Beach rentals in Mathiveri

Oleg__N Russia

Hospitable, responsive, friendly and positive staff, always ready to assist with any question. Perfect cleanliness, delicious food; water, coffee and tea are always available. The room is equipped with everything you need, including a hairdryer, comfortable bed. The room is about 22-23 square meters, furniture and everything is new. Excellent value for money. Interesting excursions to lagoons to manta rays, whale sharks, uninhabited islands, snorkeling, dolphin and fishing trips. We’ve chosen the manta ray one and it was magnificent. The staff takes pictures of you on underwater camera and sends you the edited video, you don't even have to take your camera. You can make a jet ski ride or take a canoe (1 and/or 2-seater) and go to the nearby very pretty picnic island, or swim to it, which can be dangerous for untrained swimmers – the current is quite fast in the strait. There are only 4 rooms in the guesthouse, not many people in the hotel courtyard. Local residents are very kind and friendly. In general, the island is practically free of tourists, so beaches and the whole island are clean, especially the deserted bikini beach - complete experience of nature 😊 (compared to neighboring islands, with a lot of tourists). Bikini beach is good enough for tourists with young children: shallow water and almost never waves – the whole island is protected from large waves by a reef encircling from all sides, the water is always transparent. There are corals in the shore area, but not too much. Wildlife is very diverse, several times a day eagle stingrays swim by in 5 meters from the shore. There are a lot of nurse sharks in the harbor. Stingray beach is not bad, also with stingrays. Sun-set beach is magnificent because of its palm grove. Some of the best photos are from this beach.

Fatima France

Riveli Retreat has a location - one of the best in Matheveri! The nearest bikini beach is 7 minutes walk. In the rooms expect comfortable furniture, silent air conditioning, wardrobe, flat-screen TV and wifi. There is also a private balcony and a private bathroom with a shower. Farhad, the owner, is very friendly and helpful, he will help with tours and activities like snorkeling, diving, fishing as well as sea excursions. We had the chance to see Turtles, Dolphins, Sharks and went to the Sandbank for a picnic. The guest house offers also a delicious restaurant with a menu of dishes of local and western cuisine. He offers a very welcoming atmosphere and absolute comfort at an affordable price. I definitely would recommend this guesthouse.

Ioan Romania

Simply put, we had a wonderful stay. The hotel is probably the best you can get in Mathiveri. It is brand new, with very nice, bright, well equipped, and clean rooms. The personnel did their best to make our stay great. The included breakfast was excellent, with plenty of quality food. Dinner can be also served at the hotel, and it was delicious (offers wider selection, but we focused mainly on grilled reef fish). Good restaurants nearby. The hotel has a convenient location, too. The 3 minutes’ walk to the bikini beach (which is amazing!) through a very nice forest path (that offers protection from sun burns). Highly recommended.

Mónika Hungary

Highly recommended accomodation.

Nissim Israel

Close to the bikini beach (about 50m). The little sand bank island is also close by. Breakfast was nice. They offered to use their 2 kayaks for free.

Irena Serbia

Perfect location right next to the beach, breakfast as expected, clean and comfortable, staff very helpful and friendly, wonderful excursions, Areesh is the most ethical and humble person on the island

Arno Austria

We had a most magical time at Sands Inn at Mathiveri. The Fahudh and Niro are the most lovely people and made us feel comfortable at once. Fahudh, the manager was always reachable and helped us with everything, starting with typical requests like travel arrangements and trips, but also with other wishes and problems like buying some special local food or an ATM machine, that did not work on our last day, when we urgently needed cash. We had breakfast and lunch everyday. The food Niro prepared was incredible good and diverse, although we are difficult to serve as vegans. ;) Vegan fluffy pancakes like we never had before and the curries we will remember forever. The location of the Inn was also perfect. In 2-3 minutes to dreamy spots at the bikini beach and as well in 3 minutes at the harbour, where we watched dozens of nurse sharks and stingrays at many nights. Google maps makes it look like the bikini beach, is in the south west further away, but when we were there in November 2023 many parts along the south side were designated as bikini beach. On the public beaches you really have to be covered or someone will immediately tell you to put on clothes. But this is the same on all local islands. We did two trips. One to see Mantas and one to see Whale Sharks and both were successful and good organized. The snorkelling possibilities on south side, bikini beach are not so great. We found some nice spots behind the picinic island, where you can easily swim to. But there is also a better snorkelling area south of the harbour. There you have to pass a long not so deep area with corals to get to the deeper and beautiful area. This is only possible during the high tide. It is a bit stressful not to touch the Corals. The danger of getting hurt by the Corals is not so high, but you should also not touch them in order not to destroy them. Of course you have to swim with long cloth there, but you want to do this on sunny days anyway in order not to get heavily sun burned.

Paulina Poland

Very nice place and helpful host. Already miss that place!

Denisa Czech Republic

Nice and clean room, very friendly

Mahmudur Rahman Bangladesh

This is an excellent location for snorkelling. The Villa was superb with private beach, astonishing sunset. The restaurant and food was really good, thanks to the chef. Staffs are really helpful in everyway. And the fishing experience was mindblowing. Thanks to everyone, we enjoyed a lot.