Paradise Island resort and spa, Maldives

We boarded our flights (Air India) at 2:00 in the afternoon and the departure was at 2:20. There is only one direct flight from Bengaluru-Male and that's Airindia flight at 2:20 pm. The travel time is 1:55 hours but they reached Male in 1:30 hours. It was a rough flight in Male. They took 4 attempts to land the flight. When this flight landed there was a applause in the cabin for safe landing. After that we filled a form for visa on arrival and then we passed the immigration to pick out luggage.

We had taken 250 dollars with us other than the resort and hotel bookings. We converted 70 dollars to MVR (Maldivian rufiya) 1 dollar = 15 rufiya (1 rufiya = 4 rupees). We took the currency and headed to mobile network Shops. There are two networks dhiraagu and ooredoo, both give same offers. In airport they had only data pack sims. I asked for calls only sim as there will be wifi in all the hotels and resorts and even in airport as well, but they said they had only data pack sims. They were offering 10GB and 7 days validity for 15 Dollars, so we thought we will skip it. We headed out and enquired with the locals and airport officials for directions to go to Hulhumale. There is bus tranfer as well as taxi to Hulhumale. They charge 20 rufiya per person in bus tranfer and 100 rufiya per trip in taxi. As the Hotel we booked had there own cab for transfer, they charged us 10 Dollars for round trip for both of us. So we reached the hotel at around 7 pm.

We had done our resort bookings from 16/11/2019 so we stayed in a hotel in Hulhumale for 15th night. We had booked a hotel named UI Hotels. We kept our luggage in the hotel connected to the hotel wifi and searched for a good place to eat near by and found a decent looking place to eat and had our dinner. The hotel had buffet with around 6 items and were charging 10 dollars (150 rufiya) per person. Our dinner bill was 160 rufiya, we had some good Maldivian food (As we don't how the different items tastes, we asked for the waiter for suggestions.

After the dinner we roamed the island for sometime and headed back to the hotel.

We woke early in the morning to take a stroll in the beach. We had our breakfast ( we had choosen free breakfast option) and reached the airport back again at around 10am. There are many counters for each resort islands in the airport and counter no. 67 was Paradise Island resort's counter. The transfer was at 10:30 am, and the resort representative took us to the speed boat. It was around 20 mins ride from airport to the island. We had done our bookings through destinasia holidays for 5N and 6D package with full board meal plan ( breakfast, lunch and dinner). 3N in superior beach Bungalow and 2N in water villa. The package cost was 1,75,000 rupees excluding flight tickets.

Crystal clear blue waters covered the island, and we had a WOW feeling while entering the resort. We were greeted by a refreshing welcome drink and a resort representative verified our passports and briefed us about the resort. We had mentioned for honeymoon freebies (one bottle of champagne and a fruit basket, wind surfing and canoeing is also free) for which we have to show some proof of marriage. And we can the freebies within 6months of our marriage date. Resort check-in time is 1:00 pm, but we got our keys at 12:30 pm. Till then we roamed around the resort and had our lunch. After the lunch we collected our keys and checked into our superior beach bungalow. We had a small nap and visited some places inside the resort and then we had our dinner. There will be some kind of entertainment every day. We enjoyed some time in the bar and went back to our bunglow.

again to take some more photos.

Our room was quite far from the restaurant, so we requested a room nearby. The resort staff asked us to come back tomorrow morning after breakfast for room change.

Today was out last day in the resort, we were little sad that we are leaving. Days went like minutes and we were supposed to say good bye. Check out time was at 12 pm, so we woke up early to utilise the remaining time as much as possible. We took early morning photos and went for breakfast, we packed our luggage quickly and again started taking photos at many places which we missed.

Finally it was time for us to leave this heaven on earth. Our luggage was shifted to the speed boat terminal. We walked to the terminal, looking back to all the memories we had here. When we reached the terminal we identified our luggage and waited for other tourists. Before leaving we had one last view of the Paradise and entered the boat with lots of memories to cherish.

We headed to the airport. Took a bus to Hulhumale, and checked into the hotel that we had booked already (Huvan beach hotel). We reached there at around 1pm. Our flight was on next day at 11am. So we thought of going to male.

Male is the main island of Maldives, where you find major activities and shops. Every island has a ferry terminal, we took a ferry to male which cost us 20 rufiya each.

The moment we reached male we headed to Chandini magu, a street where all souvenir shops are located. Before buying anything cross check the prices at different shops and then buy. After taking some souvenirs. We had some snacks and headed back towards the ferry terminal, took a ferry to Hulhumale and reached our hotel.