Comments on: 10 Reasons Why We Love Maldives

By: ESTELLE KIORA

ESTELLE KIORA — Thu, 23 Oct 2014 08:50:20 +0000

Your pictures! Excessively gorgeous, porn for the average office worker bee. Did you take all the photos here yourself? This post should be NSFW

By: LC

LC — Thu, 23 Oct 2014 03:54:59 +0000

I enjoy reading through website but one thing that puts me off from visiting the Maldives are the politics there. See this NYT article:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/31/travel/1000-islands-2-worlds.html

It seems like an especially difficult place for women. It’s one thing to travel somewhere for work or other responsibilities but when it comes to vacationing, I don’t want my dollars supporting an especially oppressive regime.

A few years ago, people in my family wanted to visit Dubai and I directed them away from that country too.

By: ladyironchef

ladyironchef — Tue, 21 Oct 2014 05:56:14 +0000

@Rhea We stayed at Centara Fas Fushi during this trip. We paid about S$900/night for our water villa including full board. The resort is really gorgeous and we have no complains, except that the food options were not fantastic. There are many resorts at around the same price point, so you might want to do your research before deciding. Hope this helps.

By: rhea

rhea — Mon, 20 Oct 2014 05:44:54 +0000

what hotels/ villas would you recommend? my fiance and i are planning for a honeymoon there.

By: ladyironchef

ladyironchef — Mon, 20 Oct 2014 03:38:01 +0000

@Patrick It would be good if you could realize that this is an editorial post and we bore the costs of all expenses. For all advertorials and sponsored trips, we practice including a one-liner at the end of the post – that should be the transparency you are talking about, and in this case, if there isn’t any, it further reiterates my point that we paid for everything on our own.

By: patrick

patrick — Mon, 20 Oct 2014 02:22:16 +0000

It would be good if you could disclose who paid for your trip. Just for the sake of transparency.