Cozy Art Dhangethi

Cozy Art Dhangethi is an eleven-room hotel on Dhangethi in South Ari Atoll, one minute on foot from the island's bikini beach and the reef edge. South Ari is the Maldives' best-known water for whale sharks, and the hotel runs trips to find them. Every price includes the Deluxe Room, breakfast, the return shared speedboat and every Maldivian tax.

It suits couples and snorkellers who want the sea close and a quiet place to come back to. The rooms are set around a green, sheltered courtyard, and three of them face the sea.

What you pay

Prices shown cover two people in a Deluxe Room with breakfast. Eight rooms look over the courtyard and three look straight out to sea. Every room has its own balcony or private sit-out, so the sea-view rooms are the ones to ask for if the view matters.

A third person can sleep on an extra bed, if one is free, for an extra charge. Lunch and dinner are not in the price.

What's included, and what isn't

In the price: your room, breakfast daily, daily housekeeping, coffee and drinking water in the room, the return shared speedboat from Velana, and every Maldivian tax, green tax included.

Not in the price: your international flights, travel insurance, Indian TCS, lunch and dinner, whale shark trips and other excursions, and anything not named above.

Who this isn't for

Anyone who wants a drink. Dhangethi is an inhabited island and no alcohol is served on it.

Anyone who wants to sunbathe anywhere. Swimwear is for the bikini beach; around the village, shoulders and knees are covered.

Late arrivals. The last boat leaves Velana in the afternoon, so an evening landing means a night in Malé first.

Before you book

The shared speedboat runs to a timetable, not to your flight, and the crossing is long, at about one and a half to two hours depending on the weather. It leaves the airport jetty in front of the arrivals hall at 10:45 or 16:00 (on Fridays at 09:45 or 16:00) and comes back from Dhangethi at 07:00 or 13:30. Land by about 15:00 to make the afternoon boat. The boat company sets the times, so we confirm them for your dates.

Children under two stay free. Older children and a third adult are charged a supplement, which we add when you tell us who is travelling.

The hotel arranges whale shark and nurse shark snorkelling, scuba diving, sunset, night and big game fishing.

Send us your dates, who is travelling and when you land. We will come back within 24 hours with the right room, the boat that fits your flight and one price for the stay.