Mercure Maldives Kooddoo Resort

Sooooo relaxing… sensational staff and hospitality, world class snorkelling and truely all inclusive holiday. The mini bar is stocked daily, and the options of food and beverages is unlimited! The beach villa was private and secluded with our own direct entry to the ocean. Every morning was a delight to wake up to the beach view, and as the resorts faces west, we could sit back and relax at the pool bar or on our very own sunbeds at the villa to enjoy the Maldivian sunset! We did not have to think about a thing! If you’re still reading, you’re wasting time.. just book it! No regrets! Xx

We are enjoying our last day at the wonderful Mercure Kooddoo resort. We are on a Luxury Escapes 7 day package and the Maldives have certainly lived up to our "Bucket List" expectations of 30 plus years. It did take three flights to get here via Singapore but it was worthwhile. First of all, the photos that you see of the Maldives are true to life. The sand is just so soft and the water is that gorgeous soft turquoise colour and just so clear. We chose an Ocean Villa right on the beach. It has been fabulous, large and roomy, so clean with the hugest bathroom with a separate shower, separate toilet as well as a very long bench with two basins and a relaxing couch. It means that there is loads of room for the bags of toiletries etc. that we usually have to hide. Outside is a lovely fresh air shower and bath. The bath towels are huge and the beach towels are plentiful. The shower gel, body lotion, shampoo and conditioner are of a very high quality. The king size bed is so very comfortable as are the pillows. We also have two chairs and a table inside our villa as well as desk and table. Ther are two comfy chairs and a table on our veranda and two comfortable lounges on the sand below our villa. The food is delicious and each and every one of the staff cannot do enough for their guests. We will miss the delicious breakfasts as well as the superb buffets each evening in Alita Restaurant as well as the excellent Italian food at Vista. Breakfast has been so good, we haven't needed lunch. The Espresso coffee is excellent and that is high praise from a Melbournian as we pride ourselves on our coffee. I cannot understand why this resort is listed as only 4 star as we have found the quality to be 5 star. In fact we haven't one critisicm. It has been a superb experience.

My wife and I have recently returned from a 2 week vacation at the Mercure for my wife’s 60th birthday This was our first time to Maldives and this place didn’t disappoint, we stayed in a beach bungalow which was amazing the fact it was just meters away from our own piece of beach and straight into the amazing sea.(202) friendly staff made our stay memorable, the guys in the pool bar were always smiling and knew what you wanted to drink every time. A special shout out to JO-ANN and her team in the VISTA RESTAURANT (Kunal, Smith and chef Bipula this place made our vacation special what an amazing team and the food was super every time we ate there which was probably 80% of the time. Alcohol was good no expense spared. Snorkelling was amazing first time on the house reef we saw 2 large rays, sharks everywhere and our last day we had a turtle pop up 2meters away from us.

The one and only issue for us was trying to get a hot drink at breakfast staff in there ignored us and most days we went without a hot drink with our breakfast, this was the same in the evening so we pretty much used the vista restaurant

Try the pool bar for lunch 👌👌

I would definitely recommend and return to the Mercure in the future Thanks for a relaxing vacation