Best of the Maldives: Flower Name – Mirihi
Published 21 May 13 11:48 AM | Maldives Complete
      100 th Chelsea Flower Show, one of the bellwethers of sunshine and blossoms in climate-challenged England, opens today. To mark the occasion we have our own online exhibit of botanical curiosity. Mirihi not only has it’s very own...
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Best of the Maldives: Fresh Lobster – Kandooma
Published 18 May 13 1:50 PM | Maldives Complete
    Luxury + Seaside = Lobster Wherever you place luxury next to the seaside, at the top of the restaurant hierarchy will always be lobster. It pretty much defines the pinnacle of seafood cuisine. Today being Lobster Day , perhaps a few of you...
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Maldives Virtual Film Festival
Published 15 May 13 11:42 AM | Maldives Complete
Cannes Film Festival starts today which is a great showcase of fine smaller, independent productions like Norway’s “ Kon Tiki ”. Which as it turns out features the Maldives as the setting for the final scene (at the resort of Biyadhoo...
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Best of the Maldives: Live Aboard Combo – Four Seasons Kuda Huraa / Landaa Giraavaru
Published 12 May 13 11:46 AM | Maldives Complete
  Maldives Complete also doesn’t do boats in its profiles or ‘Best of’ reviews. I’ve shied away from getting into the whole ‘Live Aboard’ segment of Maldives holidays because, like Guest Houses , I’ve never been on one so I wouldn’t know which criteria...
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Best of the Maldives: Power Snorkelling – Keyodhoo
Published 11 May 13 11:17 AM | Maldives Complete
    I don’t do Guest Houses, but I do do Snorkeling. I’ve shied away from adding the new Guest Houses in the Maldives to the Maldives Complete database for a few reasons. First, I’ve neverstayed in one so I have no real first-hand experience...
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Best of the Maldives: Lowest Population Density – Soneva Fushi
Published 9 May 13 2:44 PM | Maldives Complete
    Not a person in sight. What most of the prospective visitors on Forums ask about is the lowest population density . Perhaps burnt by crowded beaches and resorts elsewhere in the world, they are drawn to the Maldives by the tranquil seclusion...
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Best of the Maldives: Highest Population Density – Safari Island
Published 6 May 13 12:30 PM | Maldives Complete
  One trick to SEO is ‘keyword density’, ie. packing each page with the words ‘Maldives Resort’ every where. I didn’t think you folks would appreciate such gratuitous, self-serving clutter so I’ve avoided such contrived measures. One trick to ‘Population...
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Help Me Help Others
Published 3 May 13 3:48 AM | Maldives Complete
I need help. Despite the steadily increasing traffic, the regular fan mail, the positive words from Facebook and TripAdvisor forums, and the resort support, Maldives Complete still does not rank highly in search engine result pages (SERPs). The site has...
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Best of the Maldives: Employees Choice Employer – W Retreat
Published 1 May 13 10:57 AM | Maldives Complete
      “W” is for “Worker” on today’s International Worker Day. And in the Maldives,”W” – as in ‘ W Retreat’ - is for workers too. According to the definitive source, the Maldives Resort Workers themselves… “MRW congratulates W Maldives...
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Best of the Maldives: Astronomy Week – Gangehi
Published 27 April 13 6:35 PM | Maldives Complete
Most of the special events in the Maldives take one down into the water (like Six Sense Laamu’s Water Wo/Men event). But equally as sparkling as the turquoise lagoons and shimmering reefs is the firmament of stars above. Usually at least once during...
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Best of the Maldives: Twitchers – Sun Island
Published 26 April 13 12:21 PM | Maldives Complete
  Another sanctuary for the airbourne is Sun Island’s Kovelivaa park, the biggest bird sanctuary among the Maldives resorts. As it happens, today is Audubon Day established on the birthdate of the world’s leading ornithological illustrator, John...
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Best of Maldives: Airport Terminal – Shangri-La Villingili
Published 25 April 13 6:15 PM | Maldives Complete
    One of the best ways to see the otherworldly images of the Maldives is by taking a seaplane transfer to your resort. In the beginning, such transfers were cumbersome affairs where you sat in a sweaty, open-air hangar. But now, most of the...
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Best of Maldives - Online: Interactive Map – Dreaming of Maldives
Published 22 April 13 5:37 PM | Maldives Complete
Like the resurgent corals , the vibrant inter-web thingy just gets richer and more colourful every day. When I launched Maldives Complete, there was a really dearth of good, useful information about the resorts. The resorts themselves had weak and limited...
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Pol-ypdate
Published 19 April 13 12:27 PM | Maldives Complete
    They grow up so fast. The Four Seasons have always had a website that allowed you to look up your Reefscaper coral frame and see how it was progressing, but now they have just relaunched a special website, Marine Savers, to provide not only...
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Best of Maldives: Sand Castle Event – W Retreat
Published 17 April 13 12:5 PM | Maldives Complete
  Nowhere in the Maldives are the sands shifting so creatively as at W Retreat last week. The W hosted a Sand Sculpture event with artist Peter Redmond… “Sand sculpture is no longer a children’s only activity. As the sun shines over the Indian Ocean...
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