We have just returned from our stay at the Diva as part of our second honeymoon and it really did exceed our expectations. We stayed in a water villa and it was beautiful, if we had not wanted to leave our room for a couple of days it would have been very easy to stay in there! There was not very much to see snorkelling wise directly out from our villa, but while we sat outside relaxing there was never more than a couple of mins go by without a reef shark or school of fish swim past. Our villa on  Maldives was located at the more isolated end of the island, with the watersports centre, reception & 4 of the islands 6 resturants located at the other end.

We had noticed before we left that some reviews have commented on the lack of buggys available to take guests where they need to go on the island - yes if you ask for a buggy to come and pick you up it may take 10-15mins but hey, we were on a beautiful island where time shouldn't matter so it didn't bother us! We did end up hiring a couple of bikes as we felt bad for asking for a buggy to come and get us all the time and this is the only negative comment we could make on the place - the bikes are very, very average!! But they served a purpose so no big deal.

We did 3 snorkelling trips while we were there and loved everyone of them. We have never seen so much fish and coral life! We were especially amazed at the house reef, so many different types of fish, mooray eels, octopus, turtles and we were very lucky to be able to swim with a manta ray! We spotted the ray just as the group had been told that time was up and the staff (Adam and San) were great, they let us stay in the water and follow the ray for about 15mins!

We tried all the resturants except for the Indian one and they were all great. The night we arrived was Earth Hour" and all guests were invited to a champagne hour down on the beach and then to a beach buffet with everything you could want!

We enjoyed the pool located at ?ast"better than the Veli pool, mainly because the Veli pool seemed to be where all the young children went and they were quite noisy which is obviously not what we were looking for!

We met many of the staff and found them to all be very friendly and helpful, they would always do their best to accomodate any request - a couple of mentions must go to Mary-Lou, Adam, San, Rasheef and Shareeq who were all very helpful and always had a smile and friendly word with us.

We hope that one day we can return to the Maldives, we wouldn't hesitate to return to this island - it was just fantastic.