Valerij B.
Google
We stayed at this hotel in December for over 20 days, all inclusive, in overwater villa. The staff is friendly and eager to accommodate any request. I once asked for two soft-boiled eggs for breakfast, and every morning they brought me two soft-boiled eggs and a semi-dry proseco. The food selection is extensive, and every dinner there is something new. hey clean twice a day. The first time the cleaner always came between 10 and 11 am, as we requested, and the second time he came to clean after we left for dinner, which is very convenient. Upon arrival at the airport, a hotel representative will meet you and take you to the business lounge for domestic flights . When you leave, a hotel representative will also meet you and take you to the same business lounge where you can wait for check-in for your international flight. The floors in the villa are made of laminate, which is already worn and slightly swollen. When the cleaner cleans with a damp cloth or when you come out of the ocean and spray the floor, a dirty, damp smell appears, which goes away when the floor dries, but the worst thing is the smell of sewage and urea, which appears day or night, from no one knows where. Perhaps the air conditioner is picking up odor from the street, from your or your neighbors' toilets, or there are ventilation holes in the roof that are letting it into the room. The toilet, showers, and bathtub are located outside, but there are no air fresheners, so you can often smell the unpleasant smell of sewage both in the villa and on the platform when you walk to the island and there is no wind. We had this happen a couple of times during the day, to the point of nausea. It's hot outside, so it's impossible to air out the room. The minibar is mostly a paid service. I noticed that the bills they bring you practically don't show what you're paying for. I immediately realized they were cheating me. I looked at the bill for chips, which are listed at $10 on the minibar, but in reality you'll pay $12 plus cents, and so on with everything else on the minibar. I didn't ask why - they can always say there are no transportation costs, packaging recycling costs, or any local taxes. This is not respectable for the management and the hotel, oh so not respectable. There are two bottles of wine in the minibar. One is free, the other is $64 plus cents (the minibar price tag naturally says less, but the actual price online is $5). But this is not wine, but some kind of swill that is undrinkable. When we arrived, I asked for two bottles of red wine. I don’t drink wine, but if you dilute it with cola, you get a slightly intoxicating mixture, and on vacation you want to stick your head in the sand for a while and reset, so a slightly intoxicating drink can be used for that. They brought two bottles of red wine every day, but I noticed that I wasn’t getting drunk, but rather walking around kind of woozy. I decided it was due to acclimatization. Several days went by and the woozy feeling didn’t go away. I asked to change the wine to white. They changed it, and it got even worse. I started feeling nauseous and the corresponding consequences. I thought I had food poisoning, but activated charcoal didn't help. You don't want to think about anything on vacation, but then I realized it was the wine. I looked it up online, it cost $5, but it's not wine, it's disgusting stuff that can only intoxicate and poison. What a terrible person this manager is, buying and poisoning tourists with this wine, thereby undermining all the staff's efforts. This was our seventh time in the Maldives (this was our second time at this hotel, but we'd never had such disgusting food there before), and this was the only time we wanted to get home from vacation as quickly as possible. I think Google has the most reliable reviews. I tried writing a review on TripAdvisor, but they wouldn't publish it. I realized they're selling trips and are interested in keeping all the hotels' ratings high, which is unfair—tourists should know what to expect at a hotel.
