The World's Finest Underwater Stays
True underwater hotel rooms β where your bedroom sits beneath the ocean surface with floor-to-ceiling views of coral reefs, tropical fish and the deep sea β are among the rarest and most remarkable experiences on Earth. There are only a handful of them. These are the best.
Conrad Maldives β The Muraka Underwater Villa
The Muraka ("coral" in Dhivehi) at Conrad Maldives Rangali Island is the world's first underwater villa. The two-level residence sits 5 metres below the Indian Ocean surface, with the lower level bedroom enclosed in a curved 180-degree acrylic wall that gives an uninterrupted panoramic view of the coral reef, tropical fish, nurse sharks and manta rays that use the reef as their home. Above water, the upper level includes a private pool, sundeck and living room. The villa is positioned in a protected marine area with some of the highest coral diversity on Earth. This is the most photographed room in the world.
- β World's first underwater villa
- β 5m below ocean surface
- β 180Β° curved acrylic wall
- β Manta rays & nurse sharks
- β Private pool above water
- β Personal butler 24/7
The Manta Resort β Africa's Floating Underwater Bedroom
Unlike Maldives underwater rooms built into resort structures, The Manta Resort's Underwater Room floats freely in the open ocean off Pemba Island β one of the world's most biodiverse and least visited reefs. The three-level floating platform has a lounge at sea level, a rooftop for sunset viewing, and the bedroom sitting 4 metres below the surface with all-glass walls providing a 360-degree view of the reef. At night, the underwater lights attract a spectacular parade of marine life β trevally, moray eels, lionfish and the manta rays that give the resort its name. You are completely isolated in the Indian Ocean.
- β Floating in open ocean
- β 360Β° underwater views
- β Pemba Island pristine reef
- β Night marine light show
- β Completely isolated
- β Manta ray encounters
Jules' Undersea Lodge β Dive to Your Bedroom
Jules' Undersea Lodge is the most extreme hotel check-in on Earth: to reach your room, you must scuba dive 6 metres underwater and enter through a hole in the floor of a pressurised habitat that was originally used by Jacques Cousteau's ocean research team. Once inside, you're in a fully equipped (if compact) hotel room with two bedrooms, a kitchenette and hot showers β but your windows look directly into the ocean, and fish swim past as you eat breakfast. The lagoon water is 23Β°C year-round. Unlimited diving is included. Pizza can be delivered by wetsuit-clad staff. This is the original underwater hotel, opened in 1986.
- β World's only scuba-access hotel
- β Former Cousteau research hab
- β 6m underwater entry
- β Unlimited diving included
- β Pizza delivered underwater
- β Since 1986
Utter Inn β The World's Most Minimalist Underwater Room
Swedish artist Mikael Genberg created Utter Inn as a conceptual artwork that people could actually inhabit: a typical bright-red Swedish cottage floating on Lake MΓ€laren, but with a single room sitting 3 metres below the lake surface, accessed by a trapdoor. The underwater bedroom has two beds and large windows looking directly into the freshwater lake β pike, perch and roach drift past as you sleep. The above-water upper section has a small kitchen and outdoor deck. There is no restaurant, no butler, no phone signal β you are delivered by motorboat with supplies for the night and collected in the morning. This is art you sleep inside.
- β Freshwater lake version
- β Artist-created concept
- β Completely isolated
- β Trapdoor underwater entry
- β No phone signal
- β Boats-only access
Atlantis The Palm β Dubai's Underwater Suite
The Neptune and Poseidon Suites at Atlantis The Palm are built into the wall of the Ambassador Lagoon β one of the world's largest aquariums, containing 65,000 marine animals including rays, sharks and over 250 species of tropical fish. The floor-to-ceiling bedroom windows provide a floor-to-ceiling view directly into the lagoon, so you wake up to a school of eagle rays gliding past at head height. The suites include private in-suite dining, access to the Aquaventure waterpark (with the legendary "Leap of Faith" shark tunnel slide), and priority access to Atlantis's 17 restaurants. This is the most accessible luxury underwater room experience in the world.
- β 65,000 fish aquarium wall
- β Rays & sharks visible
- β Aquaventure waterpark
- β 17 restaurants on-site
- β Private beach access
- β Direct flights worldwide
Huvafen Fushi β Underwater Spa & Lagoon Villas
Huvafen Fushi pioneered the concept of underwater luxury when it opened the world's first underwater spa treatment rooms in 2004 β two chambers on the lagoon floor with glass walls and ceilings, where therapists perform massages while reef fish swim overhead. The resort's overwater bungalows have glass floors revealing the living reef beneath. The house reef at Huvafen Fushi is among the healthiest in the Maldives, with nurse sharks and hawksbill turtles resident year-round. The 40-minute seaplane transfer from MalΓ© is itself spectacular β watching the atolls from the air as you approach this tiny island makes the whole journey feel cinematic.
- β World's first underwater spa
- β Glass-floor bungalows
- β Nurse sharks resident
- β Hawksbill turtles
- β Seaplane transfer
- β Pristine house reef