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It has been a week since we've come back from paradise on Earth. The beauty of the Maldives cannot be described, but the amazing experience of staying at Dusit Thani Maldives, which was simply perfect, can. To be perfectly honest, almost everything exceeded my (very high) expectation. The resort is a beautiful jungle/garden and cycling through it is a pleasure for all the senses (especially in the evenings, when you can smell frangipani). We have stayed in one of the ocean villas. The views were simply stunning. The villa was very spacious and cosy, and even though the furniture is not brand new, it is full of drama. Plus, they have the most comfortable pillows my head had ever touched. The big highight-and what convinced us to stay in the resort-is the Thai restaurant Benjarong with it amazing chef and staff-we were usually attended by Novika (foodie as myself, so she could provide great recommendation) and James, who was also super nice and attentive. After having dinner at Benjarong the first night, we booked all of our meals there (with the exception for the night of Eid celebration, when we dined on the beach with live local music and dancing-thanks Sharif. I especial recommend the soft shell crab with curry - powder, the lamb chops, and my favourite dish in the universe-the Thai green curry. My husband fell in love with the dessert with water chestnuts and ended up eating it twice a day 🙂 (and of course I ended up taking the Thai cooking class). Another highlight for the foodies was breakfast. while the choices of "western" food, pastries is impressive, my very favourite (and I had it every single day) was the noodles station. Also, make sure you try the passion fruit jam which is to die for. You can always ask Mona (yet another, cheerful foodie) for recommendations. Moving from the food... Above the Thai 'restaurant is the Sata bar. My husband took the cocktail making class there and we met a very gifted bar attender Amita.

I can particularly highlight kindness, efficiency and helpfulness of all the staff. Front desk is extremely nice and pleasant and helped not only during check-in and check-out, but also to arrange my flight to and from the island (from Malé). Servers in the hotel restaurant are attentive, kind, always smiling and extremely helpful. Not only that, also the kitchen staff is very helpful. Room service staff is also smiling, always positive, nice, understanding and helpful. I would like to specifically stress the helpfulness of food&beverage staff. I have several food allergies, which are quite annoying, limiting and stressful. The staff made everything that I would feel secure, always informed me about my allergens and obviously took it into consideration when preparing food for the restaurant (as I participated in buffet dinners). So to some extent, I believe, I was a burden for other guests, but I do not think they noticed. Anyways, the behavior of the staff really helped me to lift my stress and anxiety about the food and I cannot appreciate it more.

Our stay at the Royal Island Resort was a unique and fantastic experience. We enjoyed every second of it. The resort with all the well maintained facilities and the friendly staff is exceptional. The resort offers everything you can imagine (football, beach volley pitch, indoor sports facilities, table tennis, tennis, water sports etc). It even has a medical center that was handy when I had to see a doctor to confirm that I’m ready to dive. We also enjoyed every morning the extraordinary rich breakfast. In the evening we dined at the a la card restaurant and also had the Italian buffet. We also made use if the dive center and also there the staff was friendly at professional. Special thanks to Habib, Sajid, Budi, Madeline, Sonia, Anjaiah and Shahika who made our stay even more memorable.

I want to add to the previous review: all the shortcomings eliminated the next day after my comment. And the rubric of unsolicited advice: I strongly recommend taking a snorkeling lesson, if you are a beginner like me, do not worry, in this hotel you will be in good hands). The reef here is very beautiful! You can see an incredible underwater world within two minutes of the villa. And we also took an excursion with dolphins and another one with mantas. We were very happy with the organization, the guides and got a lot of emotions!

I would like to express my sincere gratitude for the exceptional service and care I received during my stay at Reethi Beach . I would especially like to commend the manager, Ali Nasheed, whose professionalism and dedication made my experience truly special. I was impressed by the high level of service and the warm hospitality from the entire team. Your resort is a place where guests feel valued and well taken care of. I will gladly return and will wholeheartedly recommend it to my family and friends. Thank you! Ivaylo Gyurov

Amazing place with excellent staff, special mention to Ushan incredible chef that every morning prepared fresh and delicious bagles and reserved to us an unforgettable dinner at Vakku restaurant. Beach and facilities were fantastic and really reccomend the over water villa

We loved the staff and size of the beach bungalow . Our location 138 was also perfect location for proximity to dive school and privacy Dive school also a great setup and the house reef , whilst motorised coral was incredibly abundant with shark, turtle , parrot fish etc

It was a simple but perfect accomodation, the staff was very professional, hard working and kind. The room was clean and comfortable and the home made food was warming and delicious. Over all, this is a perfect accomodation for spending some days in the Maldives.

The Lagoon Villa was very specious, fully equiped, comfy king size bed, amazing view to the beach and sea, supernice staff and so many species of fish, turtles and sharks in the sea around us, visible right from the terrace + 5* buffet dinners.

The island is small hence everywhere is accessible and walkable. Dive company linked to the hotel makes it fuss free for divers. Direct access to the bikini beach too!

Beyond expectations! Epic stay at Amilla. We love our villa, and the service was incredible. Definitely recommend this resort out of any other.

Amazing property, everything was perfect. We loved our over the water villa with private pool. So peaceful to wake up there and enjoy

Everything is as done to the highest quality. The staff were friendly, engaged with their job and super well trained.

Beautiful island …. Paradise. Plenty of activities. Yoga twice a day. Staff amazing could not do enough .

The staff are super nice, helpful and attentive!