Gangehi – Lággjaldahótel

Oleg__N Rússland

Hospitable, responsive, friendly and positive staff, always ready to assist with any question. Perfect cleanliness, delicious food; water, coffee and tea are always available. The room is equipped with everything you need, including a hairdryer, comfortable bed. The room is about 22-23 square meters, furniture and everything is new. Excellent value for money. Interesting excursions to lagoons to manta rays, whale sharks, uninhabited islands, snorkeling, dolphin and fishing trips. We’ve chosen the manta ray one and it was magnificent. The staff takes pictures of you on underwater camera and sends you the edited video, you don't even have to take your camera. You can make a jet ski ride or take a canoe (1 and/or 2-seater) and go to the nearby very pretty picnic island, or swim to it, which can be dangerous for untrained swimmers – the current is quite fast in the strait. There are only 4 rooms in the guesthouse, not many people in the hotel courtyard. Local residents are very kind and friendly. In general, the island is practically free of tourists, so beaches and the whole island are clean, especially the deserted bikini beach - complete experience of nature 😊 (compared to neighboring islands, with a lot of tourists). Bikini beach is good enough for tourists with young children: shallow water and almost never waves – the whole island is protected from large waves by a reef encircling from all sides, the water is always transparent. There are corals in the shore area, but not too much. Wildlife is very diverse, several times a day eagle stingrays swim by in 5 meters from the shore. There are a lot of nurse sharks in the harbor. Stingray beach is not bad, also with stingrays. Sun-set beach is magnificent because of its palm grove. Some of the best photos are from this beach.

Patrizia Ítalía

everything. all the guys of the staff were so nice and helpful. the room was cleaned everyday and was always perfect and mathiveri, what can i say… the paradise! a little pearl, where you can see the real life of maldives. i hope tourism don’t ruin it, beacuse it was really wonderful! hope to return! thank’s for all mathiveri and mahchavaru maldives!

Nizette Holland

Fantastic place, nice ambience and very welcoming, warm ladies who run the place. They were already before we arrived very helpfull in answering any questions. Also during our stay, they were always making sure we are comfortable and fine, and ready for any kind of help. The rooms are nice and comfortable, the place is peacefull with a lovely rooftopterrace and yogaspace. We stayed 4 nights, would love to come back again!

Arno Austurríki

We had a most magical time at Sands Inn at Mathiveri. The Fahudh and Niro are the most lovely people and made us feel comfortable at once. Fahudh, the manager was always reachable and helped us with everything, starting with typical requests like travel arrangements and trips, but also with other wishes and problems like buying some special local food or an ATM machine, that did not work on our last day, when we urgently needed cash. We had breakfast and lunch everyday. The food Niro prepared was incredible good and diverse, although we are difficult to serve as vegans. ;) Vegan fluffy pancakes like we never had before and the curries we will remember forever. The location of the Inn was also perfect. In 2-3 minutes to dreamy spots at the bikini beach and as well in 3 minutes at the harbour, where we watched dozens of nurse sharks and stingrays at many nights. Google maps makes it look like the bikini beach, is in the south west further away, but when we were there in November 2023 many parts along the south side were designated as bikini beach. On the public beaches you really have to be covered or someone will immediately tell you to put on clothes. But this is the same on all local islands. We did two trips. One to see Mantas and one to see Whale Sharks and both were successful and good organized. The snorkelling possibilities on south side, bikini beach are not so great. We found some nice spots behind the picinic island, where you can easily swim to. But there is also a better snorkelling area south of the harbour. There you have to pass a long not so deep area with corals to get to the deeper and beautiful area. This is only possible during the high tide. It is a bit stressful not to touch the Corals. The danger of getting hurt by the Corals is not so high, but you should also not touch them in order not to destroy them. Of course you have to swim with long cloth there, but you want to do this on sunny days anyway in order not to get heavily sun burned.

Yury Svíþjóð

I really enjoyed my stay in the hotel, specially i loved the sea view from my room, it was amazing. The hotel is located very close to the harbour and close to everything. The stuff of the hotel was very nice and helpfull, i got lovely breakfast each morning and I got helped with everything I asked. Thank you Farhad for this amazing stay!

Paulina Pólland

Very nice place and helpful host. Already miss that place!

Cornelia Sviss

Spacious, clean, Saif was an amazing host

Federica Sameinuðu Arabísku Furstadæmin

I spent enjoyable time in SIS Tourist Villa, the Staff is amazing and the Guest House is highly recommended if you want to stay in Mathiveri, also for the location, near to the bikini beach. New furniture, comfy bed and spotless. All the staff make you feel like home and encounter all your needs. Also breakfast met my expectations, they offer a real maldivian breakfast - which I liked a lot - but they also provide you with the service of dinner/lunch on demand, with several choices of food/main dishes.

Sara Bosnía og Hersegóvína

We loved everything about this guesthouse. The location is perfect, right next to the bikini beach. Once again we would like to thank Areesh and his team for being super nice and helpful and for organizing our transfers from the airport and helping us with the luggage. You don't need agency when you book with Areesh ;) The island itself is a must-visit! The white sandy beach is beautiful and has a lot of palm trees! We had a wonderful time and we're definitely coming back :) Greetings from Sara and Kenan!