Princess Rani, Maldives
- from $ 200 / day
- 9.1 Superb
- 29 Verified Reviews 29 Verified Reviews
- Internet Nitrox available Flexible Booking
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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: Gratuities (90-128 EUR per trip).
Optional Extras: Dive Insurance (20-30 EUR per week), 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
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Boat Specifications
- Year built 2008
- Length 35 meters
- Beam 11 meters
- Cruising speed 11 knots
- Engines 1000HP Daewoo
- Max guests 22
- Number of cabins 10
- Number of bathrooms 10
- Tenders 1 Dhoni and 1 dive tender
- Water capacity 3'000 liters
- Fuel capacity 4'000 liters
Boat Navigation and Safety
Princess Rani Reviews
- 9.1 Superb
- 29 Verified Reviews
- Vessel 8.5
- Crew 9.0
- Food 9.8
- Diving 9.2
- Value 9.0
- 8.0 Very good
- Mitchell P
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Australia
Blue Water Hammers and Tigers!
The best dives for me were in the blue on the southern fringes of Fuvahmulah. Lots of schooling hammerheads, occasional tiger encounters. Tiger zoo is fantastic, but not as exhilarating as the blue. Like an underwater performance following a script/protocol. Obviously to keep 20+ divers safe from feasting sharks. An essential part of the trip, like seeing the Eiffel Tower in Paris. Beds were rock solid. Counter snacks (available anytime) were non existent. Would have been nice to have a cookie or biscuit with a cup of tea whenever one pleased. Food timing is whacky. Dinner at 8:30pm? 3 courses until 9:30pm, then bed immediately after all that. Wake up usually 6:30 or 7am. Definitely need to move dinner to 7pm. 8:30pm is ridiculously late.
- Recommended for
- Dive Guides, Blue Water Diving, Tigers!
- 10 Exceptional
- Jennifer T
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Australia
Sharks Sharks and more Sharks!!!!
Everything about this trip was fabulous from the beginning to the end. If you love Sharks this is the dive trip for you. The staff are all really lovely, the food is fantastic and the diving was Fantastic. Totally loved this liveaboard
- Recommended for
- The staff were all super friendly and the diving lived up to everything and more. Had a fabulous trip
- 9.2 Superb
- Petr K
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Czech Republic
The trip met high expectations in all aspects.
tigers & tiramisu :-)
- Recommended for
- sharks, food, pristine sites
- 5.6 Review score
- Jörg J
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Germany
Violates several safety rules when diving, not recommended.
Whaleshark, Tigersharks
- Recommended for
- Cabins are large, diving boat is comfortable
- 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
- 10 Exceptional
- Nicholas S
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Australia
Fantastic
Excellent organization. Brilliant diving. Great crew. Superb dive master ( Shaffi). Will definitely book again with this company.
- Recommended for
- Crew, diving and food
- 9.6 Exceptional
- xiaobo H
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China
Good trip
Manta
- Recommended for
- Fish fish fish
- 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!
- 9.2 Superb
- Gerhard F
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Austria
Hatte große Erwartungen, aber alles wurde übertroffen! SUPER
Tiger Zoo
- Recommended for
- Tauchen gesamt; Essen; Freundlichkeit der Crew
- 8.8 Fabulous
- Jochen K
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Germany
Top Team und sagenhafte Tauchgänge und super nette Leute kennengelernt
Tauchen auf 48,8 m im Fuvamulah Plateau mit Tiger- und Hammerhaien. Tauchen mit Tigerhaien aus nächster nähe nur 1-2 m Abstand - Tiger Show Großer Mantarochen am Villimgu Kandu Riff
- Recommended for
- Tauchgänge, das gesamt Team der Princess Rani, Essen
