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Best of the Maldives: Loyal Customers - Kurumba

Published 27 December 11 6:23 AM | Maldives Complete

The December holiday season has been packed with all sorts of celebrations from festive Yuletide , big birthdays and even a milestone anniversary for Maldives tourism. The Maldives Marketing & Public Relations Corporation (MMPRC) is celebrating the...

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Best of the Maldives: American Breakfasts - Kurumba

Published 8 November 11 3:4 AM | Maldives Complete

If you want something a bit more substantial than OJ to start your day, then there is not much more substantial than an ‘American’ breakfast. Yes, the ‘British fry up’ is a noble effort with its variety and grease content, but...

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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: Biggest Glass Bottomed Boat - Kurumba

Published 18 September 11 4:22 PM | Maldives Complete

  If you really have a crowd, then consider Kurumba’s own glass bottom boat for a undersea glimpse of the Maldives aquatic delights. The bigger boat with more glass area does provide a bit more opportunity to see a broader range. The excursion is...

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Maldives QI, Part 2

Published 11 September 11 9:1 AM | Maldives Complete

Question: What is this a picture of? Answer: A Jelly Fish. [Soundeffect]: Buzzzz! Wrong. This is a ‘ Portugese Man of War’ which is not actually a ‘jelly fish’ but a “ siphonophore . Siphonophores “differ from jellyfish...

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Maldives Tour 2011 – Day 13: Kurumba Farewell

Published 1 August 11 9:52 AM | Maldives Complete

Kurumba is perhaps the most unsung house reef there is. You don’t often hear about it being mentioned as one of the tops, but I must say that Kurumba is simply the best house reef we have ever snorkelled. And we have snorkelled dozens. Especially...

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Maldives Tour 2011 – Day 9: Kurumba

Published 27 July 11 10:7 AM | Maldives Complete

    My first ever repeat. After visiting 29 resorts with a credo of always trying new resorts, I have returned to a resort for the first time ever. Kurumba . My motivation pretty much describes Kurumba’s key differentiators – great value 5-star...

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Best of the Maldives: Dining Choices – Kurumba

Published 13 April 11 5:55 PM | Maldives Complete

The Lynn family enjoying one of Kurumba’s many dining delights. Perhaps this post could also be called ‘Best for Americans’. Americans love choice and Americans love food. Living the UK for two decades, people ask what I miss from the States. There is...

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Best of the Maldives: Room Variety – Kurumba

Published 10 August 10 6:47 PM | Maldives Complete

Most resorts have a handful of choices for types of rooms. Most typically, they will have a couple versions of a beach bungalow (standard and deluxe) and increasingly a majority of resorts have a water bungalow option (61 of the 121 resorts in the Maldives...

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Best of the Maldives – 100th Post Special

Published 27 June 10 7:49 AM | Maldives Complete

Kurumba 7 Choice , Experienced , Diversity, Handicap Access, Room Types, Loyalty Programme, Dining Choice Kuredu 6 Golf , Wreck Dive , Turtles , Online Forum , Water Sports Centre, Longest Beach Soneva Fushi 6 Voluntouring , Cinematic , Geek Activity...

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Best of the Maldives: Experienced – Kurumba

Published 4 June 10 10:30 PM | Maldives Complete

This week happens to be my birthday (yay!...thanks), and actually, this it also marks the year-and-a-half milestone for Maldives Complete itself. In fact, the 100 th post is just a few weeks away (this one is #95). Many people think that folks of my vintage...

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Photosynth Maldives

Published 13 November 9 2:13 PM | Maldives Complete

One of my tasks when I visited Kurumba last week was to get a boat and circumnavigate the island taking pictures to create a Maldives Photosynth . Thanks to the kind assistance of Andreas Ronecker of the Unlimited Watersports centre there, I got a full...

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Best of the Maldives: Choice – Kurumba

Published 9 November 9 6:44 PM | Maldives Complete

Given my experience and investigation into Maldives resorts, people often ask me ‘which one is my favourite?’ It is a bit like asking which of your children are your favourites. They are all great in their own distinct way. But it is their ‘own distinct...

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Maldives Kurumba Visit – Day 8: Maldives Departure

Published 8 November 9 6:38 PM | Maldives Complete

As we transferred to the Male airport for our departure, the Maldives hit us with everything it had left in its rain/wind/storm system as a final inclement send off. While it certainly made saying good-bye easier, we reflected (as noted in my ‘ Stormy...

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Maldives Kurumba Visit – Day 7: Kurumba wrap

Published 7 November 9 7:16 AM | Maldives Complete

Well, we say goodbye to our now beloved Maldives and our new dear friend, Kurumba . I started the week with a ‘ first impressions’ post and thought that I would finish with a wrap up review. As the week went on I certainly began to appreciate more and...

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