting for us at the arrival jetty. Unlike the Ritz Carlton there was no management presence here at all. A few of the staff members were nudging each other and joking around even as others were trying to greet us.

Patina chooses to call their butlers ‘Essentialists’, which sounds like a name rejected as being too ridiculous even for World of Hyatt to use.

Much like my grandmother, who refused to acknowledge that one of her great grandchildren had been named Indiana, calling him Billy to her dying day, I will refer to our essentialist as our butler from now on…

We were not required to pass by reception, with check-in formalities being completed in our villa by our butler.

On our way to the villa, our butler pointed out various key areas of the resort, however when asked simple questions about opening times etc. he said he would have to get back to us.

So far it was feeling like service standards had yet to be clearly defined, so soon after the hotel’s opening.

Overwater Villa

We were allocated the water villa at the very furthest tip of the resort. This would ensure that we had maximum privacy, reef access and direct sunset views… as well as a whole host of problems.

Patina Maldives – water villas.

Buggies are not allowed to carry guests on the piers at Patina.  Staff can use buggies to drive themselves around, often at breakneck speeds, with little regard for guests.

However, guests themselves need to walk, since the piers are both very narrow and very high above the water. I honestly struggle to understand how this pier design was signed off, given that the resort is newly built and entirely man made.

In practice, having one of the furthest villas meant taking long walks in direct sunlight, with zero shade (whilst dodging speeding staff buggies) multiple times per day.

The experience was marginally more pleasant in the evenings but came with the added bonus of even more buggy traffic, thanks to turndown being carried out.

Patina Maldives – overwater pier.

Bikes are offered to all guests but these had to be left in a storage area on land, at the base of the pier.

Patina Maldives – bike storage.

The bikes had enough issues with seats, steering etc. that we gave up on using them after day 1. We would ask for them to be repaired, only to be told that they had been…and the problem wouldn’t be fixed.

Thankfully we were able to call buggies to shuttle us between the bike area and the main resort hub, all the way around the bay.

However, where the buggies stopped wasn’t visible from our villa and often they’d take materially longer to arrive than the quoted time.

This meant that we spent a large portion of our time at Patina taking long hot walks down the pier, only to spend another 10-15 minutes standing in the bike area, with no shade and no seats. (Good thing we packed the factor 50 and Patina provides hats in the villas. Kamara’s Chinese-style squatting also came in particularly handy.)

Anyway, service and design issues aside, the setting of the villa was undeniably beautiful. Given that we arrived during sunset, it’s hard to imagine how our villa could have made a better first impression!

Patina Maldives – Overwater Villa.

Although I did find it a little weird that there were two passages running either side of the villa, giving anybody without a key direct access to our deck.

Patina Maldives – Overwater Villa passages.

Access to our villa was via the use of some rather stylish wristbands adorned with the Patina logo. Personally this is my preferred type of room key in the Maldives; bamboo keycards and clunky brass keys are all well and good but it’s hard to deny the convenience of a wristband at a beach resort.

Stepping into the villa felt almost like entering an art gallery; the entrance was beautifully designed with an inset, illuminated wall featuring ample space to place towels, keys, sunglasses or anything else that you may need to have quick access to when leaving the villa.

The area beneath the black shelf was perfect for storing shoes and flip flops, out of the way.

Patina Maldives – Overwater Villa entrance.

There’s no denying the aesthetic credentials of the villas at Patina. The room was absolutely beautiful, awash in dark wooden tones with floor to ceiling glass doors providing light on three sides.

Patina Maldives – Overwater Villa bedroom.

The ergonomics left a lot to be desired though . This first became apparent when looking at the desk. It featured an off brand iPad that just replicated the Patina website… but worse.

Presumably somebody in a meeting had said, “top tier resorts have iPads in the rooms these days, we need to do that”. However the iPad couldn’t be used to control any aspect of the room, communicate with your butler or indeed do anything useful at all.

Instead it took up the one and only power socket at the desk, using a charger which handily blocked both USB ports as well (at least there were two telephone sockets though, handy for anybody bringing a 1950s rotary phone to the Maldives).

The bed was large and comfortable and featured some very high thread count linens by Frette. No complaints there!

Both sides of the bed featured universal power, USB ports and clearly labelled light switches too.

However the bedside lamps hung far too low, meaning that we inevitably ended up punching them accidentally multiple times per day, often knocking over bottles of water in the process. The bedside tables also featured no storage space so vitamins, eyeshades and glasses ended up cluttered around the floor.

Living Room

Although it’s always preferable to have some kind of separation between bedroom and living room (like at Four Seasons Landaa Giraavaru for example), there was a decent amount of space on offer and this felt like a proper living room, unlike the sofa at the foot of the bed seen in so many resorts (e.g. Anantara Veli ).

The TV felt like it was in the wrong place though. Ideally it would have been located between the living room and the bed, swivelling to be viewed in either area.

Instead it blocked the view of the ocean from the bed and couldn’t be viewed at all from the sofa.

Patina Maldives – Overwater Villa living room.

The rocking chair was kind of pointless too and was perfectly placed to be knocked into when walking between the bedroom and living room. It was also lined up exactly where the doors to the outside deck open. So we ended up moving it right by the sofa, creating a bit of extra clutter over there instead.

The lighting in the room was fantastic and the woven lamp shades really helped to fill the room with a warm glow. However for every piece of pleasing design there was another piece of nonsense, like the side table that took up space and offered no storage…

…or the gigantic coffee table that was too low to use comfortably but just right to hit your shins against.

A welcome amenity of macarons and fruit had been left for us, alongside two champagne flutes. However the champagne to go in them was nowhere to be seen.

A very elegant looking minibar occupied a wall nook overlooking the living room. The complimentary filtered water, Nespresso machine and gooseneck kettle were all identical to those at the Ritz Carlton next door.

Unlike the Ritz Carlton though, soft drinks and snacks from this minibar were chargeable.

Patina Maldives – Overwater Villa minibar.

The marketing team at Patina will proudly explain to you that the walls in the villas have been designed to look like one giant uninterrupted panel. What they probably won’t mention is that the bathroom door will snap shut on your fingers, leaving you with a blood blister for two weeks, if you’re not careful.

I never thought of myself as being particularly clumsy but the amount of time I spent knocking into things and hurting myself in this room made me question that assessment.

Patina Maldives – Overwater Villa bathroom door.

We closed the door once and after that left it permanently open. This meant that the bathroom was afforded some natural light and felt a little less claustrophobic.

There’s no denying that the bathrooms at Patina feel cramped.

Patina Maldives – Overwater Villa bathroom.

I loved the gigantic rainfall head for the shower but was less keen on the fact that it was completely open on both sides. It meant that the entire bathroom had to get steamed up and turn into the shower room.

If one person is showering whilst the other attempts to put makeup on, this gets complicated. One of these tasks requires cool air and clear mirrors and the other generates heat and steam. Although I guess the steam was useful for sorting out my wrinkled linen jacket, in the open plan wardrobe (more on this later).

The provision of two entirely separate sinks was very handy and I was impressed with both the quality of the Heckels toiletries provided, as well as the variety of other bathroom supplies offered.

The toilet featured a full set of Japanese bidet functions, which for me is a standard expectation at this price point (even if most hotels still think a toilet phone is more important).

There was even a very tastefully presented toilet candle, sitting in a small metal tray.

You may think that I’d gotten all of my complaining about the room design out of the way but there’s more. Perhaps the biggest problem with the villas at Patina is that there is barely enough space to open a standard suitcase in the wardrobe area.

One side of the bathroom had a full width wardrobe, which featured two pull out drawers and some additional shelving to one side. Certainly this doesn’t compete with the like of Waldorf Astoria , at this price point, but at least there was enough space to unpack one person’s clothing.

However there wasn’t enough space to open a full sized suitcase. Instead it had to be carried into the shower and opened there. This would be fine in a B&B but not in a $3000 a night hotel.

Not only that but even carry ons had to be treated with great care because the designers used a coarse pumice stone to top the drawers. Something which appeared to be specifically designed to scratch suitcases.

My solution? I placed a yoga mat under my suitcase to protect it. Not the end of the world but less than a year after the hotel’s opening, I was having to find workarounds for poor design decisions.

Thing got materially worse in the second wardrobe. Half of this wardrobe’s space was taken up by the minibar.  This is the extent of the wardrobe space for one adult.

Patina Maldives – wardrobe space.

Outdoor Space

Like many new Maldivian resorts, Patina features impressive floor to ceiling glass doors, which can be retracted to create an indoor/ outdoor space. Of course nobody in their right mind ever does this, because you then have no air conditioning a few miles from the equator and every mosquito in the world will come and get you.

Even with the doors shut, you did get a distinct impression of being integrated with the outdoors though, when sitting in the bedroom.

The design idea was that half of the deck would be in the shade, thanks to the overhanging roof, with the pool being in the sun. In practice though the deck got progressively hotter from midday onwards, as the sun set directly in front of the villa.

Not only that but the orientation of the villa and the abundance of glass also meant that the AC struggled to keep up indoors too.

This meant that the only time it was pleasant to be either on the deck or indoors was before midday . After that, you were getting cooked with nowhere to hide.

Privacy was also a concern. Tiny diagonal sails were the only separator between villas. Our neighbours had clearly complained, with the property resorting to bolting on additional wooden panels to provide extra privacy. Without this extra panel, we would have had a direct sightline to our neighbours’ outdoor bathtub.

Despite all the drawbacks, it was great to have a direct sunset view, later in the day.

The amount of wildlife was quite surprising too, with lots of these little white terns showing up throughout the day.

Presumably a lot of wild birds were using Capella island, next to our villa, as a nesting ground, since construction certainly didn’t seem to have progressed enough to bother them.

Foreground: Capella Maldives    Background: Ritz Carlton Maldives.

Marine life was shockingly abundant, with rays and sharks frequently visible from our deck.  This is in marked contrast to the Ritz Carlton, which has no reef and barely anything to see underwater.

Other than pretending to use the deck for the purposes of photography, our favourite thing to do in the villa was to go snorkelling.

This was made somewhat challenging by the fact that villas at Patina are twice as high off the water as any other resort we’ve ever visited. 

Ordinarily you expect to descend 4-5 steps into the water, with your fins and mask on; at Patina you have to clamber down 13 of them.

Once in the water though the variety of colourful fish and coral on display was wonderful.

Beach Villa

There is absolutely no question that the Beach Villas are far superior to the Water Villas at Patina.

They enjoy greater privacy, no safety issues and inconveniences due to being on piers and they have much larger bathrooms, more usable outdoor space and considerably more access to shade.

Patina Maldives – Beach and Overwater Villas.

My personal choice would be to take one of the villas on the ends of each block, since these enjoy maximum privacy and won’t get overheated by facing directly into the sunset.

Comparison to Overwater Villas

Unfortunately the bedroom space is identical to that of the Overwater villas, so the same issues with low hanging lamps, lack of power sockets at the desk etc. all still exist.

However, the increase in outdoor space and privacy is hard to overstate.

The first thing you can do is take the rocking chair onto the deck and move the floor lamp out of the way, giving you clear access to the outdoors (no more stubbed toes!).

Patina Maldives – Beach villa.

The increase in outdoor space also extends into the bathroom:

The indoor shower is still completely open but now there’s also an outdoor shower, set in its own private garden. The glass walls are absolutely transformative, making the bathroom feel so much larger and brighter than in the overwater villas.

The foliage still needed time to grow and there didn’t appear to be anywhere to place shampoo etc. but hopefully both of these issues will be easily resolved.

The outdoor space at the front of the Beach Villa was far preferable to the exposed and cluttered deck of the Overwater villa. There was ample shade with an additional parasol provided for the sun loungers.

I would have liked to see an outdoor gazebo like at the Park Hyatt Maldives , where guests could relax in sofa style seating or even enjoy a room service meal. Again, the space is there and it makes financial sense to make it appealing to order room service, so perhaps the resort will make this improvement in time…

Patina Maldives – Beach Villa.

Patina Maldives features two key hubs:

• The first is the area around the lobby building, which encompasses a multitude of restaurants and bars, together with the main (rectangular) pool.
• The second is Fari Marina Village , which includes an art installation, the dive centre, a second (curved) pool, shops and more bars and restaurants.

Patina Maldives – aerial view.

Lobby Lounge

This was the place to come and ask for things when your butler dropped off the face of the earth. Which unfortunately happened more often than we would have liked (although this isn’t entirely his fault, given he shared that he had 14 rooms to look after!).

Patina Maldives – Lobby lounge.

Aside from this, it was a wonderfully relaxing space to sit and quietly sip a drink whilst reading a book and appreciating the artwork.

Main Pool and Beach

The main pool was located just a few steps beyond the lobby lounge and was perfectly positioned right on the beach. I mentioned this in my review of Trisara Phuket and it bears repeating. I think pools at beach resorts are so much better when they’re actually at the beach.

Much though I love Naladhu for example, the fact that the main pool is tucked away behind foliage makes it feel like second best.

When you’re at a beach resort you want to see the beach, even if you prefer to swim in fresh water. The design team at Patina Maldives seem to have fully grasped this.

Patina Maldives – main pool.

There’s no denying that this pool is a real showstopper and perhaps because of this, it seemed to be quite a lot busier than the main pools at other Maldives resorts.

This tells you that either this pool is great or the pools in people’s villas aren’t that appealing. I suspect the answer is a combination of the two.

I really liked how the sun loungers featured a long shelf down one side and also came with additional side tables and even a small ottoman. Service here was excellent too, as you’d expect when a multitude of bars and restaurants are clustered directly around the pool.

Seating options were quite varied and despite the fact that it got busy later in the day, it never exactly felt crowded because of the distance between seats.

There’s no doubting you can easily tell the difference between the dredged sand here and that of a pristine natural island like Park Hyatt Maldives . The best beaches in the Maldives have sand that flows like cream underfoot, once you’ve experienced it you know that there’s no substitute.

In comparison, the sand at Patina is coarse and gravelly. Don’t get me wrong, it’s not like Blackpool beach but you can certainly tell the difference.

Patina Maldives – beach seating.

However, the main appeal of the beach here is primarily visual, with most people opting to swim in the pool rather than the bay.

Patina Maldives – beach.

As a place to sit and relax, whilst reading a book, it’s honestly hard to fault.

I snapped a quick picture of the Kids Club during our site inspection of the property and must say that the facility looked very large modern and impressive.

Patina Maldives – Kids Club.

We don’t have kids though, so I’m sure you’ll glean far more information by reading the relevant section of the Patina Website .

The spa at Patina is very impressive architecturally and staff here were extremely friendly and welcoming. They clearly took a great deal of pride in working here and were brimming with energy; they insisted on giving Kamara and I a full guided tour when we first peered our heads in to ask where the gym was.

Patina Maldives – Spa.

The spa included a shop section where you could buy custom 3D printed vitamins, which sounds like a low effort scheme to part fools from their money.

It was explained to us that the spa was deliberately designed to be the Yin to the Ritz Carlton’s Yang.

Where the RC spa is all about the water, the spa at Patina emphasises the more verdant aspects of island topography.

Patina Maldives – spa.

Each treatment room was housed in a completely private pavilion cube.

Some of these had surprising features inside though, like a Watsu pool…

Patina Maldives – Watsu Pool.

…and even a sensory deprivation tank!

Patina Maldives – Sensory deprivation tank.

In the centre of the spa was a relaxation area centred around a lily pond, an incredibly serene and beautiful space.

Patina Maldives – Spa relaxation area.

Guests using the space were welcome to help themselves to teas, water and fruit. There was also an indoor relaxation space facing the pond, with lower lighting and air conditioning.

Given that the island features such an abundance of space, I couldn’t help but feel disappointed at the size of the gym . It was the kind of thing you’d expect to see tucked away in a city hotel, where historic buildings can often constrain what’s possible.

Patina Maldives – gym.

In a brand new resort built on acres of reclaimed land, a gym of this size doesn’t make any sense. At least there was a Smith Machine though. Overall, I couldn’t help but compare this to the very impressive facility at the Ritz Carlton next door .

Bird Island

Not exactly a facility but an interesting place to visit nonetheless. Bird Island it is the only part of the entire Fari Islands development that was originally above water and isn’t made from dredged sand.

As the name implies, Bird Island is still used as a breeding ground by local birds and is a great place to come and observe them (whilst carefully maintaining your distance).

Patina Maldives – Bird Island.

Fari Marina Village

Fari Marina Village is a part of Patina Island that is open to guests from the Ritz Carlton Maldives and will also allow visitors from Capella Maldives (whenever that opens).

Patina Maldives – Fari Marina Village.

The idea is to create a vibrant and bustling area, to contrast with the sleepier nature of the other parts of the property.

During our stay it did seem apparent that the restaurants were very popular with Ritz Carlton guests, which is hardly surprising given the quality and price of the F&B over there. At lunch this was less of a problem but it did seem like a struggle to get a booking at the more popular restaurants for dinner as a result.

Guests from other resorts will arrive at the dock directly in front of the James Turrell art installation.

Patina – Fari Marina Village dock.

Skyspace Amarta

James Turrell’s magnificent installation is a wonderful statement of intent from Patina Maldives. Much like the ethos at Joali, Patina Maldives wants guests to be immersed in art in a bid to bring culture to a destination that can otherwise seem rather superficial.

Patina Maldives – Skyspace Amarta.

The building is a very calm and quiet space during the day, with its beige simplicity belying its true capabilities. During the day the key feature is the cut out in the central courtyard. Cut so precisely from the ceiling that it makes the sky appear photoshopped.

At night though the installation is radically transformed by an ever shifting combination of lights, which make the space feel like a living, breathing organism.

Art Gallery

Fari Marina Village is also home to an art gallery, although when we visited, the exhibit was rather onanistic: a series of close up photographs of various parts of the resort.

The photo of Amarta Skyscape shown here was a particularly baffling form of metatextual expression.

Patina Maldives – Art gallery.

The Rake Shop

The Rake is a longstanding menswear magazine that branched into an ultra high-end online clothing retailer but never had a bricks and mortar presence…until now.

With The Rake and Mrs Rake, the brand has now transcended into the physical realm. Funnily enough it turned out that the gentleman working at The Rake followed me on Instagram and we had a mutual friend who owns a footwear company in London. We made sure to snap a quick selfie to surprise him with!

Patina Maldives – The Rake.

The selection of clothing in both boutiques was excellent. The prices are eye watering but at least with the brands on offer, this is a testament to quality of manufacturing, rather than the implicit subsidy of a marketing budget.

Patina Maldives – Mrs Rake.

Fari Beach Club

Fari Beach Club is both a beach club and a restaurant. It seemed that the beach club element was rather underutilised, with only one or two people there at any point during the day.

Patina Maldives – Fari Beach Club.

Honestly this pool didn’t appeal much to me as the pool is shallow, close to rocks and a busy marina, with loud music pumping. There’s nothing particularly relaxing or enticing here when you compare it to the main pool. Evidently most other people agreed with my assessment.

The food at the restaurant was another matter entirely though, more on this later.

Patina Maldives – Fari Beach Club restaurant.

Another resident of Fari Marina Village was Patina’s excellent Water Sports Center, operated by Dive Butler . This is the same company that operates the dive centres at Finolhu and Amilla , amongst many others.

Patina Maldives – Water Sports Center.

The team here was young, energetic and friendly. Sometimes dive centre staff can seem a bit distracted or uninterested in guests until they realise that they are qualified divers and not just there to pick up complimentary snorkelling equipment.

Here the staff were very engaging, immediately offering us water and a seat and asking us what our plans were for our time at Patina.

As the name implies, absolutely everything was taken care of by the Dive Butler team on the morning of our dive. All we had to do was sit back and enjoy our time.

I even realised that I’d forgotten my GoPro dive housing as we approached the first dive site. Our divemaster then radioed back to have a speedboat meet us with his personal dive housing, so that I could at least use it on the second dive. Now that’s service!

Patina Maldives – Diving.

The boat was very spacious, modern and comfortable and even featured an indoor bunk and a proper flushing toilet.

The seating area felt more like that of a yacht rather than a dive boat. There was also WiFi and a bluetooth enabled speaker system so we were able to blast Metallica over the roar of the engines, once we got up to speed.

The Dive Butler service included a full secondary buddy check of all equipment before we entered the water and everything looked to be completely brand new.

Our first dive took us through a magnificent coral garden. Something I really hadn’t been expecting in the North Malé atoll. There was a distinct lack of larger pelagics but the beautiful coral certainly made up for this.

During our surface interval we dried off with very plush Frette towels as we were offered tea, coffee, snacks…..and the GoPro housing!

We then took the opportunity to climb through an opening which appeared to be James Turrell’s inspiration and enjoyed a bit of sunshine on the upstairs deck.

Dive number two once again involved plenty of colourful coral but the real stars were the super friendly batfish which followed us from the moment that we entered the water.

Batfish are truly remarkable creatures, their almost childlike fascination with divers is incredibly endearing. I was almost too busy playing with my batfish friend to notice a wonderful turtle approaching in the middle of our dive!

After our second dive we hosed off on the back deck and left everything with the Dive Butler team. Our masks and fins were returned to us later that day after being washed, with my personal wetsuit arriving at the villa the next day.

Adastra Yacht

It’s hard to miss the incredible silver yacht that spends most of its time moored at Fari Marina Village.

Patina Maldives – Ad Astra yacht.

Most Maldivian resorts will offer sunset cruises on traditional dhonis and some of the higher tier properties will even have one or more Princess yachts on hand.

No other resort has a $10m super yacht that can sail from London to New York, round trip, without refuelling.

The yacht is so popular with guests that we were only able to sneak on one morning for a quick tour before it went out on back to back bookings for the rest of our time at Patina.

The interior design was every bit as striking as the exterior, with dramatically curved windows framing the view on both sides of the ship.

Patina Maldives – Adastra.

There were also numerous en-suite bedrooms below deck, for those wanting to sail to other atolls.

Outside, the ship’s bow featured a padded lounging area, complete with designer beanbags, whilst the stern featured ample space for dining and relaxation.

Sunset Dhoni Cruise

Our sunset cruise on a traditional dhoni was rather less luxurious.

Patina Maldives – dhoni cruise.

Every other sunset cruise I’ve been on in the Maldives usually includes some canapés and a glass or two of champagne. Here though the crew just pointed to a crate of water on the floor and left us to it.

Still, the views were fantastic, with a double rainbow emerging to bid us farewell on our final day in the Maldives.

There wasn’t much of a sunset to speak of as the clouds rolled in but the clouds themselves were awesome and plenty of dolphins appeared around the dhoni too.

Food and Drink

Full menus can be viewed by clicking through to each restaurant on the Patina Website

Patina is truly a resort of two halves:

Despite having made some incomprehensible design decisions, Patina also serves by far the best food of any resort in the Maldives.

I don’t make that statement lightly. Once you’re out of the room, enjoying the beautifully designed public spaces and eating some of the best food you’ve ever eaten, life honestly feels like it couldn’t get much better.

Since we were located in the furthest villa from the main resort hub, it took us a while to get to breakfast in the morning!

Patina – the journey to breakfast.

We first had a walk along the pier until reaching the bicycle area on dry land….

We then made our way all around the bay…

Passing this very cool sculpture on the way (just visible at the bottom of the aerial image above).

Patina Maldives – beach sculpture.

Although we ended up having to walk thanks to the broken bikes and lack of reliable buggy service, buggies that passed us never stopped to offer a ride or even to say hello . This is something that we would have expected given what we’ve experienced in other resorts at this price point.

Patina – vegetation.

Since the island is completely artificial, there’s no thick canopy overhead to protect you from the sun, like in natural resorts. By the time we’d reached breakfast each morning we’d usually worked up quite a sweat. Thankfully the breakfast was very much worth the walk!

Breakfast at Patina

Breakfast at Patina is tied for the best I’ve ever had anywhere in the world . I have a real soft spot for the overly elaborate and ornate Japanese breakfast at the Ritz Carlton Kyoto . But I realise that eating vast quantities of fish, served in reverential silence, isn’t for everyone… at least not first thing in the morning.

Other than that, the breakfast at Patina is without question the best I’ve ever had. Certainly there’s no buffet anywhere on Earth that comes even remotely close.

As we passed through the achingly stylish hotel lobby library, we caught sight of an initial buffet room. You could of course sit and have breakfast in the library if you so chose, or perhaps just indulge in a pre-breakfast espresso and pastry, while reading the morning paper.

Patina Maldives – hotel lobby library.

This first salvo of buffet options included all manner of fresh fruits, with staff on hand to make fresh juices and barista style coffee too.

Patina Maldives – breakfast buffet.

Even more fruit was available, pre-sliced, in fridges to the sides.

Another fridge contained numerous prepared juices and smoothies. Next to this was a toast station with six different types of pre-sliced bread on offer, alongside a full honeycomb (this is also the first time I’ve seen a resort in the Maldives make genuine cold drip coffee).

Elsewhere, the pastries were at the top level of anything I’ve sampled in any hotel and the enormous Cinnabon style bake made Kamara’s eyes roll into the back of her head.

There was also an incredibly impressive selection of cheese on offer, together with twelve different types of relishes, pickles and other miscellaneous accoutrements.

Continuing past this room we came upon the central restaurant area which sits immediately behind the main beach and pool at Patina.

Patina Maldives – breakfast.

The setting was remarkably beautiful, with all manner of wonderful looking pieces of furniture seamlessly integrated into garden areas. The front row of seating ran across the entire length of the dining area, which perfectly framed the view beyond.

This was the view from our favourite table. It felt like we were outdoors but the shade was complete, so no need to shuffle around throughout the meal as the sun moved. There were also almost no bugs to speak of, which isn’t always the case when dining directly on the beach.

Service was extremely prompt with staff clearly very eager if slightly unpolished. What was great was seeing that they were really keen to engage with guests and develop their skills.

You could almost see the lightbulbs going off above their heads whenever we asked for things. Clearly they were learning and remembering to offer these exact things proactively in future.

Coffee and water were brought out extremely promptly and when Kamara asked for a strong iced cappuccino, she actually got one on the first go. (This almost never happens, generally she’ll have to receive multiple iterations of a milkshake before finally receiving something acceptable.)

In fact all types of coffee were excellent here and were delivered exactly as ordered.

Despite the presence of the world’s greatest buffet, there was also a decent selection of a la carte dishes on offer. Menus were presented in both QR code format (which sometimes worked) and printed menus (which always did).

The only thing I ordered from here was the mature comte omelette with truffle, which was utterly spectacular. The head chef himself came over to deliver it and strike up a short conversation about the food at the resort in general. He was very friendly and seemed to be rightfully proud of the F&B here.

There were numerous different types of seating dotted around the main dining space, with each ostensibly belonging to the most proximate restaurant, housed in various pavilions around the edges.

Patina Maldives – restaurant seating.

In practice, guests could sit wherever they wanted and order from any of the nearby restaurants throughout the day.

At breakfast time, each restaurant pavilion was host to more magnificent buffet stations.

The most impressive interior definitely belonged to the vegetarian restaurant: ROOTS. This looked like the kind of dining room you’d expect at a trendy new restaurant in Manhattan, not in an island in the middle of the Indian Ocean.

Patina Maldives – ROOTS restaurant.

The centrepiece buffet table here was beautifully laid out. Unquestionably the most alluring buffet display I’ve ever seen.

The ROOTS spread focused on Western dishes, with plenty of items from the bakery, in addition to cereals and fruit salads. At the back of the room was a selection of hot dishes, breakfast meats and an egg station.

The next pavilion along was home to Wok Society and offered a vast selection of Asian breakfast dishes.

Patina Maldives – Wok Society.

The quality level was off the charts, even something simple like garlic fried rice was topped with slivers of nori and and dried garlic chips.

I also loved how we were given free rein to grab whichever designer tableware we liked the look of, rather than being limited to regular plates.

The chef here was super friendly and keen to talk about South Asian cuisine. He was particularly excited when he learned of Kamara’s love of puri bhaji and my fondness for dosas.

Unfortunately though, my dosa lacked the usual presentational flair that you’d expect from this dish. Rather than a gigantic and crispy scroll (like at Amanbagh ), I received something that looked like a squashed arepa. The sambal was good though.

Patina Maldives – breakfast dosa.

Lunch at Wok Society

We originally considered having lunch at Veli beach club on our first afternoon but quickly decided against this as the only respite from the heat was under the fans at the bar (and it was still approximately the same temperature as a fan assisted oven).

Patina Maldives – Veli Bar.

Instead we quickly ran back to Wok Society, a few yards away, for a blast of icy cold air conditioning.

Ou server brought over a selection of QR codes for us to scan and told us not to worry about ordering from a specific one. ( Scan these with your mobile to see the latest menus. )

The first thing we did was order coconuts in a bid to rehydrate after our brief trip to Veli Bar. We also ordered a truly fantastic salmon tartare which was brought out very quickly as we decided on the rest of our food.

For main courses we decided to split the grilled prawns, which were excellent, if a little unexciting.

Patina Maldives – Lunch.

We also ordered a truffle and egg tagliatelle which was utterly incredible. Seriously my mouth is watering as I type this and remember how good that pasta was. There’s no faulting the generosity with the freshly shaved truffles either!

Fari Beach Club Restaurant

Fari Beach Club was one place in Fari Marina Village where you could always get a table, no matter what. The menu is overseen by 2 Michelin star chef Nick Bril and somehow manages to serve food which is unpretentious, delicious and good value for money…in the Maldives!

The menu was identical for both lunch and dinner and we ended up coming back multiple times.

Patina appear to have disabled the QR code menu but you can find a sample menu here: Fari Beach Club_MENU (PDF)

Every meal here began with freshly baked flatbreads and a hummus style dip with freshly sprouted mung beans that was absolutely amazing.

Alongside these came one of the most incredible freshly baked breads I’ve ever eaten, served with two different types of butter.

Patina Maldives – Fari Beach Club dinner.

My go-to dish was the sashimi selection of dry aged Maldivian fish served with soba noodles.

It was genuinely up there with the best sashimi I’ve ever had, something I was more than happy to pay $55++ for.

Another amazing raw seafood dish was the ceviche of Maldivian job fish with palm hearts, avocado, yellow peppers and mezcal granita. So, so good.

The soft shell crabs were legitimately as large as a dressed Cornish crab in the UK. I would have preferred a slightly thinner batter but the flavour was superb and there was no trace of residual grease.

I can’t even remember what these two dishes were but I can tell you that they were absolutely delicious.

Kamara and I agreed that this Lobster pasta, prepared table-side with a half lobster, may well be the best pasta dish either of us has ever eaten .

Patina Maldives – Fari Beach Club lunch.

The grilled prawns, each almost a foot long, were magnificent too.

The only slight disappointment was the wagyu burger, which was more expensive than the sashimi but nowhere near as good. It was a decent burger but nothing worth justifying the price.

Food Trucks

A variety of food trucks were set up, the pink one was called TukTuk and offered complimentary gelato all afternoon long.

Patina Maldives – Fari Marina Village food trucks.

The grey one was called Good Burger and never seemed to have any customers, or indeed staff. Perhaps it was an art installation, making a postmodern commenting on the effect of beef consumption on rising sea levels.

Another food truck belonging to the Ritz Carlton was located at the far end of the Marina Village, this was called Tum Tum and served an eclectic range of dishes from across Asia.

Ritz Carlton Maldives – TumTum.

Another restaurant belonging to the Ritz Carlton, which we never tried. This offered Lebanese and Indian dishes and many guests during our stay at the Ritz commented that this was their favourite Ritz restuarant.

Ritz Carlton Maldives – Arabesque.

Dinner at Helios

Helios was our first dinner during our stay and honestly I think it was a poor representation of the hotel as a whole. Helios is located away from all the other restaurants, in a sleepy little beach close to Bird Island.

Patina Maldives – Helios restaurant.

As such, it didn’t have much ambiance and the food was also the worst out of all the restaurants we ate in at Patina. Only one or two other tables were occupied and staff seemed to be a bit bored and just chatting at the bar.

Kai the mixologist was very affable and came over to introduce himself and explain the drinks menu. Most drinks featured various herbs and flowers which had been grown on the island.

Together with our drinks we were offered freshly baked bread and olive tapenade, to enjoy as we perused the menu.

We opted to forego the full tasting menu and instead picked a few interesting sounding dishes. The mustard fermented beetroot with dill was delicious but the calamari were rubbery, with a thick batter that didn’t stick to the squid.

The mixed grill was fine but the fish was overcooked and the fact that the prawns were so hard to peel made me suspect that they perhaps weren’t the freshest.

The vegetable selection also seemed to consist of whatever was left over in the fridge.

After the meal, we enjoyed a nightcap on one of the comfy sofas overlooking the beach.

Dinner at ROOTS

I’m not going to lie, my usual inclination would not be to go to a plant based restaurant. I’m the kind of person that wants to eat at least 150g of protein a day, I love steaks, I love BBQ and I love seafood.

But travel is supposed to open the mind and broaden one’s horizons so I decided to wholeheartedly embrace our meal at ROOTS.  If ever I was going to try something like this, where better than the resort that had been responsible for some of the best food I’d ever eaten?

Our meal began with a familiar (i.e. spectacular) bread, this time it was served with a vegan dip, which did not make me miss dairy at all.

After this we moved onto the starters: Fresh summer rolls which were packed with flavour but would have been better with rice paper rather than being wrapped in even more veg.

Patina Maldives – ROOTS dinner.

We also split the textures of Jerusalem artichoke, which purportedly were truffle ‘hinted’ but would more accurately have been described as truffle homeopathic.

For main courses we tried the Butternut squash and the Celeriac. Both were beautifully presented and packed with flavour. However I couldn’t help feeling that the meal lacked balance overall. Everything was a bit mushy and heavy and honestly I felt very full in the end.

I had been expecting a light meal but this ended up being anything but!

There’s no question that there was great technique and inventiveness on display here but I couldn’t help wishing for the simple pleasure of a slice of sashimi or a freshly grilled prawn, where no alchemy would be required to transform it into something else.

I never managed to secure a reservation at Brasa, the resort’s Patagonian restaurant. Given that this restaurant only seats 10 at the chef’s counter, reservations have to be made weeks in advance.

Patina Maldives – Brasa.

I would have expected this to be a bakery given that farine is French for flour but in fact this is an air conditioned wine and cheese experience. It wasn’t open during our stay.

Patina Maldives – Farine.

I only know that this place exists because it’s mentioned on the Patina website. It is a Nordic/Japanese fusion restaurant that is only open on Tuesdays and only serves a tasting menu. I have no idea where it was located and suspect that its existence may be a hoax.

Here is an official press image:

© Patina Maldives – Koën

Cocktail hour 5-6pm

One very generous aspect of Patina’s offering is that all guests are served complimentary champagne and cocktails, by the main pool, from 5-6pm every day.

Rather than being forced to move to an inconvenient location at an inconvenient time, the drinks were served poolside just before sunset. i.e. at a time and place that was considerate of guest preferences.

Not only that, the quality of food and drink was excellent.

Delamotte champagne was served alongside premium spirits and some genuinely delicious and creative canapés.

There are no two ways about it, the service here is not on a par with the top resorts in the Maldives. Competent service is one of those things that you don’t always appreciate until it’s missing, much like a goalkeeper in football.

Our butler was clearly overworked. He had 14 rooms to cover and seemed to be on the verge of a nervous breakdown at any moment. At times he appeared to be getting hazed by gangs of local staff who would take his buggy or find other ways to mess with him.

We ended up feeling so bad for him that we just made our own plans and avoided contacting him wherever possible.

After chatting with staff in the lobby lounge on our first morning, we realised that we were entitled to 5 items of complimentary pressing each. We also should have been given champagne as a welcome amenity (rather than just a set of empty flutes).

This was completely missed by our butler.

In the top resorts we would have expected the champagne to be delivered to our room, waiting for us on ice upon our return to the room. Here we again called reception, seeing that nothing had been delivered after our conversation. We were told to just grab champagne from the minibar. We asked if ice could be brought to our room to chill it. It never was.

Housekeeping was ok but the usual touches you’d expect weren’t there. No Patina branded cable tidies or lens cloths, cables left hanging loosely, no linen cloths under our toiletries in the bathroom.

None of the basics of luxury hotel housekeeping were in place. The room was clean but that’s it. Just the bare minimum.

The resort also asked us to fill out an extensive pre arrival questionnaire involving all kinds of details, including allergies and details of a special occasion.

We happened to be visiting on our 10th anniversary and there was zero acknowledgement of any kind. I’m also allergic to walnuts and stated this on the form…so of course we got walnuts in the welcome amenity.

One day we got a some 3D printed vitamins as a turndown gift and another day we got a printed cloth. On the middle day (our anniversary) we got nothing.

Bikes were run down and not fixed when we asked. Simple calls to housekeeping or our butler were either ignored or responded to hours later.

Staff were driving around on buggies at high speed and completely ignoring guests. When on the piers, we’d be stopping for them as they drove past, rather than the other way around.

If only one or two of these things had happened, you’d put it down to teething issues at a new resort.

Honestly though, much like the ergonomics of the rooms, it seems like the entire resort has been designed for Instagram first and foremost with almost no consideration for the user experience.

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☑︎ Power sockets near the bed ☑︎ Easy to understand light switches ☑︎ Coffee machine X  Separate shower and bath (I’m giving this a fail because the bathtub outdoors was useless) ☑︎ Blackout blinds ☑︎ Stable, fast and free Wifi ☑︎ Feather pillows – Quiet and powerful aircon (this is not quite a pass at the AC really couldn’t handle the hours of 2-6pm)

Patina Maldives is a beautiful looking resort with some of the best food I’ve ever eaten anywhere. Most of the staff are very friendly and the snorkelling was infinitely better than I had been expecting, given that this is a man made island.

However, the rooms clearly never had any testing of any kind before being shipped and built. Furniture is in the wrong place (including the bath tub), privacy and storage are woeful and many villas are directly West facing but have zero provision for shade after midday, with the AC struggling as a result.

The beach villas could potentially be salvaged if an extra dining gazebo was built outside and if the toilet was converted into a walk in wardrobe with an extension built for a new toilet (taking some space from the garden shower). Short of a complete teardown I’m not sure what they can do with the water villas though, given the manifest inadequacies of the design.

Patina Maldives is the ultimate expression of form over function.

Whilst clearly well meaning, a lot of staff just don’t appear to have any strong leadership or sufficient training. As a result, it often felt like we were having to give step by step instructions on how to deliver service. Micro managing staff is certainly not my idea of a relaxing holiday and it made me yearn for Four Seasons Kuda Huraa or Waldorf Astoria Maldives , where the level of polish and professionalism was largely beyond reproach.

If you stay in a beach villa and you get a functional bike and a great butler, you may only run into a couple of minor service issues (although your ONLY stated allergen showing up in the welcome amenity may still be a concern).

However with so many other resorts to choose from, especially at this price point, Patina is a tough sell.

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First look: super-yacht adastra.

With its cosmic curves and futuristic dome, the Marden family’s incredible yacht is out of this world

The US$15 million, 42-metre luxury trimaran, christened Adastra, took about five years to build and, on a bright hot April morning in Zhuhai, she stands glittering in the shipyard of McConaghy Boats, the company that built her. Out of the water, she looks as though she’ll live up to her name (ad astra is a Latin phrase meaning “to the stars”) and blast off into orbit.

“When the covers came off Adastra, I had to sit down for an hour and just look at her,” says Marc Evans, McConaghy’s joint managing director. “One word came to mind: awesome.”

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Tork Buckley, the founder of Big Blue Consulting, says Adastra is “the most visually spectacular super-yacht delivery anywhere in the world in 2012.” In his speech, Evans described the finished project as the first to “put China super-yacht building on the map.”

In a meeting of traditions, a magnum of champagne is smashed – on the third try – to send Adastra out to sea, while a ratatat of firecrackers signals the beginning of a lion dance. From the yacht’s gleaming propeller hangs a head of lettuce as an offering to the Chinese sea goddess Tin Hau.

Anto’s reasons for commissioning Adastra were simple. “I’ve always wanted to build a big boat to travel around the world in,” says the shipping magnate. “I knew I wanted a power boat because time is short and distances are long, and I’m old.”

He adds, “A power trimaran is very easily driven and it’s very economical on fuel. It also looks amazing.” In fact, Adastra’s range is a stunning 4,000 nautical miles at 17 knots (her maximum speed is 22.5 knots) – enough to travel across the Atlantic Ocean without stopping to refuel.

“I think Anto very much had his heart set on doing this, and then had to work to persuade me,” says Elaine. “I’ve always been a sailor. I love that sound when the engine is off and you just whoosh along.”

Anto approached friend and yacht designer John Shuttleworth with the idea of creating the first luxury power trimaran of its size in the world. John designed the sailing trimaran Mazinga for the Marden’s some 30 years ago – for £1,000. “He was living with his mother then,” Anto laughs.

“Adastra has been a sort of Everest of designing for me,” says Shuttleworth. “It’s a really complex challenge to do something like this.” He remembers Anto asking what the boat was going to look like. In response, John sketched something on a piece of paper in two minutes and faxed it to him. “It still looks a bit like that,” says the British designer.

Shuttleworth admits, “I don’t know that we fully realised, at the beginning of the project, what we’d be getting into. We were doing something we knew was an extension of the known, and then we went past it. It’s such a complicated shape.” The yacht’s design began in earnest in November 2007, starting four and a half years of “the mayhem of building boats,” as Anto describes it. “Everything has taken longer and cost more money than it was supposed to, because everyone was feeling their way. No one else has ever built anything like her before.”

Anto also says the most important feature of the 50-tonne boat is her lightness in relation to her size. Every aspect was considered according to weight sensitivity, right down to the carbon-fibre loos. “I drew the line at them weighing me,” Elaine jokes, “but everything on that boat has been weighed. From every darn piece of crockery to a little dish or a plate or a cup.”

Shuttleworth explains, “The concept of a power trimaran has been done before solely for record breaking, with almost no interior comforts. In order to achieve a luxury interior and still maintain the performance, we had to rethink almost everything about the way the boat would perform at sea.” After conducting tank tests and building a two-metre model, Hthey then “e continues, “This meant conducting tank tests, and building a two-metre radio controlled model and filming it going along in waves. Then we had to find ways of engineering and building her so that we could keep weight down. We ended up custom-designing more parts than we have ever done before.”

Adastra’s interior design is the careful work of Inge Strompf-Jepsen, who runs Jepsen Designs in Wan Chai. Her team of eight works on everything from landscape gardening to remodelling wooden junks into chic pleasure vessels, and she’s overseen the design of more than 20 boats.

An architect by profession, Inge moved to Hong Kong from Denmark 35 years ago. “The idea was to have the inside reflect the outside, in that it would be round, modern and streamlined,” she explains. “Elaine and I agreed on the shape and layout very quickly. From there, we fine-tuned the concept.”

Adastra’s interiors are the result of a joint effort. “You know, Elaine knows what she wants,” the designer notes with a laugh. “Sometimes I would say ‘I suggest’ or ‘I propose,’ and she’d say, ‘I take the gauntlet, but no.’” Elaine recalls, “We were very much on the same page. She’s very diplomatic, and brilliant at agreeing with me. But I think actually we shared a lot of the same taste.”

Less is more, Strompf-Jepsen says, when it comes to materials. The yacht’s carbon-fibre walls have a coat of satin paint. To soften the white, the surfaces and cabinets are made of a light-coloured oak. Other than that, she’s used hairline-brushed stainless steel. And, in the middle of the beautiful salon, there is an espresso-coloured fibre-woven “bird’s nest” that serves as a backrest for the deep, wide, white sofa. The main fabrics on Adastra are antique ikat from Indonesia and a quick-drying marine cloth from England.

Nothing in the salon is square, and the winding layout reminds Strompf-Jepsen of a snake. She refers to this and the “wine glass” as examples of how important shapes are on Adastra, where there is relatively limited living space. The “wine glass” is the slick helm station, which is wider at the top than the bottom, and can be closed off giving privacy to those on deck as well as preventing light spillage during long ocean cruises.

Strompf-Jepsen, who also happens to be the Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club’s first-ever female commodore, recalls her first encounter with the project. “Initially, the boat yard seemed very worried. They thought, ‘Here comes a fluffy-duffy lady to do the interiors. She knows nothing about boats, and will probably delay the whole project.’ I was told quite strictly that I had to perform.”

The ikat cushions, together with details like the blue and white porcelain vases or the bamboo sculpture from Cambodia, bring out the salon’s Eastern vibe. It was important, says Inge, to have the design reflect something of Anto and Elaine’s Asian backgrounds.

Anto has been sailing for many years, both growing up in Hong Kong and then at boarding school in England. Although he sailed dinghies from the age of seven, he jokes that the reason everyone joined the sailing club at Charterhouse (then an all-boys school) was because the lake, Frensham Pond, was near the girls’ school at Frensham Heights. Since those youthful days, he’s been sailing around Southeast Asia for almost 40 years.

Adastra is the third in the Mardens’ collection of recreational vessels, which also includes Mazinga and Haung Tuah, the latter being a 42-metre steel motor cruiser based in Indonesia, where the family has two private islands.

The Mardens plan to sail around the world, taking regular breaks to fly back to Hong Kong. They’ll also have family and friends join them for cruises along the way. Adastra sleeps nine, with additional room for five or six crew. The journey, Anto says, will take years.

Adastra’s planned itinerary, which is set to begin in January next year, is ambitious. The journey will take the Marden family across the Pacific Ocean to Palau, Vanuatu, Fiji, Tonga, Samoa, the Cook Islands, Tahiti and the Galapagos. From there, they will sail through the Panama Canal and up the east coast of Central America, into the Caribbean, across the Atlantic Ocean to Iceland and the Baltic, then down to the Mediterranean. “After that, we’ll see what happens,” Anto says.

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Step Inside the Adastra Trimaran Yacht

Adastra is one of the world's most recognizable yachts; we invite you for a look inside this amazing vessel.

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Despite being first launched almost 10 years ago, the Adastra yacht continues to be a marvel. Built by renowned Australian shipbuilders McConaghy Boats , Adastra’s sleek trimaran design has made her one of the world’s most recognizable yachts; in fact, her striking stature saw designer John Shuttleworth receive a coveted Neptune award for most innovative design at the 2013 World Superyacht Awards.

At 139.5ft, Adastra is a comfortable fit in the superyacht category. However, to keep her as light as possible, her designers and builders undertook a structural analysis of all of her major components with virtually every element custom built. Her three hulls are made of e-glass and Kevlar foam, while her superstructure is constructed from carbon fiber with a Nomex core. This combination of ultra-lightweight materials and careful design means that she remains impressively light despite her size, weighing in at 52 tons.

This steadfast commitment to a lightweight design has ensured that the Adastra yacht has remarkably low fuel consumption – so much so, in fact, that she is capable of crossing the Atlantic Ocean not once but twice before needing to refuel with a max range of 10,000nm, dramatically reducing her environmental impact. Adastra ’s lightness also has a significant impact on her speed, with the eye-catching yacht boasting a top speed of 22.5 knots, and an all-weather cruising speed of around 17 knots.

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The unique vessel was originally custom-built at McConaghy’s Chinese shipyard for Hong Kong-based shipping magnate, Anto Marden, who commissioned Adastra as an explorer yacht for himself and his family. And it appears that she has now served Marden’s purpose – in 2022 she was on the lookout for a new owner to continue her adventure (if they had a spare $10m to hand).

It is not just Adastra’s exteriors that are a design marvel. One of the big challenges in building this yacht came from trying to fulfill the owner’s brief for a lightweight ship capable of navigating even the most challenging conditions, while still retaining all of the luxury and onboard comforts expected of a yacht of this size.

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As we mentioned above, a custom solution was the only way to guarantee this, with a pared-back yet luxurious finish provided by Jepsen Designs – a Hong Kong-based studio with Danish architect Inge Strompf-Jepsen at its helm. Adastra’s uber-stylish interiors combine Scandi minimalism with uncompromising practicality: honey-colored wood, cool neutral tones and smooth curved lines flow throughout, with flashes of beachy blue completing the aesthetic.

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Panoramic views are provided by domed wraparound windows in the main lounge area, with skylights overhead ensuring an abundance of natural light. The design tricks don’t stop there, with the main hull cleverly flared over the water’s edge to secure additional onboard room.

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Adastra offers space for up to nine guests: her full-width owner’s cabin sits in a section of the main hull and is accessed via the saloon, with two additional guest cabins (each containing one double and one single bed), as well as room for a five to six-person crew, found forward of the engine room on the lower decks.

As a vessel designed for long journeys around the world, plenty of space to relax on board was essential for Adastra. Her 52.5ft beam allows for a spacious saloon which accommodates a stylishly curved lounge area on a slightly raised section at the fore, as well as a central formal dining area.

From the saloon, stairs at the front of the ship lead to a foredeck with a roomy sunbed, where extra protection from the midday heat can come from a retractable awning. The equally appealing aft deck offers further lounging space, as well as a dining and bar area perfect for al-fresco meals, which can be enjoyed no matter the weather thanks to a hard-top cover.

Adastra’s plentiful outdoor space can be further extended via the garage door, which folds out to create a diving platform. She also offers additional storage capabilities for not one but two tenders, giving her new owner even more scope for onboard adventure.

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From the very beginning, Adastra was a yacht built for adventure. Although she was initially commissioned for island hopping around Southeast Asia, where her owner has several private islands, she is truly capable of navigating virtually any of the world’s oceans. Under Marden’s ownership, she has seen many a destination, including the sunny coasts of Europe, the shores of the Caribbean, and everywhere in between.

The Adastra yacht also has an exceptionally shallow draft of just 3.9ft, allowing her to venture into bays and harbors that would be completely off-limits to other ships of her size, making her perfect for isolated island areas. And of course, her remarkably low fuel consumption means she can head into the remotest of regions for extended periods without a worry.

Another of Marden’s priorities when commissioning a custom yacht from McConaghy Boats was seaworthiness; a good-looking vessel that couldn’t perform in all conditions wouldn’t cut it. Adastra’s trimaran design makes her impressively stable and comfortable, no matter the weather – Marden has reported heading out into ferocious gales that no other superyacht could handle. However, while she may be able to handle adverse conditions, her multiple sun decks do make agreeable weather the best way to enjoy this magnificent vessel.

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Why Adastra is the Coolest Yacht on the Market

A striking design.

With a striking silver exterior and an unusual trio of hulls, Adastra turns heads wherever she goes. Her eye-catching design made her a show favourite at this year's Cannes Yachting Festival and she's set to cause quite a buzz at the Monaco Yacht Show too. Now listed exclusively for sale with Burgess, this intrepid explorer is looking for an adventurous new owner to take the helm. Here’s why Adastra is the coolest yacht on the market...

Part superyacht, part spaceship, the 42.6 metre Adastra was custom-built by McConaghy Boats and delivered in 2012. This futuristic trimaran came from the drawing boards of British designer John Shuttleworth and went on to win a coveted Neptune for the most innovative yacht at the World Superyacht Awards in 2013. Her owner had four key requirements for the build: offshore seaworthiness, comfort, economy of operation and a shallow draft.

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An intrepid explorer

While she may not look like your typical explorer, Adastra was made for adventure. She boasts an impressive range of 10,000 nautical miles and can cross the Atlantic twice before needing to refuel. Perfect for island hopping, a shallow 1.2 metre draft allows her to access hard to reach anchorages and shallow bays too.

Adastra is also incredibly lightweight. Her three hulls are constructed from an e-glass and Kevlar foam sandwich, while her deck and superstructure are made from carbon fibre with a Nomex honeycomb core. This makes her super efficient when cruising, so you can spend more time exploring and less time refuelling.

Power comes from a single Caterpillar C18 1150hp main engine and two Yanmar 110hp outrigger engines, for a top speed of 22 knots.

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A city loft-style interior

Adastra 's Scandinavia-meets-Asia interiors were penned by Jepsen Designs and resemble a city loft apartment, with white woven fabrics and beachy blue and white soft furnishings. Light honey oak and a semi-gloss white paint maximise light throughout the yacht, while an occasional brushed stainless-steel trim reflects her silvery exterior.

Her 16 metre beam makes for a more comfortable and stable crossing, so guests on board can enjoy the open-plan living spaces to the fullest. The main saloon benefits from large wrap-around windows with skylights over head, while below, extra space has been created by flaring the central hull above the waterline. She can sleep up to nine guests in three cabins, comprising a full-beam master cabin aft and two doubles, with further accommodation forward for up to six crewmembers.

Outdoor living

There are two key spaces for soaking up the sun on board. The foredeck is accessed through the main saloon and features a large sun bed that can be shaded with an awning suspended from carbon-fibre poles set into the deck. In the evenings, guests can retreat to the aft deck and dine al fresco, come rain or shine, thanks to a hard top bimini and a set of sliding covers.

Further aft, there's stowage for a 4.8 metre tender, with room for a second tender on deck.

This unique offering is perfect for prospective owners looking for something a little out of the ordinary. Her name comes from the Latin 'Ad Astra' meaning "to the stars" which seems fitting for a superyacht that is truly out of this world.

Exclusively for sale with Burgess, Adastra is asking asking $12,000,000.

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Adastra Specifications

• Name Adastra
• Model Custom
• Hull Colour Adastra
• Naval Architect John Shuttleworth Yacht Designs Ltd.
• Exterior Designer John Shuttleworth Yacht Designs Ltd.
• Interior Designer Jepsen Designs
• Length Overall 42.5m
• Length at Waterline -
• Draft (min) -
• Draft (max) 1.6m
• Gross Tonnage -
• Cabins Total 4
• Hull Configuration Trimaran
• Hull Material Aluminium
• Superstructure -
• Deck Material -
• Fuel Type Diesel
• Manufacturer Caterpillar Inc / Yanmar
• Power 1260 hp / 940 kW
• Total Power 1260 hp / 940 kW
• Propulsion Triple Screw
• Max Speed 22 Kn
• Cruising Speed 17 Kn
• Fuel Capacity 32000
• Water Capacity 2700
• Generator -
• Stabilizers -
• Thrusters -
• Amenities -
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