Embudu Village Resort

Beautiful white sandy island south of Malé, Embudu village is a great place to relax with a beautiful beach and house reef, the great bar with Asanka and Dashel from Sri Lanka is beautifully staffed with friendly and warm spirit and a**osphere, the bar is situated on the southwest part of the small island allowing for sunsets watching and drinking, very nice food, quiet spot, clean and very friendly, 10 on 10 for my visit of one night. Thank you very much.

This was our 3rd visit and was for my husbands birthday. Everything was perfect including the food. The snorkeling was fabulous. Our bed was decorated beautifully on my husband’s birthday and were given a birthday cake and fruit platter which was lovely. The day before we left we were upgraded for the night to a water villa which was a lovely gesture. Thank you to all the staff xx

I wanted to go on a once in a lifetime holiday, just to chill out and forget about work for a week, and I must say I wasn't disappointed. The island, the water bungalow, the food, the very friendly and helpful staff, it was just perfect. So I would like to say thank you, and because I loved it I'm coming back next February so the once in a lifetime holiday is now twice. Thank you

We enjoyed our stay in this piece of paradise. Great snorkling and diving experience. Besides, good service, especially big thanks to Sumeda who served our romantic dinner in a very professional but also friendy way, great guy thanks, Embudu! minus-slow wifi (which is acceptable in my view, as anyway a place to recharge)

We booked 2 weeks in a superior bungalow, perfect for us, roomy & shaded by palm trees and mangroves. Half board provided plentiful breakfast and dinner buffets. Nice deck bar for sundowners. Friendly, helpful staff. Easy access to the superb house reef for snorkelling; we also booked 6 boat trips for excellent snorkelling at other reefs. The prime reasons for this holiday was to relax, unwind and take plenty of underwater photos, which we did! Highly recommended.

This was our second visit to the island in as many years and thankfully nothing had changed. We thoroughly enjoyed our 2 weeks again. Many thanks to Rasheed and all the staff who go out of their way to look after you and always make you feel welcomed. it is the first island to welcome tourists from 45 years ago and has not lost any of its charm and hopefully will keep it that way. Would most definitely return again for what we believe is most relaxing resort ever. Big thanks to Badhoour (the wildlife specialist), Ravindra, Santosh and Kamal in keeping us well lubricated LOL!

Embudu an amazing place, we stayed in a superior beach bungalow all-inclusive, and it was perfect. From boarding the speedboat transfer to the resort within less than 60 minutes we were welcomed and checked in by the friendliest attentive staff. Our bungalow No 17 was a perfect location a few steps from the sea, rooms are clean with a comfortable bed and great aircon also including a fridge, safe, kettle, two free bottles of water per day. The food on offer at Embudu is lovely, having your own set table for the stay is a fantastic idea and feels more personal. All the staff at Embudu were fabulous. The staff in the main bar are funny, brilliant, and extremely good cocktail makers. The Dive Centre have some great snorkelling trips which are great and reasonable priced, the stingray city was brilliant. Embudu is not a pretentious Maldives resort, relaxing and simply perfect. Thank you to everyone for our little bit of paradise.

Quite enjoyable in all aspects. Small and cozy island which you can walk around for ten minutes. Fantastic beaches. The island is very green. A lot of vegetation. No need for sun umbrellas in the beach. The only hotel in the island, it is well kept and owned by a local person since 1970-s. Very professional management and disciplined staff. Regularly cleaned room. No problems with water and electricity. Solar batteries and water desalination equipment. Super ecology. No traces of asphalt. Fantastic Asian and European cousin. Delicious meals. Reasonable prices for drinks. A paradise for divers and underwater snorkelling. Fantastic underwater world. There is a diving school. Very calm and quiet at nights. No “fanfares and tambourines”. Unfortunately shallow see in some places and sharp pieces of corals. So take care of rubber slippers for entering the Ocean. To sum up, Maldives are rather expensive resort. From my perspective even at high season you can have in Embudu Village a reasonable ratio between price and quality.

Embudu village island seems ok at first, but it turned out to be a noisy little island ,with music 2-3 times a week ,one night it was like being in a club in Ibiza with a drum machine ringing out around the island.Because the island is quite close to Mali there are speed boats and seaplanes flying by most of the day.The room we were given was below average with a cess pit at the back of it which stunk our bathroom out.( room number 91 ) .The island was quite nice to look at,the staff were really nice and the food was really nice and a good variety too. We won't be going back.