sagarb544
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This was our second trip to Maldives and I am extremely happy with how it went. We booked 4 nights in the beach villa and 3 nights in the water villa. The water villa won our hearts with amazing views and excellent villa. Our stay was unforgettable and mesmerizing. Aqua restaurant was the highlight, specially the Gala Dinner. |All staff were amazing, very friendly and helpful. I would like to specially thank Chef Pritam for his consideration towards us and he took immense responsibility and care for us and ensured we enjoyed every meal we had if he was around. The gala dinner was amazing vibe and food was great specially the sea food and Tandoor corner. We did miss sunset on our initial few days due to cloudy weather but overall it was a great experience. Our villa host Jien was great as well, she ensured all our requirements were met and bookings made. We requested some adjustments to our bookings and she ensured that everything fit well in our schedule. All other staff were also very kind, like Nitin, Harish, Chef Jimmy, Ahmed… and the list goes on… After coming back from the resort, we could not get over it for quite a few days and were remembering every moment spent there. The house reef is amazing, much better than what other resorts offer in snorkeling trips. We say baby sharks right on sunrise beach itself and swam with them. The photo studio team was very creative and helpful. We did a drone video shoot and were extremely satisfied with the results. The boutique shops had nice variety and were big enough if you wanted to shop. My wife did buy a dress for the shoot and it was nice experience. They arranged welcome champaign and decoration for us and on our anniversary night they made a bubble bath, bottle of prosecco and room decoration along with a cake. It was a great highlight of our stay. Overall the sunset bar was a very nice spot with wide sea views, great bar service at the call of a button and far spread shacks that ensured privacy and peace. They had nice variety of alcoholic beverages and we enjoyed it very much. The crowd here is mostly Russian and European, we were only a couple of Indian guests here but the staff was mostly Indian and they made us feel at home and were very friendly. We met the General Manager couple of times and he was quite courteous and friendly as well. We enjoyed snorkeling on most days on the sunrise beach and always saw nice fishes at just 10 meters from the beach. We went on fishing trip and my wife did catch a red fish but I was unlucky. It was a very memorable experience and I will strongly recommend my friends and family to visit this resort if they plan a Maldives trip. The meals, bicycles, sports zone, greenery, nature walks, DJ nights, all were amazing and we deeply enjoyed everything. There was never a dull moment. We came back but our hearts were still there! ||Though I loved all bit of it , a couple of improvements can be made which I would like to suggest to the management – the lounge experience was not the best as it was a shared lounge, private lounge experience is always better and more customer centric. The reception is a bit of a downer as that is the first impression. The only other thing we wished could have been better was the buggy service and buggy staff. The buggy service was on call basis and no continous buggy service was available. Last year we stayed at Lux South Ari Atoll and their buggy service and buggy staff was exceptionally amazing. In fact their buggy service is one that we still remember till this date. Apart from these everything was top notch. Kudos to the team for maintaining and managing the property so well!