Standard double on the first floor
A double bed, a desk with a plug beside it, and a shower room.
900.00 Per night
Fuvahmulah, Gnaviyani
Fourteen rooms, a free car at any hour, and breakfast at six
Built for divers, for people here on a contract, and for families visiting the island. Book direct, pay at reception, and ask us before you plan anything around a timetable.
Rooms and the island tour
Choose your dates
We hold the room while we confirm it, and nothing is paid on this website.
Twin room with a place to dry kit
Two singles, and a covered rack outside the door for wet gear.
1,050.00 Per night
Family room for five
A double, three singles, and a shower room big enough to queue for.
1,700.00 Per night
What you get whichever room you take
Breakfast from six
Because the dive boats go at half past and the first flight is earlier still.
Transfer at any hour
No charge, airport or harbour, and somebody awake for the late flight.
An honest answer about the sea
Where it is safe that morning, and when the answer is nowhere at all.
A room by the week
Priced for people working on the island rather than for a short visit.
Who stays here
Three sorts of people, and the house is built for all three rather than decorated for one.
Divers, here for what is in the water off the harbour, who need a rack outside the door, a rinse tub and food before six. People here to work, on a survey or a contract or a posting, who need a desk, a connection that holds up at night and an invoice in an office name. And Maldivian families visiting relatives, who need a room that takes five and a door that closes properly on the corridor.
What none of them get is a resort. There is no bar, no pool and no beach at the end of the garden, and the sea here does what the open ocean does. What they do get is a straight answer to every question, which on this island turns out to be worth more.
While you are here
What we do and what we arrange
Breakfast from six
Included with every room, and early enough for the boat.
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Transfer at any hour, no charge
Airport six minutes away, harbour twelve, and somebody awake for both.
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Diving, booked with a centre in town
We arrange it, we feed you first, and we do not take you underwater.
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The island tour, in a pickup
Four hours round the lakes, the mangroves and Thoondu.
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Laundry back the same evening
In by nine, folded at reception by six.
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Meals cooked in the house
Ask the night before and there will be dinner.
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14
Rooms
6
Minutes from the airport
2021
Open since
2
Freshwater lakes on the island
Guests
What people say afterwards
The rack outside the door and the rinse tub sound like nothing until you have stayed somewhere without them for ten days. Breakfast was ready at six every morning without being asked twice.
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Lukas B
Germany
Three weeks at the weekly rate, a desk that was actually usable, and an invoice in the office name without a fuss. I have stayed in worse places in Malé for twice the money.
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Ahmed Rilwan
On the island for a survey
Five of us in one room, a cot for the baby at no charge, and somebody who told us straight that the sea was no good for the children that day. We went back the next morning instead and it was perfect.
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The Shakir family
Malé
Before you book
The questions we answer every week
How do I get to Fuvahmulah
There are flights most days from Malé and they take a little under an hour and a half. The island has its own airport and we are six minutes from it.
There is also the boat from the south, which takes a few hours and runs when the sea allows. Send us your dates before you buy anything and we will tell you what is genuinely running that week.
What happens if my flight is cancelled
We keep nothing. Not the night, not a fee, not part of it. Write or send us a message whenever you find out, at any hour.
It happens often enough here that any other policy would simply be a way of charging people for the weather. If you are stuck on the island instead of leaving it, tell us and we will find you a bed even when the board says full.
Can you meet a late arrival
Yes, at any hour, and there is no charge for it.
The last flight lands when most of this street is asleep. Somebody is on call, the transfer is free, and you will walk into a room that is open rather than stand outside a locked door looking for a phone number.
Can I swim at the beach
Sometimes, and not everywhere. This is one island on its own in the open ocean with no lagoon around it, so the water at Thoondu can be flat on a Tuesday and unswimmable on the Wednesday.
Ask at reception on the day. Somebody who grew up here will tell you where the water is safe that morning and where it is not, and will tell you plainly when the answer is nowhere. Please do not swim alone.
What should I wear
Shoulders and knees covered anywhere off our own property. This is an inhabited island and people live their ordinary lives here.
Nobody will be rude to you about it and nobody is trying to catch you out. If you are heading to the water, put something over your swimming things for the walk and take it off at the beach.
Is alcohol available
No. It is not sold or served anywhere on this island, including here, and it cannot be brought in from the airport shop either.
If an evening drink matters to your trip then a resort or a liveaboard is the honest answer, and we would rather say so now than have you find out on the first night.
Send us your dates
Every request is answered the same day while reception is open, and nothing is paid on this website.
Or just ask
Write to us
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Where we are
Bileiy Magu, Dhadimagu Ward
Fuvahmulah City, Gnaviyani - Call us +960 686 4420
- WhatsApp 9607862240
- Email us stay@fehivalu.example
- Opening hours Reception open six in the morning until eleven at night Somebody on call all night for flights and the harbour Breakfast 6 to 10