Reviews of Shifa Lodge Maldives

Very cozy, clean and comfortable

Spacious clean room with AC and wonderful breakfast. Host was very helpful, picking me up from the local ferry and bringing me back, he showed me around the island and even kept an eye on me while I was snorkeling. He even managed to advice shops and restaurants, borrowed me a snorkel and arranged a speedboat for me.

I liked everything!

Super nice staff, always friendly, always helping. Very nice breakfast and clean and comfy rooms. Would definitely come here again!

Room and toilet were spacious with a comfortable bed. Buffet breakfast was ample - both continental and Maldivian options. Location is a short walk to the best snorkeling area, south of the public beach.

On this trip I stayed in much cheaper lodges with better facilities - e.g. electric kettle, complimentary tea and coffee sachets in the room. Here nothing was provided. The bathroom had no pegs for hanging up wet clothes. The sink-side towel drying rack was right above the electric outlet !? The manager was only interested in offering scam prices for anything I requested. E.g. I took a private boat from Bodufolhudhoo because of Ramadan cancellation of public ferry. He wanted 90USD while I got the boat for 70USD. From Feridhoo to Bodufolhudhoo, the public ferry was again canceled that day, he told me he would get me a shared boat for 10-15USD, but at the last minute told me it was 50USD and I had no option. Had to remind him repeatedly to get the change for my cash payment for the room.

Razeen, the manager and his team (including the owner of the Shifa Lodge) always fulfilled our wishes, whether earlier breakfast due to our divings or organizing boat excursions. The boat transfers from and to Male were perfectly arranged. Razeen's family owns a few guesthouses on the island and the boat for excursions and transfer is also in the family's property. The dinner buffet at nearby Castaway guesthouse was very rich, as well as the breakfast at Shifa Lodge. If you favor a stay on an island with locals and you do not need the luxury of a resort, you are right here. Everything on the island is in walking distance. If you are diver, we recommend Noohiri dive center (Nitrox only, we made the certificate with them). The island provides good snorkeling areas at the east side, you can encounter guitar sharks patroling in shallow water. We will come again.

Excellent otel. We liked absolutely everything. The room has all the most necessary- towels, warm water, shampoo, clean bedding. Beautiful veranda in the yard. Here in the public domain there is always tea, coffee, sugar, milk. Immediately there is a kitchen where you can cook food yourself, which is very convenient for those who do not like restaurants or prefer to cook. Opposite the hotel there is a store, you don’t need to go far. The hotel staff is very friendly, they helped us in everything. . Immediately at the hotel you can order excursions at a very good price - I recommend. This is a place where you want to return

Awesome vacation, we had a great time here, nice island, with kind staff, clean and Wonderful. I recommend to check out this place when your visiting Maldives

We chose this guesthouse to stay overnight on our way between Dhigurah and Ukulhas. We were warmly welcomed with drinks and cold, wet towels. Breakfast was pre-ordered: either European or Maldivian (but no buffet).

The room faced the street, and it was quite noisy due to a shop across the road. We didn’t like the room itself: it was very simply furnished, lacking furniture, although quite spacious. The decor was old, and the bathroom was not very comfortable. Lighting was dim. There was air conditioning but no refrigerator. Overall, I’d say the price was too high for what was offered.

Awesome stay in beautiful guesthouse on an amazing island. Staff was extremely helpful and helped us with anything, also being very flexible on trips, arrangements, payments etc.

Everything was good, so nothing to complain about. Just in the bathroom there might be some sewer odour, but nothing too bad.

The owner and the stuff are very helpful. Nothing was a problem. They even came around midnight to fix the AC, when we texted, that it stopped working! They did not seem friendly at the first moment, but (as we understood later) they only wanted to give us privacy. The accomodation was perfectly clean. The location is great (easy on a small island). The grocery store is across the street. The room is big. The last day, we got the breakfast packed, so we did not have to hurry and ate it on the ferry.

The bed is only 150cm. For tho people maybe OK, with a baby it was too small. They did not clean the room during the whole stay. There is only bed, warsrobe and small table in the room. The dryer is really small. The aircondion did not work properly. It was really noisy and many times got broken, so we had to restart it. The brakfast was good, but you have to walk to the restaurant. It is not in the accomodation.

It was okay

The room smelled damp. There was no drinking water and shampoo provided in the room. The dinner included was quite horrible. I advice against the half-board option. Furthermore, we agreed to have breakfast at 7:00 because we had to take a ferry at 7:35, but the breakfast place only opened at 7:10, and we were served at 7:20, so we only had 10 minutes to eat.

Basic room but clean with air con and hot water. Breakfast is not served in the establishment but in a local bar by the port, between continental and Maldivian one, I would suggest the latter one. Feridhoo is a nice local island with a beautiful bikini beach and reef(besides corals and fishes saw turtles, small mantas and reef sharks). Communication with the guy who replies on WhatsApp was very fast.

I had room facing the street, was good but inside there was a strange smell like of humidity/mold. I didn’t see/find anything bad and was not the air con since very often I was keeping it off and the smell remained. Wi-Fi is weak and present in the lobby area, better if you buy local sim(as I did) at Male airport. Would have been nice to have a chair inside the room as well as a tv. Lodge accepts only USD both for the accommodation and for the excursions. I was been told there was an ATM at male airport so didn’t bring any cash but unfortunately it didn’t accept Visa/Mastercard. At the end I paid everything by card with a commission of 3-4%. Bring local currency if you want to eat at local bars/resto since don’t accept credit card(and on the island there is no ATM). The day I did check in a guy who I payed showed me the list of the activities offered, then one day I wanted to book an excursion to do manta snorkeling(it was listed 75usd per person) then contacted the WhatsApp guy and after some talk I discovered the prices present in that list were not correct(since minimum 2person would have costed 95usd each) so since was alone would have costed me a lot. Speed boat round trip pretty expensive, 150USD for the round trip(if I paid cash would have been at least 20usd cheaper).

Quiet place, tasty food.

New, clean accomodation with a kind owner and Basheer who speaks english and takes care of your needs just ask.