Tropical luxury doesn’t come cheap. The Republic of Maldives is my splurge stop. The dive safari was reasonable at about $130 a day including my nice cabin, great food, and 3 dives a day. The rental equipment was another $150, but all in all a fantastic deal for the Maldives.
Ellaidhoo Resort is a steep $140 a day for my beautiful bungalow and half board (breakfast and lunch buffets). Everything else is extra here with dives at $47 each(compared with about $25 in Thailand and Indonesia) and even the gym is $7 per use. And, the painfully slow Internet is highway robbery at 50 cents a minute ($30 an hour!) compared with about $1-2 an hour in SE Asia. Unfortunately, this means photo downloading is out in the Maldives. Yikes, I’d better sign off and hit the free beach!
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