Land-of-Miles

Decanter is very wine focussed so may not be for you if not up for drinking

You can snorkel off your water or beach villa you just need to go a little further to get all the reef action. In contrast the deluxe villa at the Conrad on Rangali had very little action in the immediate vicinity. Not sure how this compares to the W.

meraki1990

Does anyone know up to what dates it could be bookable with the award pricing glitch back in July 2016?

ps9a

Definitely through Dec 3rd, 2017-- can't vouch for dates after that.

meraki1990

Thanks, I was just wondering if Jan 2018 was also bookable at that price.

I'm planning to go around then, but not sure if it would be crowded from the glitch pricing.

pdrickey

I booked for the end of December 2017 and remember being able to select dates into January 2018. It appears SPG lets you book 18 months in advance, so if it was pulled around August 3, 2016, stays were potentially bookable through February 2, 2018.

onlysuites

What glitch was this?

Pseudo Nim

When the hotel just became bookable in the summer of 2016, it was flagged as a standard cat7, meaning 30K per night plus fifth night free. They realised the mistake fairly quickly though.

beastieb

Got back a couple weeks ago. That has to be the nicest hotel/resort I have ever stayed at. Such an amazing experience. The property was top notch and service couldn't have been better.

Land-of-Miles

It is a great resort but it could have been better in some respects, which may well have annoyed me greatly had I been paying full whack for a room.

The Overwater Villas are superb and so much better than those at Rangali even the quite high end villa we had there. The quality of the resort is also outstanding but some soft features need a little more polish. Service could be a little slow and forgetful, the daily fruit plate (which I relied upon to add to my in suite G&T's) was rather random until I made a fuss about it. My wife lost count of the number of things she requested at breakfast which were just forgotten (albeit my experience was better).

At times it did rather remind me of the rather random service one tends to find in Dutch restaurants.

The dining options were also less varied and extensive than you might ideally like. It wouldn't take much to really make a difference to issues which were small in the broad scheme of things but at over $2k per night you would expect the detail to be right.

The resort itself though is world class, I now just need to find a way of getting back for a lot less than that $2k per night

Ksw299

Hi All,

I am planning an award stay for 5 nights from Dec 19-24. the rates for an overwater villa is 58500 points for a total of 234k points. I would be using all of my marriott points and then some of UR points for this.

The question is - is it worth it? The paid rates for those dates for the overwater villa is over 2700$ / night - even with the 4th night free offer it would cost over 12000$. Normally I would never pay such a rate for any hotel.

Pseudo Nim

My two cents. I would never, ever, ever pay $2,700 for this hotel per night (+tax!) - I did not find the service to be anywhere near that mark (considering most of the other, much more exclusive properties are half that price or less). The St-Regis Maldives is probably the (and if not then one of the) most expensive property in the Maldives, and I do not think that's deserved at all.

However! At 58,500 points per night, even if you value your SPG at 2 cents per point (which is a little bit on the high side), then this works out to about $1,100 or so. That's a completely different ball game: I think it's well worth this price. So I'd do it. In fact, I might - somehow I thought it was in the 90K point range, but at 58, it's actually semi-reasonable. Is this during the "dream destinations" promo or whatever they call that promo?

britinva79

I would also do it for that price, it is a wonderful hotel and you'll have a wonderful stay. I wish I could go back next year but next big trip is to Australia instead.

Ksw299

It could be the dream destinations promo - no idea though. the property looks fantastic. This would be my first stay at the maldives and want to make it memorable.

There are some other non-brand names which are much much cheaper like 800$ a night for full board and in trip advisor they all look good. I stopped trusting trip advisor a while ago.

In term of redemption value it would be one of the best as I would be redeeming 702k marriott points for over 12k. But as I said before I would never pay 12k for 5 nights just for room.

kkl

How recent is this 58k promo?

Thought it was 90k per night?

Ksw299

Don't know - when I called they said its 58.5k / night for the dates I am looking for. Its definitely not low season as its Christmas time.