This review has been wayyyyyyy overdue!!! My husba...

This review has been wayyyyyyy overdue!!! My husband and I visited in November 2018 for our little pre-honeymoon. We had booked our trip through an agent so there were a lot of little surprises that we ended up getting - but hey you live and you learn right?! We had the beach villa for 3 nights and the water villa for 2 nights.

Beach Villa - Was absolutely amazing!!!!! We were welcomed with a bottle of red wine and a plate of fresh fruits (Guava was DELISH!!!) Had a hot tub, a little swing hangout in the bathroom/hot tub area. Beach access was through the back door. We enjoyed our stay there but the only thing we hated was that we were woken up by the sounds of machines from across our villa. There was a lot of construction going on there.

Water Villa - This was my favorite part of the stay since we were literally staying over water. I have seen some resorts where you can see the water under through the whole floor, not the case here but there is a little see through section - which is still pretty amazing! You have a hot tub in the back area overlooking the ocean. There's a ladder access to get down to the water and go for a swim or snorkeling but be careful not to step on the sea cucumbers.

Water Situation - Normally every room gets two bottles of free water there, but you can ask them for more!!! Otherwise you will end up paying for water anywhere you go. $5 for a little bottle of water which is pretty ridiculous to me. They provided us with little beach bags so we always carried our water with us from the room. It did get hot but oh well.

Money/Credit card - They accept USD and any major credit cards.

Construction - There was a lot of it going on when we were there, but maybe that has changed now.

Staff - 90% of the staff is AMAZING!!! But then you'll get a few bad apples that are determined to ruin your vacay - We just avoided the bad/grumpy ones. Two people that made our whole vacation better was Sheehab and Eric - BIG BIG SHOUTOUT to the both of them. If I ever go back it would be because of these two guys!!! Sheehab manages the Flavours restaurant and Eric worked there too. All of the staff that worked at that restaurant was just phenomenal!!! I only remember Rupali forgot this other girls name but she was awesome too!!! We ate at Flavours 3 times!!! The food to my husband was okay (since he likes SUPER SPICY!!) but they went above and beyond to accommodate that request for my husband - so we both left satisfied.

Alcohol - IS SUPER EXPENSIVE THERE!!! If you don't drink that's awesome but if you do just be prepared and you can't bring your own through Maldives (country rule). Even if you do buy duty free (which we did) they just keep it at the airport and you pick it up on your way out of the country.

Transportation - Little buggies running around all over the island (the island is not that big, I was able to go around it in less than 30 minutes). You just call the front desk and they will send one for you as soon as one is available.

Honeymoon Treat - We got another bottle of red wine for free! and other plate of fresh fruits when we switched villas. And then we got this little cake and I kid you not it was the best CAKE I have ever had!!!!

Buffet - This was at their restaurant Iru. We opted for breakfast buffet only - we usually ate around brunch time. Lots of good options. They were pretty good about letting people box up food and take it back to their rooms - something we didn't take advantage of but should have since everything was a little on the pricey side.

Restaurants - hands down FLAVOURS! But they've got a whole bunch of options but we didn't try all of them. The Thai restaurant was good too. Although we were a little disappointed with the room service food.

Travel - Pretty organized. We landed at Male -> caught a local plane to a different island and from there it was a boat ride for 45 minutes. You can catch a small plane for extra money. And just heads up that plane can make stops on the way to drop off other passengers.