Best of the Maldives: Full Board – Palm Beach
Published 17 May 12 1:54 PM | Maldives Complete
Unlimited sushi buffet just one of the Palm Beach offerings on Full Board The best board in the Maldives is not Surf boarding , Wake boarding or even Kite Boarding …but Palm Beach’s ‘Full Board’. They offer a ‘Full Board’...
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Best of the Maldives: Kite Surfing School - Olhuveli
Published 15 May 12 9:12 PM | Maldives Complete
      Kite flying is no longer kids stuff. And today marks the opening of the Kite Surfing World Cup at The Hague. May always has been prime kite flying weather and it’s as good as any time to start learning the sport of kite surfing...
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Best of the Maldives: Breakfast – Waldorf
Published 13 May 12 7:22 PM | Maldives Complete
    Happy Mothers Day! Maldives doesn’t have an official national Mothers Day, but this is the day it is celebrated in neighbouring India as well as the country which started it , USA. A number of the resorts have taken the occasion to honor...
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Best of the Maldives: Fluro-Diving – Kuredu / Komandoo / Vakarufalhi
Published 12 May 12 1:56 PM | Maldives Complete
      For an even closer investigation into reef life, state-of-the-art ‘fluro-diving’ has come to the Maldives. Night dives shed a whole new light (or lack thereof) on the undersea world. Night dives never had much appeal to me because...
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Best of the Maldives: Closest Water Villa to House Reef – Club Rannalhi
Published 11 May 12 11:33 AM | Maldives Complete
    Livin’ on the edge. If that’s for you, but instead of the edge of land above the water you want to be on the edge below the water (and if Dhevanafushi’s Ocean Pearls are a bit to pricey or you don’t want to be detached from the main island...
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Best of the Maldives: On the Beach Rooms – Banyan Tree Vabbinfaru
Published 10 May 12 12:22 PM | Maldives Complete
      ‘Intimate’ is one of the words most frequently used to describe the Maldives. Both in a romantic sense, but also in a geographical sense. The the islands’ tiny size making for an intimacy in staying on them. Their low lying aspect...
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Best of the Maldives: Deep Water Villas – Jumeirah Dhevanafushi
Published 9 May 12 2:12 AM | Maldives Complete
  Going from boat on the land , to a house on the water. But not just your classic lagoon villas in the archetypal Maldives shallows. But a villa on the ‘high seas’. Adrian Neville noted on his recent research tour, “ The Jumeirah Dev. water villa...
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Best of the Maldives: Nautical Kids Club – Anantara Dhigu
Published 6 May 12 10:49 PM | Maldives Complete
     No it’s not a shipwreck (though you can imagine that if you like) nor a bad dhoni parking job. It’s the dhoni-inspired Anantara kids club. Who needs a big body of water at their kids club when you can have an entire ocean in your imagination...
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Best of the Maldives: Kids Club Pool – Four Seasons Landaa Giraavaru
Published 5 May 12 2:35 PM | Maldives Complete
    Kandooma may be the best pool for young kids, but Four Seasons Landaa Giraavaru has the best young kids pool I have soon. Kandooma’s is the main pool for everyone which happens to be well suited for young pre-schoolers. But Landaa has a...
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Best of the Maldives: Biggest Pool– Kandooma
Published 4 May 12 5:16 PM | Maldives Complete
    There are all sorts of people distinctions. Dog people and cat people. Lake people and ocean people. Sail people and motorboat people. Beach people and pool people. If you prefer a pool as expansive as Landaa’s beach , then Kandooma is the...
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Best of the Maldives: Beach – Four Seasons Landaa Giraavaru
Published 3 May 12 1:38 AM | Maldives Complete
    Whether it’s weddings , tanning, games or just relaxing, one of the best beaches in the Maldives is Four Seasons Landaa Giraavaru . Now, the entire Maldives nation is renowned for its seaside, so what makes FSLG so special… Size – FSLG is...
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Beach Wedding Fail
Published 30 April 12 11:37 PM | Maldives Complete
      Is this some kind of April Fools Joke ? Or maybe just a joke by some fools in April? More evidence that the British Isles are twinned with the Maldives in Opposite Land . At first, it is hard to believe that a country with 11,073...
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Best of the Maldives: Jet Ski Safari - Kurumba
Published 28 April 12 2:48 PM | Maldives Complete
Your voyage to a deserted island doesn’t have to be on a seventeenth century tall ship . At Kurumba , you can zip over on the latest jet skis. With the revamp of their new Extreme Maldives watersports centre, they have introduced the Maldives first...
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Best of the Maldives: Robinson Crusoe Experience – Coco Palm Dhuni Kolhu
Published 27 April 12 11:28 AM | Maldives Complete
      " Thus we never see the true State of our Condition, till it is illustrated to us by its Contraries; nor know how to value what we enjoy, but by the want of it ." - Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe This week (25 April...
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Best of the Maldives: Mirrors – W Retreat
Published 25 April 12 1:58 PM | Maldives Complete
    Despite the Maldives renown as a honeymoon destination, I’ve yet to see some of the trappings of American nuptial meccas like Vegas and Pocconos. Where are the rotating heart shaped beds under a mirrored ceiling? Well, maybe the Maldives...
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