Angsana Resort & Spa Maldives Velavaru

The food is amazing and quite a big selection to choose from. The staff is very friendly and helpful, especially Mr Appa, who served us many times and made sure we had a wonderful experience during our stay. I definitely recommend going for the All Inclusive packages, as you get to experience most of what it offers. We picked the Beach Villa with Infinity Pool, which was really nice as we spent most of our time between meals in the pool. My only complaint is that the room TVs are bricked to run their programme instead of standard tv OS which runs Netflix, Youtube etc. But even that wasn’t much of a deal since I’ve got some time to disconnect.

Beautiful resort and fantastic staff! Only 4 stars due to the food. Unfortunately, we were pretty disappointed in the food quality. We stayed in one of the villas over the water which are substantially pricier and you would think the restaurant over here would be stellar, but the food was about as good as you get at a regular all inclusive. Again, staff were amazing and our villa was absolutely beautiful. You can literally snorkel right off your own private dock. We’ve snorkeled around the world and the reef here was pretty amazing with a huge variety of fish and an occasional black and or white tip sharks.

This is a very cheap hotel for Maldives pricing. So I will adjust my comments to that, otherwise they would have been a lot harsher. Beach : it is naturally beautiful island with very fine sand. Overall beach looks nice. Reef around water villas is also decent so you can see an odd turtle or manta. Reef around beach villas is everything but exciting. Rooms: quite tired and compact. Sunbeds are just too close to each other. This is probably the weakest point of hotel. In my opinion ready for investor to come in and not refurbish but entirely rebuild villas. As island has potential but needs to be demolished and rebuilt. Food: really not my favorite place to eat. Although some restaurants are better than others- buffet and breakfast are repetitive and of poor quality. Paid for restaurants are a bit better, and pricing is again quite decent. If you do not mind eating same food each day you can get away with eat-able meals. Service: really really bad... particularly the pool restaurant has some training to do. Slow, inflexible and forgettable. E.g. when we asked to substitute included desert with starter (bang on the same price), we were countered with suggestion to swap main for starter (main is a lot more expensive). Service is slow and they mostly forget orders. I will say that head of entertainment was actually exceptional and if I was one of the better resorts e g. Amilla or Emerald I would just hire this guy! He is fun, happy and knows how to lift spirits. Photographer is also exceptional and talented and we got better shots than in most 5.5star resorts. Photo session is extraordinary cheap compared to other resorts and if you find yourself here, it would be silly not to hire a professional photographer. Watersports guys are shockingly not client friendly and keep making up excuses why guests should not use e.g. sailing boat or equipment in general. You just cannot plan anything with them. This was surprising as in regular resorts watersports team usually gets the highest tips and they actually put effort around clients. People that are not keen on working with guests should not have client facing roles. There are plenty of other things they can do in resort. I lost a very expensive item (that costs more then entire trip) during Christmas dinner and despite me being able to point out to the exact spot where item was lost based on photos just an hour later, it was not found. While it us tough to find things in sand, I am positive that most of resorts are equipped with cheap metal detector and there would be 0 issues to find this item. Quite disappointing. I had to keep checking in to ask for it, and to his credit, general manager seemed to be the only guy interested in helping me find it. Sadly that is not his job and of course to this day I have not head an update. For us this was a last second trip, and while I am happy there was something available at such a short notice, this would not be the resort I would visit if I had a choice and time to plan. Albeit this resort gets very cheap and I can see how someone could like it despite serious issues with service and rooms.

Not bad resort I have been in better 5 stars resort ,the rooms are OK the bar area close early enough but that doesn't bother me. The only problem is staff members not respectfully against the guests especially one Litu sneaky and cheeky and he tries with guests female

We stayed in a deluxe beach villa at the hotel for 20 nights, starting Jan 29th Feb, having arrived by sea plane. The setting is amazing. Beautiful coral reef Indian Ocean, blue sky, white sand, palm trees. The land villas are all tucked away in their own little areas, leaving you your own spot of beach to enjoy. You may find it helpful to have sea shoes are there areas of coral in the shallow sea. The villa was very comfortable, with very cool ac, a huge bed, small sofa. Your own private pool in the back garden. It was very clean, and we were lucky enough to have Adil as our room attendant who was so lovely to us, even making some wonderful towel art for our anniversary. Food was uniformly good with large buffet style selections in the main restaurant three times a day, with a rotating theme each night. Snacks, sandwiches, burgers and pizzas in the pool bar and we also used the Asian restaurant, Funa, which was very good and a wonderful setting. Call outs for the Asian and Maldivian buffet nights. The restaurant and bar staff were fantastic. So friendly, cheerful and helpful. Big call outs to Shibin in the bar, Areej and Afzal in the restaurant. Appa in the main restaurant was wonderful, always ready to serve, pre-emptying our drinks order and making a special table decoration for our last night. The hotel seamlessly arranged pick up and drop off to the sea plane. Staff were even at the airport to assist. It was a wonderful, lazy, relaxing and enjoying stay in a special location. What really made it was the staff, who were all just wonderful