Ifuru Island Maldives

Social House serves buffets at breakfast and lunch and an à la carte set menu at dinner. The Waterfront serves what the resort calls New World cooking, Palm Grill grilled dishes and Pool Side Pizza pizza. Hubba Hubba is the bar by the pool, with its music and social life. Kai, the Japanese teppanyaki counter, costs US$45 a person plus 10% service and 17% tax, for Premium All Inclusive guests too.

Premium All Inclusive covers set menus and listed drinks; a dish or a bottle outside them is charged. Guests book the Waterfront, the table they name most, and Palm Grill through their buddy; one, in March 2025, found the Waterfront always full.

Xanadu has 8 treatment rooms, a sauna, a steam room, a plunge pool, outdoor showers, an ice bath and a salon. Its menu runs to massages, facials, Ayurvedic rituals and treatments for children. The sauna, the steam room and the plunge pool come with particular packages; a room rate alone does not open them.

On Google Hotels, read on 6 October 2026 for 2 adults and one night, the figure was US$314 for 7 October 2026, US$359 for 15 November 2026 and US$708 for 24 December 2026. Google names neither the room nor the meals, leaves out both legs of the flight from Malé and gives no sign of whether taxes and fees are inside. These are single nights as the calendar showed them, neither the season’s lowest nor a room held for you; sellers’ offers and the resort’s advertised discounts are other prices again.

A beach resort in Raa Atoll on an island with its own airstrip: the domestic flight from Malé lands where you are staying (terms). The homepage gives 147 suites and villas, sold under 10 names: 7 categories of room and 3 groups of those rooms booked together, the Family 4 Bedroom Nest and the 20 and 32 Bedroom Island Reserves, which add nothing to the 147 (press page). Nothing here stands over the water, guests note (June and October 2024).

On Google, 4.4 out of 5 from 203 ratings on 6 October 2026; we read the 153 reviews with text, from 16 October 2023 to 4 October 2026. The “buddy” comes first: the member of staff assigned to each guest on arrival, who books restaurants and excursions and stays the point of contact throughout. Then housekeeping twice a day, the beach at sunset and, among the restaurants, the Waterfront. Premium All Inclusive leaves some things out, from the supplement at Kai to the excursions, and there is music by the pool: anyone who wants only quiet will be happier elsewhere.

Yes, on the beach: guests describe ceremonies and renewals of vows from February 2024 to September 2026. The resort’s wedding page offers the ceremony as a benefit of at least 7 Premium All Inclusive nights between 1 May and 30 September 2026; that window had closed when we read it on 6 October, and the homepage still carries the May to September 2025 edition. For later dates the page gives no price and makes no such offer, and it says nothing on the ceremony’s legal force.

One for everybody and private ones in 2 categories. The shared pool has Hubba Hubba beside it, the bar with the music (restaurants and bars, Hubba Hubba). A private pool comes with the Sunset Beach Villa with Pool and the Sunset Two Bedroom Villa with Pool; no other category has one in its name. The resort gives neither the size of the shared pool nor whether it is heated.

Treatments at Xanadu are paid for. The menu lists them one by one and in packages, puts the sauna or steam room and the plunge pool inside certain packages, and adds a charge per guest for a massage in the villa. Xanadu shows no day pass and no terms for visitors from outside the resort, and nothing the resort publishes puts spa time inside Premium All Inclusive.

A Sky Suite has a balcony or terrace; a Beach Suite or a Beach Villa has the beach at the door. The family versions join rooms together, and the Two Bedroom Villa with Pool has 2 bedrooms, a living room and a pool (the resort’s overview, the Sky Suite page). For quiet, a guest in December 2025 recommends the detached beach villas, which stand a little apart.

The 4, 20 and 32 bedroom formats are those same rooms booked together; the page for the 32 describes “five buildings of four”, which makes 20. The room pages print neither floor areas nor the number of rooms in each category.

In the last months of 2023. The resort’s press page carries the opening announcement, dated 21 September 2023, and a December 2025 article celebrating the second anniversary on 1 December. The 2 point to different days, and the resort names no single date for its first guests. It publishes no calendar of annual closures.

In Raa Atoll, on an island with its own airstrip (terms). You arrive by domestic flight or by seaplane: the site gives 30 minutes for the seaplane, waits not counted, and no time for the domestic flight, which guests put at 40 to 70 minutes (November 2025, February 2026).

Guests from February 2024 to April 2026 count 3 or 4 flights a day at most and hardly hear them; one, in November 2024, found the airstrip very noisy. The louder neighbour is the music from Hubba Hubba, until 11pm or midnight by one account of November 2025. Nobody has measured noise room by room.

The resort’s festive terms cover 24 December to 10 January (terms): a 30% non-refundable deposit within 14 days, and the balance 60 days before arrival. The resort has published neither the price nor the menu of a compulsory dinner on 31 December 2026, and nothing says a gala dinner is part of the festive rate.

No. Ifuru is reached by domestic flight or seaplane from Velana airport in Malé; the resort’s terms cover those flights and the journey details it collects, and mention no car park, no price for one and no reserved space at Velana.

From a Beach Suite or Villa you walk out onto the sand; the Sky Suites are on the upper floor (the resort’s overview). The beach runs for 1 km, a visitor wrote after one night there in February 2024. A guest who stayed in July and August, writing in September 2026, places the beach on the south-west side and met strong wind there; another, in July 2026, found waves that made swimming hard. The way in is sand by the beach bar and broken coral and rock in front of some villas: 4 guests between March 2025 and July 2026 advise water shoes. The dive centre and the watersports take you further out.

No. The activities the resort lists are on and under the water, diving first among them, with island life by the pool. It lists no golf course and no package with green fees or transfers to one.

The resort’s direct offer advertises up to 60% off, for new bookings made on its website. An existing reservation cannot be cancelled and rebooked into it; it does not combine with other added values and has no cash value. Full payment is due 21 days ahead, and cancellation is free until then. The offer gives no closing date, stay dates, minimum nights or later penalties. The discount applies to the resort’s own rate, which the Google prices above do not show, and the return flight from Malé is priced separately.

The gym is open 24 hours (activities). Xanadu publishes no opening times. The practitioner it announced as visiting from 28 January to 30 March 2026 has finished that stay, so those consultations are over.

The resort gives no temperature, no heating and no hours for the shared pool or for the private ones (restaurants and bars, the Sky Suite page). Xanadu has an ice bath and a plunge pool, and gives a temperature for neither.

Bars, the pool, Xanadu, a gym, watersports, diving and Coconut Kids Club, whose programme runs from 9am to 12:30pm and from 2pm to 6pm. Some activities are booked ahead or paid for, and they change with the weather and with how many people sign up.

The Xanadu menu lists Thai, deep muscular, aromatherapy and hot-stone massages, facials and Ayurvedic rituals. Its children’s menu is for ages 4 to 10 and has nothing to do with the kids’ club. Prices carry 10% service and 17% tax: the Maldives Inland Revenue Authority has set tourism GST at 17% since 1 July 2025, the rate the resort’s terms apply, read on 15 October 2026 (Xanadu).

2 ways in from Malé, priced in the resort’s terms. The domestic flight costs US$350 return from age 12 and US$175 for children of 2 to 11; the seaplane US$530 per adult and US$320 under 12. One way is half, an infant under 2 on a lap flies free, and 10% service and 17% tax are added. The seaplane depends on weather and daylight: international arrival before 3pm, departure after 9am. Send your flight details 7 days ahead. The allowance is 20 kg plus 5 kg, infants excepted, and excess is US$5 a kilo plus 17%. A transfer cancelled within 24 hours, or missed, is charged at 100%.

One guest adds that an international flight home before 1pm means the 6am flight off the island (April 2025).

From some stretches of beach and on calm days, by the guests’ accounts: 3 put the reef up to 250 metres out, beyond a swimmer in strong wind or current, and 5 snorkelled from the beach among sharks, rays and turtles (reviews of December 2024 to September 2026). A visitor who spent a night there in February 2024 describes one channel out to the reef, a 5-minute swim from the dive centre.

Masks and fins are lent free, 4 guests wrote between February and April 2026. The dive centre and the boat trips are paid for, and nobody can promise a turtle or a manta.

Premium All Inclusive covers set menus and a list of drinks (the Waterfront, Hubba Hubba); 6 guests between January 2025 and April 2026 add that the minibar is refilled every day, 3 of them that it costs nothing. Outside the plan are Kai’s teppanyaki, at US$45 a person plus 10% service and 17% tax, and everything on the Spoil Yourself list; so are a bottle off the list, a massage, a boat trip and the flights from Malé. The resort publishes no table of the stay or the booking each restaurant and activity requires.

Coconut Kids Club is for ages 3 to 12, as the resort’s current offer describes it; the spa’s children’s menu is for ages 4 to 10. A child under 12 sharing a bed with 2 adults costs US$120 a night plus 10% service charge and 17% GST, US$180 from 24 December to 10 January; a cot is on request (terms). A child of 2 to 11 pays US$175 return on the domestic flight and a child under 12 US$320 on the seaplane; an infant under 2 on a lap flies free.

2 guests, in April and July 2025, found the coral and rock at the water’s edge awkward with small children.

A 10% service charge, 17% tourism tax and a Green Tax of US$12 per person per night (terms). The terms make no exception from the Green Tax for infants. The spa menu carries no date; the tax on treatments is the same 17%, set for tourism since 1 July 2025 (MIRA, read on 15 October 2026). Google’s calendar prices give no sign of whether any of this is already in them.