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A green island in the far reaches of Raa, owner-built on an old coconut plantation, where the reef runs right up to the sand and the eco programme is more than a marketing line.
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Award Winner 2019
Asia's Best Beach or Coastal Hotel
Need To Know
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145 villas across eight categories, from Garden Villas to two-bedroom water suites, 44 of them standing over the lagoon.
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Set on Filaidhoo, a 600 by 350 metre private island in southern Raa Atoll, reached by a 45-minute seaplane or a domestic flight to Dharavandhoo plus speedboat.
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The island runs on its own clock, an hour ahead of Malé, for an extra hour of evening light.
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Family-friendly, with two children under 12 staying and eating free; equally well-suited for couples and honeymooners.
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Six restaurants and six bars, a PADI five-star dive centre and one of the best-equipped water sports centres in the Maldives.
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Our Favourite Rooms: a sunset-facing Water Villa for the light, or a Deluxe Beach Pool Villa for a private pool and the reef a few steps away.
Check in - Check out
Check in from 14:00; check out before 12:00.
We Love
- The reef at your door. Eight marked channels ring the island, so the best snorkelling is a barefoot walk from your villa, not a boat trip.
- Conservation that holds up. Coral nurseries, a Manta Trust ID project and Olive Ridley turtle work sit alongside solar, hydroponics and a biogas plant fed by the kitchen.
- The Reethi Grill. Fish off the open flame at a table on the sand, with the lagoon going dark in front of you, is the meal worth planning around.
- An island that is actually green. Filaidhoo was a coconut plantation, so its interior is dense jungle rather than the usual bare strip of sand.
- Water toys for every mood. Catamarans and paddleboards for the slow days; flyboards, parasailing and Seabobs when you want the jolt.
Key Features
Book Your Stay at Reethi Faru Resort
€117.10 for 1 Night
Location
Address
Raa Atoll, Maldives
Travel Info
Fly into Malé International (MLE), then transfer by 45-minute seaplane, or a domestic flight to Dharavandhoo plus a 40-minute speedboat. The resort arranges both at booking. The island is car-free and walkable end to end.
Nearby Places
Guests will arrive into Male’ International Airport (MLE), a specially built island, close to the capital Malé. After completing immigration formalities, guests have an option take the more expensive, but scenic, seaplane directly to the resort or a short domestic flight to Dharavandhoo followed by 30-minute speedboat ride. The resort can organize either mode of transport at the time of booking.
160km
Last Updated: 2026-06-26
Expert Review
Origins
Reethi Faru is owned and run by Mahogany Pvt Ltd, the Maldivian company behind the long-established Reethi Beach Resort in Baa Atoll. It opened in December 2017 as Reethi Beach's sister island, built on Filaidhoo: an old coconut plantation in the quiet south of Raa Atoll, far enough north of Malé to feel properly off the map.
The idea was an eco resort that gave you Maldivian luxury without the top-tier bill, and the conservation work is what earns the bio-luxury label rather than just decorating it. Artificial coral nurseries are rebuilding the house reef. A partnership with the Manta Trust logs individual rays by the spot patterns on their undersides. The Olive Ridley Project guides turtle monitoring on the island. Out of sight there are solar arrays, reverse-osmosis water, hydroponic greenhouses, a small mushroom farm and a biogas plant that turns food waste into cooking fuel. Little of it is for the brochure, which in this part of the world is worth saying out loud.
Top Secret
The resort will set a private table for two on a bare sandbank in the middle of the ocean, carried out and collected by boat.
The Review
Most Maldivian islands are a thin bright crescent of sand. Filaidhoo is a jungle. It was a coconut plantation before it was a resort, and the dense green interior is the first thing you notice stepping off the seaplane, before the water even sinks in. That difference carries the whole place.
The reef is the second thing. It runs almost unbroken around the island, opened by eight marked channels, which means snorkelling here is something you do on a whim before breakfast rather than an outing you book and board a boat for. Guests come back for that, not for the rooms, and they are right to.
Reethi Faru is not a small or precious hotel. It has 145 villas across eight types and the easy all-inclusive rhythm of an island that hosts honeymooners and families in the same week and has made its peace with both. The trick it pulls is space: the island is big enough that the couple in a sunset water villa and the family of four in a garden villa never quite collide. Book the over-water villas on the sunset flank for the light, or a beach villa for the few steps between bed and reef.
Eat at the Reethi Grill. Six restaurants and six bars are strung along the shore and the main buffet is genuinely good, but the grill is where the kitchen shows its hand: fish off the open flame, a table on the sand, the lagoon going dark in front of you. The cocktails are weak, so ask for the extra measure and stop expecting subtlety.
The conservation is the part that surprised me. It would be easy to print "bio-luxury" on the brochure and leave it there; instead there are coral nurseries rebuilding the reef, a Manta Trust project cataloguing each ray by the spots on its underside, turtle monitoring with the Olive Ridley Project, and a back-of-house of solar, hydroponics and a biogas plant running on the kitchen's own waste. Take the sandbank trip and you may end up in the middle of a few hundred dolphins; it is the rare paid excursion that overdelivers.
So who is it for. Reethi Faru is an honest four-star-plus, and it suits the traveller who wants a brilliant reef, a green island and real ecological intent over thread-count and theatre. It will frustrate anyone after five-star polish: service charge and tax pile onto extras, dinner wants a booking even on an empty night, and the older villas show some wear. Go for what the island actually is, a barefoot eco resort with one of the best house reefs in the country, and it is hard to leave on schedule.
