A memorable vacation in the paradise Our family spent 5 nights at the Le Meridien Maldives Resort & Spa. It is a memorable stay that we will treasure forever. Maldives is well known for its “one hotel, one island” concept. This was experienced at the Le Meridien Maldives Resort & Spa. The entire island is exclusively reserved for the use of the guests and the staffs (which resides in apartments that are built away from the view, with area marked with associate only sign). We were also told that some staffs reside in the local islands nearby, and they use boat to transfer to/from hotel each day. It seems that the guests all transfer to/from hotel via seaplane transfer. Le Meridien is located at Thilamaafushi island of Lhaviyani Atoll, which is about a 35 min seaplane ride from Male. For transfer to Le Meridien, we were informed the Seaplane check-in time only at 9pm the day before, and we checked in at the Male Airport at 6:45am (quite tight schedule to get you prepared for an early morning departure). The hotel associate (at counter C-17, which is also shared by Westin Maldives) assists you with the Seaplane check-in, tagging of the luggage, bus transfer to the seaplane terminal, and escorted you to wait at the Le Meridien/Westin lounge before our seaplane departure. The seaplane departs around 8am, and stop by at another island, before arriving Le Meridien at 9am. You will be greeted with songs and a ceremony by the Le Meridien staffs, who then give you an island tour before you are escorted to your room. Your luggage will also be brought to your room. We stayed at a two-bedroom beach Villa with swimming pool at the Le Meridien. We have found the rooms to be clean and spacious. You are offered free coffee pods, premium tea bags, and ample waters. There is a life vest in the villa for each guest, and you can rent snorkeling gear for free during your entire stay from the dive center (nice feature). I particularly appreciate the private swimming pool, the concept of outdoor (under the star) showering, and the private nature of the beach areas. Many times, our family felt that we have had the entire beach to ourselves. Le Meridien is a relatively big resort. The entire resort, from one end to another is more than 1km. It does provide a buggy to help to transport guests from one place to another. The one disadvantage of the big resort is the extra green tax (you are charged USD 12 per person per night, instead of USD 6 per person per night for the small resort). There are ample activities to keep your occupied at Le Meridien. I did a number of snorkeling by my selves. There are a number of small reefs close to shore, which was interesting to visit and seeing fishes around. Sometime, the fishes (and sting ray) comes to the above water villa. The hotel also sanks some cages under end far end of villa, which gradually grows corals and attracts fishes (I have seen puffy fishes and lion fishes in there). There is a water activity center, where you c
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