Shifa Lodge Maldives

Pretty ok for a single traveller

✓ 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).

Exceptional

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

Very good