Fabulous resort to stay at
Meeru is a beautiful island to stay and relax. Fantastic facilities, very clean. Loved our over water Jacuzzi room. Staff are wonderful and attentive. Perfect, relaxing over water couples anniversary massage at the spa. Amazing food and cocktails. So easy to get round the island either walking or catching a buggy.
There are Russian-speaking staff
Big island , beautiful marine nature . Excellent restaurants A'La Carte : (A-Mare, Asian Wok, Vilu rest, the Rif) food is divine , service in restaurants is high level . Thank you very much to Medina who works on the Swedish hostess line , Medina made our stay on the island carefree. Medina is a true professional, a great plus that knows Russian. Thank you.
Lovely, but could be so much better
Stayed in May 2025. On arrival our first impression was marred by all the boats in the marina. Not very pretty. (We've stayed at Kuramathi before and that was a wow factor from the minute we arrived.) this wasn't. Seeing rusty workboats filled with rubbish wasn't what I wanted to see on arrival and walking down the jetty to shore. We had to wait 3 hrs for our room, after a 11.5 hr flight,but luckily we'd packed swimwear in hand luggage and we were able to change and explore island. I recommend doing this.
We went straight to the Dhoni bar, staff were friendly and we ordered a pizza and drinks. Lovely.
When we got our room, (623) a Jacuzzi beach villa.
There was a walkway up to room and this was enclosed in foliage, and although this made things private, we had been led to believe that we'd be able to see the sea from inside the villa, but this isn't the case. The rooms are spacious and bright, ample storage, clean.
Outside bathroom/toilet. There is a jacuzzi, we didn't use this because of the mosquitos, and annoyingly the jacuzzi keeps turning on all day and night, so you can hear rumbling constantly. Bed linen should be changed every 3 days, but ours was only changed once in the ll days we were there. Towels changed everyday.
Our room meant that our buffet restaurant for breakfast/ evening meal was the Malaan. There was a lot of choice, but personally I don't like buffets as it means that you can overeat, or you choose food that don't go together because "it's there" I like to be sitting at a table with my husband, talking to him, while being served; not having to eat on my own whilst hubby is waitina for steak to be cooked in a queue and finishing when he turns up with his food. That's why we went to Vila (Mediterranean). And A-Mare (Italian) and The Reef (seafood) the staff were lovely at all of them. We particularly liked Vilu and A-Mare, and the staff, particularly Sandy and Ni Luh were lovely.
It was sad to see that we would have to pay extra to attend a beach BBQ or the Teppanyaki Show, even if on Al. (They charged $165 each!!)
There were two pool areas we used the Adults only one which has an infinity pool looking straight out onto the sea, breathtaking. The first few days the water temperature was like a bath, it wasn't pleasant, but after that, it was cooler and was perfect.
I was disappointed that there wasn’t a proper ice cream parlour, as on another Island l've visited. There is a small area where you can get icecream in a cup, not cone. It's soft so you have to eat quickly. There are no crepes or waffles. The smoothies, you need to pay extra for even if you're on Al. When you get a coffee, there aren't any cakes/biscuits. It's a bit sad. They could have had a nice bakery on site .
They could do so much better.
Everyday we walked around the island which is beautiful. We snorkelled, played pitch and putt, used the driving range, did a trial windsurfing lesson. We walked to the end of the jetty of the over water villas near the adult only pool and we'd see so many fish.
There's a decking area at the bottom and you can see lots of fish and look out on to the sea. We saw Rays , sharks and even a turtle 😁 there’s no shade so wear a cover up and hat it gets incredibly hot.
One evening there was a storm and the next day whilst out walking we saw the sea had brought in lots of rubbish.
Toothbrushes, fruit, bottles, rope even a vegetable peeler!? we were walking out at 2pm in the afternoon so it was sad to see that the staff hadn't been out earlier to clear this up. There was so much rubbish. We appreciate that this was caused by the storm, but we had to go and mention to the Reception as they hadn't done anything about it and we wanted to make them aware. (it was cleared up eventually)
The Island is constructing more staff quarters, so there is a lot of work going on. They try to minimise disruption, but you can see/ hear the work, there are vehicles going back and forth.
If you want to use the buggy's you can call reception and ask them to send one to your room and they can take you anywhere on the island. Or you can hail any down if they are passing.
What we did see about this island, is how well the staff are treated. They have their own gym, swimming pool, they can use the golf areas, they use the full size volleyball and football pitches. Whilst we were there they laid on an inter department volleyball tournament, which we watched over the week. It was so lovely to see.the staff are happy and allowed to use good facilities in their spare time. They also encourage visitors to interact with them and play football matches, providing full kits!
This resort is very popular with Russians.
The island is very pretty, the staff are lovely and work hard. I think because l've been to Kuramathi, I was spoilt, and therefore there are a lot of things that I think Meeru can improve on. On saying that, we did enjoy our time on Meeru and recharged and relaxed, we met some lovely people and were treated well. It was a lovely holiday and it’s a nice Island to visit.
