{"id":28948,"date":"2014-09-01T18:50:16","date_gmt":"2014-09-01T16:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.boatbookings.com\/blog\/?p=28948"},"modified":"2014-09-02T13:26:23","modified_gmt":"2014-09-02T11:26:23","slug":"luxury-yachts-in-the-maldives-for-christmas-and-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boatbookings.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/01\/luxury-yachts-in-the-maldives-for-christmas-and-new-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Luxury Yachts in the Maldives for Christmas and New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In early 2014, the Maldives government introduced new regulations for foreign visiting yachts. Previously, foreign yachts were only allowed to stay for 90 days, but this has now been extended to 180 days or more, making it a more attractive cruising destination for large charter yachts. Here are a a couple of yachts which will be in the <a title=\"Maldives Charter Yachts\" href=\"https:\/\/www.boatbookings.com\/yacht_charter\/maldives_charter.php?locations=Maldives&amp;bbr=bblog\"><strong>Maldives<\/strong><\/a> later this year.<\/p>\n<p>Having moved to <strong><a title=\"Phuket Yacht Charter Overview\" href=\"https:\/\/www.boatbookings.com\/yacht_search\/super_search_results.php?locations=Phuket&amp;query_id=1000674&amp;bbr=bblog\">Phuket<\/a><\/strong> 18 months ago after a full refit and completing several successful charters in Southeast Asia, this beautiful <a title=\"Broward 121 in the Maldives\" href=\"https:\/\/www.boatbookings.com\/yacht_search\/yacht_view.php?pid=15614&amp;bbr=bblog\"><strong>Broward 121<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0will be making its way to the Maldives in December. Captain Krill has many years of experience chartering in the Mediterranean and Caribbean and has thoroughly enjoyed his first year in Asia; now he is looking forward to exploring the amazing clear waters of the Maldives.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.boatbookings.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/ext22.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-28958\" alt=\"ext22\" src=\"https:\/\/www.boatbookings.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/ext22-300x198.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.boatbookings.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/toys.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-28968\" alt=\"toys\" src=\"https:\/\/www.boatbookings.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/toys-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Trinity superyacht <a title=\"KERI LEE III in the Maldives\" href=\"https:\/\/www.boatbookings.com\/yacht_search\/yacht_view.php?pid=14417&amp;bbr=bblog\"><strong>KERI LEE III<\/strong><\/a> is one of the most luxurious charter yachts to be found anywhere, with an amazing collection of water toys and entertainment facilities\u2026.2 jet skis, a gym, 10 person jacuzzi, sea bobs, kayaks, game fishing tender, water skis, dive compressor and a movie theatre in the sky lounge! She has spent the last 12 months in Thailand, is heading to Myanmar and Sri Lanka for October-November, and then moving south to the Maldives in December, before returning to the Mediterranean for the summer of 2015.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.boatbookings.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/keri-lee-iii-main14417.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-28956\" alt=\"keri-lee-iii----main14417\" src=\"https:\/\/www.boatbookings.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/keri-lee-iii-main14417.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.boatbookings.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/keri-lee-iii-theatre.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-28966\" alt=\"keri-lee-iii-theatre\" src=\"https:\/\/www.boatbookings.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/keri-lee-iii-theatre-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There are more and more luxury yachts based in the Maldives, and you can see a selection of them on the <strong><a title=\"Maldives Yacht Charter\" href=\"https:\/\/www.boatbookings.com\/yacht_charter\/maldives_charter.php?locations=Maldives&amp;bbr=bblog\">Boatbookings Maldives page<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.boatbookings.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/maldives_endless_beach.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-28960\" alt=\"maldives_endless_beach\" src=\"https:\/\/www.boatbookings.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/maldives_endless_beach-300x198.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.boatbookings.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/maldives_sea.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-29004\" alt=\"maldives sea\" src=\"https:\/\/www.boatbookings.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/maldives_sea.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In early 2014, the Maldives government introduced new regulations for foreign visiting yachts. Previously, foreign yachts were only allowed to stay for 90 days, but this has now been extended to 180 days or more, making it a more attractive <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.boatbookings.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/01\/luxury-yachts-in-the-maldives-for-christmas-and-new-year\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Luxury Yachts in the Maldives for Christmas and New Year<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":260,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1608,1730,26,2,21,252,128,30,1352,483,525,396,31,7],"tags":[2858,318,60,4783,71,298,4833],"class_list":["post-28948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broward","category-charter-types","category-crewedyachtcharter","category-news","category-indian-ocean","category-luxury-yacht-charter","category-maldives-indian-ocean-news","category-motoryachtcharter","category-super-yachts-yacht_types","category-trinity-yachts","category-water-toys","category-yacht-brands","category-yacht_types","category-yachting-news","tag-luxury-crewed-motor-yacht","tag-luxury-motor-yacht","tag-luxury-yacht","tag-luxury-yacht-charter","tag-super-yacht","tag-super-yacht-charter","tag-water-toys"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.5.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Luxury Yachts in the Maldives for Christmas and New Year - Yacht Charter News and Boating Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.boatbookings.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/01\/luxury-yachts-in-the-maldives-for-christmas-and-new-year\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Luxury Yachts in the Maldives for Christmas and New Year - Yacht Charter News and Boating Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In early 2014, the Maldives government introduced new regulations for foreign visiting yachts. 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