Kaani Palm Beach

Maldives , Maldives
Maafushi, Ziyaaraiy Magu Road
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50 reviews shown

10/10

Exceptional

20 Feb 2026

jevon

wonderful staff in hotel and restaurant; very nice breakfast buffet; large room with nice balcony; great location right on the beach. had a wonderful 3 night visit and would stay again if i return to maafushi.

Self

6/10

Pleasant

16 Feb 2026

Giulia

The hotel is probably one of the best options you can find in Maafushi, however, the standard is fairly low. The room was quite clean and spacious, and the balcony view on the sea is really pleasant. The negative points are a warn out lobby and a less than premium check in experience. You are only given a towel and face towel per person (forget about slippers). The restaurant food is acceptable but
Overall the hotel has an overcrowded feeling. The staff is generally kind but does not give the impression of being properly trained.

8/10

Excellent

23 Jan 2026

Patricia

Boring breakfast with limited fresh fruits and veggies.
Boring buffet dinner. I recommend, you don’t buy with your stay. Same boring foods with limited fruits and veggies.
City view is “building view”. No city, just walls and bricks.
It’s good hotel for those who are budget conscious.
IT’S A DRY RESORT. No alcohol beverages sold at the hotel or surrounding restaurants.
Loved the cleanliness. It’s clean.
Loved the staff. Professional. Staff is nice. THEY TAKE GREAT CARE IF YOU.
Loved the location. Great location.
All roads surrounding the hotel are made of dirt so, no cute shoes. The beach is extremely rocky so wear water shoes to protect your feet.

Leisure Friends

10/10

Exceptional

20 Jan 2026

KAREN

I communicated in my reservation my view preference and upon arrival , you exceeded my expectations! I was comfortably snd extremely pleased with the accommodations. customer service, location, my food and the kindness of your staff. Allon was especially kind in helping make my husband's birthday very special by y being attentive and taking a few photos of our dining. Thank you to the entire waitstaff and my french toadt and omelet makers! Immefiate eye contact and a big smile always. Will not stay anywhere else when I return.

Leisure Partner

10/10

Exceptional

06 Jan 2026

Jardina

View from the balcony was superb. Staff were very friendly. Buffet breakfast was good. Restaurant food was also good. Pool was fantastic.

Leisure Family

10/10

Exceptional

25 Dec 2025

Mohammed

Great hotel, location, staff and service were would definitely recommend

Leisure Family

10/10

Exceptional

19 Nov 2025

Tevin

Amazing staff and rooms

Leisure Partner

10/10

Exceptional

12 Oct 2025

Wendy

Excellent!! The tours the best

10/10

Exceptional

03 Oct 2025

Maria

Excellent

Leisure Friends

10/10

Exceptional

17 Jul 2025

Trevor

Super friendly staff, great location and excellent food options

Leisure Partner

10/10

Exceptional

18 Mar 2025

Sandip

Great hotel, staff and views

What a wonderful stay we had. The hotel is right on the bikini beach so you step out of the hotel and BAM beach time. The hotel is clean and fresh and everyone has their role to play. Great snorkeling experience and felt safe and well looked after.

Meal options are fab and the buffet dinner is a treat.

We stayed in the deluxe room with balcony, room 1704 and it was amazing to see the sun set, beach from our bed.

We met Anisur whilst dinning and he was always so friendly with us. Giving us tips off lovely food and drinks to try at that time. He was attentive with our dishes and drinks and always was very respectful and happy and smiling. A true asset as out a lot of other staff we met but couldn't remember there names.

Absolutely recommend this hotel and look forward to coming again.

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

04 Mar 2025

Tristan

Magic, Roxanne, Try, Maga, Linda and Shafiq were all amazing. All the staff were super friendly and helpful The individuals named above went above and beyond to make our stay and our marriage ceremony amazing. My wife and I couldn't be happier, and we will certainly be coming back. Thanks again to our new friends at the Kaani Palm Beach.

Leisure Partner

10/10

Exceptional

19 Jan 2025

Saulius

Good Hotel

Hotel nice all good.
Stay next time....

Friends_and_family Family

10/10

Exceptional

06 Dec 2024

Michael Leon

Incredible peaceful setting. The staff always ready to help in any way, another towel? Don't need service? ok, but here is your complementary water for today. Just need towels, no problem.
Beautiful lounge area as you enter. Excellent dining area and breakfast buffet!

Leisure Family

10/10

Exceptional

17 Nov 2024

anna

happy with everything

Leisure Self

10/10

Exceptional

10 Nov 2024

Yuriy

10/10

Exceptional

13 Sep 2024

Naresh-Kumar

Kaani Palm beach was excellent hotel. I enjoyed my 3 days with very good breakfast. My room was beach facing with balcony. Clean and resonabily maintained service items. One of the plugs was not work. I repoted and they sent a electrician straightway.
A small but decent infinitely pool was very good with excellent views.
Face to face communication was very good with the staff. But over the telephone, it was a bit weak.
The weakest link is the advise on transfer from the airport to Maafushi is less frequent outside of 7 am to 6 pm, also the costly.
Hope some clear information transfers and well published timetables would have been very useful.

Self

8/10

Excellent

14 Jul 2024

Vyacheslav

I had top room with ocean view. Can only recommend if you can afford it.
Infinity pool on the rooftop \"must see\" place
No fitnes or anything for sport in the hotel! Plan rather watersport activities.

Leisure Self

8/10

Excellent

10 Apr 2024

Anik

“Pleasant Stay.”

Positive Points:
1. Amazing view from the balcony (top floor).
2. Wonderful location (travel-friendly crowd).
3. ⁠Staffs of the restaurant were well-trained.

Negative Points:
1. The difference of the room rate from one website to another (or direct rate from the property) is huge.
2. ⁠Staffs of the reception should be professional.

Leisure Partner

10/10

Exceptional

16 Jun 2023

Hassan

The sea view is beautiful

Leisure Partner

10/10

Exceptional

30 Apr 2023

Anita

Staff is amazing, helpful and very attentive: it was wonderful experience staying there. Breakfast was delicious with lots of variety and we went on 4 excursions with Kaani team and everything was fantastic! Well organized, on time, and again, wonderful staff! Certainly recommend.

Leisure Partner

8/10

Excellent

23 Apr 2023

Lorraine

We stayed here for 9 nights, celebrating our 20th anniversary!

PROS: staff - some staff members (Karim in the restaurant) go above and beyond, excursions were fantastic - we done snorkeling with sharks and the turtles, both were brilliant, the staff running these excursions are amazing and do absolutely everything in their power to make sure you have the best experience, a la carte dining is exceptional, pool, spa etc were all great, I'd recommend having a massage while you're here.

CONS: our bedding was not changed once, housekeeping was quite basic, our room was tiny (city view 2905) as was the balcony-not the room shown on expedia, the minute you arrive you're bombarded with excursion options - which were massively oversubscribed, the shower pressure in our room was a poor, there was a terrible smell, we asked them to look at this and they sent someone up who turned it on and said its ok and left.

Whilst out one night a storm hit, on return to our room there was puddles of water on the ledge above the bed, mattress, bedding was soaked, maintenence came up climbed outside and pointed out where water was coming in, said they'd sort it, but no mention of wet bed, my husband said no this was the last straw we want moved, the boy that came to take us to the new room was really rude basically indicating we'd done it! New room was huge, shower pressure perfect, huge balcony and the same as on expedia!

We did have a great time, its a lovely hotel and we'd come back.

Leisure Partner

10/10

Exceptional

05 Oct 2022

Amira

I have just returned to Canada after my stay at Palm beach hotel.
I had a great vacation thanks to the efforts of the Palm beach staff and especially Magic (ask for him).
The room was clean and the food was good.
I tried almost all the excusrions they had and I was very happy that I gave it a try as I enjoyed every single one ( Hasan will take amazing pictures of you ).
I strongly recommand this hotel.

Leisure Family

6/10

Pleasant

18 Jul 2022

Cade Aniseto

It was probably the best hotel for the amount of money we paid. Its definitely not luxurious or anything. There is no AC except in the hotel room. The food buffet is terrible, wet bread, rice and chicken every day. The breakfast doesn't even have real bread, ham and cheese or anything like that. Its better to just book the hotel and eat in the restaurants right next to it. The bed was very comfortable and the room was clean.

Leisure Partner

8/10

Excellent

31 May 2022

Vivian

Things that I liked: staff responsiveness, room size, comfy bed and pillows, internet speed and connectivity.

Things that I didn't like: the buffet didn't have enough varieties, the bath towels were not fresh and overly recycled. These could be better.

Leisure Self

6/10

Pleasant

29 May 2022

Kamalika

Great Property poor staff focus - Customer Service

Great property for an open island stay

Excellent location with options for sports activities and restaurants very close to the hotel

The hotel has its private beach, well maintained & great view from the hotel

Customer service needs a complete revisit. Due to the dominant position of Kaani Palm hotel, staff only focused on add-on sales but not focused on customer service.

Poor communication skills lead to staff becoming too argumentative and over-explaining why requests or services can not be provided rather than helping customers.

Issues faced:
- When we booked almost 3 month+ early, we requested all 3 rooms to be next to each other. No acknowledgment at the time of check-in and the staff explained too long why the request is a request and should not have expected it to be honored rather than look for it.

- Poor check-in experience since it took almost half an hour for the front desk to check in as they fumbled over each other to check in.

- The TV did not work for 3 days (in our 3 rooms booked) and none of the staff solved it after continuous complaints each day. (Probably this is because each connection cost money and staff was not interested to hence solve it)

- Specific office staff (Kadir) assigned for our 3 rooms- once he got the tip after dropping our first day. Only checked once for booking excursions but any issue was reported he just ignored

We used iCom company (close to resort) for transportation and water excursions (much cheaper & excellent)

Friends_and_family Family

10/10

Exceptional

25 May 2022

Norma

I really the hotel, it is in front of the best beach on the island (bikini beach), food is okay and Tours are fun. The hotel is very small but well maintained. Rooms are medium size and very clean and comfortable beds. Drinking bottle Waters given everyday. Staff is very nice, helped to get my luggage from the airport the next day. Area is nice, whole are is safe to walk at night. The island is very small and can see it all in 20 mins. Kaani hotels are a chain with few hotel in the island, next to each other. I have stayed in another one before but this one is defiantly worth paying the extra money. I really recommend this hotel and I would stay here again if I come back. I would probably do tours and meals outside just because are cheaper but the hotel has the convenience of having it right there without leavings the property.

Leisure Friends

10/10

Exceptional

15 May 2022

Darlene

I had an amazing experience with Kaani Palm, location, staff, food, activities and the spectacular view are just exceptional. Highly recommended!!! To Cherry, Rami and Michael thanks to you guys!

Leisure Self

10/10

Exceptional

18 Mar 2022

Kristopher

Awesome experience. Friendly staff, very clean. A

Leisure Partner

2/10

Poor

17 Mar 2022

Shyla

I didn't like anything about this property they should be fined for false advertising about their facilities. The biggest rip off and dump.

Leisure Partner

6/10

Pleasant

14 Jan 2022

Chaitu

Dinner buffet is worst even can’t eat one single item also

Leisure Partner

10/10

Exceptional

03 Jan 2022

Anders

It was what I expected, which is good.
Slightly short on sunloungers, but if you are out early....

Leisure Self

10/10

Exceptional

27 Dec 2021

Maura

Relaxing, comfortable holiday on a lovely island

I chose this hotel initially because most of the other hotels were either booked or charging exorbitant rates. I wanted a comfortable room with a beautiful view and was not disappointed. The customer service here was top notch and everyone was very friendly - especially Cherry (spelling?) who greeted us at the port. Everyone smiled and went out of their way to say hello, and many remembered my name after the first encounter. However, they also respected my privacy. The room was also clean, affordable and a very good bargain. The island is a dry island as there is a local populations, but I am not a drinker so didn't mind. I would stay here again, and recommend the hotel and island. They also ran some nice excursion tours with friendly and professional staff.

Self

8/10

Excellent

18 Dec 2021

Rohit

It was great experience , nice location.

Partner

2/10

Poor

15 Nov 2021

Mariz

Horrible hotel

It was horrible , the food was full of flies room was not good, late check in, the reception guy was so rude , not recommended at all

Partner

8/10

Excellent

07 Nov 2021

Mario

Very nice hotel and clean! Rooms are very modern and the food at the buffet was good. The hotel was a perfect location and has its own beach. If you’re island hopping, you have to get a PCR test at each island before you head to the next which we didn’t know until we got there. Staff was friendly and be ready for ‘island life’ as things are slower paced and sometimes unorganized but works out. Overall great experience!

Friends_and_family Friends

10/10

Exceptional

14 Oct 2021

Russell

The room was very clean, well thought out. Property was vey clean, staff were courteous and very helpful. Fully recommend!

Leisure Friends

8/10

Excellent

27 Aug 2021

Verified traveler

Maafushi Gem

Spent 2 days at this hotel in late August 2021. Check in was seamless and we had access to our room before 2p check-in time. Room was spacious with very comfortable king bed, complemented by clean, large bathroom. Inclusive breakfast offered large selection of foods for western and eastern palettes. Perfect beachfront location and rooftpp infinity pool with gorgeous view made our stay even more wothwhile. Very good experience overall.

Friends_and_family Friends

10/10

Exceptional

25 Aug 2021

Satyam

Very good property right on beach

Leisure Partner

8/10

Excellent

23 Aug 2021

Robert

The property was great!

Leisure Family

8/10

Excellent

09 Apr 2021

Verified traveler

The hotel itself is beautiful and the rooms are comfortable. The receptionist was very friendly and helpful. My only take is the food in the buffet, it’s absolutely not worth to book the room with prepaid meals, very boring buffet, they keep repeating the same dishes almost every day. Fruit was uncovered and the flys all over them. I don’t know if that poor service of the buffet was simply chef mistake or the management mistake, but the hotel surly need to work on their buffet system.

Leisure Partner

6/10

Pleasant

30 Mar 2021

Verified traveler

The room was clean and new, staff were so freindly.
The major thing that was so annoying is the flies on the food. I couldnt eat any meal in the hotel

Leisure Family

10/10

Exceptional

10 Mar 2021

Kjell

Superhotel (with one minus)

Everything was really good, location, staff, cleaning etc. Breakfast ok. Its a pity that such a good hotel had a big negative thing - the dinner. The buffé had almost no taste - needed a lot of salt and pepper, but the worst was that it was almost cold!!! Fix the dinner and it would be 100% perfect.

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

06 Mar 2021

Verified traveler

Great location very clean hotel, staff was great especially Sodir, food was good, many options around for dinner from locals.

Leisure Family

10/10

Exceptional

14 Feb 2021

Verified traveler

Great and lovely hotel, very helpful and nice staff, we really enjoyed our stay

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

17 Jan 2021

Pravin

Best Hotel for family stay in Maldives.

It was very nice and the hospitality is awesome by the staffs they really care us very much and helpful in guiding.

Friends_and_family Family

10/10

Exceptional

07 Jan 2021

Serafin

Wonderful!!

It was a pleasure to stay at the hotel. Great location, amazing swimming pool, kind and helpful staff. Probably the best hotel in Maafushi.

Friends_and_family Family

8/10

Excellent

03 Mar 2026

Rodrigo

Habitacion amplia y limpia. Desayuno promedio y sillas de playas antiguas.

8/10

Excellent

13 Jan 2026

MARCELO

A equipe do hotel , recepção , restaurante , praia , transporte é muito atenciosa . Ficamos em dois quartos no primeiro andar e isso foi bom pois não precisamos usar o elevador em todos os momentos. Em uma noite tivemos a visita de uma barata em um dos apartamentos, mas entendo se tratar de uma situação pontual.

Friends_and_family Family

10/10

Exceptional

27 Dec 2025

Mattias

Amazing staff - very friendly and service mindes.

Friends_and_family Family