Veligandu Island Resort & Spa
Offering natural beauty and authentic barefoot comfort, Veligandu Island Resort has excellent accommodation and varied activities. This small tropical island offers the finest beaches, a crystal clear lagoon and a house reef.
Well designed facilities are in keeping with the island's natural Maldivian style. The sand floor restaurant offers buffet style meals, enjoy the romantic thatched bar and also optional intimate à la carte dining. There is a pool, scuba diving, snorkelling, sailing, excursions, fishing, windsurfing, spa and fitness centre.
Accommodation
All 76 rooms have a sundeck, air-conditioning, ceiling fan, sitting area, DVD, minibar, tea and coffee machine, internet connection, telephone, television and shower.
Jacuzzi beach villas (84m²) have a sea facing terrace and outdoor jacuzzi in your private courtyard garden.
Spacious Water villas (58m²) are on stilts, with sundeck and steps leading into the lagoon below.
Jacuzzi water villas (86m²) are as the Water villas, beautifully furnished with outdoor Jacuzzi.
Restaurants
• Dhonveli Restaurant - Sand floor main dining room, with buffet style meals • A la carte options - Including special beach dinners • Madivaru Restaurant - On the beach with a menu of grilled seafood, prime beef and Asian specialties.
All Inclusive
→ All meals in the main restaurant → Afternoon tea → All drinks by the glass 10am to midnight including selected spirits, beer, house wine and soft drinks → 2 excursions per stay → Sunset cruise and a visit to a local island → 30 minutes windsurfing lesson per stay.
A La Carte All Inclusive (Optional)
→ As All Inclusive above plus daily minibar refill.
Veligandu Island Resort & Spa
Offering natural beauty and authentic barefoot comfort, Veligandu Island Resort has excellent accommodation and varied activities. This small tropical island offers the finest beaches, a crystal clear lagoon and a house reef.
Facilities
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Buffet restaurant and à la carte dining
- Watersports including diving, snorkelling and windsurfing
Swimming Pools
• Infinity pool • Children's pool
Spa and Beauty
The overwater Dunye Spa provides a tropical spa experience for women and men, focused on wholeness, simplicity, purity and quality.
The therapist's healing energy combined with Asian massage techniques and only chemical free, pure organic compounds follows a natural, holistic, personalized approach to caring for each guest's health, beauty and wellbeing.
Scuba Diving
Veligandu Dive Centre onsite
Location
In the North Ari Atoll, 20 minutes by seaplane from Malé.
Beach description
White sand
Veligandu Island Resort & Spa
Explore the surroundings
Destination introduction
Holidays in the Maldives conjure up images of white sands, swaying palm trees and crystal blue waters, creating that quintessential picture-perfect holiday bliss. Kuoni’s hand-picked island resorts offer everything from all inclusive Maldives holidays, to rustic island retreats and the world’s finest luxury accommodation. Savour gourmet dining, sensuous spas, spectacular diving and the most enchanting ocean sunsets.
Maldives holiday highlights - Admire sea views with a stay in a water villa, elevated over turquoise waters.
- Whilst most of our resorts have fabulous spas, look out for our ‘SPA’ labelled resorts for the finest in pampering indulgences.
- Discover a vibrant underwater world with a professional, supervised scuba-diving expedition. Browse some of our comprehensive dive packages.
- For the ultimate experience join the Atoll Explorer for a Maldives cruise around this beautiful country’s most magical atolls.
- All Inclusive Maldives holidays - For the complete hassle-free holiday look out for our specially negotiated All Inclusive deals.
- All Maldives holidays travelling on scheduled flights include access to the VIP lounge in Malé International Airport on your departure.
Diving
These idyllic coral islands rank amongst the best dive destinations in the world. In conjunction with Euro-Divers, we can offer quality diving packages in the Maldives which can be pre-booked in the UK.
The rare beauty of the magnificent underwater world has made these islands one of the most enchanting diving destinations in the world. When conditions are good the underwater visibility is at the highest level – sometimes exceeding 50 metres – and the warm water temperatures year round make diving in the Maldives a pleasure.
The North Malé Atoll is home to the Lion’s Head and Wattaru Kandu dive sites both of which are frequented by reef sharks. Wattaru Kandu is also home to stingrays and
garden eels whilst Lankanfinokhu, or Manta Point as it’s locally known, is a great place to see manta rays being cleaned by local colonies of cleaner fish.
Hukrueli in the South Malé Atoll is another place to see rays and cleaner fish and Maaya Thila, a protected marine area in this atoll is home to white-tip sharks, turtles, zebra morays and the elusive guitar shark.
Hanifaru lagoon in the Baa Atoll is one of the best places to see whale sharks and manta rays. June to September is the best time to see them as this is during the monsoon season and equinox when the lagoon is filled with plankton.
Important Notes: A medical certificate of physical fitness may be required and qualified divers must bring proof of diving certification and logbook. Please ensure that you purchase adequate insurance.
If you are travelling with any other form of insurance, we strongly recommend that you check the terms of your policy and if necessary take out extra cover. Dive prices shown do not include boat trips to and from dive sites. Boat trips approx. $10 per dive are payable locally. If you intend to learn to dive whilst you are in the Maldives, you must book a holiday of at least eight days duration (five days for the Scuba Diver courses). Open Water and Scuba Diver courses include the necessary equipment as required. Cost for logbook, certificate, course book and other course materials are not included. Costs per person approximately: US$140 (Certification alone: $85).
* Extra equipment required including mask, fins, snorkel, regulator with octopus and pressure gauge, BCD with inflater, 10 litre tank, weightbelt, weights and dive computer (compulsory for every diver) can be obtained locally at an extra charge. Full terms and conditions available on request.
Shopping
In Malé you’ll see plenty of street merchants selling beautiful Maldivian postage stamps. Those ragged dentures suspended outside gift shops are sharks’ jaws. Attractive T-shirts are stencilled before your eyes, generally with brilliantly coloured tropical fish.
The islanders are expert in carving coconut wood and use it to decorate their houses. Mat-weaving, basket-making and coir rope-making are other long-standing crafts. Mats are woven from haa grass. There is some highly developed lacquerwork and you may see examples of handloom weaving or jewellery handcrafted in gold and mother of pearl.