
The Maldives Honors Legacy liveaboard – Overall review rating 7.6 out of 10 and 4 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 Honors Legacy liveaboard review, it’s possibly safe to assume you intend to dive from a liveaboard.
Maldives Honors Legacy liveaboard review: A review of the Maldives Honors Legacy liveaboard reveals a 34 metre (110 feet) custom-built boat for scuba divers. Sleeps 18 divers over 9 cabins with en-suites, air-con and some have sea views. Western food served buffet style or as fine dinning with an air-con saloon and bar. Dive trips of 8 days 7 nights.
With one of the best opportunities for a chance 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 Honors Legacy liveaboard

The Honors Legacy is more than just a liveaboard boat. She is more like a floating hotel and spa with absolute luxury than just a normal Liveaboard boat.
The features that are included with your stay on the Maldives Honors Legacy liveaboard are as follows:
- The Maldives Honors Legacy liveaboard is 33.5 metres (110 feet) in length.
- Designed for up to 18 divers across 9 cabins.
- Cabins have private en-suite bathrooms and air conditioning, some with sea views and TVs and there’s daily housekeeping.
- Warm water showers.
- A leisure deck, and observation deck and a sun deck for those sun-worshippers who like to relax and enjoy sunbathing in-between dives.
- Food includes western style food and is served buffet style and as fine cuisine and can be eaten both indoors or outside alfresco style. Plus there’s a BBQ area and all-day snacks.
- Both wine and beer are available at an extra charge with a fine wines selection.
- Specific dietary requirements can be catered for including vegetarian.
- Non-diver friendly for snorkeling.
- Indoor air conditioned saloon with bar and a library.
- Scuba diving facilities include: DIN adaptors, a camera station and separate rinse area for your underwater camera and equipment and scuba gear rentals.
- Paid-for internet.
- Other activities include fishing and a Jacuzzi/Hot tub.
- Family friendly with family cabins.
- Massages and a spa are available at an extra charge.
You can check the Honors Legacy liveaboard availability and prices here.
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Maldives Honors Legacy scuba diving review

The diving from the Maldives Honors Legacy 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 Honors Legacy liveaboard:
Examples of the dive itineraries on the Honors Legacy liveaboard.
- Best of Maldives – 8 days 7 nights trip. Approx. 17 dives in total. Advanced Open Water certification – 50 minimum logged dives required.
- Hanifaru & Ari Atoll (Male-Male) – 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 Honors Legacy liveaboard availability and prices here.
Maldives Honors Legacy liveaboard review by customers
There is only one review so far on the Honors Legacy liveaboard, which is as follows:
the diving was sublime despite poor visability; crew excellent; boat had a few issues that need to be addressed. “mantra rays at their feeding station, nurse sharks scratching and resting in the sand, taking my diving to new levels of ability and ease.” Recommended for: diving, friendliness and willingness of staff to help, organisation and delivery of schedule (meals, diving, changes in location, briefings, equipment).
Cathy G, United Kingdom
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Honors Legacy is designed and built in the Maldives, this stunning luxury yacht is in a class of its own. Its beautiful design and special attention to detail ensures quality and luxurious comfort for all of our guests
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