Maldives...

Pc-Gamer12 · 16 Apr 2013 at 18:45

We love it hot

metal6501 · 16 Apr 2013 at 18:48

where was the flights for 260

Bear · 16 Apr 2013 at 19:11

Bes said:
Actually I spent 3 months working in The Maldives for Wataniya, and it IS overpriced as a tourist destination. I can tell you from speaking to many locals there and spending time on a few different islands

I stayed in Malé and other islands where locals live much of the time - again nowhere to grow food - and restaurants, etc, were literally a fraction of the price. I think you underestimate how established the logistics are in the vicinity.

Also the sea plane transfers are crazy expensive. Did you know locals pay about £20 for the same journey a tourist will pay $100's for because the hotels force you to? Granted the price is subsidised to some extent by the government, but certainly hundreds of dollars per person for a transfer is a joke and a crazily inflated price package put together by the hotels.

Also boat journeys that cost just a few (20-50) Rufiyaa to locals are charged at literally hunderds of times more to tourists when operated by the hotel resorts on identical boats.

So yes it is overpriced, and I do know what I am talking about.

I could have guessed that locals don't pay tourist rates for anything, it doesn't surprise me in the slightest considering the average salary is next to nothing some say the equivalent of 5000 dollars US a year.

So your justification for things being over priced is the fact that the locals don't pay the prices the tourists pay? Do you think they could even afford to go to work based on their salary or that they eat the same quality of food that the tourists do? Yes you definitely look like you know what you are talking about.

Pc-Gamer12 · 16 Apr 2013 at 19:56

metal6501 said:
where was the flights for 260

What website or where to ?

The website was edreams and the flights were to sham el sheikh, they didn't include a hotel and they were £260 per person

metal6501 · 16 Apr 2013 at 20:01

Thanks

Bes · 7 Jul 2013 at 21:07

Bear said:
I could have guessed that locals don't pay tourist rates for anything, it doesn't surprise me in the slightest considering the average salary is next to nothing some say the equivalent of 5000 dollars US a year.

So your justification for things being over priced is the fact that the locals don't pay the prices the tourists pay? Do you think they could even afford to go to work based on their salary or that they eat the same quality of food that the tourists do? Yes you definitely look like you know what you are talking about.

Name me somewhere else where the cost of a transfer is 10-15x more to tourists than it is to locals for an identical mode of transport?

You can't can you? What exactly are you trying to say here? that somehow I don't know what I am talking about because locals are charged less than tourists? How does that work?

So yes I do know what I am talking about thanks. As I said I think you understand little about how much IS available locally and the differential between going to a 'local' restaurant vs one geared up for tourism. (Take two islands a stone's throw apart to see an example of this, slightly higher quality of food at the tourists one, but about 3-4x the price).