Princess Rani, Maldives
9.1 Superb - Nitrox available
- Naturalist Guide
- En-Suite bathrooms
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“Fantastic diving with experienced guides in a small group setting.”
Highlights
The M/Y Princess Rani luxury liveaboard yacht offers year-round diving to the spectacular dive sites of the Maldives. She has 10 double or triple cabins equipped with four-poster beds, air conditioning, and en suite bathrooms to cater for up to 22 guests onboard. There is ample space for relaxing in-between diving and snorkelling activities, including 3 sun decks complete with comfortable loungers and beanbags, and a large indoor salon. Meals are served either at the indoor dining area or al-fresco on the main deck, with an ever-changing menu of freshly prepared, Italian-inspired cuisine.
Diving in the Maldives with Princess Rani is available all year round. There are a variety of itineraries available, including Deep South, Classic Maldives, and Tiger Shark dedicated itineraries. Diving in the Maldives offers the chance to dive with manta rays, whale sharks, reef sharks, as well as a myriad of colourful reef fish. The accompanying dhoni means plenty of room for gear storage and kitting up, as well as easy drop-off and pick-up at the dive sites. Nitrox is also available for those certified.
Join the Princess Rani Maldives liveaboard for a fantastic diving holiday. 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: Mandatory Service Charge (90 EUR per week).
Optional Extras: Dive Insurance (20 EUR per week), Local Flights, Alcoholic Beverages, Soft drinks, Wine with Dinner, Extra Dives (35 EUR), Nitrox (90 EUR per week), Nitrox Course (250 EUR), Private Dive Guide (600 USD per week), Rental Gear (175 EUR per week), Scuba Diving Courses (60-850 EUR), Snorkel Gear (25 EUR per week), WiFi internet (20 EUR per week).
Book now, pay later: You can easily place your booking online. We will then hold the spaces for you and you can confirm with a payment later.
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Princess Rani Reviews
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- 9.1 Superb
- Vessel 8.6
- Crew 9.1
- Food 9.7
- Diving 9.1
- Value 9.1
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- 10 Exceptional
- Patricia T
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United Kingdom
Great food, comfortable boat and SHARKS!!!
A great live aboard with the best food ever. The dive guides were excellent, very knowledgeable and diving was great. Lots of sharks and eagle rays spotted on this southern tour from Gan.
- Recommended for
- Excellent crew. Wonderful food. Spacious cabin.
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- 10 Exceptional
- António C
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Portugal
Excellent
Professionalism in all areas, friendliness, very good
- Recommended for
- Diving, friendships, scenery
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- 9.6 Exceptional
- Tanja Guadalupe K
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Switzerland
Most amazing diving trip ever!
Great organisation with pick-up from the airport and drop off at the end of the trip, dive guides with a lot of experience and great knowledge, exclusive diving spots with everything from pellagics to macro, great food
- Recommended for
- Exclusive dive spots, extremely friendly staff, amazing food
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- 9.2 Superb
- José Antonio H
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Spain
Wonderful. I want to go back.
Snorkeling with mantas and sharks. A pregnant shark. Enjoy the great amount of underwater life
- Recommended for
- Morbidity to find different dive sites. Organization. Customer service.
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- 8.0 Very good
- Fredrik L
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Sweden
Nice Tripp
Nice trip. The rental regulator was old and smell bad. Friendly staff and atmosphere.
- Recommended for
- Good food. Italian. Friendly staff. Sharks.
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- 8.4 Very good
- Janusz S
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Finland
Great trip!
Had a great trip down to Fuvahmulah and Addu. Dived with tiger sharks, mantas and even a whaleshark. Dive guides very experienced, friendly and helpful staff and great food. Can recommend this company.
- Recommended for
- Big fishes
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- 9.2 Superb
- David D
- United Kingdom
Great experience all round.
Diving with tiger sharks was a real experience. Overall the diving was very good and we saw lots of special things. It is a very comfortable boat.
- Recommended for
- The crew friendliness, the food and the diving.
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- 9.6 Exceptional
- Ryan V
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United States
Diving the Maldives the Italian Way
Maldives Italian style... we had a wonderful time on the Princess Rani. The route was carefully selected to cover the most beautifully, fun, and challenging chanel and thila dives in the south Maldives. In addition to our groups being small, we never once shared a dive site with another boat due to their excellent scheduling. When not diving we had great times at local beaches or hanging out on the boat. The outdoor Italian dining made me feel I had a reservation at the best table at a fine Italian restaurant with 20 good friends every evening.
- Recommended for
- Fantastic guides. Amazing Food. Beautiful boat.
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- 10 Exceptional
- James P
- United States
Amazing
This was a great dive trip and both my wife and I enjoyed diving with princess rani. The food was great, the dive masters were knowledgeable and helpful, and the facilities were better than expected. It was nice having multiple spots outside of our room to relax between dives and our room was also really comfortable too.
- Recommended for
- Everything
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- 10 Exceptional
- Becky Y
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Canada
Land of the tiger sharks!
Fuvamulah Island is in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Addu Atoll which is the most southern point of Maldvives. Due to the availability of food that they like, the area surrounding the island is definitely a tiger shark haven! Tiger shark is a solitary hunter,very stealth and it’s got tiger strips on it that make it very distinct and intimidating! It’s huge as it could get up to, like, 6m! It could be a man-eater as, next to the dreaded Great White, it inflicts more attacks on human than any other shark specie! ‘Princess Rani’ liveaboard, based at Addu Atoll for part of the year, specializes in tiger shark viewing and it delivers! Keep in mind that tiger sharks are very elusive and live in the deep, yet I managed to see them in 4 of the 5 dives that I did in the area specifying as tiger shark dives! For shark lover and thrill seeker like me here, the dive trip is exhilarating, to see the least! ‘Princess Rani’ is a spacious beautiful boat and has all the modern amenities, yet it’s built like a medieval Italian castle, with exposed wood everywhere, that I love! Now, like traditional South Mediterranean style, we all sat together like a big happy family and ate all the meals on this big table on the canopied terrace of the boat in the fresh air! Definitely a new experience! And the genuine Italian cuisine, is out of this world! I felt like I was at some fancy Italian restaurant for every single meal---I actually took photos on my smartphone at every mealtime and send them home to share the amazing footage with my family (Now my husband wishes he could snorkel or dive and join the ‘Princess Rani’…just for the food!). The cooking staff was also very considerate as I could not have cheese and they made sure that I was given portion without cheese whenever an Italian cheesy dish was coming up. Besides wonderful and exciting diving, liveaboard on ‘Princess Rani’ is a culinary delight— it’s definitely a trip for Foodie cum Diver/ Snorkeler! Bravo!!! At the time that I went, in late Novemeber, ‘Princess Rani’ was the only liveaboard in Addu City and the Fuvamulah Island! We had the whole of the Deep South of Maldives all to ourselves. There were no other divers…which made the tiger shark dives especially---very eerie!...I love it! On many famous dive sites in the world, there are always other divers as diving is a popular and alluring sport. Yet on this dive trip, I felt like that I had the whole ocean to our group of divers and the tiger sharks were there to greet us, not the other way around! I heard that even during other times of the year, there weren’t many dive boats there either, so this is for sure Virgin Tiger Shark Country there! Go now!
- Recommended for
- Tiger sharks, Italian food, had the remote dive area all to ourselves!
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