Velana Beach

Clean rooms and big beds. They cleaned it every day with new towels.

The breakfast was full of flies, they could do something about that. Sometimes we were having dinner with a family of 50 flies. The receptionist called for a transfer from Maafushi to gulhi. She told us that the boat was full. However when we asked a friend of ours to call 5 min later. He told us that there was enough space. That the people from Maafushi don’t want tourists to leave the island. Incredible if you think about hospitality. The room didn’t have a window. There is NO private beach for this hotel and the bikini beach of Maafushi is very crowded. The hotel is in front of the public beach where no bikinis are allowed.

Nothing really. The pizza joint next to the hotel was good.

Don’t stay here. It took 3 days to book one tour, and could never get confirmation for my second excursion, therefore it never happened. Woman at the front desk is a con artist. Room was subpar, paid for balcony room, and only got that room for half the time being there. Plenty of other properties with a better location ala next to the actual beach. This place sucked.

The location of the hotel is very good. The welcome drinks was very nice.

We had to wait outside the hotel in scorching heat before we could check-in even though they had a lobby at reception for almost an hour. Post check-in we had to wait for 2 hrs for them to clean our rooms, so that's a total of 3 hours after we met them before we could use the room. Now, the lights were not working and there was no wifi inside the room. To make matters worse, they asked us at night around 9:30 PM to come down to reception to pay them extra dollars for the stay. After we argued for 30 mins that booking.com had guaranteed no extra payment except the ones declared on the portal, they agreed not to charge extra. So, in total I'll rate this stay as 3/10.