Maldives...

Fuzz said:
Hip Palace hotel 3 nights half board £387.46
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Whilst I appreciate your point and largely agree this is a particularly poor example, there is no need to spend more than £100 a night on a hotel in Majorca and frankly if your budget and tastes are for £100 a night+ hotels then you can probably do better than Majorca anyway :p

You can get an entire 1 week+ holiday to Majorca for quite a lot less than your price. I appreciate it probably won't offer what yours does but I'm not sure thats relevant to your point anyway.
 
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[TW]Fox;24108244 said:
With flights?
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The cheapest time of year to go to that Island appears to be June at £42 pr night, room only. Full board being another £38 per night.. Lets see what I can get the flights for. :D
 
Turkey in late September is a good call, its around the late 20s then too so just right.
 
Pc-Gamer12 said:
Found somewhere called Helengeli Island resort for £765 per person
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£509 seems to be the cheapest flight I can see in June.
So 7 nights at £42 pr night.. £294
Food - Full board at £38 pr night.. £266

That's £1069 quid... without any way of getting to or from the airports?

Where did you get your £765 figure from
 
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[TW]Fox;24108308 said:
Whilst I appreciate your point and largely agree this is a particularly poor example, there is no need to spend more than £100 a night on a hotel in Majorca and frankly if your budget and tastes are for £100 a night+ hotels then you can probably do better than Majorca anyway :p

You can get an entire 1 week+ holiday to Majorca for quite a lot less than your price. I appreciate it probably won't offer what yours does but I'm not sure thats relevant to your point anyway.
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He wanted somewhere nice... You just are not going to get "nice" (especially in Majorca :D ) at the lower price brackets I quoted.

Indeed I could stay a week at a lower class of hotel for the same price, but I'm only going for a long weekend for the diving so would rather plush it up a bit in a nice gaff.
Exactly what I did at Easter in Malta, 5* Radisson Blu resort with all food, spa treatments, cocktails and what not, came to circa £850 for three nights. BLISS :D
 
Fuzz said:
£509 seems to be the cheapest flight I can see in June.
So 7 nights at £42 pr night.. £294
Food - Full board at £38 pr night.. £266

That's £1069 quid... without any way of getting to or from the airports?

Where did you get your £765 figure from
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Package deal with charter flight perhaps? I do share your sceptism though.
 
Azza said:
Did either of you happen to notice how good the vegetarian foods options were on Kuramathi?


I'm not the vegetarian by the way. :)
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No sorry as I'm not a veggie and neither is the wife. The food if you go for the a la carte is fantastic and there's enough restaurants so it never gets samey, and the ice cream sundae menu is great, I pretty much ate through the lot in the two weeks :)
 
Genuine question.

What do people do at place like this?

There only seems to be some diving and that's about it, surly you would get board within a day or two.
 
sven256 said:
Genuine question.

What do people do at place like this?

There only seems to be some diving and that's about it, surly you would get board within a day or two.
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For people that dont like lazing about reading books, sailing or diving / snorkelling then it offers you nothing at all Im afraid. For a lot of people it would be their worst nightmare but for some others its heaven.
 
sven256 said:
Genuine question.

What do people do at place like this?

There only seems to be some diving and that's about it, surly you would get board within a day or two.
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Yes, wandering along a beach watching glorious sunsets, sipping cocktails, eating dinner on the beach in the moonlight, sunbathing on the beach, walking around the island taking in the local wildlife, scuba diving in 30°C waters in just a pair of shorts, having an aprés dive chocolate milkshake on the house reef, Taking local boats out to nearby reefs and snorkelling the corals, forgetting about the trials and tribulations of the daily grind back home, catching up with your favourite novelist by the pool, going to bed listening to the sound of gently lapping waves in the warm glow of night, stepping out onto the veranda in the morning and diving in to the sea to wake you up after a restful nights sleep, hand feeding the stingrays at the waters edge.... Maybe even take a book and learn something, like how to spell.
Waking up to yet another beautiful day in paradise... yes I can see how that gets boring. :rolleyes:
 
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Fuzz said:
Yes, wandering along a beach watching glorious sunsets, sipping cocktails, eating dinner on the beach in the moonlight, sunbathing on the beach, walking around the island taking in the local wildlife, scuba diving in 30°C waters in just a pair of shorts, having an aprés dive chocolate milkshake on the house reef, Taking local boats out to nearby reefs and snorkelling the corals, forgetting about the trials and tribulations of the daily grind back home, catching up with your favourite novelist by the pool, going to bed listening to the sound of gently lapping waves in the warm glow of night, stepping out onto the veranda in the morning and diving in to the sea to wake you up after a restful nights sleep, hand feeding the stingrays at the waters edge.... Maybe even take a book and learn something, like how to spell.
Waking up to yet another beautiful day in paradise... yes I can see how that gets boring. :rolleyes:
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It sure as hell sounds like it would get boring to me.

As i said you i could manage it for a day or two, but after that it would get repetitive for me.

I'm sorry but sitting at the side of a pool reading a book is not a holiday for me, it's a waste of time. I could do that at home.

But like i said about the only thing there for me would be the diving, and I'm not that into it to make a two week holiday out of it.

But each to their own I guess.
 
sven256 said:
It sure as hell sounds like it would get boring to me.

As i said you i could manage it for a day or two, but after that it would get repetitive for me.

I'm sorry but sitting at the side of a pool reading a book is not a holiday for me, it's a waste of time. I could do that at home.

But like i said about the only thing there for me would be the diving, and I'm not that into it to make a two week holiday out of it.

But each to their own I guess.
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I can understand that, I have a friend that would go mad by the second day, he just can't sit still and relax like that.

Luckily I can be happy doing it all. Road trips, city breaks, activity holidays, seeing ancient sites, relaxing beach / pool holidays, its all good. Sometimes it's nice just not to have to do anything, the wife and I have a very busy work life so its nice every now and then to just do nothing at all.

IMO the Maldives is one of the most beautiful places on the planet.
 
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We had our honeymoon in the Maldives.

Stayed at the Olhuveli Beach and Spa, for 2 weeks all inclusive. If you like "beach" holidays it's perfect, but its a very expensive way to holiday so I'd only ever do it once. I'm not saying I regret it, but it was over £4k in 2009.
 
sven256 said:
It sure as hell sounds like it would get boring to me.
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It would get boring if thats not the sort of thing that appeals to you. I think I'd last about 3 days before being driven mad. But then everyone is different when it comes to wants and needs and the sort of thing they want out of a holiday. The chances are if you are looking at a holiday in the Maldives, it's the sort of thing you like, so you are unlikely to find it boring.
 
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