Royal Island Resort & Spa

Maldives , Maldives
BAA ATOLL, Horubadhoo, Baa Atoll
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10/10

Exceptional

11 Mar 2026

NATELA

good

10/10

Exceptional

09 May 2025

Zechariah

the island is well taken care of, Razib our cleaner was fantastic. the snorkeling and wildlife was amazing

Leisure

8/10

Excellent

16 Apr 2025

Verified traveler

Beautiful Island, but lower your expectations

The island is beautiful, but we had the feeling of small minded management the whole time. Just small details everywhere that could have elevated the experience 100%. Two big details worth to mention are: 1) we had 5 days holiday but the island is so far and the transportations was not planned optimally, so we wasted 2 days on getting in and out of the island, just waiting... 2) There were many mosquitos and the island staff kept on fogging the dorms areas EVERYDAY and the smell was so strong we woke up with the taste of the repellent on our mouths every day.... The food was good and with enough variety that we never got bored of it. The staff is kind and prone to service.

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

23 Feb 2025

Tullio

Highly recommended.

We spent 10 fantastic days, wonderful resort is the second time we go back the sea the barrier the food the staff, especially Mini our host, pampered us and fulfilled our every request

Friends_and_family Family

10/10

Exceptional

03 Feb 2025

Gert

Top class vacation Royal Island Resort & Spa

We really enjoy our stay at the Royal Island Resort & Spa. The villas had a high standard including the cleaning service twice a day, thanks to Nor for a good job especially warm welcoming & reunion-wish infront of our leaving. We had a Sunset villa and the view was really amacing. Every morning there were staff cleaning of the Island and beaches after the nights weather! The waiter at the resturant were professional & made us feel special welcomed every single time, special thanks for your service Habib & the hostess Lakhsii. The food at the resturant, the fresh fruit & all delicious were absolute top class.

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

12 Jan 2025

Melanie

The privacy on the beach, the views were stunning, the marine life was fabulous.
The staff were extremely helpful and attentive.

Our Villa was a little tired. The beds were rock hard and dips in the mattresses. Many tiles in the bathroom had cracks. The wooden floor was tired. Overall though a fabulous resort.

Leisure Family

10/10

Exceptional

02 Jan 2025

luca

Fabolous place

The island and the vegetation are astonishing
Accommodation are really comfortable and directly on the beach
Service is excellent, staffs are lovely and extremely kind
Different type of Cuisines, all good
Absolutely a place to suggest

Friends_and_family Family

8/10

Excellent

05 Dec 2024

Alison

Idyllic tropical island - close-to-nature feeling

We had a lovely tranquil stay, feeling very well looked after by the friendly staff. The island is idyllic and the accommodation is comfortable with excellent Aircon and fan in the bedroom. The food in the buffet was varied, fresh and delicious and the bar served excellent cocktails.
The home reef is vibrant and perfect for snorkelling round. The dive centre gave my husband a great refresher course and good diving opportunities afterwards. Royal Island provides an altogether lovely, relaxing close-to-nature experience!

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

15 Jun 2024

Darcy

Royal Island is a paradise! This was our first time to the Maldives and didn't know what to expect. The service was top notch from the time we stepped foot on the island. Staff were available to check in all groups arriving on the boat at the same time, so there was no waiting. We were set up with a contact via WhatsApp (Mark) and he kept us up to date with what was going on at the island each day and was available to address all of our questions. The food at the buffet was good and each dinner had a different theme keeping it interesting. Our server Naseer was friendly and efficient. Finally the setting! The island is beautiful! The clearest water outside of a pool I have ever swam in. We were at the west end of the island and there was easy access to snorkelling in the lagoon. There is some damage to the reef, but we still saw so many fish, rays and a shark. We also enjoyed the Wanderlust and Hanifaru Bay snorkelling excursions. The transfers were well planned (don't panic about not having the details until the day before). And bonus, because we had a late departure they gave us late check-out without an extra charge. Overall a fabulous experience. Highly recommend.

Leisure Friends

10/10

Exceptional

15 Jan 2024

Liya

The best island we've been to. Beautiful nature, fantastic food, great spa.

Leisure Family

10/10

Exceptional

15 Jan 2024

Liya

Fantastic resort! Beautiful nature, delicious food, great spa. Definitely recommend making the extra effort to get here (20-minutes local flight boat). The best price for quality.

Leisure Family

4/10

Poor

25 Jul 2022

Samimbanu Nazir

Maldives

Excursion ripped off
Food below average

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

30 Mar 2022

Milad

One of the most relaxing enjoyable holiday resorts I've ever been to.

Leisure Partner

10/10

Exceptional

29 Jun 2021

Verified traveler

Royal Island Resort and Spa is one of the best resorts in the world. I spent one week there and I really loved it. It was an amazing experience. Everyone is friendly. The staff make you feel like you’re home and one of the family. The amenities are available to everyone. You will find mostly everything there. You just need to enjoy your time. I recommend it to everyone. Just go and you will love it.

Leisure Family

10/10

Exceptional

25 Apr 2021

Bengt

Exceptional service

Paradise-like island with very nice beach villa, great food and above all excellent service.

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

04 Mar 2021

Verified traveler

Excellent

Friends_and_family Family

10/10

Exceptional

04 Mar 2021

Verified traveler

Excellent

Friends_and_family Family

10/10

Exceptional

22 Feb 2021

Verified traveler

Location is beautiful and everything one can do is included at the site.

Leisure Family

10/10

Exceptional

13 Feb 2021

BOGDAN

Perfect family holiday

Great resort, will come back soon !

Friends_and_family Family

10/10

Exceptional

11 Feb 2021

Verified traveler

Everything!food,staff,beaches,öröm,facilities,warm weather

Friends_and_family Friends

10/10

Exceptional

09 Feb 2021

Verified traveler

Amazing resort!!! The entire experience was perfect!

Leisure Family

10/10

Exceptional

08 Feb 2021

Wouter

Perfect, pristine, paradise.

Perfect pristine paradise, just as you expect in the Maldives. All villas are on their own stretch of gorgeous white beach. The island is very well maintained and we especially liked the flowers and gardens. Great food and drinks, and lots of water sport activities. The staff is incredibly friendly and helpful and cheerful.

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

10 Jan 2021

Carla

Wonderful Resort! Absolutely Beautiful!

I loved this resort. We had a Beach Villa and everything was so nice, clean and private. There are a lot of things to do on the island including water sports, snorkeling, nighttime dancing on their dance floor, pool tables, a little library with books to read, plenty of pillow swings everywhere to swing while looking at the ocean, walking on the beach... lots of shade trees! There were a lot of kids there and they all seemed to love it because there was plenty of things for them to do. Also, the food and staff were all great! I will definitely be back to this resort!

Partner

8/10

Excellent

15 Dec 2020

Pavel

Реальная четвёртка

Очень красивый домашний риф, не маленький очень зелёный остров-есть где погулять, хорошие корты и спорт. активити. Проблемный долгий трансфер с длительной стыковкой- большая потеря времени по прибытии и при отъезде. Скромные домики (до виллы далеко), но очень приветливый, душевный персонал, хорошо убираются несколько раз в день.Всего два ресторана. Главный ресторан похож на столовку, но блюда гриль отлично готовят. Вино по all inclusive -помои... У главного пирса много серых акул-1,5-2 м. Один раз напали две- отбился ластами и пришлось на камни вылазить. Причина - стаф втихаря кормит из в угоду туристам... Также и от других отдыхающих слышал подобное об этом месте. В других частях острова акул очень мало и то в основном маленькие рифовые...

Friends_and_family Family

8/10

Excellent

23 Nov 2020

Verified traveler

Lots of activities

Lots of activities on site, buffet is good, staff helpful

Transfer times have a lot of room for improvement

Friends_and_family Friends

8/10

Excellent

01 Mar 2020

Debojyoti

Royal Island Resort Family visit

The overall experience was good. Staff were very courteous and welcoming. Villa was nice with own private beach. Ambience was good. However we were on an All Inclusive deal and the food quality was not upto the mark.

Friends_and_family Family

10/10

Exceptional

15 Feb 2020

Verified traveler

Friendly and helpful staff. Very clean and cozy rooms. For the hotel good value for mony but all extras are much overprized like a bottle of wine, excoursions, a-la carte restaurant
Overall a great holiday.

Leisure Partner

8/10

Excellent

09 Jan 2020

Alessandro

Pleasant stay

Very kind staff, all services that we have paid for are being very well satisfied
Big island but a lot of privacy, that we were looking for

Friends_and_family Family

10/10

Exceptional

23 Jul 2019

kathyglaser

The staff was amazing- incredibly professional. Property was clean and well organized. It was a vacation of a life time! Highly recommend Royal Islands

Friends_and_family Family

10/10

Exceptional

11 Jul 2019

John

Excellent resort but crazy flight costs

Like all Maldive resorts you expect to be ripped off. The actual cost of staying in the resort was reasonable enough. It is the extras such as $550 for a 20 minute flight from Male you can book direct for $40......the 20 minute flight from Male cost more than the four hour flight from Bangkok!!. A 12$ mask and snorkel was priced $52 in the resort store. Having said that I found the staff exceptionally good, the food very good (my wife gained 5lbs in a week) and overall we loved the resort. We had a wonderful time.

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

24 May 2019

Igor

Can't wait to go back!

Top notch service, tasty food.

Family

10/10

Exceptional

10 Apr 2019

Verified traveler

The service, facilities and cleanliness were all excellent. A very relaxed holiday! The all-inclusive package is also very reasonable!

Friends_and_family Friends

8/10

Excellent

06 Dec 2018

KATHY

It is a beautiful island with friendly staff and white sandy beaches. There is a small reef around the island, but most of it is dead. You still get to see some fish and some black- and white-tipped reef sharks. We went B&B which gave us the oppertunity to eat much more cheaply at the pool bar which does excellent meals. We also enjoyed the a la carte restaurant by the beach which cost us as much as the buffet would have done but with drinks. Thought this much better value than buffet every night where you feel obliged to eat so much to get your $50 worth!

8/10

Excellent

17 Oct 2018

Verified traveler

A good short break to destress!

Overall, my friend and I had a good holiday, although it did start off a bit badly with our room with twin beds not being ready until 6.30 pm, when we had arrived at 4.30 pm. As we had booked at the last minute, we were also unable to get one of the beach view villas, which appeared to be in better condition than our garden view villa, and which were of course more convenient for snorkeling. At the house reef beyond the stone wall around the island, we were able to see different fishes, and even sharks and a hawksbill turtle, although the corals were a bit bleached. This bleaching was also apparent at excursions to see mantas and turtles. I hope to see more efforts at the rebuilding of house reefs, as well as worldwide efforts to cut down temperature rise and deleterious climate change.

Friends

10/10

Exceptional

20 Apr 2018

Verified traveler

A few days in Paradise

Amazing place, staff friendly, great beach and pool. Bar open 24h.
Connexion to the airport not very good because we need to take comercial flight to Male.

Friends

8/10

Excellent

01 Feb 2018

Verified traveler

Amazing holidays

We liked everything about this resort, the food, the helpful staff, the pool, the crystal blue beach...
The transfers are organised and the staff will help you with everything.

10/10

Exceptional

30 Nov 2017

Charlton

Bit Outdated Rooms but Great Price & Hotel

The transfers were very easy, however it is quite far from the main Male airport and takes about 2 hours to get there in total. Food was great, entertainment and staff though the rooms were a bit outdated and could use a remodel - Price per night reflects this though, in comparison to the rest of the Maldives.

Family

10/10

Exceptional

28 Aug 2017

Dilyara

Hotel, food, the beach are excellent but pricy .

The watersports activities were brilliant, especially Elvis is a very experienced and caring person, he did everything to make sure we enjoyed the holiday and water activities, very attentive to everyone and always was concerned about the safety and the time spent using sporting facilities, manages his team prescisly to their abilities and all together it's a great , always smiling and skilful team, really recommend all the water activities!
The massage on the beach was always awesome:)

10/10

Exceptional

12 Mar 2016

tariq

Fabulous!!\n

Very clean, food was great, we liked that it's close to the beach.

6/10

Pleasant

04 Jan 2016

JANUSZ

You might be paying for 5 star
But the resort is no more then 3.5 or 4 star

Family

10/10

Exceptional

11 Oct 2015

Verified traveler

I could not believe the idyll beauty

A sort of honeymoon.

My wife was 3 months pregnant.

I have seen white beaches in photos before.

The entire holiday. Island Resort,Villas, Food , Staff and the weather was as if photo shopped in real life.

The staff were soo utterly polite and helpful.

2/10

Poor

02 Jan 2015

starman

Terrible service, overpriced

Hotel is very old, out dated. I have not used a tube tv for over 15 years.

Cleaning service non existent!

8/10

Excellent

08 Oct 2014

James

Excellent Resort

The Royal Island Resort & Spa provides splendid beachfront just outside your villa style room. I very much enjoyed my walks along the beach surrounding the island and breathtaking views of the sunset. Snorkeling on site was wonderful, especially around the service jetty pier and the reef areas that surround the island. Royal Island Resort & Spa also provides excellent indoor recreational facilities including table tennis, badmington, racquetball & squash.... especially useful on a rainy day.

10/10

Exceptional

23 Jun 2014

Rosie

Romantic Beach Resort

Really glad that we picked this island for our honeymoon! Complimentary dinner, champagne and fruit basket as part of the honeymoon offer just made our stay at this resort even better! Everything is terrific except the extra journey to the island is long, which involved a domestic flight and a boat ride. However the service was great that we had people handling the luggage throughout the transfer. Wished I knew this earlier then I would have stayed in Male for that night and did the transfer next morning. Interaction with other guests was minimum as we were told that the island is popular amongst Russians and Germans. The island doesn't offer much entertainment but plenty of water sports and activities. We spent a lot of time at the bar drinking cocktails and using the free wifi as wifi are not available from the rooms. Overall a good experience! spectacular views and had some relaxing time on the island.

10/10

Exceptional

08 May 2014

Adwaita

Awesome

One of the best holidays I have ever had. I planned my honeymoon there and there was not a single opportunity for dissappointment. Just perfect. The honeymoon dinner by the beach was lovely aswell. Very courteous staff and always willing to help. I stayed by the beach (room 105) and really loved it. We will visit again. Love. Adwaita & Sreevidya

Partner

4/10

Poor

20 Feb 2014

Verified traveler

NOT A 5 STAR. AT BEST A 3 STAR

a 3 star in disguise as a 5 star
suitable for package tourists

8/10

Excellent

06 Sep 2013

Dmitry

Island-wide hotel

Island and hotel
Island is beautiful: a lot of trees, white sand on the beach. Two restaurants. Individual beach villas. Gym is present, good-equipped for hotel.

Animals
Here you can find: birds, crabs, lizards, insects (bugs, ants, mosquito), snakes (yeah, I've seen one), a lot of different fish (jellyfish (0,5m diameter!), sharks, full-colored fish)

Rooms
Rooms are beach villas (some of them are individual, others are combined with 2 rooms in 1 physical house). Beach villa has two exits - one to inner island road, another one - to the individual piece of the beach. Every day we found 4-6 ants in the room (we didn't ever keep doors open): 1-2 big flying ants, 2-3 medium size ants and 1-2 ants of small size. So you can find ants of any size you like :). Bathroom has a half-opened roof: half of the bathroom is under the roof, second half (where the shower is) is under the sky. Wall at the roof-less part is about 2 meters high, so if you are tall.. Strange experience.

Food.
Food is different. Beef, fish, chicken, seafood, salads, vegetables and fruits, desserts. A lot of curry-filled food. Almost all beef is tough. Just once we had good-cooked beef meat. Fruits has very lite taste, up to tasteless at all (except pineapples). Dessert are awesome :)

10/10

Exceptional

28 Aug 2013

Afshan

Fantastic resort, lots for everyone but expensive!

As a family we chose this resort because of the different activities it offered as well as the convenience of accommodation. I can say that we weren't disappointed. There is so much to do for both adults and children - from the many water activities to the sports activities such as the tennis courts, gym, badminton etc. In terms of social life, we spent different afternoons and evenings in the Boli Bar where we enjoyed the local entertainment shows, or quiet evening drinks by the swimming pool area. It was also one of only two places that offered Wifi on the island which I think needs to change. The sea is beautiful for swimming/snorkeling. All the staff were polite and went out of their way to help. Speaking to staff, it was evident that this was an ethos instilled and promoted by all staff (400 of them) at the resort. In particular I want to express our thanks to Sham, our dedicated restaurant waiter, Rashid who went out of his way to talk to our children and build a friendship with them. Also, Samee & Ibrahim who always kept our villa clean and tidy. This was our second visit after many years (we were a couple then), and the resort did everything to show how much they valued this. BUT THERE IS LITTLE CONSIDERATION IN TERMS OF EXPENSE FOR FAMILIES. We know Maldives to be more expensive, however, surely Royal need to realise that if you always charge per person for everything, it's simply unaffordable for a family of 4 or 5. Need to offer family deals for meals & activities.

Family

10/10

Exceptional

12 Jul 2013

Moamen

Very friendly and organized relaxing resort

They have very friendly staff. I was received at the airport by one of the hotel agents who took care of the bags and everything regarding transportation to the hotel. Not only they have a pleasant welcoming smile but they are cery helpful and they do their best to make your stay relaxing and comfortable. You just ENJOY!

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

09 Jul 2013

Bronwyn

A Royal experience at a reasonable cost.

Our short stay was to celebrate a birthday. The resort staff were unbelievably friendly, and decorated our bed with flowers, had a birthday cake and sang traditional birthday songs at the restaurant. All staff, from reception to restaurant, villa attendant, bar, dive centre and spa and beauty centre were all extremely friendly, cooperative and always had a smile on their faces. All staff, no matter who, when or where you met them, would say hello and give a big smile. We would recommend Royal Island Resort and Spa to anyone. Our only mistake was we booked for only 5 nights - should have been 10 at least. Will definitely be returning.

Partner