October 2011 - Posts

Best of the Maldives: Skeleton – Meeru

Published 31 October 11 4:37 AM | Maldives Complete

Happy Halloween! If you want to get into the spooky spirit, a number of resorts are offering special parties and attractions tonight. For example, Kuramathi has its ‘Halloween Horror’ event which includes activities such as ‘Pumpkin...

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Maldives, Always Natural

Published 30 October 11 4:7 PM | Maldives Complete

  Maldives…Always Natural.   The big news out of the Maldives this week is their new promotional campaign ‘Maldives Always Natural’. The announcement of the new logo has gotten most of the press, but that is just one piece of a larger, more...

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Best of the Maldives: Beach Tennis – Palm Beach

Published 29 October 11 1:1 PM | Maldives Complete

  While perhaps the most famous ‘beach’ sport (and the only one of Olympic standing), Beach Volleyball is not the only ‘beach’ game in town. In fact, there are so many, that the Maldives was just this month announced as host of the next 2013 South...

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Best of the Maldives: Beach Volleyball – W Retreat

Published 28 October 11 2:11 AM | Maldives Complete

If you like your beach time a bit more active, then probably the most popular beach activity is Beach Volleyball. Not just in the Maldives, where it is definitely the sport you will see most often set up at resorts by the waterside with often a keen staffer...

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Best of the Maldives: Bean Bags–Velassaru / Baros

Published 24 October 11 1:36 PM | Maldives Complete

  If you don’t want to sit on a gigantic beach towel, then Velassaru has the biggest beach beanbags I have ever come across…” Fatboys ”. Bean bags are becoming more an more popular in the Maldives as a cozy seating. We saw them at Kurumba and Kandooma...

Filed under: best of, relaxing, Baros, Velassaru

Best of the Maldives: Biggest Beach Towels - Kandooma

Published 22 October 11 7:38 AM | Maldives Complete

A big shower calls for a big towel. And the biggest towel I have ever seen, in the Maldives or elsewhere, are the Kandooma beach towels. They are longer than a king sized bed (more than 2 metres) and nearly 5 feet long (see above). That’s me holding...

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Best of the Maldives: Shower – Anantara Kihava

Published 21 October 11 10:0 AM | Maldives Complete

Some prefer the bath, some prefer the shower. If you prefer a drenching standing up rather than lounging in a gargantuan pool amidst the sprawling expanse of water, than Anantara Kihavah is the place for you. Their water villas showers feature the latest...

Filed under: best of, Four Seasons Landaa Giraavaru, lodging, Anantara Kihavah, bathroom

Best of the Maldives: Biggest Water Villa Private Pool – Velassaru

Published 20 October 11 8:44 AM | Maldives Complete

If the biggest private pool is not enough aquatic acreage for you, then of course you have the water villa option. And if you really want it all, then you can have a big private pool on your water villa. Velassaru’s Water Suite features a 30 metre...

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Best of the Maldives: Biggest Private Pool – Soneva Fushi

Published 17 October 11 6:4 PM | Maldives Complete

If the kind of ‘space’ that you like in your pool is less the ‘ starry night’ type, and more the ‘stretchy out’ kind, then Soneva Fushi’s Jungle Reserve Villa (villa #42) is the one for you. It’s private...

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Best of the Maldives: Coral – Park Hyatt Hadahaa

Published 16 October 11 2:34 PM | Maldives Complete

If the underwater stars that dazzle you are star fish, starlets and feather stars, then Park Hyatt Hadahaa is the place to swim to and at. Adrian Neville tweeted last week, “ Park Hyatt house reef, the best corals of any resort bar none. But oddly...

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Best of the Maldives: Midnight Dip – W Retreat

Published 15 October 11 8:46 PM | Maldives Complete

  If stars are more your thing than the moon, then follow them over to W Retreat for a midnight dip in their constellation pools. Both their main pool and their individual villa pools feature star lights along the bottom creating their own little...

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Best of the Maldives: Night Spa – Four Seasons Kuda Huraa

Published 14 October 11 9:28 AM | Maldives Complete

Perfect accompanying photo by Ahmed Amir – Full Moon over Kuda Huraa spa This week’s full moon was at its farthest point from the Earth this year making it the smallest Full Moon of 2011 . If you follow these sorts of celestial events, then...

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Best of the Maldives: Veteran Manager – Adaaran Hudhuranfushi

Published 14 October 11 2:55 AM | Maldives Complete

Asim Mohamed on right from his Flickr photostream For Mohamed Asim, it is not just a job, not just posting, not just a career, not even a passion...it is his life. He is not only one of the few Maldivian native GMs, but he is definitely the first one...

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Best of the Maldives: Impatient Arrivals – Kurumba

Published 11 October 11 7:58 PM | Maldives Complete

    Red Bull all around then after Vettel’s World Championship win this weekend. If you are as impatient to get to your resort as Vettel is to get around the hairpin, then Kurumba is the place for you. They are the closest resort island to Male...

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Best of the Maldives: Vista – Kandooma

Published 8 October 11 6:54 AM | Maldives Complete

Kandooma puts the ‘up’ in ‘upscale’. Aside from a Red Bull infusion (and Vettel is in pole position), a sea plane transfer or a parasailing excursion, the best way to ‘get wings’ in the Maldives is Kandooma’s...

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