Dear Valued Guests,
Warm Greetings from Vilamendhoo Team!
In order to further enhance your experience with us we are delighted to share we have launched an exciting new Vilamendhoo hotel mobile app.
Plan Your Perfect Maldivian Vacation with the New Vilamendhoo Mobile App
The new and improved mobile app: The new Vilamendhoo Mobile App is faster, includes more details about the resort, its services and activities, and lets you build your own itineraries. Before arrival and during your stay, guests can explore activities of interest or log in and easily pre-book through the calendar option a restaurant of choice, private dinners, excursions, sports activities, diving, photoshoots, spa, activities, and see the events calendar.
Online Check-In via the Vilamendhoo Mobile App
Online check-in via the mobile app: Our guests can now complete the hotel registration from the comfort of their homes. You can provide your reservation reference number and check-in date as log-in credentials while connected to the internet and check-in to Vilamendhoo. Once a guest logs in, there will be mobile notifications as a reminder of the booked activities and upcoming events. The activities you selected are also visible on the ‘My Itinerary’ tab. The Vilamendhoo Mobile App is available on Google Play for Android users and the App Store for iOS users.
Online Registration via the Vilamendhoo website: The online check-in feature is also available via the resort website. Access the Online Registration Portal via – https://reg.vilamendhoo.com/
New Seaplane Transfer Partner and Festive Brochure
We are also thrilled to announce we have a new seaplane transfer partner, Trans Maldivian Airways (TMA) and more information about the transfer process is detailed in the Vilamendhoo website. In addition to that, we have prepared our festive brochure, especially packed with a long, joyful holiday itinerary.
Book Your Stay Today and Make Your Maldives Holiday Magical
Making your stay in Vilamendhoo a magical holiday is our primary goal. For bookings or inquiries, email reservations@vilamendhoo.com or send a direct messages on Facebook and Instagram. While you are browsing, visit our special offers page for last-minute deals for 2023 travel and advance purchase deals or 2024.
We look forward to welcoming you again soon to our sunny haven in the Maldives.
Mohamed Zahir
General Manager
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.