
The Maldives Adora liveaboard – Overall review rating 8.5 out of 10 and 4.5 stars
If you’re set on scuba diving the Maldives, your next decision is whether you do resort based diving vs scuba dive from a liveaboard. But as you’re reading this Adora liveaboard review, it’s possibly safe to assume you intend to dive from a liveaboard.
Maldives Adora liveaboard review: A review of the Maldives Adora liveaboard reveals a 37 metre (123 feet) custom-built boat for scuba divers. Sleeps 21 divers across 11 cabins with en-suites, air-con and some have balconies. Western and local food served buffet style indoors or alfresco with an air-con saloon and bar. Dive trips of 8 days 7 nights.
The opportunity to see whale sharks and other sharks, manta rays, eagle rays, turtles wrecks and much much more.
The best way to dive the Maldives is by a scuba diving liveaboard. You can check the latest and best deals on Maldives liveaboards using the following window:
Features of Maldives Adora liveaboard

The features that are included with your stay on the Maldives Adora liveaboard are as follows:
- The Maldives Adora liveaboard is 37 metres (123 feet) in length.
- Designed for up to 21 divers across 11 cabins.
- Cabins have private en-suite bathrooms and air conditioning, TVs, sea views, some rooms have balconies and there’s daily housekeeping.
- Warm water showers.
- A sun deck for those sun-worshippers who like to relax and enjoy sunbathing in-between dives.
- Food includes western and local style food and is served buffet style eaten both indoors or outside alfresco style with all day snacks.
- Specific dietary requirements can be catered for including vegan options.
- Non-diver friendly for snorkeling.
- Indoor air conditioned saloon with bar.
- Scuba diving facilities include: DIN adaptors, paid-for nitrox available and equipment and scuba gear rentals.
- Camera station and a separate rinse area for your underwater camera.
- Paid-for internet.
- Other activities on board include fishing and an on board library.
You can check the Adora liveaboard availability and prices for this Boat here.
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Maldives Adora scuba diving review

The diving from the Maldives Adora liveaboard has a good review rating and she was custom-built for scuba diving.
On this scuba diving liveaboard, you’ll be in the hands of experienced and professional crew.
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Table of Maldives liveaboards
This list of Maldives liveaboards is in descending customer rating order, followed by Scuba Diving Luxury Rating (SDE Lux Rating, see below), so the liveaboards with the highest customer rating and the best SDE lux rating will be at the top of the list. If you want to change the list order, use the “Sort by” dropdown below.
Discover Liveaboard | Customer Rating | SDE Lux Rating % | Flexible Booking | Dive Courses | Dietary Requirements | Nitrox | Gear Rental | |
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Review: MV Scubaspa Yang; Book: MV Scubaspa Yang | 9.6 | 87% | YES | YES | YES | YES | YES |
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Review: MV Emperor Explorer; Book: MV Emperor Explorer | 9.6 | 63% | YES | YES | YES | YES | YES |
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Review: MV Theia; Book: MV Theia | 9.5 | 85% | YES | YES | YES | YES | YES |
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Review: MY Princess Dhonkamana; Book: MY Princess Dhonkamana | 9.5 | 79% | YES | YES | YES | YES | YES |
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Review: MV Scubaspa Ying; Book: MV Scubaspa Ying | 9.4 | 87% | YES | YES | YES | YES | YES |
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Review: MV Sachika; Book: MV Sachika | 9.4 | 83% | YES | YES | YES | YES | YES |
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Review: MV Emperor Serenity; Book: MV Emperor Serenity | 9.4 | 60% | YES | YES | YES | YES | YES |
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Review: MV Soleil 2; Book: MV Soleil 2 | 9.3 | 96% | YES | YES | YES | YES | YES |
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Review: MV Emperor Atoll; Book: MV Emperor Atoll | 9.3 | 77% | YES | YES | YES | YES | YES |
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Review: MV Azalea; Book: MV Azalea | 9.3 | 77% | NO | YES | YES | YES | YES |
The Scuba Diving Earth Luxury Rating (SDE Lux Rating) is explained on each liveaboard review when you click the “Discover Liveaboard” link, and is my own Liveaboard Luxury Rating I’ve assigned to all liveaboards. Choosing between liveaboards is helped by customer scores, and if you get stuck choosing between two or three liveaboards, where each one has a high customer score out of 10, you can use the SDE Luxury Rating to help narrow down your choice.
Think about it like using Booking.com when searching for the best hotel. Booking.com also use a customer score where each customer rates hotels out of 10. This is similar to the liveaboard customer rating, which is also rated out of 10. But let’s say you only like to stay in hotels rated 8 and above on Booking.com, but you also want the hotel to have WIFI or parking, or to have a swimming pool etc. The features each hotel has is usually secondary to the score out of 10.

Scuba diving options on the Maldives Adora liveaboard:
Examples of the dive itineraries on the Adora liveaboard.
- Best of Maldives – 8 days 7 nights trip. Approx. 17 dives in total. Advanced Open Water certification – 30 minimum logged dives required.
- Best of Maldives – Charter Only. 5 days 4 nights trip. Approx. 8 dives in total. Advanced Open Water certification – 30 minimum logged dives required.
- Hanifaru Cruise – 8 days 7 nights trip. Approx. 18 dives in total. Advanced Open Water certification – 30 minimum logged dives required.
- Expedition to Lhaviyani (Male-Male) – 8 days 7 nights trip. Approx. 17 dives in total. Advanced Open Water certification – 50 minimum logged dives required.
- Liveaboard & Island Escape – 8 days 7 nights trip. Approx. 17 dives in total. Advanced Open Water certification – 50 minimum logged dives required.
Some of the diving in the Maldives are deep dives and up to 30 metres (98 feet), with currents so are drift dives and there are night dives too.
On most of these trips divers will see a variety of marine life. This includes nudibranchs, Napoleon Wrasse, moray eels, large schools of reef fish, eagle rays, various shark species including grey reef and white tip sharks, turtles, manta rays and whale sharks.
You will also get the opportunity on some trips to dive some of the most beautiful shipwrecks too.
You can check the Adora liveaboard availability and prices for this Boat here.
Maldives Adora liveaboard review by customers
Scuba divers that have stayed on the Maldives Adora liveaboard review comments include:
- Wonderful week on the adora;
- Beautiful boat, nice crew and superb diving!
- Mantas mantas mantas! Crew is wonderful, boat is very comfortable.
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Here’s a review by a customer who rated the Maldives Adora liveaboard 9.6 out of 10 and 5 stars:
AMAZING. “MANTA RAY, NIGHT DIVE, WHALE SHARK” Recommended for: ADORA, FOOD, CREW
Luiz Carlos F, Brazil
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