Lily Beach Resort & Spa

I choose lily beach to stay for the 5 nights to celebrate our 10th wedding anniversary, the service exceeded our expectations. Already looking for our next visit.

We stayed at Lily Beach with friends and had an excellent experience. The service was great, the food in the restaurants was delicious, and the bars offered many amazing cocktails. I would especially like to thank Zukhra, Maria, and Faisal for their help — they were incredibly supportive with a few questions we had, and we truly appreciated their assistance! 😍😍 The stay itself was wonderful: the rooms were clean and beautiful, the ocean was crystal clear and absolutely stunning. We also really enjoyed the Sunset Fishing — an unforgettable experience. Overall, it was a fantastic holiday, and we were very happy with everything.

This is my first review on Tripadvisor and I've been inspired to write it by the sheer excellence of the experience my wife and I have enjoyed this week. We've previously stayed on the neighbouring Island, Vilamendhoo, but have become increasingly annoyed by the awful quality of their drinks package, so now we've found Lily Beach we are not going elsewhere, in fact I'm in the middle of booking a return for next December. I'm a scuba diver and my wife snorkels, so the primary interest for us in booking a resort is the quality of the house reef and the quality of the diving and the dive centre. 1. Diving and snorkeling review I'm now at 250+ dives and have experienced the full spectrum of dive shop quality around the world, from dangerous to very good, but the Prodivers team here at Lily Beach are the best team I've ever dived with. The whole team, Dive Instructors Coll, Ludo, Alessia and Svenja, and the boat crew Atheef and Muneer are absolutely first class. Extremely helpful, friendly, engaging, informative, and safety conscious without being overbearing, they just want you to have an stress-free dive experience and that is exactly what you get. Perfect for divers of all levels of experience. They also have that important ingredient when diving- luck - on each of my nine dives I saw something truly memorable and thankfully I have those memories stored on camera. We've seen numerous sharks, a giant moray eel creeping and crawling all over a stingray resting on the bottom, tuna, jacks, nudibranch, octopus, swam along with massive schools of batfish and yellow snapper, it's endless. The dive sites have healthy corals and are alive with fish. My final two dives yesterday, at Kuda Rah and Noo Giri were amongst the very best I've ever had. Absolutely top class. The house reefs are also in excellent condition and offer up a lot of what I've mentioned above. Reef sharks and eagle rays are a common sight along with hundreds of species of reef fish large and small. By common agreement the best stretch of reef is from the dive centre out to the water villas, but it's all good. Underneath the jetty by the dive centre is a cave in which two resident nurse sharks sleep in the daytime, I've also just seen an almost white eagle ray and a giant moray out swimming amongst the corals. Excellent. 2. Accommodation We are staying in Lagoon Villa 209 which is fairly central on the island and has direct access to the sea and a reef 20m away. The bed looks out across the ocean to Vilamendhoo island on the horizon. The bed and pillows are very comfortable, toiletries are from the White Company, there's a well stocked mini-bar and it's all very comfortable. When we return next year with our daughter and family we are going to book beach villas on the other side of the island, as this will be more suitable for a toddler. The beach is beautiful and has a long stretch of reef which you can snorkel. 3. Food and beverage package This is our sixth trip to the Maldives. The alcoholic drinks package is by some margin the best we have encountered - Taittenger and Moet champagnes plus a very wide selection of excellent wines, premium spirits brands and great beers. The quality of the food, and the food choice are also first rate. The Indian food is as good as I've had in five star hotels in Mumbai and Delhi, and I had a cottage pie that would give the one at The Ivy a run for its money. Most of the dining is based around the Lily Maa main restaurant, but lunches at Vibes Bar, and Aqua, where presentation is of top restaurant quality are also very good. The 'exclusive' restaurant included in the package (for stays of Seven or more nights, I think) is Tamarind which serves Thai and Indian food, again of a high standard with a good choice of dishes. 4. Service I've not seen a miserable-looking member of staff all week! Everyone we've engaged with is cheery, happy and appears motivated to do a great job. Service is fast and nothing is too much bother. I've spoken with a number of the staff about their previous experiences at different resorts and they have all said Lily Beach is one of the very best places they've worked. Some of the excellent team who've served us are Suranga and Jemmon in Aqua Bar and Tamarind, Soalih in the main restaurant, Sena and Tharanga and the rest of then guys in the Spirit Bar, and Jalal who cleaned our sunglasses by the pool at Aqua Bar. 5. Overall review. We've spoken with a number of other guests and have been surprised and impressed by the sheer number of people who return here year after year. With the Maldives there's always the lure and attraction of trying somewhere new, but along with that comes the potential for disappointment that some aspect of what you are looking for will not be up to scratch. Lily Beach sits on a beautiful island full of mature trees, plants, shrubs and vegetation and is a 5/5 for everything we look for in an Indian Island holiday. It probably would be good to have more choice for evening dining, but that's a minor quibble and overall I really can't fault it. I already can't wait to come back next December.

Lily Beach shines by it's excellent snorkeling possibilities right at your doorstep and the competent and friendly staff (very little fluctuation over the years). As long term repeaters we are not going anywhere else in the near future!

Lily beach exceeded my expectations by providing a wonderful 5 star service. The all inclusive platinum plan which offers unlimited food and drinks was delicious. We will definitely be back next year