Fihalhohi Maldives

A 4-star resort, as Google Hotels and Tripadvisor class it, with 150 rooms on Fihalhohi, an island in South Malé Atoll with nothing else on it. The sustainability page names its parent company as Fehi Moorthi, «green» in Dhivehi, and says the resort follows Travelife standards.

The official calendar marks Fiha’s 44th anniversary on 20 October, and in 2017 a guest already put it at 35 years old, which dates the opening to 1982. Booking.com and its Facebook page still call it Fihalhohi Island Resort, and guests say you can walk round the island in 20 minutes.

The rooms page lists 5 types: 12 Water Villas of 37 m² over the lagoon, 22 Premium Beach rooms of 27 m² on the north beach, 24 Deluxe Superior rooms of 28 m² in the garden, and the Deluxe Beach and Deluxe Sky rooms of 27 m², on the ground and first floors of 2-storey buildings, 46 of each according to the home page. Tripadvisor gives the same total of 150.

All have air conditioning, a ceiling fan, a minibar, a safe and a kettle. There is a bathtub in the Water Villas, the Deluxe Beach and the Deluxe Sky rooms; a TV in the Water Villas, Premium Beach and Deluxe Superior rooms; and a coffee machine only in the Premium Beach rooms. Guests describe the rooms as spacious and clean; some have been renovated, and at the end of January 2026 not all had been.

In South Malé Atoll, 45 minutes by speedboat from Velana airport: the official site says 28 km, Tripadvisor 24.9 miles, about 40 km. The nearest island is Rannalhi, 3 km away, and excursions go to the inhabited island of Guraidhoo.

It is a green, quiet island, with hammocks and swings among the palms; in the evening there is karaoke, a film or a DJ at Fisherman’s Bar. A guest in January 2026 writes that with about 400 people on the island everyone still finds their own peace.

By speedboat from Velana airport, in about 45 minutes. The shared transfer costs $180 per adult and $90 per child aged 2 to 14, return, taxes included, and children under 2 travel free, according to the official FAQ; the wait at the airport runs from 30 to 60 minutes.

A private transfer is arranged through reservations, and Booking.com gives $1,100 return for up to 4 people. Flight details are due 72 hours ahead; guests time the crossing at 30 to 60 minutes.

No: Fihalhohi is an island with no roads, and Booking.com notes that it can be reached by speedboat only. No source describes any parking, and guests say they go barefoot everywhere, even to the restaurant.

From the beach, which runs right round the island apart from 2 short stretches where boats moor, a guest at the end of January 2026 reports; the Water Villas have direct access to the lagoon.

There are bits of broken coral along the shore, and several guests, in January and September 2026, recommend reef shoes. The entry is long and shallow, with the tide rising from 9am to midday, a guest wrote in September 2025.

Yes: Fiha Dive’s dive site map starts with the north and south house reefs. A guided snorkel on the house reef costs $20 for 2 hours, a night snorkel with a torch $35, according to the activities price list.

Between January and September 2026 guests write differently about the coral: some describe it as largely dead, one describes reefs that are recovering, with branching and fan corals, and fish, turtles and sharks around them; for a family in September 2026 the snorkelling is world-class. Mask, snorkel and fins can be hired for $13 a day or $65 for 6 days.

None. The official facilities and room pages list no pool, guests remarked on its absence in 2017, 2023 and 2024, and no room has a private pool.

You swim in the lagoon that rings the island and on the reef. A guest in 2024 explains that this is why dive training takes place in the sea itself, where the water is warm.

Fihalhohi has no pool, so there are no hours or temperatures to give. At Christmas 2025, says one couple who were there, the sea was warm and the air 29 to 30 °C.

According to the dining page: Palm Grove, the only restaurant, a buffet of international and Maldivian cooking, with breakfast from 7 to 9am, lunch from noon to 2pm and dinner from 7 to 9pm, themed dinners and a Maldivian night on Fridays. Blue Lagoon Bar, by the water, serves an à la carte menu from 8.30am to midnight, and Fisherman’s Bar has cocktails, shakes and shisha until the same hour.

The Beach Hut, on the north beach, sells beer, juice and soft drinks from 10am to 6pm. The private dining menu offers dinner on the beach: lobster at $100 a person, a seafood platter at $110, a champagne breakfast at $150 a couple, plus service and GST. Guests praise the variety of the buffet and its Italian and Indian dishes.

On the official booking engine, read on 7 October 2026 for 10 January 2027, there were 2 rates: buffet breakfast and all-inclusive, which cost $160 more a night for 2 in every room, $635 against $475 in a Deluxe Beach room and $983 against $823 in a Water Villa, taxes included.

According to the all-inclusive page the plan covers buffet meals at Palm Grove, afternoon snacks at Blue Lagoon Bar and a choice of cocktails, mocktails, wines and soft drinks; the Beach Hut is not part of it. Guests in 2025 and 2026 recommend it, and a review from August 2026 also mentions half board, which the engine did not show for that night.

Huvandhumaa Spa, the «jasmine spa», sits in a garden and has 5 treatment rooms, according to the facilities page; the menu speaks of a quiet, private spa bungalow. It offers Asian massage, Ayurvedic treatments, facials and body treatments, a range for men and one for children.

A sauna and a jacuzzi appear in the menu’s couples’ packages, such as Couple Connect, 120 minutes for $263 with a massage, a face massage and a bubble bath, and Booking.com lists both among the facilities. The site gives no size for the spa and does not mention a steam room.

Treatments are paid for separately, plus a 10% service charge and 17% GST, and the spa takes walk-ins when it has room, according to the spa menu. No official page publishes a day pass for anyone not staying on the island.

Day packages do exist: a group of visitors bought one in August 2026, and they describe day visitors having their own loungers and their own dining area, apart from guests staying on the island. The site does not present the package or say whether it includes the spa.

From 9am to 6pm every day, according to the 2025 spa menu, which advises booking ahead. Arrive 15 minutes early for the health form, as a late start shortens the treatment; cancelling with less than 4 hours’ notice costs 50%, and a no-show pays in full.

From the spa menu, prices plus a 10% service charge and 17% GST: the 90-minute signature massage with warm jasmine oil at $130, Swedish and Balinese massages of 50 minutes at $90, a 60-minute 4-hand massage at $145, and Ayurvedic shirodhara of 90 minutes at $135, or $390 for 3 sessions.

For couples, Couple Chocolate Delight lasts 135 minutes and costs $290, and Swept Away 175 minutes and $335, with a sauna, a scrub and a jacuzzi with 2 glasses of wine. A 50-minute private yoga class costs $35, and children aged 5 to 12 have a 45-minute massage at $40.

Yes, within limits. Under the official terms children may stay in a Water Villa only if a waiver is signed on arrival, and they are not allowed in the Deluxe Sky rooms; the Premium Beach, Deluxe Superior and Deluxe Beach rooms sleep 2 adults and 2 children. Booking.com gives a free cot under 2, an extra bed at $82 a night and adult rates from 12.

The site presents no kids’ club. There is the Bubblemaker, a first go with scuba gear down to 2 metres for children aged 8 and 9, at $110, the spa’s children’s corner for ages 5 to 12, and 25% off diving under 12. A family in September 2026 loved the reef.

According to the facilities page: 24-hour reception, in-room dining, laundry, free Wi-Fi, a boutique, a photographer, a medical clinic, a gym and free land sports, with badminton, table tennis, billiards, table football and board games. Then the PADI 5-Star dive school, the water sports centre and the spa.

On the water you can hire a catamaran, canoe, paddleboard, windsurf or kitesurf, and go out on a jet ski, a banana boat, a flyboard or a parasail, according to the price list: jet skis start at $50 for 15 minutes. There is an organic garden, which a guest in January 2026 recommends seeing on the free Chef’s Garden tour. Pets are not allowed, says Booking.com.

The official offers page, read on 3 October 2026, had one: up to 25% off stays of 7 nights or more, with early check-in if the room is ready, bookable only by writing to reservations. The same page gives it as valid until 31 October and, further down, until 31 July 2026.

Booking on the official site lets you pay later, with a best-rate guarantee and flexible cancellation, as the home page says. Booking.com describes a honeymoon package, within 6 months of the wedding, with a bottle of sparkling wine, a basket of fruit and a cake.

The official site publishes no wedding packages, prices or capacities. The facilities page lists a renewal of vows, «simple or special», and a photographer, and Booking.com the honeymoon package.

In December 2025 a guest proposed during a sunset dinner, under an arch of flowers and candles the resort had set up; other couples describe private dinners on the beach.

Yes, and it is compulsory, but the official sources give 2 prices: the FAQ asks $250 for adults from 15 and $125 for children aged 2 to 14, drinks excluded, the terms $200 and $100, service and GST included. Booking.com gives $250 and $125, with adults from 12. For Christmas Eve the FAQ asks $170 and $85, the terms $160 and $80.

The events calendar promises fireworks, live music and a countdown on the beach, and on Christmas Eve gala dinners, carols and Father Christmas. A guest in January 2026 found the New Year’s Eve dinner spectacular.

No: no official source mentions golf. The island’s activities are the sea, diving, water sports, dhoni excursions and land sports, from badminton to billiards.

All year apart from one break: the official booking engine, read on 7 October 2026, gives the resort as closed on the nights of 4 November, 20 November and 18 December 2026, and on Google Hotels no night from 4 November to 18 December had a price. Bookings resume from 19 December.

Google also showed no prices from 22 to 26 October and from 2 to 4 January 2027, and for 23 October the engine showed the rooms as unavailable. The manta season runs from May to November, according to Fiha Dive’s FAQ; a couple who were there at Christmas 2025 had fine weather.

Google Hotels, read on 6 October 2026, for 2 adults and one night, taxes and fees included: $267 on 7 October 2026, $516 on 18 October, $585 on 27 October, $224 on 2 November, $545 on 24 December, $635 on 25 December, $366 on 10 January 2027 and $288 on 16 January 2027.

In the 6 October 2026 reading, 64 of 117 individual nights had a price, from $224 to $635; those figures describe separately searched nights, with no room or meal plan named. The $224 on 2 November is a historical individual-night observation. Read on 12 October, the lowest bookable runs start at $277 for one night for 2, from 25 January 2027. For 7 October Booking.com asked $267 for a Deluxe Sky room and Agoda $224. On the official engine, read on 7 October, a Deluxe Beach room with breakfast cost $335 on 19 December and $475 on 10 January, taxes included. From 4 November to 18 December there was no price at all, and the speedboat is extra.

On 6 October 2026 Google showed 4.5/5 from 628 ratings and Trip.com 4.4/5 from 50; on 3 October Tripadvisor gave 4.3/5 from 2,077 and Booking.com 8.9/10 from 33, with location at 9.5, cleanliness at 9.3, value for money at 8.4 and Wi-Fi at 5.

Across the 442 Google reviews with text, from 2014 to September 2026, 92% of those who mention the location speak well of it, 74% of the staff and services, 67% of the rooms. The reef, the green island, the varied food and the kind staff come up again and again. Many guests find the bill fair for the Maldives, especially on all-inclusive; reviews also mention the prices of drinks, excursions and diving, with a 10% service charge and 17% GST added. The rooms are simple and only partly renovated.

Official price lists for the spa, excursions, diving, water sports and private dining add a 10% service charge and 17% GST, about 29% in all. Green Tax is $12 per person per night from the age of 2, under the terms; Booking.com says it is already in the price for adults, and a guest in October 2025 paid it on arrival.

Rates on the official engine and on the Google Hotels calendar include taxes and fees. The speedboat, the compulsory dinners on 24 and 31 December and a late check-out are extra: one guest in October 2025 was asked $50 for 2 hours.

Check-in from 2pm and check-out by noon, according to the rooms page and the terms; early arrival and late departure depend on availability and may be charged. An adult of at least 18 must check in with the card used to book, and extras can be paid in dollars, euros, sterling or Swiss francs, or by Visa, Mastercard and AMEX; damaged notes, or notes printed before 2003, are refused.