Princess Sara

Built in 2018, and at 40m, with 4 power generators and a 600 HP marine engine that generates a cruising speed of 15 knots, Princess Sara is an impressive and modern luxury liveaboard diving yacht that focuses on safaris around the Maldives. They take great pride in the high quality of the crew service, their dive guides, and scuba facilities.

There are 12 boat crew onboard Princess Sara, ensuring the needs of guests are always taken care of. As well as diving and snorkelling with whale sharks, manta rays and hammerhead sharks, these tours offer island hopping excursions, and plenty of opportunities to relax, either soaking in the tropical sunshine on the expansive sun deck, or cooling off in the open-air Jacuzzi. For fun seekers who like to make bit of a splash, there is also an inflatable water slide onboard. There is also a sea canoe, and jetski rides can be arranged.

With 10 cabins in 5 categories of luxury, across 3 different decks, guests have great flexibility in their accommodation and budget choices. All cabins have private bathrooms, wi-fi, TV and movie facilities. The suites and deluxe cabins also have their own Jacuzzi hottub.

All diving activities are conducted from the accompanying 70 ft (21m) dhoni, where equipment is stored and tanks are filled. It features enough space for 30 divers, toilet/shower, plus the tank compressors, emergency oxygen, and camera storage. There is also a camera rinse tank so that underwater photographers can keep their equipment in tip-top condition between dives. For those travellers seeking to explore the atolls of the Maldives - whether central, southern or northern atolls - on a liveaboard that offers a little extra luxury and comfort at an affordable price, the Princess Sara could be the right choice.

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Dive experience: Open Water Diver license only is required for central and northern routes. For the Deep South route we require advanced open water diver level with a minimum of 50 registered dives.

Cruise price per person includes: Cabin accommodation with air-conditioning, breakfast, lunch, dinner (1 deserted island BBQ, weather permitting), snacks, hot drinks, drinking water, island hopping, round trip transfers to the boat from the airport, dives (as detailed in the trips above), accompanied snorkelling tours, 4 experienced English speaking instructors and divemasters, 12 litre tanks, weights and weight belts, GST on cruise price.

Cruise price per person excludes (mandatory, unless customer provides own): Scuba equipment rental (full set, incl. dive computer: US$ 230 per week), Green Tax (US$ 12 per night), cruise service charge (i.e. tips: US$ 120 per week), dive insurance (can purchase onboard). Unless otherwise stated, all the listed items need to be paid on arrival (cash USD and EUR - or bank card).

Optional extras: Soft drinks, alcoholic drinks, nitrox fills for enriched air certified divers (US$ 70 per week), 15 litre tanks (US$ 70 per week), torch, extra dives, any entrance fees for island visits. Unless otherwise stated, all the listed items need to be paid on arrival. Note: prices of items purchased onboard are subject to change.

How to get there: Princess Sara normally uses the port at Male Airport for its liveaboard cruises. The airport meet -and-greet service runs from 8 am - 12 noon, and the yacht leaves port around 6 pm. The last dive of the trip will be before midday on the second last day of the trip then returns to port by early afternoon. The last night of the cruise is spent in the harbour.. Please wait at least 18 hours before flying after diving. Disembarkation is between 7-9 am.
For more details, including airlines, see our how to get to the Maldives section.

Non-diver rate: Full price. Princess Sara offers plenty of non-diving activities.

Single supplement (if you do not want to share accommodation): This is optional - single travellers may choose to share a cabin, pay a supplement of 70% of the published price.

Dive clubs and group discounts: Third adult sharing in a triple bed cabin - 30% discount.
Pay for 10 guests and 1 extra guest can join the cruise in a triple cabin free of charge (11+ guests).

Whole boat charter rate (per night): Pay for 22 guests and 2 additional guests can join in a triple cabin free of charge (max. 24 guests).

Maldives Central Atolls (8 Days / 7 Nights - 17 Dives)

Trip highlights: whale sharks, hammerhead sharks, shark action, manta rays, schooling fish & big pelagics

Diving environment: advanced divers, beginner divers, cage diving, caverns, drift diving, healthy reefs, off the beaten track, very popular, wall diving, wreck diving

Dive sites and activities: North Male, South Male, Ari Atoll, Felidhoo Atoll

Day 1
A representative of Princess Sara will meet you at Male International Airport and transfer you by dhoni boat to this 40m luxury liveaboard yacht. On board welcome refreshments are served while you register onboard. Those guests that arrive in the morning will prepare their scuba gear and do a check dive, then the vessel will begin its cruise.. Dinner will be served during the day and you will be able to get to know the crew and the boat better during the introductory briefing that the tour leader will give once all the guests are on board. You are about to have a great week of diving, fun, relaxation and adventure!

Days 2-7
The classic Central Atolls cruise route includes dives at Ari, Felidhoo, North and South Male atolls, primarily in order to find manta rays and whale sharks. South Male features large schools of fish, big pelagics, plenty of soft corals and caves, as well as one very good wreck. Miyaru Faru is aptly named since ‘miyaru’ means shark in Dhivehi and not surprisingly this is where you can encounter the ‘big boys’. An overhang protects you from the current and provides an excellent viewing spot for the impressive parade of pelagics and patrolling grey reef sharks.
The channel at Felidhoo Atoll is also a great place to find reef sharks and has a spectacular wall showcasing caverns, swim-throughs and overhangs festooned with colourful soft corals and bushes of black corals. There is also a spectacular night dive with dozens of huge nurse sharks, sting rays and giant trevallies. Ari Atoll is famous for its mighty whale sharks which can be regularly seen in its marine protected areas. Hammerhead sharks, manta rays and other pelagic fish are also commonly encountered here. North Male is characterised by reefs, caves, current-swept channels and drop offs. Highlights here include tuna, jacks, reef sharks, mantas and eagle rays.
A day on board the yacht runs like this - you start the day with a coffee after a wake up call. Then guests leave on the dhoni for the first dive early in the morning. Then breakfast arrives. After relaxing for a while, the next briefing and dive is done. Lunch is served at 1 pm, followed by afternoon tea and snacks, then the 3rd day dive or sunset dive. During the evening, dinner is served onboard or there will be a BBQ at a deserted island during the week.
Meals are taken in the upper deck open air if weather permits, otherwise in the air-con dining area. The cook will surely make your trip a delicious one. Try the Maldivian breakfast of Masooni with Roshi. Lunch and dinner are a mixture of Western and Asian and consist of sausages, pasta, spaghetti, pizza, tuna, fried rice, vegetables, salad, fresh juice. A BBQ on a beach/sand bank will also be held (weather permitting). Tea, coffee, and snacks are available all day. All food is locally sourced. Pork is not allowed in the Maldives.
On the final full day only 1 dive will be scheduled before the yacht returns to Hulhumale, from where guests will have the opportunity to go ashore and visit the Maldivian capital.

Day 8
Wake up to the smell of the last cooked breakfast of the tour in the early morning. Say your farewells and take your last group pictures before heading back to Male airport.

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Maldives Southern Atolls (8 Days / 7 Nights - 17 Dives)

Trip highlights: whale sharks, shark action, manta rays, schooling fish & big pelagics

Diving environment: advanced divers, beginner divers, cage diving, caverns, drift diving, healthy reefs, off the beaten track, very popular, wall diving, wreck diving

Dive sites and activities: South Male, Felidhoo, Vattaru, Meemu, Thaa, Laamu atolls

Day 1
A representative of Princess Sara will meet you at Male International Airport and transfer you by dhoni boat to this 40m luxury liveaboard yacht. On board welcome refreshments are served while you register onboard. Those guests that arrive in the morning will prepare their scuba gear and do a check dive, then the vessel will begin its cruise.. Dinner will be served during the day and you will be able to get to know the crew and the boat better during the introductory briefing that the tour leader will give once all the guests are on board. You are about to have a great week of diving, fun, relaxation and adventure!

Days 2-7
The primary focus of Central and Southern Atolls cruise route is to find reef sharks, manta rays, whale sharks and big schools of fish. South Male features large schools of fish, big pelagics, plenty of soft corals and caves, as well as one very good wreck. Miyaru Faru is aptly named since ‘miyaru’ means shark in Dhivehi and not surprisingly this is where you can encounter the ‘big boys’. An overhang protects you from the current and provides an excellent viewing spot for the impressive parade of pelagics and patrolling grey reef sharks. Ari Atoll is famous for its mighty whale sharks which can be regularly seen in its marine protected areas. Hammerhead sharks, manta rays and other pelagic fish are also commonly encountered here.
The channels at Felidhoo Atoll are also great places to find reef sharks and there is a spectacular wall showcasing caverns, swim-throughs and overhangs festooned with colourful soft corals and bushes of black corals. There is also a spectacular night dive with dozens of huge nurse sharks, sting rays and giant trevallies. Thaa Atoll has some very fishy reefs and is where you will have the best chance to see whale sharks feeding on plankton under lights during the evening. Meemu Atoll is all about drift dives in the company of reef sharks and eagle rays. Lucky divers sometimes see hammehead sharks here in the early morning.
A day on board the yacht runs like this - you start the day with a coffee after a wake up call. Then guests leave on the dhoni for the first dive early in the morning. Then breakfast arrives. After relaxing for a while, the next briefing and dive is done. Lunch is served at 1 pm, followed by afternoon tea and snacks, then the 3rd day dive or sunset dive. During the evening, dinner is served onboard or there will be a BBQ at a deserted island during the week.
Meals are taken in the upper deck open air if weather permits, otherwise in the air-con dining area. The cook will surely make your trip a delicious one. Try the Maldivian breakfast of Masooni with Roshi. Lunch and dinner are a mixture of Western and Asian and consist of sausages, pasta, spaghetti, pizza, tuna, fried rice, vegetables, salad, fresh juice. A BBQ on a beach/sand bank will also be held (weather permitting). Tea, coffee, and snacks are available all day. All food is locally sourced. Pork is not allowed in the Maldives.
On the final full day only 1 dive will be scheduled before the yacht returns to port.

Day 8
Wake up to the smell of the last cooked breakfast of the tour in the early morning. Say your farewells and take your last group pictures before heading to Kadhdhoo airport, Laamu and the flight back to Male.
Please note that the trip sometimes runs in reverse or has differing ports - check above for exact port details.

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Maldives Deep South Atolls (8 Days / 7 Nights - 17 Dives)

Trip highlights: whale sharks, shark action, manta rays, schooling fish & big pelagics

Diving environment: advanced divers, beginner divers, cage diving, caverns, drift diving, healthy reefs, off the beaten track, very popular, wall diving, wreck diving

Dive sites and activities: Fuvahmulah, Huvadhoo, Addu, Laamu atolls

Day 1
A representative of Princess Sara will meet you at Gan International Airport and transfer you by dhoni boat to this 40m luxury liveaboard yacht. On board welcome refreshments are served while you register onboard. Those guests that arrive in the morning will prepare their scuba gear and do a check dive, then the vessel will begin its cruise.. Dinner will be served during the day and you will be able to get to know the crew and the boat better during the introductory briefing that the tour leader will give once all the guests are on board. You are about to have a great week of diving, fun, relaxation and adventure!

Days 2-7
For many, the highlight of a visit to the Deep South are the apex predators at Fuvahmulah Island. Be prepared for awesome encounters with thresher sharks, oceanic whitetips and tiger sharks. Here you’ll dive with a variety of large predators as they hunt the abundant smaller fish. Whitetip reef and grey reef sharks, mola mola, sailfish, whale sharks, and schools of tuna are frequently seen.
Huvadhoo is made up of vibrant reefs, untouched lagoons, walls and deep channels. Stingrays, turtles and a variety of sharks including blacktip and whitetip reef sharks, nurse sharks, spinner dolphins, manta rays, thresher sharks and big schools of fish are frequent visitors here. Occasionally you will also find hammerheads too. The cruise also includes some extraordinary dives at Addu. There are over 30 world class sites surrounding the atoll, in the wide channels, and healthy reefs and thilas inside the lagoon, where you can see reef mantas, turtles, sharks, big fish, and the largest shipwreck in the Maldives - the 143m long British Loyalty. Along the outer walls you can spot dogtooth tuna, silvertips, schools of batfish, fusiliers and jackfish. The atoll is home to cleaning stations for oceanic manta rays of more than 5m wing span, as well as more shark species.
A day on board the yacht runs like this - you start the day with a coffee after a wake up call. Then guests leave on the dhoni for the first dive early in the morning. Then breakfast arrives. After relaxing for a while, the next briefing and dive is done. Lunch is served at 1 pm, followed by afternoon tea and snacks, then the 3rd day dive or sunset dive. During the evening, dinner is served onboard or there will be a BBQ at a deserted island during the week.
Meals are taken in the upper deck open air if weather permits, otherwise in the air-con dining area. The cook will surely make your trip a delicious one. Try the Maldivian breakfast of Masooni with Roshi. Lunch and dinner are a mixture of Western and Asian and consist of sausages, pasta, spaghetti, pizza, tuna, fried rice, vegetables, salad, fresh juice. A BBQ on a beach/sand bank will also be held (weather permitting). Tea, coffee, and snacks are available all day. All food is locally sourced. Pork is not allowed in the Maldives.
On the final full day only 1 dive will be scheduled before the yacht returns to port.

Day 8
Wake up to the smell of the last cooked breakfast of the tour in the early morning. Say your farewells and take your last group pictures before heading to Laamu airport and the flight back to Male or Gan.
Please note that the trip sometimes runs in reverse or has differing ports - check above for exact port details.

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Maldives Deep South Atolls (8 Days / 7 Nights - 17 Dives)

Trip highlights: whale sharks, shark action, manta rays, schooling fish & big pelagics

Diving environment: advanced divers, beginner divers, cage diving, caverns, drift diving, healthy reefs, off the beaten track, very popular, wall diving, wreck diving

Dive sites and activities: Fuvahmulah, Huvadhoo, Addu atolls

Day 1
A representative of Princess Sara will meet you at Gan International Airport and transfer you by dhoni boat to this 40m luxury liveaboard yacht. On board welcome refreshments are served while you register onboard. Those guests that arrive in the morning will prepare their scuba gear and do a check dive, then the vessel will begin its cruise.. Dinner will be served during the day and you will be able to get to know the crew and the boat better during the introductory briefing that the tour leader will give once all the guests are on board. You are about to have a great week of diving, fun, relaxation and adventure!

Days 2-7
For many, the highlight of a visit to the Deep South are the apex predators at Fuvahmulah Island. Be prepared for awesome encounters with thresher sharks, oceanic whitetips and tiger sharks. Here you’ll dive with a variety of large predators as they hunt the abundant smaller fish. Whitetip reef and grey reef sharks, mola mola, sailfish, whale sharks, and schools of tuna are frequently seen.
Huvadhoo is made up of vibrant reefs, untouched lagoons, walls and deep channels. Stingrays, turtles and a variety of sharks including blacktip and whitetip reef sharks, nurse sharks, spinner dolphins, manta rays, thresher sharks and big schools of fish are frequent visitors here. Occasionally you will also find hammerheads too. The cruise also includes some extraordinary dives at Addu. There are over 30 world class sites surrounding the atoll, in the wide channels, and healthy reefs and thilas inside the lagoon, where you can see reef mantas, turtles, sharks, big fish, and the largest shipwreck in the Maldives - the 143m long British Loyalty. Along the outer walls you can spot dogtooth tuna, silvertips, schools of batfish, fusiliers and jackfish. The atoll is home to cleaning stations for oceanic manta rays of more than 5m wing span, as well as more shark species.
A day on board the yacht runs like this - you start the day with a coffee after a wake up call. Then guests leave on the dhoni for the first dive early in the morning. Then breakfast arrives. After relaxing for a while, the next briefing and dive is done. Lunch is served at 1 pm, followed by afternoon tea and snacks, then the 3rd day dive or sunset dive. During the evening, dinner is served onboard or there will be a BBQ at a deserted island during the week.
Meals are taken in the upper deck open air if weather permits, otherwise in the air-con dining area. The cook will surely make your trip a delicious one. Try the Maldivian breakfast of Masooni with Roshi. Lunch and dinner are a mixture of Western and Asian and consist of sausages, pasta, spaghetti, pizza, tuna, fried rice, vegetables, salad, fresh juice. A BBQ on a beach/sand bank will also be held (weather permitting). Tea, coffee, and snacks are available all day. All food is locally sourced. Pork is not allowed in the Maldives.
On the final full day only 1 dive will be scheduled before the yacht returns to port.

Day 8
Wake up to the smell of the last cooked breakfast of the tour in the early morning. Say your farewells and take your last group pictures before heading to Gan airport.
Note: some trips use other ports so check above for exact port details for this particular trip.

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Maldives Northern Atolls (8 Days / 7 Nights - 17 Dives)

Trip highlights: whale sharks, manta rays, turtles, schooling fish & big pelagics

Diving environment: advanced divers, beginner divers, cage diving, caverns, drift diving, healthy reefs, off the beaten track, very popular, wall diving, wreck diving

Dive sites and activities: Baa Atoll: Dharavandhoo Thila, Hanifaru Bay, Dhonfanu Thila, Bodu Gaa, Anga Thila, Nelivaru Thila, Lhaviyani Atoll: Huravalhi Kandu, Kuredhoo Express, Felivaru Wreck (Skipjack II), Raa Atoll: Lotta Faru Wall, Inguraidhoo Thila, Kottafaru Thila, Neyo Kan Manthie, Beriyan Dhekunu Thila, Kuda Thila, Tiger Point (Hulhumale)

Day 1
A representative of Princess Sara will meet you at Male International Airport and transfer you by dhoni boat to this 40m luxury liveaboard yacht. On board welcome refreshments are served while you register onboard. Those guests that arrive in the morning will prepare their scuba gear and do a check dive, then the vessel will begin its cruise.. Dinner will be served during the day and you will be able to get to know the crew and the boat better during the introductory briefing that the tour leader will give once all the guests are on board. You are about to have a great week of diving, fun, relaxation and adventure!

Days 2-7
Get ready to enjoy an amazing cruise to the little visited northern atolls, including Baa Atoll. Baa was declared a UNESCO World Biosphere and its amazing reefs offer a wide variety of marine life, ranging from small fishes and turtles to the giant filter feeders - mantas and whale sharks. Walls and thilas full of hard and soft corals, plateaus, overhangs, pinnacles and swim-throughs are all yours to explore. Here you will snorkel in the world famous Hanifaru Bay, a marine protected area where hundreds of manta rays gather, from May to November, in a spectacular feeding frenzy. Watch them barrel roll as they scoop up huge mouthfuls of nourishing plankton. By regulation, only snorkeling is allowed here, but there are many fascinating dive sites nearby.
At Lhaviyani and Noonu atolls, the channels attract a lot of marine life including grey reef sharks, leopard sharks, guitar sharks, eagle rays, and there are plenty of colourful soft corals. Diving on pinnacles are also one of the highlights of the tour, as they shelter fish from the currents. Near Lhaviyani you will dive the most famous wreck site - The Shipyard - 2 wrecks located at different depths close together and surrounded by an abundance of marine life.
A day on board the yacht runs like this - you start the day with a coffee after a wake up call. Then guests leave on the dhoni for the first dive early in the morning. Then breakfast arrives. After relaxing for a while, the next briefing and dive is done. Lunch is served at 1 pm, followed by afternoon tea and snacks, then the 3rd day dive or sunset dive. During the evening, dinner is served onboard or there will be a BBQ at a deserted island during the week.
Meals are taken in the upper deck open air if weather permits, otherwise in the air-con dining area. The cook will surely make your trip a delicious one. Try the Maldivian breakfast of Masooni with Roshi. Lunch and dinner are a mixture of Western and Asian and consist of sausages, pasta, spaghetti, pizza, tuna, fried rice, vegetables, salad, fresh juice. A BBQ on a beach/sand bank will also be held (weather permitting). Tea, coffee, and snacks are available all day. All food is locally sourced. Pork is not allowed in the Maldives.
On the final full day only 1 dive will be scheduled before the yacht returns to Hulhumale, from where guests will have the opportunity to go ashore and visit the Maldivian capital.

Day 8
Wake up to the smell of the last cooked breakfast of the tour in the early morning. Say your farewells and take your last group pictures before heading back to Male airport.

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Maldives Deep South Atolls (8 Days / 7 Nights - 17 Dives)

Trip highlights: whale sharks, shark action, manta rays, schooling fish & big pelagics

Diving environment: advanced divers, beginner divers, cage diving, caverns, drift diving, healthy reefs, off the beaten track, very popular, wall diving, wreck diving

Dive sites and activities: Huvadhoo Atoll

Day 1
A representative of Princess Sara will meet you at Kooddoo Airport (GKK) and transfer you by dhoni boat to this 40m luxury liveaboard yacht. On board welcome refreshments are served while you register onboard. Those guests that arrive in the morning will prepare their scuba gear and do a check dive, then the vessel will begin its cruise.. Dinner will be served during the day and you will be able to get to know the crew and the boat better during the introductory briefing that the tour leader will give once all the guests are on board. You are about to have a great week of diving, fun, relaxation and adventure!

Days 2-7
Huvadhoo is the largest and deepest atoll in the Maldives and is made up of vibrant reefs, untouched lagoons, walls and deep channels. Stingrays, turtles and a variety of sharks including blacktip and whitetip reef sharks, nurse sharks, spinner dolphins, manta rays, thresher sharks and big schools of fish are frequent visitors here. Occasionally you will also find hammerheads too. Whale sharks often make an appearance in the moonlight, under the stern, to eat plankton attracted by the boat's headlights.
A day on board the yacht runs like this - you start the day with a coffee after a wake up call. Then guests leave on the dhoni for the first dive early in the morning. Then breakfast arrives. After relaxing for a while, the next briefing and dive is done. Lunch is served at 1 pm, followed by afternoon tea and snacks, then the 3rd day dive or sunset dive. During the evening, dinner is served onboard or there will be a BBQ at a deserted island during the week.
Meals are taken in the upper deck open air if weather permits, otherwise in the air-con dining area. The cook will surely make your trip a delicious one. Try the Maldivian breakfast of Masooni with Roshi. Lunch and dinner are a mixture of Western and Asian and consist of sausages, pasta, spaghetti, pizza, tuna, fried rice, vegetables, salad, fresh juice. A BBQ on a beach/sand bank will also be held (weather permitting). Tea, coffee, and snacks are available all day. All food is locally sourced. Pork is not allowed in the Maldives.
On the final full day only 1 dive will be scheduled before the yacht returns to port.

Day 8
Wake up to the smell of the last cooked breakfast of the tour in the early morning. Say your farewells and take your last group pictures before heading to Kooddoo airport.

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[Information is best estimate in ideal circumstances and subject to changes beyond our control. The itinerary is a guide only and may be adapted to best suit the weather, tides, currents, availability and other prevailing events. Price is for the cruise, not for an exact number of dives].

There are 10 en-suite guest cabins on Princess Sara. The upper deck has 2 Master double bed suites The main deck has 2 double/twin bed junior suites. The lower deck also has 2 junior suites, plus 2 deluxe cabins and 2 standard cabins - all with double/twin beds. The lower deck junior suites and deluxe cabins can be used as 3-share cabins.

All the rooms have: No. of bathrooms / showers - 10 / 10 - hot water