Stayed in the Fushi Villa Suite after coming from Soneva Gili. Gili was much smaller and we stayed in an overwater bungalow so it was a nice change to move to a villa amongst the bush and beach. Great to have a few more people around and a few more things to do as well.

We hired a tandem bicycle and had good fun biking around the island and stopping at different snorkeling points or cycling to dinner on the other side of the island and cycling back.

You can almost get lost although we only really did because we were so relaxed and didn't concentrate. The herb garden restuarant was my favourite and elevated above the bushes with great views and superb food.

Again, a wonderfully chilled out place with no pretention and superb place. One of my best bars ever was near our villa with couches and net like hammocks over the water which was just sensational for a G&T after a days relaxing!

best for a total relaxation. One enjoys the beauty of the island, its animals, rabbits, water hens, fruibats, and the overall friendliness of the staff

Many laudatory reviews have been written about this hotel so I'll try to be just objective while pointing out its positives and negatives.

Positives.

Maybe the main positive is the island concept itself which really creates a very special ambiance. Natural materials, jungle around you, bicycles to cross the island... Unforgettable experience for children as well as for adults.

Food. Excellent. Except for a very few letdowns, we rarely experienced such a quality, diversity and freshness."By the beach" restaurant and Bara-bara bar were our favorite. We were less impressed with the main restaurant à la carte menu (breakfast and buffets remained gorgeous) and service.

Service. Mainly, extraordinary. Everybody was helpful without being intrusive. Special thanks to Xain, our "Mr. Friday". Everything he organized for us - from special trips to in-villa dining was perfect.

Negatives.

One of them is often mentioned - it's the sunset side island opposite Soneva. We were on the sunrise side, but you still go admire the sunset or snorkel from the Bara-Bara bar - and the island is really close, much closer than we thought. Not a very pleasant view.

The snorkeling is far better on the sunset side. So if you want to snorkel directly from you villa (as we had wanted but were quickly disillusioned) you have to accept the opposite island view. The sunrise side snorkeling is close to non-existent except maybe for the Jungle Reserve area and farther.

Sandflies / Mosquito issue. These were really everywere and biting day and night. If you could more or less protect yourself from mosquitoes with adapted repellents, sandflies were invincible. We saw dozens of guests in a quite alarming state, which is understandable - nothing seamed able to calm their bites. That's maybe the only reason we'd be extremely reluctant to come back to Soneva, despite all our good memories of the place...

We stayed 3 nights at Soneva Fushi.We booked the Soneva Fushi Villa Suite.
The suite is amazing, very big, wonderful and comfortable bed, also the suite have own private pool with access direct to the beach.
The beach its so wonderful, clean blue water and great for snorkeling, sometimes u can see the baby sharks. The food its very good and very taste. The Service is great and staff are amazing. They give bikes and u can looking around the resort.
Its very peaceful and relax place. Its really a paradise.