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Maldives Ari Queen liveaboard review: A review of the Maldives Ari Queen liveaboard reveals a 33 metre (108 feet) custom-built boat for scuba divers. Sleeps 20 scuba divers over 10 cabins with en-suites and air conditioning. Western food served buffet style indoors or alfresco with an air-conditioned saloon and bar. Dive trips of 8 days 7 nights.
A brilliant chance to see whale sharks and other sharks, manta rays, eagle rays, turtles wrecks and much much more.
Features of Maldives Ari Queen liveaboard
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The features that are included with your stay on the Maldives Ari Queen liveaboard are as follows:
The Maldives Ari Queen liveaboard is 33 metres (108 feet) in length.
Designed for up to 20 divers across 10 luxurious cabins.
Cabins have private en-suite bathrooms and air conditioning and TVs.
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 style and is served buffet fashion both indoors or outside alfresco style, with all-day snacks.
Specific dietary requirements can be catered for including vegetarian options.
Indoor air conditioned saloon with bar.
Scuba diving facilities include: DIN adaptors, paid-for nitrox available, sidemount diving and equipment and scuba gear rentals.
Camera station and a separate rinse for your underwater camera.
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The diving from the Maldives Ari Queen 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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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.
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 Ari Queen liveaboard:
Examples of the dive itineraries on the Ari Queen liveaboard.
Classic Central – 7 Nights – 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.
There are a few mixed reviews about the Ari Queen liveaboard. Some of the ratings are low. Sometimes this is down to the weather, which isn’t the fault of the dive boat. The best thing is to make your mind up based on your budget, but to also read some of the good review points too.
Scuba divers that have stayed on the Maldives Ari Queen liveaboard review comments include:
Staff were super nice and responsible. room is always keep clean;
Good value for money;
One afternoon a group of nurse sharks swam right underneath the boat and we jumped in the water to snorkel with them. Amazing!
First Liveaboard: Well worth it!
The diving was very good, the food onboard was delicious, and the convenience of the “dhoni” dive boat was great!
Unforgettable manta diving;
Great diving and great boat;
The Ari Queen is great value for money for world class diving!
Here’s a review by a customer who rated the Maldives Ari Queen liveaboard 10 out of 10 and 5 stars:
Amazing Alejandra, Fire, Hugo, and Captain Adam are the best! “Alejandra, Fire, Hugo, and Captain Adam are the best! The rest of the crew is awesome as well. I cannot say enough about the professionalism that comes with the employees of this boat. They went above an beyond to make everyone’s trip amazing. Manta Ray night dive was incredible as well as the Shark and Stingray night dive. Owner take note: Alejandra is awesome!” Recommended for: Staff, Staff, Staff.
Maldives Liveaboard on the Ari Queen Diving on South Male Atoll, Ari Atoll in the Maldives, liveaboard on the Ari Queen. December 2017. Whaleshark and drone footage by yizhang and his amazing camera skills.
I hope you enjoyed this article about the Maldives Ari Queen liveaboard review
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There will also be many more articles about scuba and scuba diving safety tips (and on snorkelling too) for you to read and learn about this fabulous sport.
Have fun and be safe!
Maldives Ari Queen liveaboard review
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Article written by Russell Bowyer who has been a scuba diver since diving on the Great Barrier Reef in Australia in 1989. After his first dive he trained as a BSAC diver in the UK. He attained his Diver Leader certification with BSAC. He then went on to become a scuba diving instructor, teaching others how to dive and was voted as Diving Officer and Treasurer for the Saffron Walden BSAC club too. Russell has dived all over the world, including the UK, on liveaboards in the Red Sea, the Caribbean, South Africa and the USA. Russell is experienced in all dive types, including drift diving, deep dives that involved decompression stops and recreational dives too.
