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| Wooden Mono-Hull motor yacht... |
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The MY Sachika was the winner of our 'Liveaboard of the Year' award in 2010. It is an Italian owned and operated luxury liveaboard, running trips either for full charter or individual bookings, around some of the best dive sites in the Maldives. The most common itineraries include North Male, South Male and Ari atoll with some trips going further south and others further north.
Length: 33 metres / 109 foot
Beam: 10 metres / 33 foot
Cruise: 10 knots
Divers: 20
 Customer Reviews
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This is a Maldives liveaboard built for diving and with 4 beautifully furnished decks meaning there is always plenty of space for up to 20 divers in a range of cabin configurations, all with at least 1 King or Queen size bed. All cabins are en-suite with a minibar, and several categories have personal TV and DVD players.
Facilities include a large air-conditioned saloon featuring full electronic entertainment systems and plenty of lounging and reading space. There is wi-fi internet available, plus a movie library and well-stocked library. Additional facilities that evidence the luxury aspect of Sachika include a massage room, a 5 seat jacuzzi on the sundeck, and 2 Seadoo underwater scooters available for rent.
Diving is conducted from the dhoni and is made easy with 3 dhoni staff. Your equipment and the compressors are kept here, making the diving system on this liveaboard easy and keeping noise to a minimum. Comfort and high quality are evident in abundance throughout the MY Sachika.
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MY Sachika offers a variety of accommodation with a total of 9 cabins, which includes 5 Standard cabins: 4 Queen and 1 single bed cabins, and 1 cabin with 2 twin beds; and 1 Junior Suite: King and single bed; all located on the lower deck. In addition, there are 3 Suites with King size beds located on the upper deck.
Additionally all Suites have a telephone,TV and DVD player.
All the cabins have:
- Air-conditioning
- Portholes on lower deck, windows on upper deck
- Private bathroom with hot water shower
- Hand basin, toiletries, towels and beach towels
- Bedding
- Cabinet, shelves and mirror
- Minibar
- Reading lamp
- 3 square-prong mains outlet 220 volts - 24 hours per day
- Fire detectors
- Life jackets
No. of bathrooms / showers - 12 / 9 - hot water |
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"Sachika is a wonderful boat - I have never been on a dive boat so comfortable and well maintained. Rooms were spacious, including bathrooms and there are plenty of comfortable outdoor spaces. The staff were all professional and charming, both Maldivian and Italian, and went out of their way to cater to requests. I would highly recommend this boat and hope to return one day." - Sue Bernhard, Australia ...
"Very well organized, staff is efficient and discreet and smily. Best part of the service was the organization around the diving part, and the cleanliness of the boat. Beds in standard rooms are not comfortable at all, too hard. Management staff (dive guides) should be more fluent in English because except for basic/technical information, other communications were limited." - Dao Deruy, France ...
"Luxurious boat / Reasonable Price / Plenty of space in the boat / large diving Dhoni / Good Service / Friendly staffs." - Silvia Wiratama, Indonesia ...
"The boat is beautiful and the food was excellent. They have 3 dive masters but usually only used 2 which made to large groups and not a lot of personal guidance. The bed matrices are extremely hard. This is supposed to be a luxury liveaboard but in some silly ways it felt like a low end. They charge for soft drinks and do not even use an honour system. You would actually have to find a staff member to unlock the fridge and give you a coke. Then every evening they would come around with a bill for you to sign." - Mike Dobbs, USA ...
"Good accommodations with very spacious cabins, great shower, excellent diving vessel, good meals. Negative points: Just 3 dives a day, overall atmosphere is not very upbeat. No dives on the first day. The boat stayed in the port waiting for other guests arriving late in the day and it was stated we should be picked up in the morning, so we were expecting 1 or 2 dives." - Ricardo Oliveira, Brazil ...
"We are pleased with Sachika and give them a 7 out of 10. The diving was well organised and the equipment was in good condition. Our divemaster was very helpful. We had some minor complaints but all in all it was a very nice trip." - Bart Fosselle, Belgium ...
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