Lohifushi island resort is a great island for a relaxing holiday. We visited before the Tsunami of December 2004 but understand that the resort is completely recovered.
Lohifushi is on North Malé Atoll. It takes about 30 minutes by speedboat or 1.5 hours by dhoni (fishing boat/ferry) to get here from the airport at Male, the capital of the Maldives.
Review of Lohifushi
Lohifushi is popular with surfers and divers and above all honeymooners.
Facilities on Lohifushi
Facilities are of a good to high standard for the maldives. Lohifushi Island Resort is roughly equivalent 4 stars in the UK. Facilities include 2 great restaurants, a swimming pool an open air bar and an indoor sports center and gym.
There are 130 bungalows on Lohifushi, each facing the sea around
the western edge of the island. The traditional open-air bathrooms feature
hot and cold showers.All rooms have a private bathroom, Hot & Cold Water,
A private safe, big ceiling fans a Mini Bar, Direct Dial Telephone and a private
garden.
For sports there is a well equipped gym, table tennis and a swimming pool. You can also learn Carrom a great board game played very competitively by the locals.
The east end of the island is left in an untouched state, allowing you to explore the mangrove's wildlife.
The staff were all brilliant and were perfect hosts at all times.
By the third day we had explored every nook and cranny of the island and decided to take a fishing trip. This was great fun and gave us our first opportunity to chat to people other than holidaymakers. The fishermen were very kind and attentive and eager to tell us about their nation. They said the maldives had a troubled political past with coups and all sorts but recently things had been good. This only made hearing about the tsunami on our return all the more poigniant.
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