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Reviews of Shifa Lodge Maldives

Violet Magu,Feridhoo,Maldives Orchid Magu,Feridhoo,Maldives, 09060 Feridhoo, Maldives

#8 of 10 hotels in Feridhoo

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Review score

Based on 19 hotel reviews

9.0

Score breakdown

  • Cleanliness

    8.9

  • Comfort

    8.9

  • Location

    9.1

  • Facilities

    8.3

  • Staff

    9.4

  • Value for money

    8.4

  • Free WiFi

    8.1

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  • Reviewed: 20 August 2025

    10
    Nice guest house in the quite center of FERIDHOO. Breakfast is abundant and very good. The staff (Razeen and Michael) ar
    • Leisure trip
    • Family with young children
    • Deluxe Double Room
    • Stayed 4 nights
    • Submitted via mobile

    Very cozy, clean and comfortable

    Stayed in August 2025

  • Reviewed: 6 August 2025

    10
    Clean spacious room with AC and extremely helpful host!
    • Leisure trip
    • Solo traveller
    • Deluxe Double Room
    • Stayed 2 nights

    I liked everything!

    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.

    Stayed in August 2025

  • Reviewed: 4 May 2025

    10
    Exceptional
    • Leisure trip
    • Solo traveller
    • Deluxe Double Room
    • Stayed 3 nights
    • Submitted via mobile

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

    Stayed in May 2025

  • Reviewed: 9 March 2025

    10
    Exceptional holidays in a cosy guesthouse, you will be treated as a friend.
    • Leisure trip
    • Couple
    • Deluxe Double Room
    • Stayed 17 nights

    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.

    Stayed in March 2025

  • Reviewed: 21 February 2025

    10
    Exceptional
    • Leisure trip
    • Family with young children
    • Deluxe Double Room
    • Stayed 2 nights
    • Submitted via mobile

    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

    Stayed in February 2025

  • Reviewed: 3 January 2025

    10
    Exceptional
    • Leisure trip
    • Family with young children
    • Family Room with Balcony
    • Stayed 4 nights
    • Submitted via mobile

    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

    Stayed in January 2025

  • Reviewed: 8 December 2024

    8.0
    it’s still one of the cheapest guesthouses on Feridhoo
    • Leisure trip
    • Group
    • Deluxe Double Room
    • Stayed 1 night

    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.

    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).

    Stayed in November 2024

  • Reviewed: 21 August 2024

    10
    Friendly stay on amazing island
    • Leisure trip
    • Family with young children
    • Deluxe Double Room
    • Stayed 4 nights

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

    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.

    Stayed in August 2024

  • Reviewed: 14 November 2023

    8.0
    Clean with nice owner and stuff
    • Leisure trip
    • Family with young children
    • Deluxe Double Room
    • Stayed 5 nights
    • Submitted via mobile

    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.

    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.

    Stayed in November 2023

  • Reviewed: 13 March 2023

    10
    Exceptional
    • Leisure trip
    • Couple
    • Family Room with Balcony
    • Stayed 7 nights
    • Submitted via mobile

    Quiet place, tasty food.

    Stayed in March 2023

  • Reviewed: 3 November 2022

    10
    Exceptional
    • Leisure trip
    • Solo traveller
    • Deluxe Double Room
    • Stayed 4 nights
    • Submitted via mobile

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

    Stayed in November 2022

  • Reviewed: 8 April 2025

    7.0
    Nice location for snorkeling, large room, but not value for money compared to other places.
    • Leisure trip
    • Solo traveller
    • Deluxe Double Room
    • Stayed 3 nights

    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.

    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.

    Stayed in March 2025

  • Reviewed: 17 August 2023

    7.0
    Less than expected
    • Leisure trip
    • Couple
    • Deluxe Double Room
    • Stayed 1 night
    • Submitted via mobile

    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.

    It was okay

    Stayed in August 2023

  • Reviewed: 2 April 2023

    7.0
    Pretty ok for a single traveller
    • Leisure trip
    • Solo traveller
    • Deluxe Double Room
    • Stayed 8 nights
    • Submitted via mobile

    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).

    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.

    Stayed in March 2023

  • Reviewed: 1 November 2023

    10
    Exceptional
    • Leisure trip
    • Couple
    • Deluxe Double Room
    • Stayed 1 night
    • Submitted via mobile

    There are no comments available for this review

    Stayed in October 2023

  • Reviewed: 8 January 2023

    10
    Exceptional
    • Leisure trip
    • Couple
    • Deluxe Double Room
    • Stayed 13 nights
    • Submitted via mobile

    There are no comments available for this review

    Stayed in January 2023

  • Reviewed: 5 January 2025

    7.0
    Good
    • Leisure trip
    • Family with young children
    • Deluxe Double Room
    • Stayed 1 night
    • Submitted via mobile

    There are no comments available for this review

    Stayed in December 2024

  • Reviewed: 5 January 2025

    7.0
    Good
    • Leisure trip
    • Family with young children
    • Deluxe Double Room
    • Stayed 1 night
    • Submitted via mobile

    There are no comments available for this review

    Stayed in December 2024

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