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Best Discounted Liveaboards Maldives (Diving on a Budget)

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Emperor Serenity – Maldives Liveaboard – image courtesy of Liveaboard.com

Last minute liveaboards to the Maldives

These are the best last minute liveaboard deals to dive the Maldives. Dive the famous North Ari Atoll, South Ari Atoll, Ari Atoll and more remote dive sites of Maldives in style and arrive by Maldives liveaboard, whilst saving money by booking a cheap last minute deal.

Please be aware these liveaboard discounts and deals sell out fast, so act fast to avoid being disappointed.

The Best Time To Dive The Maldives to see Whaelk Sharks

If you want a few good reasons why you might want to bag a discounted liveaboard trip to dive the Maldives, you are spoilt for choice. When you consider there are 1,192 coral islands that are grouped in a double chain of 26 atolls, your best option is to dive the Maldives by liveaboard.

By doing so, you’ll cover a wider area, dive more dite sites and arrive early before the day boats for those dive sites accessible by land-base holiday-makers. When you dive the Maldives you’ll be treated to whale sharks, manta rays, colourful coral reefs with an abundance of marine life, which is almost second to non. Which means if you bag a discount on your liveaboard trip, even better!

These last minute Maldives liveaboard deals are sorted in descending Deal Date” order, where deals with the furthest “Deal Date” are at the top of the list. If you want to re-sort the table into last minute offers in ascending order select “Ascending” and press “Sort“.*

Browse the deals, compare prices, choose your date and book your Maldives diving safari at the best rates online! With flexible booking terms.

If you would like to sort this last minute Maldives liveaboard deals list in order of “Discount“, “Liveaboard Discount Total“, “Price Before Discount“, “Price After Discount” or “Tour Days“, select one of these from the “Sort by” dropdown menu and press “Sort“.

You can also filter the liveaboard discounted deals table by using the “Search” function too.

To do so, click “(select)” under “Search:” and choose the column you want to filter by. Type your search criteria in the search box, and click “Search“.

For example; if you want to search for all “8 day last minute Maldives liveaboard deals“: Select “Tour Days” from the “(select)” dropdown, enter “8 days” in the search box, and click “Search“.

To start your search afresh, click the “Clear button”.

* Note: If you change this list to ascending order with the earlier deals first, you may find you’ll need to scroll past expired deals where the “Deal Date” has past.

Manta ray of the Maldives

Maldives liveaboard last minute deals

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Total Liveaboard Deals: 667
Liveaboard/View OfferDeal DateDiscountLiveaboard Discount TotalPrice Before DiscountPrice After DiscountTour Days
Theia 19/12/2026 10% £195 £1,948.00 £1,753.00 8days
Theia 12/12/2026 10% £202 £2,026.00 £1,824.00 8days
Theia 05/12/2026 10% £211 £2,105.00 £1,894.00 8days
Theia 28/11/2026 10% £211 £2,105.00 £1,894.00 8days
Theia 21/11/2026 10% £202 £2,026.00 £1,824.00 8days
Theia 14/11/2026 10% £202 £2,026.00 £1,824.00 8days
Theia 07/11/2026 10% £202 £2,026.00 £1,824.00 8days
Theia 31/10/2026 10% £202 £2,026.00 £1,824.00 8days
Ariyal 24/10/2026 30% £827 £2,757.00 £1,930.00 8days
Theia 24/10/2026 10% £202 £2,026.00 £1,824.00 8days
Ariyal 17/10/2026 30% £827 £2,757.00 £1,930.00 8days
Theia 17/10/2026 10% £202 £2,026.00 £1,824.00 8days
Ariyal 10/10/2026 30% £827 £2,757.00 £1,930.00 8days
Theia 10/10/2026 10% £202 £2,026.00 £1,824.00 8days
Ariyal 03/10/2026 30% £827 £2,757.00 £1,930.00 8days
Carpe Vita 03/10/2026 10% £250 £2,499.00 £2,249.00 11days
Theia 03/10/2026 10% £179 £1,792.00 £1,613.00 8days
Ariyal 26/09/2026 30% £827 £2,757.00 £1,930.00 8days
Theia 26/09/2026 10% £179 £1,792.00 £1,613.00 8days
Ariyal 19/09/2026 30% £827 £2,757.00 £1,930.00 8days

Important note: The discounts for liveaboards in the list of Maldives liveaboard deals may not be the same when you click to view the offer. This can be because the offer ended or it has been changed since it was entered on Scubadivingearth.com, or due to exchange rate movements. By clicking the view offer link, you accept that these discount deals may be different to those shown here or are no longer available.

Happy liveaboard diving deal hunting! The team at ScubaDivingEarth.com.

Maldives liveaboard comparison table and review ratings

Use this Maldives liveaboard comparison table to see the review ratings for each of these Maldives liveaboards. You can filter the table by using the check boxes to search for your perfect Maldives liveaboard. Then combine these reviews and ratings with the best discounts and bag yourself a budget liveaboard trip.

For example, if you like the Emperor Serenity liveaboard in the list below, you can then select “Liveaboard/View Offer” from the Search dropdown in the above last minute deals table, and then enter “Emperor Serenity” in the search box. This will filter the best discounted liveaboard deals to show just those for the Emperor Serenity liveaboard.

If you are beginner diver, use the search for either “Open Water Diver” or “No Certificate Needed” to search for liveaboards that take divers who are not advanced.

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A great dive trip in the beautiful northern Makdives. Great! The Amba is currently the only dive boat operating in the Northern Maldives so the dive sites were not crowded with boats and divers. Sleeping out of the roof deck was wonderful! Great cabins too! Excellent food!Recommended for: The diving, the diving, the diving…. Everything was great but the diving is the most important.

Review: MV Amba; Book: MV Amba 8.9 Fabulous from £152; $192; €176

A great trip all round. Cabins very comfortable, with A/c and a TV in each one. We changed our diving itinerary on day 1 on advice of the cruise directors given conditions and we were very much rewarded, with great diving as well as a whale shark and mantas. Would very much recommend this trip and the trip directors Albert and Sophie were fantastic. Food was varied, plentiful and delicious all trip.Recommended for: Food was far in excess of what was expected, trip crew were great and the diving was excellent.

Review: MV Blue Voyager; Book: MV Blue Voyager 8.9 Fabulous from £160; $202; €186

Great trip. Overall, i had a great trip despite not seeing any of main draw cards (Mantas & Whalesharks) but i went in the low season and with the wrong type of moon. I was also lucky to have a boat that wasn’t full and a great group. All the staff were excellent from the dive guides to the chef. I want to go back already!Recommended for: Shark dives, dive boat and.

Review: MV Emperor Voyager; Book: MV Emperor Voyager 8.9 Fabulous from £170; $214; €197

Great for a mixed group. Snorkelling with 40-50 mantas in Hanifaru Bay was an amazing, once in a lifetime experience. The mix of diving and snorkelling was perfect for our mixed group. For the divers, the night dive was the best ever.” Recommended for: Full guided snorkelling trips offered on every dive, very friendly, helpful crew, great diving.

Review: Top Class Cruising - Sunseeker; Book: Top Class Cruising - Sunseeker 8.9 Fabulous from £143; $180; €166

Mantas galore, whale shark, incredible boat with hot tub, huge room and comfy bed. The wildlife – mantas and sharks, flat sea, great vis, perfect!” Recommended for: Wildlife, spacious, luxurious boat, great service.

Review: MV Princess Haleema; Book: MV Princess Haleema 8.8 Fabulous from £164; $207; €190

Wonderful week on the adora. Mantas mantas mantas! Crew is wonderful, boat is very comfortable. Single cabin was a wonderful value, so nice to have my own private cabin.” Recommended for: Service, value, single occupancy cabin.

Review: MV Adora; Book: MV Adora 8.7 Fabulous from £202; $259; €236

Very nice cabin and great dive sites an guide! The dive sites are awesome and the crew is well organized. Diving at night with nurse sharks was great again and we could see a lot of other sharks and Mantas. The cabins are very nice with much place and everything is well orgnized.” Recommended for: The dive sites the cabins and much place on liveaboard.

Review: MV Seafari Explorer; Book: MV Seafari Explorer 8.6 Fabulous from £157; $198; €182

Stay tuned for more dates, more discounts and more great affordable diving opportunities! Happy Diving!!

Best liveaboard deals

If you are looking for some of the best liveaboard deals, the following posts will give you just that:

These last minute deals are updated regularly, so if you are looking for the best discounts, I recommend you check this regularly.

I hope you enjoyed this list of the best and latest deals and discounts for Maldives liveaboards

I’d love to hear from you. Tell us about your adventures of diving and snorkeling, in the comments below. Please also share your photos. Either from your underwater cameras or videos from your waterproof Gopro’s!

If this article hasn’t answered all of your questions. If you have more questions either about snorkeling or scuba diving (or specifically about Best discounted liveaboard deals Maldives), please comment below with your questions.

There will also be many more articles about scuba diving (and snorkeling) for you to read and learn about these fabulous sports.

Have fun and be safe!

Best Discounted Liveaboards Maldives (Diving on a Budget)

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.

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