LUX* South Ari Atoll: spoilt for choice in the Maldives

With its wonderful watersports and bountiful bars and restaurants, LUX* is the five-star beach holiday you want it to be

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LUX* is renowned for its contemporary take on luxury, and its Maldives resort at South Ari Atoll is an excellent example of modern five-star travel. Choice abounds - sample an array of adrenalin sports, indulge yourself with an extensive range of spa treatments or repair to one of the 11 cafes, bars and restaurants - and the staff are as bright and breezy as the water villas.

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Holden Frith is The Week’s digital director. He also makes regular appearances on “The Week Unwrapped”, speaking about subjects as diverse as vaccine development and bionic bomb-sniffing locusts. He joined The Week in 2013, spending five years editing the magazine’s website. Before that, he was deputy digital editor at The Sunday Times. He has also been TheTimes.co.uk’s technology editor and the launch editor of Wired magazine’s UK website. Holden has worked in journalism for nearly two decades, having started his professional career while completing an English literature degree at Cambridge University. He followed that with a master’s degree in journalism from Northwestern University in Chicago. A keen photographer, he also writes travel features whenever he gets the chance.