Veligandu Maldives Resort Island

Nice resort! You will get to experience every aspect of the holiday in the Maldives, at a reasonable rate, such as a journey by the sea-plane, being greeted by the resort personnel with drums, staying at a secluded heaven-like resort with wonderful clean beaches and tropical vegetation, incredible coral reef all around with beautiful fishes, staying in the water villa. if you have never been to the Maldives, choose this resort. You will not regret it for a second. Special thanks to Veligandu for special treatment on the day of our anniversary: excellent design in the room with the flowers and swan sculptures on the bed, the bottle of sparkling drink in the ice bucket, specially decorated table at dinner. The reef is one of the best in the Maldives, no matter in which direction you will swim, you will see thousands of colourful fish. But an especially nice reef starts opposite the main restaurant. I swam around the whole island except the "airport" area. It was nice everywhere. CHOOSE SEA VILLA no matter how much more expensive it is. it is much better and the experience is from another world. We stayed at both (beach and sea villas), we can tell.

There were quite a few mosquitos when we stayed in the beach villa. Don't forget to bring some repellant. No mosquitos in the sea villas. The resort tries to spray the mosquitos, but they are there anyway and will get you if not protected. Also, we stayed in May and maybe it was season related.

We enjoyed very much our stay and had a wonderful time.

Although it did not create us an issue, I find it very bad that for such a hotel in all inclusive package, you do not offer all drinks or food free! The catalogue is split and there are extra charges for example if you want to have a fresh juice.

Secluded island is a perfect place to stay in Maldives. Great staff help us with every request. They were still in touch with us during our stay. I highly recommend to book sunset water villa, with a perfect distance to coral reef. Variety of food and drinks served was stunning.

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Food was very variated with high quality and a lot of options. Room amazing with jacuzzi with direct view to the see. The staff very friendly and helpful, they compensated a delay to go to the island with a sunset boat trip and late check out including lunch. Great experience in a great island resort.

Price could be more manageable and services offered like leave us in Rashdooh island (7 minutes by boat) in a price more reliable.

eEverything. absolutely superb

leaving to go home!

My first visit to Maldives, but the resort and location was fabulous. I chose Veligandu as I wanted to have the seaplane experience and this offered this at probably cheapest cost. Snorkeling close to shore was fantastic with plenty of varities of fish to see and a short trip to Wonder Rock provided an even greater variety. Saw Sharks and Mantarays swimming right next to the beach. The location is stunning, the staff so friendly and food offers a wide range of options and is of good quality. Resort is closing Summer 23 for a refurbishment, but nothing felt dated or worn out. The over water villa with jacuzzi was big and spacious, but note some accommodation does require a 5 minute or so walk to reception and restaurants.

No criticisms of the resort, although note the costs for trips or spa treatments are to me costly. Also to note, when I booked the sea plane transfer I knew I would need to align with their schedule, then the resort timing is 1 hour ahead of Male (this is so sunrise and sunset are better aligned with the day). So 8am arrival in Mahe and 1pm arrived in Veligandu, but in time for lunch on arrival. The seaplane company bumped my baggage, even though my bag was in limits,but they said the all up weight of aircraft with pax was too much, so it had to come on a later flight. This spoiled the arrival experience to some extent. The resort were apologetic and gave us free wine and dolphin watching trip as a consolation, which was very much appreciated.