Diamonds Athuruga Maldives Resort & Spa

It truly is a beautiful, natural, friendly island. Hugely Italian influenced food which I think is a huge win. The pasta options, pizza and other stuff they offer every day, changes of course but is always delicious. Breakfast is amazing too. Fresh fruit drinks. We’ve had so much fresh orange! The sea life is wildly, the reef is still so colorful. The free group snorkeling twice a day, just perfect. We celebrated our baby boys 1st birthday day there and they staff treated him and us so well. As did the guests. It was a perfect holiday. We’ve been since 2002, 5 different islands and we have finally found our go to. Next year 100% we will be back. Once you know the Maldives, you know that the little things make the difference, the natural steps changed the beaches because of seasonal rinds caused some islands to put break waters in. Not this place, it’s truly natural. You can walk the whole way round, in the water in 15 minutes. It’s tiny, no paths really, the paths are just walking through the trees and it’s just perfect in that sense too. I could go on and on. Great little island.

The only negative and they know it and are doing something soon is the rooms could do with a spruce up, but it’s not at all a problem and I personally enjoyed the style. True beach villa retreat with a nice little outside bathroom too.

Great friendly staff

Certain options where not communicated to us upon our arrival and we found out towards the end of our stay such as private dinners.

Everything was good great property Value for money Luxury experience where one can relax and rejuvenate

Reef, diving center, nice stuff!

Great location. Good house reef. Food lovely. Staff very friendly and helpful.

Decoration is a bit tired and needs some maintenance. Not much to do when it rains and can’t snorkel or do any water sports.

South Atol with access via 25min seaplane from Male. Stunning location, surrounded by a gorgeous beach with perfect wide sand, beautifully clear sea and a reef that is perfect for snorkelling/exploring. With two accommodation options, we were fortunate to be upgraded to a water villa, which was just everything you would expect in terms of exclusivity and service. Both restaurants we experienced were excellent- The water villa à la carte restaurant, with table service and excellent menu choices & the main buffet restaurant with an amazing choice of freshly prepared/individuality cooked dishes & fruit juices. Plenty of excursions to choose from and the service from all the staff were so friendly, offering advice and genuinely wanting to make our holiday an amazing experience.

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Staff were amazing, food was also amazing. Snorkelling over the reef was like being in a huge aquarium, just magic. We had an overwater villa, so comfortable, clean and loved waking up to our water view and coffee on the balcony.

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We just came back from this resort and are already planning our next vacation at the same place. We stayed for two weeks in a standard beach villa and liked everything, the most important for us being the house reef. The house reef: simply outstanding, daily encounters with the sharks, turtles, whole families of the eagle rays, porcupine and boxfish, moray eels and so on. We enjoyed snorkeling at least twice a day and were never disappointed. The food : simple but good, with Italian influence. One could find pizzas and pasta at a daily basis (pasta with speck and safran sauce is my favorite). Every day the resort changes the theme of the diner, my favorite being Maldivian, we had it twice during our stay. Live barbecue with meat and fish, live naan station (just excellent) as well as other dishes from all around the world. We also booked the lobster dinner, while being a bit too expensive, it was one of the best we had so far. The Chef prepared an excellent lemon butter sauce that was just perfect for the lobster, highlighting its delicate taste. Thanks to the General manager Jaco we also had one diner at the a la carte water villa restaurant, we liked a lot the romantic setting, lounge music, service and of course the food. The excursions: we went on a whale shark excursion and were lucky to see two different of them. In our sixth’s time in Maldives it was the first encounter, what a beautiful experience ! We also went on the night sharks snorkeling and had seen at least 30 friendly nurse sharks of different size, it was impressive and beautiful. Finally, we went on manta safari and unfortunately haven’t seen any, but we will try again the next year. The resort also organizes the house reef snorkeling excursions twice a day (free of charge) with the marine’s biologists. If you are not a confident swimmer and/or would like to know better the marine’s life, I highly recommend to give it a try. The shop: I loved this shop.

We liked everything.