Family hotels and homes in Dharavandhoo

I was here on Jan'2024 and everything was perfect. Very cozy small hotel with beautiful rooms and magnificent views of the ocean. The staff were very friendly and they made us feel relaxed and calm. The hotel is located on a small calm beach with a rich reef. The island is small, cozy, and amazing people live on it. My advice: 1) visit the fish market late at night to see stingrays and even sharks that come here for food 2) try a coconut drink at a local cafe 3) try a traditional Maldivian dinner or lunch at DFC Restaurant

Amazing staff, delicious food. There are masks/snorkels/fins for rent. The reef is just at the beach, snorkeling is very interesting.

Brand new local architecture. Competent & pleasant staff that will go out of their way to assist you.

The staff here is amazing! As we arrived we felt very welcome and also during our stay the staff is always happy to have a chat. The excursions are the best part. Also dinner on the beach, candle light, no music just the sound of the ocean: truly unforgettable. The food is also very good.

Very friendly personal and delicious food

: Really nice place, close to "bikini"- beach. Friendly, helpful staff (Afo). Drinking water is always available at the common kitchen. The whole place was really clean, and calm. Room, bathroom was clean, well equipped. Warm water was always ready for shower. Room is bright, with some really nice paintings on the wall. Breakfast and dinner was really tasty, and varie.

Everything was perfekt. The location is awesome, directly on the beach and everyone is super friendly. It is the perfect place to stay when you want to see mantas. I definitely recommend going on the diving and snorkeling excursions they organize every day

Great food and drinks served 24 hours - from international buffet breakfast at Maakanaa restaurant to Seafood / Italian ala-carte lunch or dinner at Raabondhi restaurant, to drinks at Boli Bar. Great facilities. We started our day early playing tennis, then followed with snorkelling around the house reef just in time for the turtle’s feeding time (before 8 am). There are lots of beautiful and colourful coral reef fish around the island, we saw 3 turtles and 2 baby sharks while snorkelling just in the house reef. Activities in Boli Bar is also noteworthy - from chilling by the pool, playing billiards, live bands, to DJ night - and all of that while drinks are overflowing 😉 Excellent staffs - April our Filipina Island host kept us informed of daily activities and attended to all our requests including restaurant reservations. Vinod made our beach villa clean, Himali and Akash from Raabondi restaurant, Maria who gave us private salsa class, Liani and Sita from the Spa who gave us great treatment and massage, and all the friendly staffs in Maakanaa and Boli Bar - everyone made our stay very pleasant. Transfers to/from island is bit time consuming, but forgivable considering the experience we had at the Island. All we had to do was Eat. Drink. Chill. Beach. Tennis. Sleep. Repeat.

The staff was absolutely fantastic and incredibly kind! A special shoutout to Nappe and Dudu who took excellent care of us our entire stay!! The man making the pizzas was also really kind, the lobster pizza is a must try!

It has been a week since we've come back from paradise on Earth. The beauty of the Maldives cannot be described, but the amazing experience of staying at Dusit Thani Maldives, which was simply perfect, can. To be perfectly honest, almost everything exceeded my (very high) expectation. The resort is a beautiful jungle/garden and cycling through it is a pleasure for all the senses (especially in the evenings, when you can smell frangipani). We have stayed in one of the ocean villas. The views were simply stunning. The villa was very spacious and cosy, and even though the furniture is not brand new, it is full of drama. Plus, they have the most comfortable pillows my head had ever touched. The big highight-and what convinced us to stay in the resort-is the Thai restaurant Benjarong with it amazing chef and staff-we were usually attended by Novika (foodie as myself, so she could provide great recommendation) and James, who was also super nice and attentive. After having dinner at Benjarong the first night, we booked all of our meals there (with the exception for the night of Eid celebration, when we dined on the beach with live local music and dancing-thanks Sharif. I especial recommend the soft shell crab with curry - powder, the lamb chops, and my favourite dish in the universe-the Thai green curry. My husband fell in love with the dessert with water chestnuts and ended up eating it twice a day 🙂 (and of course I ended up taking the Thai cooking class). Another highlight for the foodies was breakfast. while the choices of "western" food, pastries is impressive, my very favourite (and I had it every single day) was the noodles station. Also, make sure you try the passion fruit jam which is to die for. You can always ask Mona (yet another, cheerful foodie) for recommendations. Moving from the food... Above the Thai 'restaurant is the Sata bar. My husband took the cocktail making class there and we met a very gifted bar attender Amita.