Ellaidhoo Tourist Resort


Ellaidhoo is a small coral island with a total land area of 55,625 square metres. The island is 300 metres long and 280 metres wide, and is covered by thick tropical vegetation. The total built up area of the island is only 7,060 square metres (12.7% of the total land area). The magnificent house reef just 20 metres away from the beach surrounding the island, is the hallmark of the resort. Ellaidhoo is located on the eastern fringes of North Ari Atoll, about 42 km from Male’ International Airport and 40 km from Male’ (the capital island of Maldives). Transfer time between the airport and the resort is 20 minutes by seaplane and 1 hour 30 minutes by speedboat.

ACCOMMODATION
There is a total of 78 rooms with open-bath, individual air conditioning, min-bar, telephone, hair dryer, television. All the rooms have a private patio/terrace for you to relax after a good day out in the sun.

WINNING & DINING
The Food and Beverage outlets on Ellaidhoo offer a variety of local and international dishes.

MAIN RESTAURANT
The main restaurant is open at fixed times and serves in buffet breakfasts, lunch and buffet dinner.

COFFEE SHOP
The coffee shop with Internet is open from 9am in the morning until midnight and serves different hot and cold beverages, snacks, and various local and international dishes. Internet service is also available here at set times during the day.

MAIN BAR
The main bar is open throughout the day from seven in the morning until the last guest leaves at night. A variety of exotic cocktails and alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages are available.

ENTERTAINMENT
To make your holiday more enjoyable, we organise weekly entertainment programs at the main bar including disco, live music and movies.

SPORTS CENTRE
It has variety of sports both INDOOR and OUTDOOR Games, and here some of the facilities and activities are:
· Gym Work out · Aerobics · Spinning Sauna & Jacuzzi · Billiards · Squash · Tennis · Table Soccer

While you are at the sports centre enjoy our spa and the various therapies available there. You can also indulge yourself into the indoor and outdoor Jacuzzi or relax yourself in the sauna.

While you are in the SPORTS CENTRE you can enjoy your drinks at the DHOARA BAR located beside the SPORTS CENTRE RECEPTION.

DIVING
Ellaidhoo has one of the best house reefs of any resort island in the Maldives, just 20 metres away from the beach. Lobsters, turtles, white tip and grey reef sharks, jack fish, barracudas and tuna fish, just to name a few, can be observed among the beautiful multi-coloured soft corals of the house reef. If you are lucky, you may also see manta and eagle rays passing by. To the south of the island there is a vertical drop-off up to 25 metres with caves at three different levels starting from 6 metres. There is also a small wreck providing shelter for all kinds of small and large fish. Tourists from resort islands as far as North Male’ Atoll visits on diving excursions to see the spectacular house reef of Ellaidhoo.

Sub Aqua - Germany (famous for operating diving schools around the world) runs our dive school with qualified diving instructors and offers courses for beginners and experienced divers in German and English language. The dive base also offers NITROX, DRAEGER Atlantis 1 SCR and Buddy Inspiration CCR courses and awards PADI, NAUI, ANDI and RAB certificates.

Half day and full day diving excursions are organised to visit some of the best dive sites in the Maldives such as Fish Head, Maya Thila, Halaveli Wreck (sting ray city II) and Fesdhoo Wreck. Day and night non-limited diving on the house reef is also available for experienced divers.

WATER SPORTS
Ellaidhoo Water Sports Centre is located in Maagaa island (our sister island just 10 minutes boat ride away) and offers wind surfing, catamaran sailing, water skiing, jet skiing, knee boarding, wake boarding, banana riding and fun tube riding.

LAND SPORTS
If you feel like it, you can join our staff for a game of football, volleyball, badminton or table tennis.

EXCURSIONS
There are nearly 1200 small islands and an abundance of beautiful coral reefs in the Maldives. To give you the opportunity of visiting some of these islands and reefs, we organise weekly excursion programs.

ISLAND HOPPING
Full day excursion to an uninhabited island and a resort island, with BBQ lunch included.

VISIT HANGNAMEEDHOO
Half-day trip to an inhabited island where you can experience the daily life of local people.

SNORKELLING TRIP
Half-day snorkelling on the house reefs of two resort islands.

SNORKELLING SAFARI
Half-day snorkelling on some of the reefs near Ellaidhoo.

SUNSET FISHING
Fishing on a boat at a nearby reef at sunset, followed by a BBQ dinner. Likely catches include snappers, jack fish and groupers.

NIGHT FISHING
Fishing on a boat at a nearby reef late in the evening, with a BBQ dinner on the following day. Likely catches include snappers, jack fish and groupers.

MORNING FISHING
Trolling for fish early in the morning, with BBQ dinner on the same day included. Wahoo, barracuda, sailfish dolphin fish etc. are commonly caught during morning fishing.

SOUVENIR SHOP
The island boutique offers a variety of souvenirs, post-cards, T-shirts, colourful tropical clothes, ornaments and many more.

CURRENCY
United States Dollar is commonly used on the island. But other major hard currencies regulated by the Maldives Monetary Authority are also accepted. You can pay your bills in cash, travellers’ cheques and Master/Visa credit cards. Personal cheques, Euro cheques and Euro cards are not accepted.

ELECTRICITY
Electricity voltage is 220v.

TIME
The time in Ellaidhoo is GMT+6 hours, which is one hour ahead of standard Maldivian time.