The only category without a waterslide, traded for its own fitness room and 480 square metres of island ground closest to the beach.
2 adults + 2 children, or 3 adults · Private pool with catamaran nets · Island villa, beachfront, with fitness room
The base overwater category and the largest single villa type on the island at twenty units — the same catamaran-netted pool and waterslide as the larger water villas, at one-bedroom scale.
2 adults + 2 children, or 3 adults · Private pool with catamaran nets and a waterslide from the deck · Water villa, overwater
A second bedroom without moving into reserve-tier pricing — the same catamaran-netted pool and slide as the larger water villas, at 520 square metres.
4 adults + 2 children, or 5 adults · Private pool with catamaran nets and a waterslide from the deck · Water villa, overwater
1,128 square metres across three bedrooms on the island itself — where we send multi-generational groups who want everyone under one pool but behind their own door.
6 adults + 2 children, or 7 adults · Private pool with catamaran nets and a waterslide from the deck · Island villa
The reserve-tier step up from the Island Retreat, at 1,796 square metres, and one of only four categories on the island with its own fitness room.
6 adults + 2 children, or 7 adults · Private pool with catamaran nets and a waterslide from the deck · Island villa, with fitness room
The largest of the overwater villas — four bedrooms, a fitness room, and a sunset-facing deck. The same Water Reserve architecture repeats at one-bedroom scale too, in twenty separate villas, the single largest category on the island.
8 adults + 2 children, or 9 adults · Private pool with catamaran nets and a waterslide from the deck · Water villa, overwater, with fitness room
Which villas have a waterslide, and which have a fitness room?
Every villa category has a waterslide from the deck except the Beach Hideaway, which has a fitness room instead. Full fitness rooms are otherwise reserved for the top-tier three- and four-bedroom Island Reserve and Sunset Water Reserve villas; the one- and two-bedroom water villas skip it. IMJ matches the exact villa number to what your group actually wants in the room.
Do the overwater villas feel safe for young children, with a pool that opens onto the lagoon?
Every villa pool at Soneva Jani has catamaran netting around it, a direct design response to exactly this question. Villas also include a separate children's sleeping room built in alongside the main bedroom, rather than a fold-out bed sharing the same space.
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A few ways into the resorts, by the kind of trip you have in mind.
