Ellaidhoo Maldives by Cinnamon

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Maldives

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  5.6 out of 6
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Eva Maria Theresia Kroth Grauvogl

Travelled in: October 2024, Rated on 05.11.2024, Booked with Aqua Active Agency
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Angelika Maria Kaufmann

Travelled in: October 2024, Rated on 16.10.2024, Booked with Aqua Active Agency
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Our room was only separated from the next room by a simple, leaky wooden door, the outside bathrooms were open at the ceiling and thus connected to each other. Every noise from the next room was loud and clearly audible - an imposition!
The transfer was inflexible. We were woken up at 4am and taken to Male at 5am with 30 people in the speedboat, although we asked several times for a later transfer as we didn't have to be in Male until 12.30pm.

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Per Donath

Travelled in: July 2024, Rated on 05.08.2024, Booked with Aqua Active Agency
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Viktor Sabot

Travelled in: July 2024, Rated on 09.07.2024, Booked with Aqua Active Agency
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Patrick und Nicole

Travelled in: May 2024, Rated on 26.06.2024, Booked with WeDive
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In short, the Ellaidhoo resort is simply great.

The rooms are beautiful, neat and clean, cleaned twice a day.

The selection of food and drinks is huge, each beautifully decorated and fine plates. In one week you can hardly try everything you would like to have

The service is very polite and open-minded. The staff remember their guests and respond to their wishes and preferences.

The dive center is beautifully designed and well maintained, the base staff are knowledgeable and helpful. We particularly liked the fact that you can go diving on your own and at any time.

The house reef did not disappoint, there was a lot to see, from small animals to big fish (sharks, rays, turtles, etc.).
A small minus point, the sharks are fed with fish waste every evening by the hotel

All in all, an enchanting little island that is worth every visit for divers and vacationers, highly recommended.

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Guido Rudolph

Travelled in: May 2024, Rated on 27.05.2024, Booked with Aqua Active Agency
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I would categorize the resort at 3.5 stars. The buffet restaurant is really excellent, I have rarely had such good (Asian) food. I was particularly impressed by the sustainability concept on the island - as little plastic as possible, own vegetable garden, etc.

Negative points:
- The lounger pads were always exposed to the rain and looked accordingly
- The spa was at least 30% too expensive. It was correspondingly empty and the girls were correspondingly bored ????

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A. / R.

Travelled in: November 2023, Rated on 03.01.2024, Booked with tourmare
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Chris

Travelled in: October 2023, Rated on 07.11.2023, Booked with WiroDive
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Corinne

Travelled in: October 2023, Rated on 06.11.2023, Booked with Dive & Travel
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Thomas

Travelled in: October 2023, Rated on 03.11.2023, Booked with WiroDive
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Top island, super organized dive centre.
Very good food with a wide selection.
Gladly again.

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Felix

Travelled in: October 2023, Rated on 02.11.2023, Booked with WiroDive
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Matthias

Travelled in: October 2023, Rated on 02.11.2023, Booked with WiroDive
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The island offers everything a diver's heart desires. Room, food and service are just "perfect". The dive center Dive and Sail of Alfons Straub is one of the best organized dive centers I have seen so far. And I have already seen many dive centers. Again I have to say: Service, organization and friendliness of the staff is just indescribably good. The house reef is so great that you can only dive there. There is a lot to see at the reef, just great. But also the boat trips to the dive sites are highly recommended, because it is again something completely different.

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Daniel

Travelled in: October 2023, Rated on 02.11.2023, Booked with WiroDive
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Bettina und Jochem

Travelled in: October 2023, Rated on 02.11.2023, Booked with WiroDive
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We were very satisfied with the resort.

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Michele und Marcel

Travelled in: October 2023, Rated on 31.10.2023, Booked with Dive & Travel
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Marco und Tauchfreunde

Travelled in: October 2023, Rated on 30.10.2023, Booked with WeDive
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Claudia und Gerhard

Travelled in: September 2023, Rated on 09.10.2023, Booked with WeDive
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Brigitte Sylvia Leinich

Travelled in: May 2023, Rated on 20.05.2023, Booked with Aqua Active Agency
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The organization in the reception was probably a little chaotic. We did not get the booked rooms and therefore had to move after 2 days. The key cards did not always work either. Unfortunately, we did not get rooms with twin beds. Apparently these are not available. There would be a need for improvement here. But the staff was very friendly and helpful.

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Manuela Wanner

Travelled in: March 2023, Rated on 11.04.2023, Booked with WeDive
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Already while snorkeling you can see rays, turtles etc. simply fantastic!

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Jaime und Rahel

Travelled in: February 2023, Rated on 02.04.2023, Booked with Dive and Travel
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Schwab Elisabeth

Travelled in: March 2023, Rated on 21.03.2023, Booked with Tropical Seas
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Rooms have nice facilities, food and service perfect. The dive center and dive sites were not needed. The reef is in very nice condition, were only snorkeling

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Glanzer Claudia

Travelled in: March 2023, Rated on 20.03.2023, Booked with Tropical Seas
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Simone Held

Travelled in: February 2023, Rated on 13.03.2023, Booked with Reisecenter Federsee
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Christian und Jan

Travelled in: December 2022, Rated on 13.01.2023, Booked with WeDive
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Jan and I were at the beginning of December 2022 in Ellaidhoo and were generally very satisfied.
Have abslviert there the Advanced.
Excellent diver hotel with steep wall reef all around in which often like-minded people are encountered. Boat trips are almost not necessary. We saw huge shark swarms of 10 and more sharks during the dives in the house reef. Visibility was basically ok, but not picture perfect. We were a bit unlucky with the weather. 4 out of 8 days were completely rained out. But this is not the fault of the hotel.
However, if you are looking for absolute streetcar beaches, you should better look around in Reethi Beach.
For diving, the hotel, respectively its house reefs are absolutely great, but unfortunately not really cheap. We felt that the prices were very high!
The food was really quite ok.
Dive center management speaks only English, no German, Räterromanisch, French,...

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M u. S

Travelled in: November 2022, Rated on 29.11.2022, Booked with WeDive
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November is not the best season for diving. The visibility was not very good.
The dive sites themselves, however, were great, as well as the house reef.

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Christina und Urs

Travelled in: November 2022, Rated on 29.11.2022, Booked with WeDive
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An Eco Resort where the price-performance ratio is right. Dive center very well organized with a lot of personal responsibility, great house reef, also for snorkeling, fishy spots, but you should be used to current. Food very versatile and varied, bungalows clean and spacious. Good to know: What is not in the package (for example, with VP it is soft drinks and alcohol) is expensive.

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Susanne und Bernhard

Travelled in: September 2022, Rated on 23.10.2022, Booked with WeDive
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Christian und Anita

Travelled in: September 2022, Rated on 21.10.2022, Booked with WeDive
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Danny

Travelled in: September 2022, Rated on 17.10.2022, Booked with Diving World
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Marco

Travelled in: September 2022, Rated on 11.10.2022, Booked with Diving World
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Angela und Roger

Travelled in: May 2022, Rated on 11.06.2022, Booked with WeDive
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We were glad about the water bungalow, there it was quieter. For our taste it has too many bungalows.... Even behind the kitchen . We would not have wanted to be there. Otherwise everything was good. There are enough dive sites, the house reef is beautiful.

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Michèle und Karin

Travelled in: May 2022, Rated on 24.05.2022, Booked with WeDive
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probably the ugliest island in the whole Maldives, someone said. True whs. also. I would describe it as simple but good: just continuous breakwaters, pipes partly laid above ground and rather designed towards mass tourism. That is, bungalows very close to each other, in the 'normal' restaurant you sit very close together. We were there in May / low season, so that was not such an issue.
Food has canteen character but was always tasty and varied.
From the diving you have to like current, because the island is located on an outer channel. But there are many sharks.
Dive guides were all super nice with one exception. And we were thrilled by the boat crew; super nice and helpful.
The island is visited mainly by Germans, then some Brits and the rest is a mixture from all over the world. We met a lot of great people. All relaxed and nice.

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Bastiaan

Travelled in: April 2022, Rated on 07.05.2022, Booked with Diving World
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Second time on this island and again a wonderful vacation. The beach bungalows are fantastic rooms. Modern, beautiful, spacious, good WiFi in the room.
Small manageable island. Diving school is good. Friendly people, beautiful diving, lots of marine life.
For us a must.

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Manfred

Travelled in: March 2022, Rated on 09.04.2022, Booked with WeDive
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a great overall concept was the basis for this wonderful vacation and the desire to come back here again

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Elsbeth

Travelled in: March 2022, Rated on 08.04.2022, Booked with Diving World
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Peter

Travelled in: March 2022, Rated on 07.04.2022, Booked with WeDive
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Good mix of visitors. Very good cuisine (buffet). Friendly, courteous people. Perfectly organized dive center, but it has its price.

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Thomas

Travelled in: March 2022, Rated on 07.04.2022, Booked with WeDive
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Robert

Travelled in: February 2022, Rated on 04.04.2022, Booked with Diving World
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Christian

Travelled in: February 2022, Rated on 17.02.2022, Booked with Tropical Seas
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Nice and clean resort, good food, friendly staff - perfect for divers!

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Torsten Friedrich Wilhelm Ziegler

Travelled in: December 2021, Rated on 28.12.2021, Booked with Aqua Active Agency
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A great house reef and a great island!
Everything you need and more!

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Marc Marzin

Travelled in: September 2021, Rated on 27.10.2021, Booked with Reisecenter Federsee
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Great house reef. Support by the dive center very good, except for the base leader. Excursions well organized, but with the great house reef not absolutely necessary! Support on the island very good. Food top!

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Sven

Travelled in: October 2021, Rated on 25.10.2021, Booked with Tropical Seas
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Tanja

Travelled in: October 2021, Rated on 18.10.2021, Booked with Tropical Seas
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The service was very attentive and friendly and the food varied and mega delicious. The rooms were always clean and in top condition. On the last evening we got as a surprise a whole mackerel for dinner. Mega tasty. There are many little things that make this hotel special.

A staircase from the water bungalow into the sea would still be the icing on the cake but that is whining at a very high level.

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Martina Laudan

Travelled in: September 2021, Rated on 29.09.2021, Booked with Aqua Active Agency
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It was a great vacation. Shoes off when arriving - shoes on when leaving. Super hygiene concept. The food was great, a little too spicy for kids. Staff were very accommodating, knew our names quickly. We had great weather. The reef was beautiful, unfortunately sometimes a little unpredictable current. This was not mentioned in the description so, also not that the sharks are fed. Diving with the many sharks was already special, came from the description also not so clear rüber. (or I have read over it...) We really liked it.

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Kilian und Silvia

Travelled in: May 2021, Rated on 15.06.2021, Booked with WeDive
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The house reef is really something of the best where we have seen.
(really top and recommended)


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Nina und Patchaya

Travelled in: January 2021, Rated on 12.02.2021, Booked with WeDive
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Christoph Urban

Travelled in: January 2021, Rated on 03.02.2021, Booked with Tu.R
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Very nice resort. But the beer is way too expensive (10 dollars!).

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Katrin und Detlef

Travelled in: December 2020, Rated on 12.01.2021, Booked with tourmare
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We had a relaxing week on the island, with a great house reef. We were thrilled by the spa, definitely go there! Highly recommended is the Balinese massage, we have taken a package. Also in times of Corona we felt safe and in good hands.

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