For those of you that had excellent/perfect stays, how busy was the hotel? The hotel was at absolute capacity when we there. Perhaps we were just unlucky.

I don't think my (or our) judgment is clouded by the rate - it would not matter if it was US$300 or US$1500 (or even US$2500 which was the rate for our SOWV) per night. The overall experience was simply not anywhere close to good enough for a 5* hotel nor was the reply from the GM. Even if we wanted to discuss my issues with him prior to departure, we had to settle our invoice immediately after our massages (pretty much the only occasion our butler was very much on time to provide us with something) and the GM was nowhere to be seen in the seaplane area.

To reiterate - we thought the room itself was great although quite a few fittings are askew/falling apart so that doesn't bode well for the future. And we greatly enjoyed being disconnected from the world for a few days although I suspect that has more to do with the nature/location of the Maldives rather than the St Regis itself.