Maldives does not mean super!

Written: 15 march 2011
Travel time: 2 — 13 march 2011
Your rating of this hotel:
5.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 4.0
Service: 4.0
Cleanliness: 5.0
Food: 6.0
Amenities: 5.0
I will share my impressions of the hotel.
The island is small, the center is densely built up with technical buildings, houses for four rooms each are almost dense with them and each other. Free space remains only along the beach, there can be no talk of any tropical garden. There are more than a hundred rooms, the hotel occupancy is almost 100% ( in some rooms live as many as four! ), plus quite a few of those. personnel. The main claim to the hotel is a lot of people, little space.
The hotel is very old, apparently not thoroughly renovated, the rooms are shabby, when checking in, the front door broke and the handles of the closet came off, the shower poured in all directions. for whom the safe does not work, for whom the furniture is broken. The air conditioners work very poorly, either they only blow cold, or they only ventilate. Lots of complaints about this.

In the center of the island, a strong hum is heard from the work of technical equipment, it’s hard to sleep. They asked to move to another part of the island, they offered a room near the restaurant, but there is also a hum. It is quiet only in the houses that are at the exit to the bungalow, but there were no places there. The general impression of the rooms is wretchedness.
After three sleepless nights, we took a better bungalow ($155 per day), but everything was also old and the air conditioner did not work. One day they sought recognition of the air conditioner as not working (masters came and said that it should be so, after a while they made a scandal and demanded a refund, only after that they began to repair it), the second day they repaired it, on the third they eventually changed the block.
Cleaning: towels are changed if they are thrown on the floor, bed linen (according to the rules) twice a week, beach towels are given every day. The floor is swept. but they don’t wash, they don’t wipe the dust from the tables, they wash the plumbing well. Twice the cleaner forgot to leave large towels, I had to demand them, the bed linen was also not changed for five days, after listening to our complaints, he said you were leaving soon. do not want to work.
It is better not to look at the color of tap water, once it was completely black.
The food is decent, the main drawback is the so-called "juice" for breakfast.
There is no artificial shade on the island, you have to climb under the trees, and there are ants. There are not enough sun loungers for everyone, at seven in the morning an exciting game begins - borrow a sun lounger. Those who are especially smart, having obtained a lying place, do not remove the towel from it at all around the clock. And the smartest ones even drag them onto the terraces of the first floors. The impression of a beach holiday is wildness! And a disgrace.

The ocean is great, the reef is very good! Lots of fish and other living creatures. We saw moray eels, sharks large and small (we even swam with one), turtles, stingrays (we also swam with them) and dolphins. The only consolation of the hotel is the reef. But they managed to spoil it too, swimming you notice garbage at the bottom, at first we were surprised, and then we saw how garbage was loaded onto a barge, half was spilled into the ocean. And all this amno floated around the island, part settled to the bottom.
It's better to take an inclusive, because the prices there are brutal, but the bartenders pour beer and cocktails for cash for half the price, crooks.
For the money that the rest cost us (including the bungalow), you could buy a better hotel.
If you want a beautiful reef, for a little more money (living in standard rooms), but have enough household inconveniences, then you can go. If you like to live in comfort, then no. I wouldn't go a second time.
Translated automatically from Russian. View original