We had such an amazing time at this resort — everything from the warm welcome to the little details made our stay truly special. A very big compliment to Chef Giuseppe: not only was the food consistently delicious and beautifully presented, but he went above and beyond to make us feel at home. His friendliness and genuine passion for what he does really came through in every meal — it was a highlight of our trip. We would also like to thank Richard and the F&B Manager for always being so kind, attentive, and professional. They were constantly smiling, checking in to make sure we were comfortable, and creating such a positive atmosphere in the restaurants. It really made a difference and elevated our experience. The combination of stunning surroundings, great food, and truly wonderful people made this stay unforgettable. We left with such good memories and can’t wait to return!

Stayed in August 2025

More variety of food on children's buffet station Bicycles could be added for exploring More snack /drink variety at the resort shop play station game library

White sandy beaches and clear water Sea life/coral in the area Great to explore gardens and beaches on island Resort kids club activities Teen center for pool /airhockey/PS Water activities (non motorised vs motorised depending on package or board ) Snorkeling gear /life vests provided Club rooms come with access to club pool/beach/snack and refreshment schedule at (the club) Food quality and variety . 3 restaurants to choose from with themed nights and selection for children Pool beach villa was spacious enough for family of 5 (one roll away bed used) nice pool deck and close to shore area Our room had a PlayStation installed Easy check in process with Ms MIni .Mr shervin is always around checking on resort guests Resort app for restaurants reservations /reception contact/ activity information

Stayed in August 2025

The secondary restaurants (Thai and Italian) didn’t quite live up to expectations. The spa was a bit expensive, and in general, anything outside of the full board options, including souvenirs, was priced steeply. The resort is also only accessible by seaplane, which adds to the costs

The Centara Collection, Machchafushi Island Resort & Spa in the Maldives offers a fantastic location with an outstanding beach and plenty of fish to admire. The beach villa was super comfortable, providing a great base to relax. The main restaurant, The Reef, was exceptional, always offering a delicious buffet with a lot of variety. The resort is very beautiful, well-maintained, and has friendly staff. One of the best parts is that there are no mosquitoes, thanks to their daily fumigation at 5 pm, which is a huge bonus.

Stayed in August 2025

While our overall stay was enjoyable, there were a couple of areas that could be improved. The food selection for breakfast, lunch, and dinner was quite limited and repetitive. For a short 2–3 day stay, it’s manageable, but staying for a full week made the lack of variety noticeable and a bit disappointing. It would be great to see more diverse options introduced throughout the week. Another point is the Kids Club hours. It only opens at 10 AM, which made it challenging for us as parents who wanted to go snorkeling early in the morning. It would be really helpful if the Kids Club opened earlier to better support families with younger children.

We had a wonderful stay at Centara! Traveling as a family with a young child and a senior (my mom), each of us found something to enjoy and relax with at the resort. One of the highlights was the resort’s very own house reef—stunning views, vibrant marine life, including fish, turtles, and even sharks! What truly made our experience special was the exceptional team at the Reef Restaurant. A heartfelt thank you to: • Jasim • Kal • Habib • Vivek • Joe (from diving center) • Salmaan (front desk) • Chingiz Another point and IMPORTANT, the housekeeping team. They cleaned the room twice in a day, which made us feel always fresh. Diving center guys, helpful and just amazing. Especially the special one is Mei (bird) Each of them was incredibly friendly, respectful, and committed to delivering top-notch service. Their warmth and professionalism truly elevated our stay. Thank you for making our trip so memorable! From Reception team all were friendly too, thanks to Duty manager (forgot her name) were super professional and flexible. Feel sad to leave the resort.

Stayed in May 2025

Maybe we would like a little more empathy and sensitivity. But this is more of a quibble. In general, the staff is very friendly and helping!I especially we want to highlight Changnapa on reception, they also call her Bel, she so sweet and understanding. But honestly the rest of the staff are all great as well here!! It is clearly visible that everyone is doing his best. Including the Chef and the General Manager.

Everything is very well thought out in the hotel. The hotel is not very big, but there is enough space to relax. We were pleased with the villas, they are all good, whichever one you choose. The food is surprisingly very good.

Stayed in April 2025

Communication via app given i prefer to be offline during vacation

House reef Italian restaurant

Stayed in April 2025

Security around the water sports lagoon were really annoying blowing whistles all the time and forcing guests to wear life jackets. Seems silly in that environment - if you’re a proficient swimmer this should be optional. Activities for “tweens” were limited. Checkout was too early before our seaplane departed. Left my sunglasses in room on departure and despite giving exact location the resort was unable to locate them so I have to replace them…. My fault, but they can’t have disappeared!!! Finally, the resort is still fish-feeding which we really didn’t like and witnessed guests copying the activity despite staff telling them to stop. The resort must start leading by example on this and they assured me they would address this and phase out the practice.

Beautiful Island with lovely facilities and rooms. The staff were all great - in particular Logo really looked after us on our boat ride and Ishak and Sunny were great in Mare restaurant. Mitchel and the team in the club lounge were also lovely. The snorkelling from our Sunset Water Villa was the highlight for us - turtles, rays, sharks and an aquarium of fish. Beautiful!!

Stayed in March 2025

Nothing. All good.

Simply amazing. Lots of options for all the family. Every day had a different highlight

Stayed in March 2025

Everything was beyond expectation and the team was fantastic to meet or exceed each request.

Stayed in December 2024

The communication with the staff is below standard. We booked the return seaplane for 3PM on the checkout day. However, on that date, the cleaner came at 10AM to pick up the luggage, totally out of our expectation. We rushed packing the luggage and came over to the reception counter, and was told that the only return flight available is 12PM. They also said they already informed us the day before via message in the Centara app and a letter to our house. However, we never saw a letter, nor did we notice the message in the app. It actually took quite some effort for us to find the notice in the App with help of another staff! I would not expect such important information could be communicated via the App. How can they make the change without our acknowledgement! Actually, the message was sent quite late in the afternoon the day before, during which we were out in the sea for an fishing excursion. We even booked lunch at the end of the excursion to ask for fish cooking (we caught 3 fishes). Now, all these are gone and I didn't see they seriously tried to rearrange before 12PM. Other than saying sorry, one staff gave an excuse that they compensated us by giving us a "free" lunch (upon seeing a lunch box in our hands). Alas, this was the leftover of our unfinished dinner the day before! How could one be brazen enough to talk such nonsense. Finally, they refunded ~$20 for the souvenir my kid just bought at the shop. Another anecdote: during check-in, the staff asked if anyone would be having birthday during the stay. I told him that my wife's birthday was one day AFTER our checkout. The staff was 'friendly' enough to say he'd arrange something on the day BEFORE our checkout. That's the end of the story. NOTHING really happened. I mean, they were not obliged to do so, but why bother promising something you didn't seriously intend to do? Just to appear friendly?? Anyway, this is not they job and I wouldn't complain too much about...

We spent 5 nights at this resort, staying in the club sunset overwater pool villa. Overall the trip is enjoyable. The staff are friendly in general. The house reef snorkelling was nice and convenient. The children really enjoyed seeing many fishes during the snorkelling. There was even a live coral underneath our house with two clown fishes. I booked for B&B. The breakfast at the reef restaurant is nice, a mixture of continental, Thai, and Indian foods. The taste is okay (the cooked eggs are generally too salty though) but I'd like to see more varieties across the week. We also had dinner and lunch separately in the Italian, Thai and bar restaurants. The prices are affordable, and from the kid's perspective, the Italian one is preferred.

Stayed in December 2024

Food options could be better

Island feel

Stayed in December 2024

Welcome drink was very slow and staffs were not friendly upon arrival.

The beauty of it and the some of the staffs.

Stayed in October 2024

Wonderful resort with exceptionally good food, superb diving and snorkeling

Stayed in September 2024

Buffet area was quite cramped up, food options could be better. My opinion could be biased as we stayed in another resort and comparatively the food and dining area was sub standard to the price charged. Suggestion : Some sun beds on the beach for guests would be great. The only sun beds available belong to the beach villas.

Beautiful island, great staff. Great for snorkeling. Free snorkeling gear for hire.

Stayed in August 2024

breakfast villa snorkeling

Stayed in June 2024

Snorkel trips was expensive.

Really wonderfull resort. Clean and the food was excellent. Very friendly staff. House reef is fantastic.

Stayed in July 2024

The large group Manta and Whale Shark excursions may end in disappointment. The vessel travels slowly, which means that it may very well arrive after the aforementioned creatures depart due to other faster-moving vessels arriving sooner AND disturbing the animals! For better success, book a private tour on a smaller and faster vessel for your encounters with the aforementioned creatures. Your time and money will be better spent!

MOST matched expectations. STAFF was exceptionally accommodative.

Stayed in July 2024

Not exactly an issue with the property, but an issue with luck itself… the whale shark did not show up! We ended up on a three hour boat trip just to do a snorkel in a site that end up being way worse than the house reef.

Basically everything was either above or meeting expectations. I did a lot of research and read lot of reviews before choosing Centara, so I knew what to expect, but even though I was amazed. I was offered an upgrade of the room for a reasonable price, which made my stay even better. Staff at the restaurants are always smiling and willing to help. The menu at the Italian restaurant and at the Thay are very good and diverse. I strongly recommend booking at least dinner in these two options upon arrival. Meal options at the Coral restaurant are eventually limited, but they always have something for those with restrictions or limited taste. Breakfast is very complete with everything fresh and delicious. We were entitled breakfast at the club, But haven’t tried it as we were always on a rush to go snorkeling. By the way, the house reef is very good, you can see a lot of marine life. Unfortunately, there are lots of corals in the shallow that are broken, clearly an issue arising from reckless divers. So please, when you go, mind your fins, and avoid unnecessary contact with the corals. For those with some experience in snorkeling, I strongly recommend going to the drop off. If you are a certified diver, Don’t miss the wreck at the property. The staff at the dive center was very helpful with a special mention to Ash, He’s not only very kind, but clearly a very skillful diving instructor. The room and all other facilities were always kept impeccably clean. As an additional kindness, they gave us a free sparkling wine at the room as well as decoration in the bed on the day of my wedding anniversary.

Stayed in June 2024

Sunset water villas

Stayed in June 2024

Paradise on earth, which is a pity to leave :(

Absolutely wonderful hotel. Everything at the highest level. Beautiful views and a very well-kept facility. The overwater villa with sunset views and a swimming pool fulfilled all our dreams about the Maldives. We will come back!!!!

Stayed in June 2024

The tennis court and family room which was too old and not functioning well ( I mean the games)

All of it

Stayed in April 2024

1. The island is too small , no bicycle, 2. Waiting foods in Italian restaurants too long, taste good but wait more than an hour. Finally my kids don’t want to eat. 3. Thai food choices are much less than dusit Maldives even quality and quantity are incomparable. 4. The location is inside the atoll . 5. Coral& reef are destroyed around the room.

1. clean the room twice a day , 2. have various activities like whale watching , turtle, reef programs and fish feeding. See a few whale sharks. 3. Friendly staffs particularly on diving center 4. The taste of Thai foods is good , I like mocktail drink. 5. Price is reasonable

Stayed in May 2024

Absolutely nothing

Excellent resort in many respects. The island is small but very well organized and clean. The reef is rich in fish and accessible directly from the side of the island near the dive center. All the staff are very friendly, helpful and professional. The transfers from Male to Male were well organised: upon arrival the early check in allowed us to immediately have the beach villa available, which we took advantage of until the last moment thanks to the late check out. Quality food both at the Reef buffet and at the Thai Siam… and Italian Azzuri restaurant, both also accessible with half board plus meal plan (which also includes one alcoholic and one non-alcoholic cocktail per person for each dinner). Our n. 34 duplex beach villa fully satisfied us: the veranda overlooking the beach about 10 meters from the sea gives the feeling of being on a private beach. A special thanks to the very kind Samsul who cleaned our room twice a day and always made us find beautiful decorations. The experience was therefore absolutely positive and we recommend it.

Stayed in May 2024

we were supposed to have lunch the day we arrived at coral bar but when we got there , the staffs at coral bar knew nothing and let us wait for a long time. The reception should give them the information before sending us there.

Thai restaurant and the staffs at the reef

Stayed in April 2024