John Peebles

Review of Canareef Resort Maldives

Overall the experience has been quite good. The ho...

Overall the experience has been quite good. The hotel has a wonderful beach at the south of the island, the water is Cristal clear in there.
The rooms are spacious and comfortable, great AC and facilities to enjoy yourself.
The staff is always helpful, sometimes they're a little bit overwhelmed by the amount of guests on the island, but they always have a good disposition to to their best to help you.
Things that need to be improved:
1. There's a part of the island that is "abandoned". A few houses haven't been maintained and 2 restaurants are closed as well. My understanding is that this has to do with a water permit and the hotel is still waiting on it. Until then those rooms/restaurant will stay closed.
2. Prices are frankly abusive. I don't like the feeling of seeing the hotel as "abusive" but honestly the prices for things such as a beer, or even water at the restaurant is too much. I paid for half-board so I was expecting to have at least water at nights (dinner is included) and because they always leave a couple of bottles of water in your room. Based on that it should be kind of obvious to think that they can give you water for free at the restaurant, but no, they charge 4usd for 1LT of water.

Others:
Once you get to Maldives (Male) you still have a long way to go until you get to Canareef, about 5 hours (waiting for the layover at Gan, etc.) so keep that in mind if you plan on coming.

I'd definitely recommend coming if you take into account the daily expenses for food/drinks. Lovely place.