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Maldives Emperor Explorer liveaboard review: A review of the Emperor Explorer reveals a 42 metre (138 feet) luxury Maldives liveaboard. Sleeps 26 divers across 13 cabins all with en-suites and air-con. Western and local food served buffet style with a free glass of complimentary wine at dinner. Dive trips of 8 days 7 nights or 11 days 10 nights + free nitrox.
Chance to see whale sharks, manta rays, eagle rays and more.
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Features of Maldives Emperor Explorer liveaboard
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The features that are included with your stay on the Maldives Emperor Explorer liveaboard are as follows:
The Emperor Explorer is 42 metres (138 feet) in length.
Designed for up to 26 divers across 13 luxurious cabins.
Cabins have private en-suite bathrooms, air conditioning, charging ports and storage space.
Food includes western style and local food and is served buffet fashion. Free glass of wine with dinner.
Air-conditioned saloon with bar.
A sun deck for those sun-worshippers who like to relax and enjoy sunbathing in-between dives.
The diving from the Emperor Explorer is second to non. Not only will you be scuba diving from what is essentially a floating boutique hotel, but the diving will be amazing too. Scuba diving options:
Best of the Maldives – 8 days 7 nights. 17 dives in total. Open water certification required or similar. Dive sites of North Male, South Male and Ari Atoll. Highlights include: Rasdhoo Atoll Hammerhead Dive; North Ari Atoll: Grey Reef Sharks, Maaya Thila Night Dive, Multiple Manta Cleaning Stations; South Ari Atoll and the chance to see whale sharks.
Northern Hi-lights – 11 days 10 nights. 24 dives in total. Open water certification required or equivalent. Includes dive sites from best of Maldives, but also takes in Hanifaru & North itineraries with the ‘Northern Atolls. Highlights include a diverse marine mix of reef animals and corals, abundant macro life, marine turtles, manta rays and whale sharks.
Scuba divers that have stayed on the Emperor Explorer comments include: Diving with manta rays and whale sharks; crew and diving guides were awesome; Great diving; Amazing value; As single female…I simply have no words to compliment enough the crew; Epic trip; Would dive with this boat and crew again!!
Here’s a review by a customer who rated the Emperor Explorer 10 out of 10 and five stars:
Amazing diving week in Maldives: “It was amazing diving trip. Nothing that you might consider to be different. Starting with the pick up from the airport and bringing us back there, everything was excellently organised. Boat is very comfortable with big dinning room, comfortable rooms and dedicated bathroom. Dhoni team was super helpful and facilitated nicely our diving. Gabriel and Maria did fantastic job orchestrating the trip and visiting beautiful places above and below the ocean surface. Entire crew was friendly and made our stay awesome. We saw everything we were dreaming for like: mantas, wale shark, reef sharks and much, much more… BBQ on th island was a cherry on the pie:-) Thank you Gabriel, Maria, Rich, Fish and entire crew for fantastic trip. It is life time memory.” Recommended for: Very comfortable boat. 2. Friendly and professional crew. 3. Fantastic dive sites
Maldives Magic with the exceptional Emperor Explorer Liveaboard You’ll want to be there when you watch this. From aerial shots to Jacuzzi to sundeck, cabins, dining room and diving dhoni and that’s just above the ocean. Dive in with us and get up close with lots of sharks, manta rays and fish that only a mother could love – then there are the night dives.
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.
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Maldives Emperor Explorer Liveaboard Review (Luxury Maldives Liveaboard)
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