Veligandu Maldives Resort Island

We spent eight days and seven nights at Veligandu, a most wonderful dream. We had previously visited Meeru, Kuredu and Komandoo resorts under the Champa group. Because of the all inclusive dine around option, we find Veligandu far superior. We looked forward to every meal with gusto as we had lunch at Madivaru and dinners at Raalhu. The quality of the food, freshness of ingredients, passion of the chefs in the small kitchen, and wide selection of beers, wines, juices, and zero alcohol options as I was expecting were amazing. The all day snack menu was high in quality - no frozen nuggets here. Fresh wraps, salads, even gambas! Service across Maldives is always spectacular but here I felt the service staff hired in particular were young, had the passion to serve and were generally extremely joyful to work in the resort. It’s a lovely atmosphere to be served by joyful people. We snorkelled everyday on the house reef in front of the ocean jacuzzi villas - very calm and high visibility in the mornings. The best snorkeling is to be done on the left of the tip of the island from Thundi Bar, where we saw a huge variety of friendly beautiful reef life, sharks, moray eel and some eagle rays. We heard someone saw an octopus. The island in particular is beautifully kept. On some larger islands, the greenery while beautiful can get a bit wild. I noticed there were hardly any mozzies and I got just one bite from a sandfly near the pool one day. Here, the greenery is extremely gorgeous, verdant and flourishing. Kudos to the gardeners and landscapers for such careful attention. As part of our stay we had a complimentary 60 min massage at Himeyn Spa. This is the best spa we’ve been to in the Maldives. Clearly they hire from around the world with expertise in different types of massages like Thai, Balinese, etc. truly excellent and they were very professional with my prenatal massage. We also were gifted a complimentary 30 min photo session with V moments, their photo studio. The photographer was extremely sweet and made us camera shy folks comfortable. The photos turned out amazing. I can’t recommend their service enough. A shoutout to the fitness centre and paddleball session we attended. The gym is the best I’ve seen, well outfitted with modern equipment and a stunning view. Always super clean and never felt the slightest bit crowded. We had great fun playing pickle and paddle ball for the first time. Thank you to Naveen, our amazing host, for checking in with us everyday and making sure every detail of our stay was taken care of. Our housekeeping Mohamed, and daily waiters Ibrahim, Inkar, and so many more, made our meals a joy. Donnie who manages the gym and the sports activities was lovely. We made many amazing core memories for a lifetime and will be back - with our baby!

We really enjoyed staying at Veligandu. Everything was perfect. Very special thanks to Mr. Rizwan and Mr. Tapiwa (V Moment) who took wonderful photos for my daughter. Thank you so much for capturing all these precious moments! Really appreciate your positive attitude and determination to get the perfect shot, and thank you for being so dedicated to your craft -- producing the most beautiful photos we could ever imagine. They are FANTASTIC!!! We couldn't have asked for a better photographer for our special moment.

Villas and the island 10/10 Service 10/10 Food 10/10 Reef 10/10 Very good hotel with an exceptional service. Everyone from the waiters to resort workers, to the greeting man, to my host Zaha, the ocean centre crew have been great. I forgot the names unfortunately) The food was great, i had full board and the buffet at Dhonveli was very good, especially the desserts. Rhaalu was booked all the time, but I understand. I dined at Madivaru once, it was good. Thundi bar is very comfortable with a lot of space. As a Russian i was pleasantly surprised to see a russian speaking waitress from Kazakhstan, she was very polite. I think there is also a Korean guy and other nationalities speaking all sorts of languages, it was great. The resort is very well maintained, i stayed at a beach villa, it was a lot better than i expected, truly a great villa. If i come next time I’m considering the new sunset ocean pool villas, they seemed good. My only complaint is the island is on the smaller side so the golf carts are not necessary and annoying , but a lot of guests request them so i understand. The reef was great but i got unlucky i guess, i have snorkeled excessively for a week and seen turtles and sharks, managed to find a few different moray eels but no rays or octopus, oh well. My only complaint here is that ocean excursions seem very expensive, especially the whale shark seeing. I asked around and other resorts are a lot cheaper in that regard, but I can’t confirm. For me the price was too high to justify. Went on manta snorkeling, didn’t see any but it’s not the season so it’s fine). All in all 10/10 resort, 11/10 for the price, great value. Victor

Breath-taking sea and fabulous climate made this trip a perfect one! I feel extremely lucky to meet Julia, my housekeeper. She is so considerable and friendly and helps us everything. The ocean villa and beach villa both have a beautiful scenery. I had a fantastic time here and will recommend people around me to come!

엄청난 풍경과 인테리어, 귀여운 가오리랑 상어가 인상깊은 리조트에요! 매일 스노쿨링해도 안질리고 떠날 때 매우 아쉬웠어요. 저희 담당했던 RYAN 덕분에 한국말도 편하게 하고 리조트를 양껏 누릴 수 있었습니다👍🏻 라이언 최고~~!

剛剛結束了我的度假，這次度假體驗十分完美，島上風景宜人，短短五天經歷了晴天、多雲以及暴雨的馬爾代夫，幾乎所有的天氣都體驗到了，雨天也是另一種美，可以休閑的躺在酒店裡麪盡情休息。餐食方面，AI是正確的決定，可以在付費餐廳享受三道式餐食，酒水飲料不限量，盡情享受度假。M餐廳偏亞洲風，印尼炒飯很好吃，蛋液和炒飯融合更加濕潤，且裏面又有蝦仁和雞肉，口感很豐富；R餐廳主要是西餐，鵝肝雞胸肉這道菜驚艷我，主廚的搭配很有巧思，鵝肝的油潤很好的中和雞胸肉的幹，我和朋友都讚不絕口；Ｔ酒吧也很完美，每杯飲料都很好喝，小食中最驚艷的是薯條，外酥內軟，撒的鹽粒恰到好處，我和朋友點了好幾次。 服務方面，我們的管家是Minha，人很不錯，一上島就熱情地介紹設施，後面我們不小心丟了租的救生衣，也是迅速幫我們找到並送到房間，非常感謝她這幾天的陪伴，還有早餐攤做班尼迪克蛋和蛋卷的工作人員，非常感謝這幾天的付出，我和我朋友每天吃，我們覺得十分美味。非常推薦這個度假島！