6 hotels in Maalhos: Best hotel deals for 2023
Discover the best hotels in Maalhos including Thundi Village & Spa, Dhooni Finolhu Guesthouse, Thundi Village & Spa, Dhonfulhafi Beach View & Spa, Maclura Residence, Maclura Residence.
1. Thundi Village & Spa
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 20 reviews
Thundi village is modern boutique beach front hotel with total of 18rooms, resturants , dive school & spa. Its located near to Hanifaru bay protected area in baa atoll maalhos island . Almost all rooms with belcony faced directly to beach & sea view.
Over expectations !
Reviewed By 706przemys_awpJust to name the main advantages of our stay: The house is new, very clean and well maintained with nice decorations and good equipment. Sea view rooms recommended! Hussain is a so caring host, really treating guests as a family members if you only let yourself to be opened and approachable. We spent a few evening on nice chatting - thank you Hussain! The crew is all nice, helpful and smiling, even thou their weak English might be a problem from time to time it'snot a big deal. Standard Maldivian breakfast but great dinners - during our 6 days stay we've been served 5 different sorts of fish - all awesome ! ( remember to order ahead) The meals in other 2 guesthouses nearby are also very tasty - we tried some Indian food on lunch there, so you've got a choice. The village is very peaceful and you feel really welcome there, meeting mostly friendly smiling people. 3 small shops with a basic assortment. From Thundi windows you can see a private uninhabited islandin a close distance, no resort no village there - ask Hussain to organize a "Robinson Crusoe" trip for you there. Great experience on the island and in the water. Another adventage of the island is a home reef - quite close to Thundi. Straight from the bikini beach you can easily reach a nice reef, partly alive with a rich sea animals life - specially if you are snorkeling on the edge of the blue deep, where the reef goes steep down. You'll see thousands of fish there, some tunas a turtle and a family of dolpins if you are lucky ... we did :) Weak swimmers watch out the current !
2. Dhooni Finolhu Guesthouse
Overall Ratings
5 based on 15 reviews
Small family-run guesthouse. 3 rooms, dining area, and terrace. Located in the UNESCO biosphere reserve Baa Maalhos is just 15 mins away from Hanifaru Bay. It had established itself as a sustainable island where guests can enjoy cultural local activities.
Most amazing holiday
Reviewed By surinah2022From the onset, the hospitality was awesome. Matheen and his staff were there for us all the way, arranging our excursions, a special wedding ceremony that was just stunning, going out of their way to make it unforgettable. The food was so tasty and affordable, making us experience the true Maldivian traditional food. Matheen thought us so much about the Maldives and especially Maalhos and the community we were part of, just an unforgettable holiday. If ever you have the chance, stay at Dhooni Finolhu Gusts house and experience the true Maldivian holiday
3. Thundi Village & Spa
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 20 reviews
Thundi village is modern boutique beach front hotel with total of 18rooms, resturants , dive school & spa. Its located near to Hanifaru bay protected area in baa atoll maalhos island . Almost all rooms with belcony faced directly to beach & sea view.
Over expectations !
Reviewed By 706przemys_awpJust to name the main advantages of our stay: The house is new, very clean and well maintained with nice decorations and good equipment. Sea view rooms recommended! Hussain is a so caring host, really treating guests as a family members if you only let yourself to be opened and approachable. We spent a few evening on nice chatting - thank you Hussain! The crew is all nice, helpful and smiling, even thou their weak English might be a problem from time to time it'snot a big deal. Standard Maldivian breakfast but great dinners - during our 6 days stay we've been served 5 different sorts of fish - all awesome ! ( remember to order ahead) The meals in other 2 guesthouses nearby are also very tasty - we tried some Indian food on lunch there, so you've got a choice. The village is very peaceful and you feel really welcome there, meeting mostly friendly smiling people. 3 small shops with a basic assortment. From Thundi windows you can see a private uninhabited islandin a close distance, no resort no village there - ask Hussain to organize a "Robinson Crusoe" trip for you there. Great experience on the island and in the water. Another adventage of the island is a home reef - quite close to Thundi. Straight from the bikini beach you can easily reach a nice reef, partly alive with a rich sea animals life - specially if you are snorkeling on the edge of the blue deep, where the reef goes steep down. You'll see thousands of fish there, some tunas a turtle and a family of dolpins if you are lucky ... we did :) Weak swimmers watch out the current !
4. Dhonfulhafi Beach View & Spa
Overall Ratings
5 based on 11 reviews
We present to your attention a mini-hotel in the Maldives with views of the ocean and palm beach. We are located on Baa Atoll Maalhos Island in the immediate vicinity of the Hanifaru Bay UNESCO Biosphere Reserve, which you can also visit, in our hotel there are 2 floors and 14 rooms of different price categories and capacities: standard, family and VIP, a restaurant and cafe, soon It is planned to open a spa and a small pool. The rooms have everything you need for a comfortable stay: double and single beds, beds for children, wardrobe, safe, air conditioning, rain shower, bath or Jacuzzi, depending on the type of room. We provide guests with a meeting at the central airport and a subsequent transfer, as well as excursions and entertainment (a visit to a sand spit in the middle of the ocean, a picnic on a desert island, a visit to another local island or one of the resort islands, fishing, octopus hunting, dolphin cruise, diving and of course swimming with Manta Ray. You can also do snorkeling on a home reef where you can watch turtles of stingrays and all kinds of tropical fish
Fantastic experience!
Reviewed By TremoctopusThe place is right on the beach, with a great house reef just in front. The room we had was with a nice sea view, large bed and very large and comfortable bathroom. Hanif, the owner, was an exquisite guest, always available to help and provide advice on everything. The restaurant is fantastic, with excellent local recipes. Great diving and snorkelling possibilities nearby!
5. Maclura Residence
Overall Ratings
5 based on 10 reviews
Maclura Residence is a small and refined homely guest house, nestled in local community of Baa Maalhos. Just a few minutes from beach, this island house at UNESCO Biosphere Reserve Baa Atoll is ideal for your next adventurous vacation.
jungle side guesthouse on a hospitable island
Reviewed By Barnabas HCommunication was smooth with the guesthouse from the beginning, i.e. the time we contacted the Aboo on WhatsApp, he helped us with all the questions we had in advance and booked us the flight from/to Malé to/from Dharavandhoo. Aboo was flexible: when we told him we had a lot MVR and therefore, wanted to pay for the accommodation and the transport in MVR instead USD, he had no problem with it. In B.Maalhos it was Matheen who was our host. Shipon from his team came to pick us up at the airport and accompanied us to the airport on the way back, too. We were transferred in a small speed boat between Daravandhoo and B.Maalhos. The location of the guesthouse is great, it’s right next to the jungle of the island and is like 50 m from the beach. In addition, the part of the bikini beach of the island where we usually stayed (on the eastern side of the island) is also really close, around only a 150 m walk from the guesthouse. The guesthouse provided us with sunbeds along with an umbrella on the beach. When one of the snorkeling masks we brought from home turned out be too big, the guesthouse rented us snorkeling mask free of charge. The home reef of the island is really amazing, one can easily swim to the reef slope through a channel at the bikini beach and then just drift with the current all the way to the northern side of the island enjoying the view on the way – the underwater life is very abundant along the reef, we saw a lot of colorful fish. The guesthouse provides unlimited bottled water; tea filters, instant coffee and a water heater are also available. The guesthouse provided us breakfast in Waataru Café, which is next to the harbor and around a 5-minute walk from the guesthouse. Breakfast was really abundant; in addition to sausage and omelet, it always included Maldivian specialties, namely mas huni and roshi – as well as fresh fruit juice, fruit and coffee. When we asked the staff to serve the breakfast for one of us with papadum (?) (we found out that this food was made from gluten free flour and was widely available in the Maldives) instead of roshi – the person in question needs to keep a gluten free diet – the staff gladly responded to our request. When we turn to Matheen with a special request, namely that we wanted to have miruhulee boava, a spicy Maldivian dish made from octopus tentacles for dinner and join the chef while he or she is cooking the food in his or her home, Matheen readily responded to our request and invited us to his own home. It was Matheen’s daughter, Rafaa and his wife who cooked the dinner, we learnt about the ingredients and how to prepare the octopus and make roshi from them and had an exciting conversation about each other’s cuisine, culture and country. We ate the food together with Matheen’s four children and one of their cousins, it was really intimate and authentic, we followed them and ate in the Maldivian way, i.e. with hands. The excursions organized by Matheen and his team are at a reasonable price. We went to two excursions to watch turtles, sharks and mantas as well as to see a coral garden. On the first excursion, we were taken to snorkel to the home reef a nearby inhabited island and that of a close resort island where saw several turtles, sharks and even an eagle ray and a moral eel along with a heaps of colorful fish, it’s been an amazing experience. Matheen was completely honest with us when it came to what to expect on the excursions, e.g. he told us in advance that the corals are completely dead in the coral garden due to the coral bleaching that happened in the Maldives in 2016 – N.B. it’s been interesting to see the forms of the corals even if they were dead – and that the chances for seeing mantas were pretty low as the season ended a month before. When despite all his efforts, finally we didn’t see any mantas on our second excursion, he even gave us a discount. During the excursions we were provided soft drinks and snacks, namely coconut and apple pieces, which we liked a lot as this way we could reenergize ourselves. People on the island were really hospitable and friendly towards us, e.g. they greeted us in the street in advance and happily engaged in conversation with us when we went to the jetty to watch the sunset from there. When we walked around on the island and the local ladies were preparing some food in the yards of their houses or outside in the street, they always called us closer or even in and showed us how they were making the local snacks and sweets (or doing a barbecue), which, of course, we could taste, too. Another example of the hospitability of the locals is that when one day we stopped to stare at people who were collecting coconuts from a palm tree, they chopped off the top of two coconuts, gave them two us and invited us for a drink this way. Young people were especially open towards us, one of them even invited us into yard of the house of her family where we took a seat and had a chat and were offered some special local fruit. It is notable that there are dust bins in use in the street on the island and the local ladies clean the public areas of the island together twice a week. The restaurant where we usually had dinner is called Pink Rose and is close to the harbor. The place has a nice atmosphere, the staff in attentive, food is tasty and is at reasonable price. At the time of our stay, there were around five shops operating on the island; this is where we bought fruits, snacks, dairy products, etc. for ourselves.
6. Maclura Residence
Overall Ratings
5 based on 10 reviews
Maclura Residence is a small and refined homely guest house, nestled in local community of Baa Maalhos. Just a few minutes from beach, this island house at UNESCO Biosphere Reserve Baa Atoll is ideal for your next adventurous vacation.
jungle side guesthouse on a hospitable island
Reviewed By Barnabas HCommunication was smooth with the guesthouse from the beginning, i.e. the time we contacted the Aboo on WhatsApp, he helped us with all the questions we had in advance and booked us the flight from/to Malé to/from Dharavandhoo. Aboo was flexible: when we told him we had a lot MVR and therefore, wanted to pay for the accommodation and the transport in MVR instead USD, he had no problem with it. In B.Maalhos it was Matheen who was our host. Shipon from his team came to pick us up at the airport and accompanied us to the airport on the way back, too. We were transferred in a small speed boat between Daravandhoo and B.Maalhos. The location of the guesthouse is great, it’s right next to the jungle of the island and is like 50 m from the beach. In addition, the part of the bikini beach of the island where we usually stayed (on the eastern side of the island) is also really close, around only a 150 m walk from the guesthouse. The guesthouse provided us with sunbeds along with an umbrella on the beach. When one of the snorkeling masks we brought from home turned out be too big, the guesthouse rented us snorkeling mask free of charge. The home reef of the island is really amazing, one can easily swim to the reef slope through a channel at the bikini beach and then just drift with the current all the way to the northern side of the island enjoying the view on the way – the underwater life is very abundant along the reef, we saw a lot of colorful fish. The guesthouse provides unlimited bottled water; tea filters, instant coffee and a water heater are also available. The guesthouse provided us breakfast in Waataru Café, which is next to the harbor and around a 5-minute walk from the guesthouse. Breakfast was really abundant; in addition to sausage and omelet, it always included Maldivian specialties, namely mas huni and roshi – as well as fresh fruit juice, fruit and coffee. When we asked the staff to serve the breakfast for one of us with papadum (?) (we found out that this food was made from gluten free flour and was widely available in the Maldives) instead of roshi – the person in question needs to keep a gluten free diet – the staff gladly responded to our request. When we turn to Matheen with a special request, namely that we wanted to have miruhulee boava, a spicy Maldivian dish made from octopus tentacles for dinner and join the chef while he or she is cooking the food in his or her home, Matheen readily responded to our request and invited us to his own home. It was Matheen’s daughter, Rafaa and his wife who cooked the dinner, we learnt about the ingredients and how to prepare the octopus and make roshi from them and had an exciting conversation about each other’s cuisine, culture and country. We ate the food together with Matheen’s four children and one of their cousins, it was really intimate and authentic, we followed them and ate in the Maldivian way, i.e. with hands. The excursions organized by Matheen and his team are at a reasonable price. We went to two excursions to watch turtles, sharks and mantas as well as to see a coral garden. On the first excursion, we were taken to snorkel to the home reef a nearby inhabited island and that of a close resort island where saw several turtles, sharks and even an eagle ray and a moral eel along with a heaps of colorful fish, it’s been an amazing experience. Matheen was completely honest with us when it came to what to expect on the excursions, e.g. he told us in advance that the corals are completely dead in the coral garden due to the coral bleaching that happened in the Maldives in 2016 – N.B. it’s been interesting to see the forms of the corals even if they were dead – and that the chances for seeing mantas were pretty low as the season ended a month before. When despite all his efforts, finally we didn’t see any mantas on our second excursion, he even gave us a discount. During the excursions we were provided soft drinks and snacks, namely coconut and apple pieces, which we liked a lot as this way we could reenergize ourselves. People on the island were really hospitable and friendly towards us, e.g. they greeted us in the street in advance and happily engaged in conversation with us when we went to the jetty to watch the sunset from there. When we walked around on the island and the local ladies were preparing some food in the yards of their houses or outside in the street, they always called us closer or even in and showed us how they were making the local snacks and sweets (or doing a barbecue), which, of course, we could taste, too. Another example of the hospitability of the locals is that when one day we stopped to stare at people who were collecting coconuts from a palm tree, they chopped off the top of two coconuts, gave them two us and invited us for a drink this way. Young people were especially open towards us, one of them even invited us into yard of the house of her family where we took a seat and had a chat and were offered some special local fruit. It is notable that there are dust bins in use in the street on the island and the local ladies clean the public areas of the island together twice a week. The restaurant where we usually had dinner is called Pink Rose and is close to the harbor. The place has a nice atmosphere, the staff in attentive, food is tasty and is at reasonable price. At the time of our stay, there were around five shops operating on the island; this is where we bought fruits, snacks, dairy products, etc. for ourselves.
