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Best of the Maldives Online: Kids Site – Kuramathi

Published 30 January 12 5:4 AM | Maldives Complete

Kaki is not alone in bringing the marine delights and insights home to young guests on the web. Kuramathi’s web site features its very own ‘ Kids Corner’ online . Anyone on the Internet can join in the maritime fun and curiosity with...

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Best of the Maldives: Kids Marine Biology – Four Seasons Landaa Giraavaru

Published 29 January 12 9:51 PM | Maldives Complete

  It’s not just the wee turtles and anemone fish that get special nurseries for their development at Four Seasons, but the littlest guest get their very own special area inthe Marine Discovery Centre .  Four Seasons Landaa Giraavaru has put...

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Best of the Maldives: Family Spa - Jumeirah Vittaveli

Published 9 December 11 5:34 PM | Maldives Complete

Congratulations to Jumeirah Vittaveli who officially opens today with a gala ceremony. Their announcement described… “Receiving its first guests on the 10th December, the ultra luxury resort catering for couples, families and small groups is the second...

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Best of the Maldives – Pre-Schoolers: Kandooma

Published 11 August 11 11:50 AM | Maldives Complete

As I have written before , I was originally going to call Maldives Complete by the name of ‘Maldives For Families’. There were so many websites heralding it as a destination for romance/honeymoon or diving, but I always thought of it as an...

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Best of the Maldives: Bungee Trampoline – Beach House at Manafaru

Published 27 June 11 3:2 PM | Maldives Complete

  Most people don’t need much assistance in jumping for joy in the Maldives. If you do, the Beach House at Manafaru has a ‘ bungee trampoline’ ... “One of the unique highlights of Play, children will love bouncing their time away on this popular...

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Best of the Maldives: Teenagers – Landaa Giraavaru

Published 1 June 11 4:10 PM | Maldives Complete

Happy International Children’s Day ! An increasingly number of resorts are seeing the appeal to Maldives for families and catering to the younger clientele with some of the distinctive facilities and service that have spoiled the adults for years...

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Best of the Maldives: Colouring Book – Four Seasons Landaa Giraavaru

Published 18 March 11 3:24 PM | Maldives Complete

  In recognition of Red Nose Day for Comic Relief , I call out Four Season’s Landaa Giraavaru’s own colouring comic book. The activity book is just one of the many examples of Landaa’s exquisite attention to detail one finds across the resort. Just...

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Best of the Maldives: Storytelling – Naladhu

Published 7 December 10 11:46 PM | Maldives Complete

  One of my friends at Microsoft (and former teammate), Steve Clayton , has the jobs title of ‘Story Teller’. He has made a career out of telling stories for richly illustrating the intricate tapestry of Microsoft technology. The Naladhu resort brings...

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Best of the Maldives: Families – Diva

Published 6 October 10 7:32 AM | Maldives Complete

On the other end of the spectrum from child-free Dhoni Island is child-embracing Diva resort. While places like Sheraton Full Moon have a great kids club , or a special feature like Conrad Rangali’s ‘Kid’s Spa’ , I have not come...

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Maldives for Families – Profile/Filtering Enhancement

Published 25 September 10 9:26 PM | Maldives Complete

As I mentioned way back at the outset of Maldives Complete, I had originally thought that I might build a website called ‘ Maldives for Families’ out of the conviction that this destination was so superbly suited for adults and children alike. Little...

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Best of the Maldives: Kids Club – Sheraton Full Moon

Published 24 July 10 9:37 AM | Maldives Complete

Speaking of the kiddies, many resorts now feature ‘kids clubs’ with a range of activities and child minding to tend to the specific interests of the younger set for families who want to come to this paradise all together, but have slightly different sentiments...

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Best of the Maldives: Kids Spa – Conrad Maldives Rangali

Published 15 July 10 12:35 PM | Maldives Complete

When I first considered doing a web site devoted to the Maldives, I had thought about focusing it on families (‘Maldives for Families’). While a renowned diving and honeymoon destination, it was less thought of as a place for kids. In fact...

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Best of the Maldives: Classroom – Diva

Published 12 April 10 12:16 PM | Maldives Complete

The Maldives are not just the best place on earth for indolent repose. As this blog has highlighted many times, there are loads of productive and educational pursuits that one can get up to in this idyllic setting, eg. helping the environment , reefscaping...

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Best of the Maldives: Babies – Bandos

Published 30 August 9 5:10 PM | Maldives Complete

Maldives is a great destination for families with children, but one common question is what about the very youngest. The consensus at TripAdvisor’s Maldives Forum is that Bandos is the top resort for babies. “Quite a number of people have said, truthfully...

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Maldives for Families

Published 14 December 8 9:11 AM | Maldives Complete

(our children, Isley and Chase, fish watching including ‘wading with the sharks’ – harmless, mini-black tipped reef sharks – on the right) I had originally thought of creating a web site on the Maldives called ‘Maldives for...

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