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Malé (MLE) airport lounges — which credit card gets you in

Velana International Airport runs 3 lounges we can put a source under. 66 of the 107 cards we track open at least one of those doors — 37 of them only if you clear a spend or tier gate. 1 of the 3 room here takes no card we track. Below: every door with its terminal, hours, stay cap, guest fee and the exact cards that walk in. No "check with your bank".

3 lounges 2 access networks

Which card gets you in

Lounge access is not one thing — it is 2 different machines at this airport, and your card is on some of them and not others. Each block below is one machine: the doors it opens here, and every tracked card that carries it. A card in more than one block gets in more than one way.

Priority Pass

2 of 3 doors · 55 cards

A membership your card carries. The kit arrives by post, the door reads the membership — not the card.

Opens: Moonimaa Lounge · Huvandhumaa Lounge

HDFC Infinia Metal Axis Atlas Axis Magnus for Burgundy ICICI Emeralde Private Metal Axis Magnus (legacy) Axis Olympus Axis Burgundy Private IDFC FIRST Private
and 47 more cards on Priority Pass

HDFC Regalia Gold · HDFC BizPower · IndusInd Tiger · RBL Nova · Kotak Air+ · Standard Chartered Ultimate · Axis Bank Reserve · ICICI Times Black · Amex Platinum Charge · Axis Bank PRIMUS · Axis Miles & More World Select · ixigo AU · Amex Platinum Reserve · IndusInd Avios Visa Infinite · Tata Neu Infinity HDFC Bank · SBI Card MILES PRIME · Axis Miles & More World · Axis Bank SELECT · Adani One ICICI Bank Signature · IndiGo Axis Bank Premium Credit Card · Emirates Skywards ICICI Bank Emeralde · RBL iGlobe · Kotak Solitaire · SBI Card MILES ELITE · RBL World Safari · KrisFlyer SBI Card · RBL Insignia Preferred Banking World Card · Emirates Skywards ICICI Bank Sapphiro · SBI Card ELITE · MakeMyTrip ICICI Bank · Kotak White Reserve · MakeMyTrip ICICI Bank Signature · AU Zenith · SBI Card PRIME · Kotak Privy League Signature · Samsung Axis Bank Infinite · IDFC FIRST Wealth · IndusInd Pinnacle World · ICICI Sapphiro · ICICI Bank Emeralde · AU Vetta · DBS Vantage · IndusInd Pioneer Legacy · IndusInd Pioneer Heritage · AU Zenith+ · RBL Lumière · HDFC Regalia

Mastercard

1 of 3 doors · 24 cards

Mastercard’s World / World Elite programme, run on LoungeKey — Priority Pass’s white-label twin.

Opens: Moonimaa Lounge

Axis Magnus for Burgundy ICICI Emeralde Private Metal BOBCARD Etihad Guest Premium Axis Olympus HSBC Premier (Metal) IDFC FIRST Mayura HSBC TravelOne Standard Chartered Ultimate
and 16 more cards on Mastercard

Axis Horizon · BOBCARD Eterna · IndiGo SBI Card ELITE · RBL iGlobe · SBI Card MILES ELITE · IndiGo SBI Card · RBL Icon · RBL World Safari · RBL Insignia Preferred Banking World Card · SBI Card ELITE · IndusInd Pinnacle World · ICICI Bank Rubyx · ICICI Bank Emeralde · IndusInd Pioneer Legacy · IndusInd Pioneer Heritage · SBI AURUM

° The access is spend- or tier-gated: hover the card, or open its page for the exact trigger. A gate you miss is a door that does not open, whatever the brochure said.

Every lounge at MLE, door by door

Terminal, side of security, operator, hours, stay cap, guest fee, walk-in price — and the cards that walk in. Each door carries the document we read it from.

Moonimaa Lounge

Domestic Terminal — LANDSIDE, 1st floor, right of the main terminal entrance (before check-in and security) landside

Maldives Airports Company

Hours
06:00–23:00
Max stay
2h
Guests
not published
Walk-in
no published price
Priority PassMastercard
buffetwifi

The PP/LoungeKey option at MLE (3.5/5) — but it is LANDSIDE: visit before check-in, then transfer (international passengers must budget time to reach the international terminal). Strict 2h cap, overstays charged; peak crush 16:00–18:00 with the seaplane bank. On both PP (MLE2) and Mastercard's lounge finder.

66 cards open this door

HDFC Infinia Metal Axis Atlas Axis Magnus for Burgundy ICICI Emeralde Private Metal Axis Magnus (legacy) BOBCARD Etihad Guest Premium Axis Olympus Axis Burgundy Private
and 58 more

IDFC FIRST Private · HSBC Premier (Metal) · HDFC Regalia Gold · HDFC BizPower · IDFC FIRST Mayura · IndusInd Tiger · RBL Nova · Kotak Air+ · HSBC TravelOne · Standard Chartered Ultimate · Axis Bank Reserve · ICICI Times Black · Amex Platinum Charge · Axis Bank PRIMUS · Axis Miles & More World Select · ixigo AU · Amex Platinum Reserve · IndusInd Avios Visa Infinite · Tata Neu Infinity HDFC Bank · Axis Horizon · SBI Card MILES PRIME · BOBCARD Eterna · Axis Miles & More World · Axis Bank SELECT · Adani One ICICI Bank Signature · IndiGo SBI Card ELITE · IndiGo Axis Bank Premium Credit Card · Emirates Skywards ICICI Bank Emeralde · RBL iGlobe · Kotak Solitaire · SBI Card MILES ELITE · IndiGo SBI Card · RBL Icon · RBL World Safari · KrisFlyer SBI Card · RBL Insignia Preferred Banking World Card · Emirates Skywards ICICI Bank Sapphiro · SBI Card ELITE · MakeMyTrip ICICI Bank · Kotak White Reserve · MakeMyTrip ICICI Bank Signature · AU Zenith · SBI Card PRIME · Kotak Privy League Signature · Samsung Axis Bank Infinite · IDFC FIRST Wealth · IndusInd Pinnacle World · ICICI Sapphiro · ICICI Bank Rubyx · ICICI Bank Emeralde · AU Vetta · DBS Vantage · IndusInd Pioneer Legacy · IndusInd Pioneer Heritage · AU Zenith+ · RBL Lumière · SBI AURUM · HDFC Regalia

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Huvandhumaa Lounge

Maldivian Seaplane Terminal (MST)

Maldivian / Trans Maldivian

Hours
06:00–17:30
Max stay
no published cap
Guests
not published
Walk-in
no published price
Priority Pass

New PP addition inside the seaplane terminal — genuinely useful, since resort seaplane transfers involve long unscheduled waits; daylight hours only (seaplanes don't fly at night).

55 cards open this door

HDFC Infinia Metal Axis Atlas Axis Magnus for Burgundy ICICI Emeralde Private Metal Axis Magnus (legacy) Axis Olympus Axis Burgundy Private IDFC FIRST Private
and 47 more

HDFC Regalia Gold · HDFC BizPower · IndusInd Tiger · RBL Nova · Kotak Air+ · Standard Chartered Ultimate · Axis Bank Reserve · ICICI Times Black · Amex Platinum Charge · Axis Bank PRIMUS · Axis Miles & More World Select · ixigo AU · Amex Platinum Reserve · IndusInd Avios Visa Infinite · Tata Neu Infinity HDFC Bank · SBI Card MILES PRIME · Axis Miles & More World · Axis Bank SELECT · Adani One ICICI Bank Signature · IndiGo Axis Bank Premium Credit Card · Emirates Skywards ICICI Bank Emeralde · RBL iGlobe · Kotak Solitaire · SBI Card MILES ELITE · RBL World Safari · KrisFlyer SBI Card · RBL Insignia Preferred Banking World Card · Emirates Skywards ICICI Bank Sapphiro · SBI Card ELITE · MakeMyTrip ICICI Bank · Kotak White Reserve · MakeMyTrip ICICI Bank Signature · AU Zenith · SBI Card PRIME · Kotak Privy League Signature · Samsung Axis Bank Infinite · IDFC FIRST Wealth · IndusInd Pinnacle World · ICICI Sapphiro · ICICI Bank Emeralde · AU Vetta · DBS Vantage · IndusInd Pioneer Legacy · IndusInd Pioneer Heritage · AU Zenith+ · RBL Lumière · HDFC Regalia

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Leeli Lounge

International — airside, 1st floor next to duty-free airside

Maldives Airports Company

US$37.80 / 3h (child US$27)

Hours
not published
Max stay
no published cap
Guests
not published
Walk-in
US$37.80 / 3h (child US$27)

Despite persistent blog claims, Priority Pass, LoungeKey AND DragonPass are all refused — business-class contracts or paid entry only; the new terminal's Koveli Lounge likewise has no card-network access yet.

No card we track opens this door

Airline, invite or paid entry only — the walk-in price above is the way in.

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If no card of yours opens a door

One door here publishes a walk-in price. Pay it and you are in, card or no card — the prices are the operators' own published rates, and desks quote higher at peak. Everything else at MLE is cards-and-invites only.

Worth doing the arithmetic before you swipe: a ₹3,000 walk-in is a bad trade against a card whose whole annual fee buys a season of visits — that comparison is exactly what the lounge-card ranking computes.

This is one airport out of 119 with a page of its own — the full map, every airport and every railway lounge we hold, is on the lounge map.