А на Мальдивах, лучше! And in the Maldives, it's better!

Well, that's the end of the fuss associated with returning from vacation. You can calmly think about it and write: how it was. Immediately, I want to make a reservation, since this is my fourth trip “to the sea”, then enthusiastic cries like: “AAAAAAAAAAAAAA, great !!! ” left behind. I will try to give as much information as possible for those who have a vacation ahead of them. So. Three of us went: me, my husband and my dad (he, by the way, is already 73 years old). The tour was bought from TEZTUR, through the St. Petersburg company Bon Voyage. Lucky. The tour is burning and on a special offer of the hotel, so it turned out very inexpensive. Manager Ksenia did everything clearly and professionally. There are now no direct flights from St. Petersburg to the Maldives. We got tickets for the Sapsan. I like it. The main thing is convenient. We flew by TRANSAERO charter. (The first time I flew to the Maldives with Qatari airlines. Everything would be fine, but they fly with a landing in Doha. Accordingly, the flights are connecting, on the way back we waited 6 hours at the airport). So, TRANSAERO. In my opinion, beyond praise. We took off both there and back on schedule. There were enough blankets and socks for everyone. There are two meals on board. In general, 7.5 hours of flight pass normally. Now about TEZTUR. They met us without any problems. They gathered the whole group going to the hotel, put them on a boat and took them. 40 minutes on the boat passed quickly: the sun, the ocean (after the damp and cold St. Petersburg) are just nonsense. In the hotel, and I really liked it, there are always two Russian girls, representatives of TEZTUR, Marina and Oksana. You can always turn to them for help. So, if there is any doubt about how you will communicate on the island, then there is always someone to come to your aid. The island is small, but you can only see people in the restaurant. Apparently, this is the specificity of the Maldives...
There is a coral reef around the island. We swim with a mask and fins. So turtles, and moray eels, and small reef sharks, and all other living creatures have seen enough. One problem, the weather was not very lucky. All 12 days there were winds, sometimes strong, clouds and rains. So we didn’t see the azure ocean, but we really wanted to. We went on a boat for evening fishing and manta rays. Both of those are great. We liked. We advise. You should only ride manta rays if you can swim with a mask and fins and are not afraid to swim in the open ocean. Each of the excursions costs $ 30 + 10%, i. e. 33. We also went to see dolphins, but there were none. It turned out to be just skiing, all-inclusive. It's a pity. I understand that dolphins are very rare for this place, so the chances of seeing them are not great. Yes! Several nights in a row saw a luminous surf path. Beauty is extraordinary!
Now about the hotel itself. The hotel gives you a loan of $500. You are everywhere, even in the store, just sign checks, and then pay at the checkout, near the reception. It is possible once at the end of the holiday, if the amount does not exceed $ 500.

Clean up the island itself is wonderful. Paths swept, leaves removed. This is for 5 points.
Room cleaning is worse. At best, for $ 1, they can fill the bed. Our room ran out of shampoo, so until they complained (turned to Marina for help), no one gave shampoo, and then everything happened again. This is despite the fact that there were three of us in the room. For 12 days, for three of us, they hardly gave us 9 bottles of shampoo. Is it really such a problem for a 4 * hotel? And our friends are even better. They ran out, sorry, toilet paper, and again the issue was resolved, only after contacting the reception. I think that such "little things" seriously undermine the image of the hotel. So for cleaning the rooms I will not put more than a deuce. Now a restaurant. The hotel accepts 3 types of meals: 1 - breakfast, lunch and dinner, 2 - all inclusive and 3 - ultra all inclusive. I will not write about the last two, because I did not delve into their subtleties. We lived in the first type. It is typical for him that free water is only at breakfast. For lunch and dinner: tea, coffee and milk without restrictions, but no water. At first it was difficult. Then they adapted. No, water, of course, you can buy, but we did not. Yes, there is no alcohol either, no one. You can buy in the restaurant and in the bar, again. But the cheapest wine is from $30 (or $38). We thought it was too expensive. The food is generally very spicy. Not enough fruit, mostly canned. No, we were not hungry, but we did not notice a wide variety of food.
Animation. Every evening at 17-00 on the beach volleyball. Twice a week: Sunday and Tuesday karaoke, available in Russian. Ours were great there. True, we did not participate either there or there. We had enough entertainment in the sea...
And finally, I want to say, MALDIVES are MALDIVES. Probably, every corner of our Earth has its charms and charms. There are also in the Maldives.