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Written: 25 february 2009
Travel time: 24 january — 7 february 2009
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday; For business travel; For families with children; For recreation with friends, for young people
Your rating of this hotel:
7.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 10.0
Service: 8.0
Cleanliness: 8.0
Food: 8.0
Amenities: 8.0
I had a rest from January 24.2009 in Сhaaya Reef Ellaidhoo for 2 weeks, adyn-savsem adyn. I went through Tez-tour (updating agency). Regarding Teza, well, there is no decent service in our Motherland. Upon arrival in Male, a long queue gathered for registration at hotels (I decided, let me think until it resolves, I go to the toilet and change into “summer”, it’s somehow hot in boots and a sweater). I return in 10-15 minutes - in a crazy "kipish" representatives of Teza meet me - where do you go?? ! Your boat is leaving now! Let's go faster! (there was a feeling that I didn’t come for a vacation, but somewhere in the office the boss blames me for not bringing documents on time for the plane departing once a week). Then, more interestingly, they said that my boat still left (like it didn’t wait for me !! ), and now I have to wait for the seaplane, which leaves as early as 14 o’clock (it was 11). In the hands of the Teztur representative was a registration sheet for visitors - there I saw an inscription in front of my hotel - my last name and another one! human Helena. She asked, “Why did the boat take one person away? ” The answer was: "Yes. " It turns out that the boat could not wait another 10 minutes for another, i. e. , me? (I did not ask this already, since the question is rhetorical). And then, when I was waiting to board the seaplane (which instead of 2:00 p. m. left at 2:50 p. m. ), I met another tourist at my hotel, ELENA), Well, it seems like a trifle and I don’t care, but I’m still deceived). Well, you realized that instead of going straight from the airport to the hotel and indulging in the delights of relaxation, I spent 4! hours at the local seaplane airport. This is after a 9 hour flight. Flight Transaero - cheap and cheerful - such Boeings are not designed for a 9-hour flight, as for me. Nothing else there - there was a half-empty plane - you could fall apart on 4 seats, take a nap, and back - a nightmare - sit in a narrow chair for 9 hours (for the first time in my life, my legs were numb from sitting, then they didn’t push through slippers). And the service - well, this is generally - mddaaaa... ))
The hotel is a normal four. Service is sometimes great, sometimes not so good. I was alone - the Maldivian staff reacted to me no less enthusiastically than in Turkey (this is a significant minus), well, it’s unpleasant for me when I go into a bikini, and they rub me with their eyes. After a week of rest, one of them even complained to visit in the middle of the night - he knocked, tried to enter, asked if he was alone in the room, even held the door when I tried to close it. After that, I lay until the morning with wide eyes, not knowing what else to expect. Then there was an identification (ha ha, they all look the same to me), they offered a more expensive water villa for free (I moved to it already 5 days after the offer, since I prefer land, and I had baited birds near the beach bungalow and Murenka). It is much cooler in interior than a beach bungalow (there were even scales, though they showed that I weigh 30kg) . . ), and the weed from it is beyond praise, I recommend it (the only negative is the adjacent wall with neighbors, and the audibility is wow, it’s good that I was without a partner, otherwise they would have arranged sleepless nights for the neighbors). Every single house is crammed next to each other, and all day long everyone is rummaging around, so sex on the beach is canceled, but with the advent of darkness, privacy is guaranteed. But to me, after THAT incident, all the evenings and nights were very restless and the rest was spoiled. Although such a merger with nature is difficult to spoil - all the birds are tame, and the underwater world that I saw live for the first time is just another planet!
So, more about the hotel - it stank very much and it was stuffy in the restaurant, intended for living on land, even though it is on the street. But the restaurant for guests of water villas is very worthy, really on the ocean (more precisely, the pool, but the feeling is that the ocean, since the ocean is immediately behind the pool). The food is nothing, without culinary delights, monotonously. Snacks in the second restaurant - super.

And just a giant minus of the hotel is a stupid stone-concrete wall that surrounds the entire island, it is not one, but two! - the second in the place where the sea collides with land. Only in one place, where I went to swim, this first one was absent (about 50 meters). These walls spoil the beauty of the ocean. Well, on an island of this size, it would be normal for three times fewer rooms (but, of course, the price would be different).
A big plus is a good Russian-speaking diving instructor. Although I have not yet reached diving (sorry, Oleg! ), but those who are just starting out and do not know foreign languages ​ ​ perfectly cannot do without this. And this is an important factor. He is there until May and is waiting for everyone. By the way, he is a very attentive person, and he will find time for everyone to pay attention, and will help in any way he can. Not to mention that he has a wealth of experience in diving.
Photos of the hotel on the Teza website, like Updates, are old. Guys, everything is already wrong there! - Update.
The Updating Agency did a good job - however, I had to choose the hotel myself, delve into all these reviews. But I’m thinking, I explained what I want, and everything was chosen for me as I dreamed, but I don’t worry at all). But, apparently, it does not happen). Renewal employees do not know well what this or that hotel is like... In all other respects, it's good. OLE- RESPECT!
Oh, I almost forgot - there is magical live music several times a week! The voice of one of the musicians and singing can be given the MTV Grand Prix!
In the spa, Balinese women are simply amazing, they give such positive energy, and the Balinese massage is cool.
Well, there are many, many more things that you shouldn’t write and read about, but you should see with your own eyes) -
God! This is not a review, but an entire article. The one who reads to the end is strong)
Translated automatically from Russian. View original