Meeru- Your Home Away From Home
Message from the General Manager
As time flies, the Meeru family is looking back at a memorable and successful first quarter in which we warmly welcomed lots of new guests and good old friends to our island home. We are happy that we could be part of your holiday in the Maldives.
As the world celebrates “Labor Day”, whether you are working in the office, outside on the field or working from home, all jobs are appreciated. To our Meeru team members, your service to make Meeru a better place is valued and recognized. Thank you for your hard work.
Join us this month of May for exciting activities and special promotions, and celebrate with us another fantastic month in paradise.
Meeru Pool Party is a cool, bustling event at the Dhoni Bar pool, which takes place twice a month. Aqua Aerobics, try-out diving, water polo, unique cocktails and lots of fun that you want to take advantage of! Book your stay and pack your swimwear, as your Meeru family is ready to party with you!
This month we honour and celebrate one of the most important women in our lives – our dear mothers. May 14 is dedicated to appreciating a mother’s unconditional love, dedication and hard work, and we will be offering special spa packages, water sports activities, shopping and lots more activities. In Meeru, we know moms deserve something to treasure.
Stay up-to-date on all the happenings in Meeru or get inspired by checking out our Social Media accounts with many incredible photos, Facebook, Twitter or Meeru’s website for details about island life.
Your home away from home awaits you for an amazing time out. So have a break and book your escape to the Maldives; we can’t wait to welcome you soon.
You deserve a relaxing Meeru holiday!
Best wishes
Ali Shifaz
Genenral manager
Test Your Taste-Buds
Meeru Island is home to a lush vegetable and herb garden, a unique reason for the complimenting food coming onto your plate. Buffet restaurants, A’ la Carte restaurants, Theme Restaurants, Bars and Cafes, Meeru has everything to keep your taste buds on a culinary adventure throughout your extended stays at Meeru.
You will be experiencing Maldivian and International cuisines prepared by our excellent team to make your meal more memorable while enjoying breathtaking views and warm Maldivian hospitality.
Meeru Pool Party
Meeru hosts its pool party twice a month at Dhoni Bar Pool to cool down your hot sunny vacation in the Maldives into a relaxed, breezy holiday with many activities.
From Water polo to “Try-out diving”, where you get to try our Scuba Diving experience in a more controlled, safer environment, we have many activities to keep your afternoon fun and adventurous.
Everything started with my Open Water Course at Koh Tao, Thailand. I’m hooked with the first breath I took underwater – this magical and peaceful world with all these different colors and creatures made me forget about everything else. It felt like an addiction.
This time made me realize that I don’t want to keep diving only as a hobby. I wanted to become a Diving Instructor and make diving my profession.
I was working as an entertainer in one of the resorts in South Malé atoll. The first time I tried diving I absolutely fell in love with it, so every day off I would go diving.
I was lucky enough to meet people from Euro-Divers who helped me complete my instructor course and employment later on.
That trip changed everything. Since 2014, I visited more than 50 countries in three continents.
2019, 2020, 2021 – still in Maldives, enjoying what I love the most.
Im sonnigen Süden (Ägypten) lernte ich im Urlaub die unglaubliche Unterwasserwelt bei einem Schnuppertauchgang kennen und lieben.
Anfangs arbeitete ich im Tauchcenter im Büro, mir wurde jedoch schnell klar, dass ich die Gäste nicht nur über Wasser sondern auch unter Wasser begleiten wollte. Somit machte ich die Divemaster Ausbildung.
I studied Hotel management and ended up working for several years in different Hotels/Resorts around Italians seaside where I spend my days off diving and achieving the Dive Master rating.
I choose to stay in Oman because of its unspoiled dive site, beaches and many undiscovered dive places! We do not have mass tourism here and the country itself is spectacular besides being the safest place to live in.
Bored and burnt out of the stressful life in Holland, I quit my job as Manager Back Office & Finance and I went to Curacao for holiday. On this tropical island I took my first breaths under water with Instructor Marc, who is still my buddy in life.
Diving keeps me grounded, relaxed and connected with Mother Nature (myself). It supports me to let go, to put things into perspective and it helps me to stay focused and balanced in my position as a manager.
But diving was not at all my purpose of the journey, in fact I was not even a diver yet, I became a diver after I got passionate in freediving in Egypt in 2012 while freediving with dolphin in the wild, eager to become a snorkeling guide, I did my life guard licence and then my PADI open water!
I love freediving but scuba diving is an all other story for me, learning scuba diving make you discover part of yourself you didn’t know, you learn to control things that you would have never imagined possible, I regularly see many of my students discovering how calm they can be underwater when in life they tend to be hyperactive and then in the other hand I see calm or introverted persons becoming excited and move like a torpedo underwater 🙂 so diving might not be for everyone but it is definitely to discover!
I decided after my hospitality studies to enter this fascinating new world. I have started my career in Club Med as Guest Service and had the opportunity to travel some of the famous destinations for diving or snorkeling.
I am the perfect example of someone who was scared of diving, the only advice I could give is to believe in yourself.
But since I was young, I knew I wanted to travel the world, to go on adventures, have fun and meet people from everywhere. Unfortunately, those jobs didn’t give me the opportunity to do it so after 5 years I decided to move to Thailand.
Scuba Diving is a sport of passion.
During this time, I wanted to try something new, so I started scuba diving and I will never forget my first underwater experience. I felt nervous at first but at the same time a lot of excitement.
Some people might think that diving is a difficult sport, but there are many ways to enjoy safe diving for any age or gender.
