Annama Lodge and Dive

Momo (manager) and his staff were always helpful and made our holiday unforgettable. Despite booking very late, he organized our transfer from Malé to Hoarafushi. Momo is an experienced and patient dive instructor and knows unique diving locations. Even as a beginner in diving, I could enjoy many amazing dives. The beach is very close and lovely. Many new palm trees and plants are planted so that the beach will get even better in the future.

The hotel is newer & beautiful. My ocean view room was wonderful & very comfortable. The views & beaches around as well as islands view are gorgeous, but the greediness of the hotel owner is unbelievable ! I was charged extra 200$ for airplane tickets to the island, while not knowing the real prices for return flights. I have stayed 2 months. My room was comfortable & the island isvery beautiful, I had very stressful 2 months. The hotel is very loud by all guest slamming doors at any time from 6 am to 2 or 3 am. There are at least 5 super noisy constractions 24/7. The made man island constraction opposite hotel was the worst ! The next door constraction people did not care either to the point had to call police and yelled at the workers at 2 am. When I got stang by a jellyfish badly, the owner did not care either. Its lucky my friend was at the beach with me & took good care of me next days. I was not even warned they got season of many jelly fish coming to the beach. The hotel is not very clean, but the cleaner cleaned my room 2x a week very well. You dont want to see the common kitchen. Super dirty. The main restaurant/beach cafe restaurant is in terrible poor state & the service was slow & bad most of the times, which was very stressful. The owner lied about extending my visa, while I was stang by the jelly fish and Maldives government tried to charge me 2000 dollars for overstaying. I paid 1000 extra, which was very stressful. I got ill from stress. Do not book !

We were at Annama Lodge and Dive for diving purpose. Momo and his team treat us very good. We enjoyed diving, snorkeling, saw sharks, rays, eels, schools of fish, , treasured live coral! He also took us to visit the little islands, even if you are not a diver you will enjoy snorkeling. Everything was so amazing!!! We will go back to explore more Horafushi.. Thank you very much to Momo and his team one more time. Until we see each other again!!

We, family of 4 with 2 teenage daughters, stayed for 2 weeks at the Annama Lodge. It was the best Maldives experience we had, after visits on the Holiday island, Kuramathi and Kuredu. While we loved our holidays on the resort islands, the individual service provided by Momo, the owner of the Annama lodge, beats every resort experience. The lodge is small, only 7 rooms, but very clean and the rooms are big with huge, comfortable beds. The AC has no problem keeping the rooms at a pleasant temperature. The food, at the open air, attached restaurant is very tasty and always fresh. Very often, the fish we got was caught between or after our dives just 2-3 hours before. The Sashimi, Maldives way, prepared by Momo himself, was a dream. We will miss it. On top of everything, we once asked for a local dessert. Since, almost every evening we got delicious local cakes baked by Momo’s wife. We felt like part of his family. Diving with Momo was also a great experience. I’m a dive master myself, with almost 1000 dives, but I’ve rarely seen such a patient, relaxed but careful dive instructor. My wife and daughters, got their Open Water diver qualifications in a fun but also thorough way. Especially my wife, who had a previous bad experience trying diving, was charmed by Momo’s way of teaching and became an avid diver! Momo knows the best dive spots around the atoll and when to choose them depending on the weather, wind, currents and time. We were always the only boat at every dive spot! Such an individual experience is great! 50m from the lodge we had a 2 km long beach all for ourselves for most of the times. Once in a while, there were 1 or 2 local families at the beach. The water in the lagoon is clear and in all shades of turquoise and blue. You can swim for km without any danger inside the lagoon. All 4 of us agree - it was our best holiday ever. We will go back as soon as we can. On top of everything, the Maldives experience at Momo’s is far from expensive. You pay 10 to 20% from what you’ll pay at a resort for a way more personal experience.

Very relaxed, nice diving, beautiful islands and beaches around for swimming. Big rooms, comfortable, good service, internet is fast to stay connected. Great place if you want to enjoy the Maldives without paying crazy prices for the private resorts.

We, a family of 4 from Germany, spent 2 amazing weeks at Annama Lodge. We enjoyed the whole package offered: nice, comfortable, big rooms (king size beds, AC, en suite bathroom for every room, balcony for every room, a big balcony at the first floor with sea view), a beautiful, charming sitting room at the first floor with 2 hammock chairs, a shady open air restaurant next to the lodge where we had dinner every night, amazing local cuisine with ingredients from Momo’s (our host) garden, fresh fish caught on our diving trips by boat, fresh fruits served at every meal (3 meals/day), private beach with shade, beach chairs, a beautiful lagoon where you can snorkel and discover the amazing underwater world. Diving with Momo is really great: me and our 2 teenage daughters made the open water dive course with PADI certification; Momo is knowledgeable, experienced, calm, witty and very friendly; after being certified, we made fantastic diving trips by boat to beautiful dive sites, some exclusively known (and discovered!) by Momo. We also did boat trips to deserted islands, where Momo explained us a lot about the islands’ history (an old, historic mosque) and amazing nature; to beautiful beaches on sandbanks in the lagoon, dolphin watching, fishing trips are also an option. Momo and his team were taking care of us at all times, like a big family, with a good positive energy, showing us that the local experience can be more interesting, adventurous than what we learned on resort islands (3 times previously to this vacation). We will definitely come back; can only recommend the Maldivian experience at Annama Lodge.