Originally Posted by
henkybaby
LOM: exactly my point. I did not regard La Pirogue very highly either (as you could have deducted from my review) and since you confirm that you have to spend $700 or more to have a remotely pleasurable experience this strengthens my belief that MRU is not my cup of tea. No way I want to spend my holiday in a place where I need to pay $700 a night to be sheltered from the island and to prevent having a bad time. Thanks for making my point.
On top of that they give you sh!tty hire cars too!
But I can't think of many places in the world were a top notch luxury beach hotel will come in at much less than $700 this isn't the exclusive preserve of MRU. I consistently paid much more than this in Thailand recently and that was out of season. Compared to the Maldives were you can be paying $2000 a night $700 seems more than reasonable.
I had a great hire car at a rate of under £30 a day all in. You just can't assume that an online reservation will work as it would in the UK or US. Again MRU is not unique here as anyone who has rented a car in Thailand or the Caribbean might know.