Kaani Beach

Recent Reviews: 725

• User:Una U

  Trip type: Couples

  Kaani Beach hotel - experience

  01 Mar 2026

  In February 2026, we stayed as a couple for three weeks at Kaani Beach Hotel on the island of Maafushi, Maldives. 💦Kaani Beach Hotel is a smaller building and part of the Kaani hotel chain on the island, which also includes Kaani Grand Sea View and Kaani Palm Beach. All three hotels are located about 30 meters apart. Our reception was in Kaani Grand Sea View Hotel. The staff was very friendly.👍The transfer from Malé airport to the island of Maafushi took 45 minutes, and we booked it through the hotel. The transfer worked fine. Our stay at the hotel was excellent – the room with a balcony had a view of the sea and the street, quiet and peaceful. The room was cleaned every day and towels were changed. Coffee and tea were available in the room. Beach towels were new and nice. The cleaning staff was helpful and kind.Breakfast was served at Kaani Grand Sea View and was okay. Special praise for the service, kindness, and professionalism of the staff who served breakfast at the Kaani Grand Sea View restaurant. Special thanks to Jusika, Anhali, Moomin, Sabbir, Rowel, and chef Thai. You made our stay pleasant. You are wonderful!👍We also recommend the massage at Kaani Palm Beach Hotel. Thank you, Linda, for the excellent massage.👍The hotel’s internet was quite unstable, and it was necessary to reconnect depending on which hotel you were in.The island of Maafushi is inhabited by locals and is truly beautiful, with lots of greenery, restaurants, and boutiques. We recommend the restaurant Marisco, where excellent and varied dishes are served at affordable prices, and the staff is very friendly and helpful.The only drawback of the island is that the two beaches – “bikini beach” (beaches where swimming in swimsuits is allowed) – are only about 150 meters long and crowded with sunbeds and guests. Sometimes it was almost impossible to reach the water and swim because of the sunbeds placed side by side. Kaani Hotel had free plastic sunbeds, which were uncomfortable to lie on. The option was to use more comfortable sunbeds owned by two or three private cafés. However, if you wanted to use those sunbeds, you had to buy a drink. Usually, for two drinks – fresh juice or iced coffee – we paid about 10–14 USD every day. Attention when you paying drinks at the beach because they sometimes try to charge much more, and prices are displayed only in dollars. The safest way is to pay by card.The beaches have very little shade under the palm trees, and the sea was often dirty. The island authorities should consider opening more “bikini beach” areas, as many new hotels are under construction and the number of tourists is expected to increase.However, excursions organized by Kaani hotels to sandbanks and nearby islands offered the postcard‑perfect Maldives experience.Finally by, we were very satisfied and warmly recommend Kaani hotels and Maafushi for a pleasant, affordable Maldives holiday.🌞👍

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• User:jeroenl257

  Trip type: Couples

  Please do research before booking

  30 Dec 2025

  OutdatedThe beach beds are worn out and old. The view from the room was of construction debris — there’s ongoing building work all around the hotel, which causes noise disturbance. Kaani Beach feels more like an annex than a main hotel. The beach is overcrowded (the so-called ‘bikini beach’ is very small). The photos here and for example booking.com are absolutely misleading and do not match reality — they must be several years old. (At least 10-15 years i think)Positive points: the staff is very helpful, the breakfast is excellent (although we missed fresh fruit; the pineapple came from a can). The room was clean, the bed comfortable, with good air conditioning and a pleasant shower. However, the room also didn’t match the photos from our booking.The price-quality ratio is way of— we paid $150 per night, which is definitely not worth it given the conditions. The misleading photos set completely different expectations and that was truly disappointing.

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• User:Christine C

  Trip type: Friends getaway

  Best views, snorkeling trips, super clean, awesome service

  26 Nov 2025

  Our group of six 'mature' friends in our sixties, spent four days at the Kaani Grand, overlooking Bikini Beach. We really appreciated the attentive service in the restaurants there and at Kaani Seaview. Special thanks to Jusika, Rowel, Sabbir, Momio and Chef Nasaru L who made the best omelettes. The room cleaning was done spotlessly each day. We enjoyed relaxing on our balcony overlooking the best beach on the island.We went on two snorkeling trips and both were excellent. The guides on the boats were particularly thoughtful towards the non swimmers and the nervous snorkellers, by holding their hands in the water and making sure they saw the turtles, sharks and sting rays too. They also went to a lot of effort to film everyone as they swam with the sharks etc. We were delighted by the short videos they provided. My only advice to the management at Kaani hotels would be to provide a little more variety in the buffets each day, but that's a small thing. Overall, the food was delicious and very well presented. Thanks to everyone at Kaani Grand on Maafushi island 🏝️

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• User:Jessey v

  Trip type: Friends getaway

  Good!

  27 Oct 2025

  My only negative experience was with the umbrella staff. I practically had to beg for one every day. If there was even the slightest bit of wind, he'd say, "No, unfortunately, it's too windy." While other hotels did have umbrellas, it was mainly his attitude that made the experience so negative. He was very unfriendly and grumpy, not a good advertisement for such a nice hotel. Unfortunately, I got badly sunburned the first day, so I needed an umbrella. Because of his behavior I was on high alert all day to see if he was nearby and would suddenly take away my umbrella.You pay quite a bit of money for this hotel, so setting up a umbrella with a little smile should be doable, right?My compliments to the service staff, especially the girl from Bali, who was super friendly and had the right attitude. The umbrella staff could learn a thing or two from her.The woman behind the counter was also very friendly and helpful, thank you for the good service.

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• User:Kataleya U

  Trip type: Family

  Teribble experience

  19 Jul 2025

  I initially booked this hotel after seeing some really great reviews online. Everything looked perfect — good location, great value, and a promotional price that seemed like a good deal. So I booked it.A few days later, I got a message from the hotel’s sales/reservations manager asking me to cancel my booking, claiming there was a system error. I refused — obviously! Why should I cancel a valid reservation that I made through a public platform, at a price that was available to everyone?Instead of working with me to find a solution or offering any compensation, their response was aggressive and dismissive. I was shocked to wake up the next morning to find that my booking had been cancelled without my consent — despite having a confirmed reservation and fully paid card.This is unacceptable. No respect for the customer, no effort to make it right, and absolutely terrible customer service.So please — don’t trust them, and be very careful with Booking.com too. You could end up just like me: with no booking, no help, and a much higher price to rebook elsewhere.📢 I’ll be sharing this experience everywhere I can — people need to know how badly they treat their customers.The sale manager name is Wasantha Udagedara.

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