Shifa Lodge Maldives

Awesome vacation, we had a great time here, nice island, with kind staff, clean and Wonderful. I recommend to check out this place when your visiting Maldives

We chose this guesthouse to stay overnight on our way between Dhigurah and Ukulhas. We were warmly welcomed with drinks and cold, wet towels. Breakfast was pre-ordered: either European or Maldivian (but no buffet).

The room faced the street, and it was quite noisy due to a shop across the road. We didn’t like the room itself: it was very simply furnished, lacking furniture, although quite spacious. The decor was old, and the bathroom was not very comfortable. Lighting was dim. There was air conditioning but no refrigerator. Overall, I’d say the price was too high for what was offered.

Awesome stay in beautiful guesthouse on an amazing island. Staff was extremely helpful and helped us with anything, also being very flexible on trips, arrangements, payments etc.

Everything was good, so nothing to complain about. Just in the bathroom there might be some sewer odour, but nothing too bad.

The owner and the stuff are very helpful. Nothing was a problem. They even came around midnight to fix the AC, when we texted, that it stopped working! They did not seem friendly at the first moment, but (as we understood later) they only wanted to give us privacy. The accomodation was perfectly clean. The location is great (easy on a small island). The grocery store is across the street. The room is big. The last day, we got the breakfast packed, so we did not have to hurry and ate it on the ferry.

The bed is only 150cm. For tho people maybe OK, with a baby it was too small. They did not clean the room during the whole stay. There is only bed, warsrobe and small table in the room. The dryer is really small. The aircondion did not work properly. It was really noisy and many times got broken, so we had to restart it. The brakfast was good, but you have to walk to the restaurant. It is not in the accomodation.

It was okay

The room smelled damp. There was no drinking water and shampoo provided in the room. The dinner included was quite horrible. I advice against the half-board option. Furthermore, we agreed to have breakfast at 7:00 because we had to take a ferry at 7:35, but the breakfast place only opened at 7:10, and we were served at 7:20, so we only had 10 minutes to eat.

Basic room but clean with air con and hot water. Breakfast is not served in the establishment but in a local bar by the port, between continental and Maldivian one, I would suggest the latter one. Feridhoo is a nice local island with a beautiful bikini beach and reef(besides corals and fishes saw turtles, small mantas and reef sharks). Communication with the guy who replies on WhatsApp was very fast.

I had room facing the street, was good but inside there was a strange smell like of humidity/mold. I didn’t see/find anything bad and was not the air con since very often I was keeping it off and the smell remained. Wi-Fi is weak and present in the lobby area, better if you buy local sim(as I did) at Male airport. Would have been nice to have a chair inside the room as well as a tv. Lodge accepts only USD both for the accommodation and for the excursions. I was been told there was an ATM at male airport so didn’t bring any cash but unfortunately it didn’t accept Visa/Mastercard. At the end I paid everything by card with a commission of 3-4%. Bring local currency if you want to eat at local bars/resto since don’t accept credit card(and on the island there is no ATM). The day I did check in a guy who I payed showed me the list of the activities offered, then one day I wanted to book an excursion to do manta snorkeling(it was listed 75usd per person) then contacted the WhatsApp guy and after some talk I discovered the prices present in that list were not correct(since minimum 2person would have costed 95usd each) so since was alone would have costed me a lot. Speed boat round trip pretty expensive, 150USD for the round trip(if I paid cash would have been at least 20usd cheaper).

Quiet place, tasty food.