Originally Posted by
agjil
What was the time zone difference between the resort and MLE airport?
Roughly how many hours before the scheduled flight out of MLE does the resort arrange the speedboat to leave the resort and head to the airport?
The hotel is a 1-hour difference.
Waldorf Astoria Maldives Ithaafushi time has been set one hour ahead of Male’ time to give an extra hour of daylight each day. For ease, set phone to the Dhaka Sri Lanka time zone.
From personal experience, we planned to leave the hotel after the happy hour. Your personal concierge will sync this with you on your last day. Thus, we were on the yacht to leave the resort at 18:00 (Island time) to catch 20:25 QR flight to Doha. Given the time changes back an hour, you will still arrive around 2 and half hours before departure time. The crew/staff are fantastic and will take your luggage and bring you to the check-in counter and ensure you have all necessary paperwork.
Originally Posted by
vikav
Some random and quick questions for those that have been at the resort:
1) Do the bicycles have an option for training wheels if one of us cannot ride bicycles otherwise?
2) Is there a microwave in the room? And/or a water pot to boil water?
3) Do they provide pool floats? Or is it better to bring our own?
4) Are they able to inflate the floats for you or should we bring a small pump?
5) How bad are the mosquitos? Any repellants or other options that you'd recommend?
Thank you in advance!
1. Not sure, but they give you a phone to always call a golf cart if you want it.
2. No microwave in the room by default. However, another user on this thread said " We asked for a
microwave prior to arrival and they were more than happy to provide it. We've had it the entire stay.) (
Link)
3. I would bring my own, I think you can rent some, anyone else want to jump in?
4. Yes, I believe they will blow up inflatables according to other users in this thread. I didn't bring floats so I don't really know.
5. I didn't have any issues with them in September, but I brought some Deep-Woods wipes to be prepared but I never used them.