Vilamendhoo Island Resort and Spa
Vilamendhoo Island Resort & Spa is located in the beautiful and versatile South Ari Atoll and can be reached by Seaplane in approx. 20min from the airport. It is one of the few real divers Islands with its beautiful house reef and the nearby whale shark national park.
The Vilamendhoo Island Resort & Spa offers a variety of activities for water enthusiasts like diving, snorkeling, kayak, sailing etc. as well as for those who prefer to spend their time on land like tennis, badminton, table tennis, mini golf.
The West side of the island with a separate restaurant and the sunset bar is restricted for adults only, while the rest of the island is perfect for families.
Weather if you are planning an active family holiday or an intimate and relaxing beach getaway with a loved one, Vilamendhoo Island Resort & Spa is the right choice to experience the unbelievable beauty of the Maldives.
Resort Website: www.vilamendhoo.com
Euro-Divers Vilamendhoo Maldives Dive & Water Sports Center
The Euro-Divers Vilamendhoo Maldives dive center is on the perfect island for divers. With its beautiful house reef, more than 50 nearby dive sites, Manta and Whale Shark sightings all year round and a huge variety of marine life that only very few places in the world can offer.
The fully equipped PADI 5* dive center offers diving courses from beginner to professional level as well as guided fun diving and provides the infrastructure for independent house reef diving.
Divers can choose between different 2-tank diving trips every morning and single-tank trips every afternoon. Additionally full-day trips to the whale shark national park and Manta cleaning stations are offered multiple times per week.
For those who want to explore the beautiful Maldivian underwater world independently and at their own pace, the house reef is open throughout the whole day as well as for night dives.
DIVING HIGHLIGHTS
Full-day Whale Shark Trip
The South Ari Marine Protected Area (SAMPA) is one of only very few places in the world where whale sharks can be spotted all year long. Euro-Divers Vilamendhoo offers full day trips to the national park to dive with whale sharks which are the biggest fish in the world and on top of the bucket list of many divers.
Manta Trip
Offered as a 2-Tank trip to Mahibadhoo Manta Point from May until November and as a full-day trip to Rangalli Manta Point from January until April. With more than 1500 identified individuals in Ari Atoll alone, the Maldives are home to the biggest population of reef Mantas worldwide. With Euro-Divers Vilamendhoo you can watch those gentle giants as they fly close over the divers heads and do their cleaning and feeding rituals. A truly unforgettable experience.
Thilas in the Dhigurah Channel
The Dhigurah channel is located between the two local islands Dangethi and Dhigurah and can be reached by Dhoni in 30 min from Vilamendhoo.
This channel offers many breathtaking Thilas like 7th heaven, Lucky Hell, Reethi Thila or Kuda Rah Thila which is often considered one of the best dive sites in the Maldives.
Sharks, turtles, eagle rays, barracudas, napoleons, huge schools of snappers, soft corals and hard corals are only a few of the things that can be spotted there on a regular basis.
EURO-DIVERS VILAMENDHOO TOP DIVE SITES
Padi e-learning
Start now! PADI e-learning is a great way to save valuable holiday time in Vilamendhoo Maldives!
Become a PADI certified diver in no time by simply participating in all underwater adventures of the Open Water Course or Advanced Open Water Course and without spending time in a classroom during your holiday!
Downloads available
NIGHT SNORKELING
Find out what the marine life is doing after the sun has set by exploring the house reef with a torch and one of our experienced snorkeling guide.
Watch from above when the jack fish are out hunting and the turtles are sleeping at the reef.
An unforgettable experience.
WATERSPORTS
Our watersports center offers a variety of motorized and non-motorized water sport activities.
No matter if you prefer relaxing, quiet and slow, or if you like to go fast and get the adrenalin pumping, in our well-equipped watersports center you will find the right activity.
And if you decide to try something new, one of our experienced watersport instructors will be there to teach and guide you along the way.
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HIGHLIGHTS
JET SKI SNORKELING
The perfect combination of a thrilling jet ski ride through the atoll and the exploration of the beautiful reefs around Vilamendhoo. Our watersports guide will pick a snorkeling spot according to your preferences and will be your personal navigator during the trip. If you want to enjoy the reef and the marine life exclusively with nobody else around, this trip is the right choice for you.
CATAMARAN SUNSET TRIP
Enjoy the peace and silence out on the water and watch one of the beautiful Maldivian sunsets while sailing around the islands and sandbanks of South Ari Atoll.
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 Male 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.
