Princess Dhonkamana, Maldives
- from $ 179 / day
- 9.5 Exceptional
- 38 Verified Reviews 38 Verified Reviews
- Internet Nitrox available Flexible Booking
Highlights
Join the MY Princess Dhonkamana yacht for a luxury dive or snorkel trip in the Maldives. Offering week-long itineraries, she caters to 20 guests in 9 comfortable cabins. Guests have the choice of double, twin or triple cabins, each with canopy beds, private bathroom facilities and individually controlled AC units. Spread around the yacht is ample room for rest, relaxation and socialising. There is a large indoor salon and bar where snacks are served in the evening to accompany the aperitif, and the large covered al fresco dining area is where a variety of delicious cuisine and chef-prepared dishes are served. There are also 3 sun decks and terraces with loungers and sofas spread around the boat for further relaxation.
Maldives dive itineraries with the M/Y Princess Dhonkamana explore the Central, Southern and Northern Atolls. The itineraries are flexible and are designed day by day depending on the season and what guests want to see, to be able to offer the best possible diving. Expect to see large pelagic life, lots of sharks, turtles and stunning reefs. The MY Princess Dhonkamana is accompanied by a separate diving dhoni, giving more space on board and making the dive experience much smoother.
To reserve your space aboard the MY Princess Dhonkamana yacht, call us or book online today.
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Included: VAT, Environment Tax, Port Fees, Airport Transfer, Drinking Water, Tea & Coffee, Welcome Cocktails, Beach BBQ, Full-Board Meal Plan (All meals), Snacks, Diving Package, Fishing, Land Excursions, Naturalist Guide, Snorkeling Guide, Beach Towels, Cabin Towels, Deck Towels.
Required Extras: Fuel Surcharge (140 EUR), Gratuities (13 EUR per day).
Optional Extras: Dive Insurance (20-30 EUR per week), Hotel Transfer, Local Flights, Alcoholic Beverages, Soft drinks, Wine with Dinner, Extra Dives (35 EUR), Nitrox (70 EUR per week), Nitrox Course (200 EUR), Private Dive Guide (500 USD per trip), Rental Gear (175 EUR per week), Scuba Diving Courses (370-850 EUR), Snorkel Gear, WiFi internet (15 EUR per week).
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Boat features
Food & Drinks
If you have any specific dietary requirements whilst on-board your cruise, you can add this to your special requests on step 2 of the booking form. We advise limiting these requests to religious beliefs or food allergies.
Diving
The crew speaks English, French, Spanish, and Italian.
Gear Rental
There is diving gear available on this boat. Please provide your rental needs on the booking form. See below for further details on inclusions and pricing. Show prices.
Drawings & Vessel Layouts
Accommodation
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Boat Specifications
- Year built 2008
- Length 31 meters
- Beam 10 meters
- Cruising speed 10 knots
- Max guests 18
- Number of cabins 9
- Number of bathrooms 9
- Tenders 1 Dhoni and 1 dive tender
- Water capacity 400 liters per hour
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Princess Dhonkamana Reviews
- 9.5 Exceptional
- 38 Verified Reviews
- Vessel 9.3
- Crew 9.4
- Food 9.6
- Diving 9.7
- Value 9.3
- 9.6 Exceptional
- Anthony M
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United States
Great boat and wonderful food.
Mantas, sharks, frog fish and the mantis shrimp.
- Recommended for
- Food, diving and the overall crew
- 10 Exceptional
- Bruce K
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United States
Great Trip
This was a fabulous trip with a great crew and great diving. Highly recommend.
- Recommended for
- Whale Sharks, Manta Rays, Amazing Night Dive
- 10 Exceptional
- Gillian P
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United States
Absolutely Fantastic!
Manta rays and sharks, sharks, sharks and a whale shark too. So many fish and sea life. Many different types of dives and dive conditions. Great Dive Masters and boat crew, fantastic food, daily stops to deserted islands. I had such a good time, can't wait to book again.
- Recommended for
- The diving, the crew and shipmates, the food.
- 8.4 Very good
- Daniel B
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United States
Great trip
Tiger shark dive. Whale sharks coming to the boat at night and the mantas
- Recommended for
- Big cabin, great staff and amazing diving
- 10 Exceptional
- Ana Sofia H
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Portugal
Great week! Amazing dives, with very happy and helpful crew!
Excellent trip!
- Recommended for
- Dives-Food-Friendship
- 9.2 Superb
- Antine L
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France
best liveaboard experience ever !
excellent!
- Recommended for
- Manta ray night dive, the italian-maldivian food, and the ayurvedic massages onboard
- 10 Exceptional
- Louise H
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United Kingdom
Awesome adventure!
Excellent. Should note however this is a predominantly Italian boat so be prepared if not an Italian speaker (although all guides speak English too). Food is all Italian - would be nice to have some local Maldivian food on occasion too. Other than this, trip was perfect, diving awesome. Great crew on board, Super welcoming and friendly, very well organised. I'd go back in a heartbeat!
- Recommended for
- Guides, food, friendliness
- 10 Exceptional
- Hoyoung A
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South Korea
Very good, esp. if your an italian!!
Pros and cons... Pros 1) Food was awesome, delicious italian cuisine in the middle of the ocean every single day!! 2) Large rooms!! 3) Friendly and helpful staff, accomodated all our needs!! 4) WHALE SHARKS (more than one) and DOLPHINS!!! Cons... If you're from italy, or are fluent in italian(which I'm not), then definitely recommended. If not, some consideration may be needed, as most of the guides are italian and are not completely fluent in english (except Ali, who is a native and speaks english well enough). Overall, we had a great time!!
- Recommended for
- Great food, friendly staff, WHALE SHARKS!!!!
- 9.6 Exceptional
- Yann B
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France
Perfect trip to relax and dive
Really Nice and secure dives. The guides know their job and the places by earth. A lot of mantas, Sharks, just the whale shark was too shy to visit us underwater. We'll have toi come back
- Recommended for
- Really good food, the crew and the guides
- 7.2 Good
- Maren H
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Germany
Wonderful week aboard with amazing dives
Princess Dhonkamana is a comfortable boat. The crew is working very hard to make your stay aboard unforgettable. Diving was amazing, unique interactions with mantas and sharks. Did not really like the food, not because it was Italian but it did not appear very healthy to me. Not recommended if you are vegetarian. Most of the guests and guides are Italian, but no problem with that.
- Recommended for
- Comfortable boat, stunning diving adventures, beautiful island trips
- 8.0 Very good
- Chandrea A
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Canada
Super time, love the staff. meals tasted awesome, but way too much pasta and bread. Protein was scarce.
Seeing so many sharks, Dolphins and turtles.
- Recommended for
- Staff was amazing, so helpful. Loved the different islands we stopped at and loved the vast sea life😀
- 9.6 Exceptional
- Melinda F
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Switzerland
Great trip
Some beautiful and healthy coral too -and everywhere teaming with life. Great manta and shark action, wonderful.
- Recommended for
- Diving, Guides & Crew, people
- 9.6 Exceptional
- Kinga S
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South Africa
Fabulous trip, highly recommend the crew
Marco & Valter run a tight professional ship, very well organised. They make all feel very welcome. We love how excited they get about their mama's pasta:) The focus was on the best dive spots and diving, which was perfect for completing our AOW.
- Recommended for
- diving, atmosphere on board, relaxed
- 10 Exceptional
- xiaobo H
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China
Amazing dive trip
We saw the manta, white tips shark, nurse shark, Eagle rayan so on. Very very very good.
- Recommended for
- Delicious food, amazing dive point, friendly staff.
- 8.0 Very good
- Emilio G
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Italy
Very good boat and friendly crew
Diving with sharks and night dives
- Recommended for
- Diving sites, crew, food
- 10 Exceptional
- sonia M
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Germany
Unforgettable
Loved every single day. The will of the guides to make us have an amazing experience, adapting to our diving experience and to the daily conditions so that we can maximize the ocean experience. BRAVO!
- Recommended for
- Companionship, discovering, immensity of the ocean
- 6.4 Review score
- Rahool D
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India
Wonderful experience
I had a lovely stay.. good food, but unfortunately I had a bad weather situation, so diving was avarage, people there was great and would recommend to you guys.
- Recommended for
- Staff, Food, Diving
- 8.4 Very good
- Daniel B
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Romania
Nice experience but bad weather
Crew and dive masters
- Recommended for
- Dive team, food , friendly progr
- 8.0 Very good
- Tejasvi R
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India
Great liveaboard experience
We really enjoyed our liveaboard week with the Princess Dhonkanama travelling as a group of 3 people. The cabins and the boat itself was super nice - we loved the sun decks. the food was a standout with really delicious, multi course meals. We also loved the diving! However, we had some issues in the initial few days with the rental dive equipment (most people seem to bring their own equipment). The group seemed better set up for more experienced divers - we had a few dives which were difficult for beginners/ less experienced divers. On the whole a wonderful trip that we would highly recommend.
- Recommended for
- 1. The boat is fantastic and extremely well maintained 2. The food is incredible! 3. The crew was just super lovely and helpful. A delight to spend time with
- 9.6 Exceptional
- Zdenko W
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Slovakia
Satisfaction with the ship and staff
enjoy diving - partially fulfilled except for the guide who did not hit the place twice: /
- Recommended for
- - visit to the islands - the food - service
- 10 Exceptional
- Bryce N
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Australia
Amazing food
Great value for money. Great food. Diving was fantastic following a sublet itinerary as every other live aboard. A couple of things to mention. They use steel tanks which are heavy if you're used to Aluminium. They use 28% nitrox, which is fine but I would rather more. We often got close to our NDC limits.
- Recommended for
- The food, the diving, did I mention the food
- 10 Exceptional
- Agnes H
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Austria
Couldn't have been better
Awesome dive sites, perfect food, very well managed, very nice and helpful crew. We loved it!
- Recommended for
- The diving, the food, the guides
- 9.2 Superb
- Michael H
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United Kingdom
Good value for experienced divers
Never seen so many eagle rays in one place (Kandooma). Only eight divers on a boat that can take 20 - four divers per dive guide. This also meant I had a spacious cabin to myself.
- Recommended for
- Good value at 1. £830+€75 fuel supplement per person 2. Some exciting dives with mantas, eagle rays and plenty of sharks 3. Very good diving dhoni
- 10 Exceptional
- Pat H
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Germany
Best Diving of Maldives
I love the dives, on this trip, I gained more extra experience in diving. We have seen a massive group of Gray Reef Sharks at the channel dive, which is for me a mega highlight. Mantas at cleaning station ..Mantas again at night just at the back side of the boat .. Alimatha Nurse Sharks at night dive. 2 Octopuses in one dive, 2 Hawkbill Turtles in the same area. Our boat is always alone and never mixes with another liveaboard boat. We have every time all dive sites for ourselves. This boat is really know when and where to go because we have exactly see many things underwater in the right time , right place.
- Recommended for
- Boat .. Food .. Diving with Sharks , Mantas Madness , Eagle Rays and Giant Sting Rays
- 10 Exceptional
- Pat H
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Germany
Dream trip of life time
First: The boat is very beautiful, I have been on many Liveaboard and this one for the first time makes me feel really HOME. The wooden bed is in a twin cabin and I do feel super private in my own bed with a real mattress. Hot warm water for a shower after dive, a refrigerator that works very well in my cabin. A/C is work prefect also in the cabin. Second: The Food is just amazing every meal as we have three courses..starter main and dessert or fresh fruits. The food on this boat is truly excellent. Third: The Dive ..all I can say is just Wow ! our week is under the best weather in the Maldives, zero rain, best visibility underwater. I have seen the best version of diving in the Maldives on this trip I will forever remember manta madness hovering above my head at the cleaning station .. Sharks, baby sharks.. turtles .. countless blue line snappers, whale sharks, 20+ eagle rays at once schooling playing with the current. Giant moray eels of all kinds and giant sting rays etc. Forth: The Crews are the best all of them Team. Start from pick up and drop off, on the boat or during the dives. I can't thanks them the Team enough for offering me best experience of diving in Maldives. Thank you so much.
- Recommended for
- Food , Boat , Diving with 5 Mantas at once , Whale Sharks , Sharks and more
- 9.6 Exceptional
- Nicolas D
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Switzerland
Beautiful boat with incredible dives and wonderfull crew and dive guide
everything was equally beautiful and nice
- Recommended for
- dives, island excursions, cabin
- 8.0 Very good
- LAN W
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China
Amazing diving experience for our holiday.
You will definitely enjoy your diving experience to see whale sharks, manta, nurse sharks, white tip sharks, tremendous fish groups, and other sea creatures.
- Recommended for
- So excited to see big things; friendly and professional staffs; nice Italian food.
