Originally Posted by
tylerc
Did they recover for you?
Our butler has been solid so far. The restaurant staff have been excellent as well, and food has been quite good.
EDIT - I made a comment about the beach towels, but just found them in the bathroom so they must have been there the whole time. I was looking for them outside like on day one and two, but maybe because of the potential rain they left them inside.
We're in one of the ocean facing (non-sunset) villas, next to the one we had last time, and while the pool is not as cold as on our last visit, it's still not ideal. The privacy is second to none, so if that's what you're after request 524 or 525. Just know that they get very little sun, and the pool is cooler (from what I can tell the pool portion of the deck gets no sun whatsoever). I had hoped they had something with a bit more sun while still being fairly private, but I guess they don't (unless you upgrade to a sunset overwater villa).
If anyone is looking for the new minibar menu, feel free to reach out and I can send it.
We had 523 and loved its view and privacy, there are plenty of places you can watch and enjoy the sunset from on the island so prefer the privacy for the rest of the day and evening, actually found the pool to be a good temperature and didnt bother us at all!
Our mistake was probably on arrival we didnt take control of dinner reservations, the butler had made us some and never occured twice a week they have buffets and no other restuarants open so its buffet or IRD, which is great unless you do IRD the night before a buffett as there is nothing in the room to tell you any sort of schedule! Once we got that information it was certainly better. Overall found the food to be very good just some issues on the wine would not be chilled or take a extra long time to arrive (30-40 minutes on one occasion and yes warm when it did)
The stay was unique in some ways but what I will say is when there were issues management dealt with them and were proactive on that! They have a new resort manager (Dominic) who is excellent and we left feeling like given 3-6 months he will have the issues we faced ironed out.
The breakfast is stunning and overall the food was (obviously not cheap) really good also, they just need to sort out the dining venues a bit better and use Whale Bar to its full potential to be what they aspire to be which is one of the very best resorts in the Maldives! On points this place is a bargain, would I pay the rates as things stand or go elsewhere in the Maldives, probably elsewhere, but given time that opinion might change!