March 2012 - Posts

Best of the Maldives: Beach Cabana - Kuredu
Published 29 March 12 12:10 PM | Maldives Complete
    You can carry on sleeping on the beach during the day with Kuredu’s beach hut cabana. If the Fatboy is not enough comfort for your shore-side lounging. You can book if for half a day for $50. A number of resorts have four-posted awnings...
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Best of the Maldives: Beach Sleep - Kanuhura
Published 29 March 12 2:32 AM | Maldives Complete
    Sometimes it’s taken me so long to get out of a sand trap that I might as well as have checked-in for a proper stay. Well, at Kanuhura I can stay in the sand all night long… “Enjoy a Dinner, a Night and breakfast like Robinson Crusoe. A...
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Best of the Maldives: Golf Course – Shangri-La Villingili
Published 28 March 12 2:46 AM | Maldives Complete
      Well, it’s about time. As I’ve discussed before , the absence of a proper scale golf course is one of (if not *the*) major inhibitor to prospective high visitors to the Maldives. Today, Shangri-La Viligili has plugged that gap...
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Best of the Maldives: Sandcastles - Kuredu
Published 27 March 12 1:30 AM | Maldives Complete
    If you need a visit from Mr. Sandman , then Kuredu has its very own. But he has nothing to do with sleeping. Unless it is a sculpture of a sleeping lady with a horse (?) like the photo above. A whole collection of sand scuptures were created...
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Best of the Maldives: Spa Hours - Niyama
Published 25 March 12 8:35 PM | Maldives Complete
      If your ‘ dreaming of Maldives’ gets interrupted while you are dreaming IN the Maldives, the Niyama can still keep you from toss and turning and provide a relaxation treatment to help you out. Or you can try to burn off some off that...
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Best of the Maldives Online: Videos – Dreaming of Maldives
Published 24 March 12 9:34 AM | Maldives Complete
Facebook, Twitter, Forums, Foursquare…all of this look a social media and I have not yet looked at one of the big ones, YouTube . As it happens, the best eye to Maldivian spectacle has expanded his lens from photography to videography recently...
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Best of the Maldives: Historical Celebrations - Kurumba
Published 23 March 12 2:14 PM | Maldives Complete
The first resort to get a Snorkel Spotting was Kurumba which is just one of many firsts for this proud pioneer in Maldive resort history. It is the ‘Delaware’ of the Maldives resort union. In a crowd of glitzy up-and-comers in the Maldivian...
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Snorkel Spotter v1.0
Published 19 March 12 11:46 AM | Maldives Complete
      How about an entirely new form of social media designed just for the Maldives? Introducing ‘ Snorkel Spotter’ . Snorkel Spotter is something I have dreamt of for a long time. It was inspired by my experience at Maldives resorts...
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Best of Maldives Online – Twitter Tweets: LUX Maldives
Published 18 March 12 2:38 PM | Maldives Complete
      The top Tweeter of the Maldives resorts is LUX with 1,665. Unfortunately, it might be just a bit too much noise and I’ve turned off my LUX feed, but if you need a regular drip feed of Tweets from paradise, then LUX Maldives is...
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Best of Maldives Online – Twitter Followers: Conrad Rangali
Published 17 March 12 6:42 AM | Maldives Complete
While Facebook dominates the social media landscape, Twitter is much more emerging territory in the ocean of social media. Especially for Maldive resorts where only 10 resorts have active Twitter feeds. They have on average 590 followers and 665 tweets...
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Best of Maldives Online – Facebook Input: Kuredu
Published 16 March 12 5:3 PM | Maldives Complete
          It’s all about the conversation. That’s the conventional wisdom on social media. It’s all very well and good to put up your blog, Facebook page/group, and Twitter feed, but if no one engages, then you’ve sort...
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Best of Maldives Online – Facebook Photos: Meeru
Published 15 March 12 4:11 PM | Maldives Complete
      A picture is worth a thousand words, and a good Facebook album can give you an insight out perspective of the resort. After ‘Likes’, the next easiest measure to check out on a resort’s Facebook page is the number of Photos that Friends...
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Best of Maldives Online – Facebook Likes/Members: Kuramathi
Published 14 March 12 6:42 PM | Maldives Complete
    Everyone wants to be Liked. The most prominent bragging rights to any Facebook presence is ‘Likes’ (or ‘Members’ if you are set up as a ‘Group’). While this measure is debatable, it is transparent and certainly indicative of a degree of...
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Social Sunshine
Published 13 March 12 6:1 PM | Maldives Complete
The web is getting more and more social. My Maldives Complete blog was one of the first dedicated Blogs to Maldives Resorts and now there are a fair number. I’ve already looked at resort website Forums and the grandmaster of all Maldives Forums on TripAdvisor...
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Best of the Maldives: Craft Activities – Kurumba
Published 12 March 12 12:28 PM | Maldives Complete
      Happy Centenary to the Girl Scouts . Our family has a proud tradition in the scouts with my father an Eagle Scout and my grandfather a ‘ Silver Beaver’ recipient. A good scouting career often starts with a range of creative activities...
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