Sands Inn, Mathiveri

I had an amazing stay at this guesthouse! It is located in a peaceful area just a 1-minute walk from the beach. Initially, I booked for one night but ended up extending my stay for the entire time I was on the island. The place is clean, quiet, and offers delicious freshly made breakfasts every day. The hosts are incredibly welcoming and always ready to assist with any questions or requests, including helping to organize excursions. I would definitely return here again in the future!

It was clean, very close to the bikini beach, nice and helpful owner.

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The location of the property is very nice and super close to the beach! Also the food is amazing and the staff is really friendly and help you with everything.

The rooms are a bit outdated and had mold in some corners. The bathroom had a bad smell and was not very inviting.

Expensive for the small amenities proposed

We had a most magical time at Sands Inn at Mathiveri. The Fahudh and Niro are the most lovely people and made us feel comfortable at once. Fahudh, the manager was always reachable and helped us with everything, starting with typical requests like travel arrangements and trips, but also with other wishes and problems like buying some special local food or an ATM machine, that did not work on our last day, when we urgently needed cash. We had breakfast and lunch everyday. The food Niro prepared was incredible good and diverse, although we are difficult to serve as vegans. ;) Vegan fluffy pancakes like we never had before and the curries we will remember forever. The location of the Inn was also perfect. In 2-3 minutes to dreamy spots at the bikini beach and as well in 3 minutes at the harbour, where we watched dozens of nurse sharks and stingrays at many nights. Google maps makes it look like the bikini beach, is in the south west further away, but when we were there in November 2023 many parts along the south side were designated as bikini beach. On the public beaches you really have to be covered or someone will immediately tell you to put on clothes. But this is the same on all local islands. We did two trips. One to see Mantas and one to see Whale Sharks and both were successful and good organized. The snorkelling possibilities on south side, bikini beach are not so great. We found some nice spots behind the picinic island, where you can easily swim to. But there is also a better snorkelling area south of the harbour. There you have to pass a long not so deep area with corals to get to the deeper and beautiful area. This is only possible during the high tide. It is a bit stressful not to touch the Corals. The danger of getting hurt by the Corals is not so high, but you should also not touch them in order not to destroy them. Of course you have to swim with long cloth there, but you want to do this on sunny days anyway in order not to get heavily sun burned.

The tap water smelled, strongly like sulfur. I don’t know if this is a constant thing or if it will be gone in the future. We did not mind it anyway, but maybe some of you don’t like that so much. We like very soft beds and the beds were a bit hard for our taste, but others prefer it that way, so this is something very subjective.

Die Unterkunft war schön. Das Bad war klein, aber ausreichend. Der Wasserdruck ließ zu wünschen übrig, aber dann dauert das duschen halt etwas länger :) Das Leitungswasser roch jedoch streng nach verfaulten Eiern - ich weiß nicht, ob das so üblich ist. Können sie Unterkunft aber empfehlen. Das Frühstück war abwechslungsreich.

Location is good

Room had no window.

The host Niro had a really personal touch and really took care of all the needs. He made excellent breakfast that he cooked himself and even asked beforehand what kind of fruit I would like to have. He took me to see the sharks at night as well as to see the crabs at the beach. The room was very comfortable, clean, really nicely furnished and the wifi was great.

Everything was good.