Suzanne M
January 31, 2024
Wonderful holiday destination! I intended to try and keep this short, but I can't! We went to celebrate our 10th Wedding anniversary, and it was an amazing holiday! We chose a beach bungalow as my dream has always to step out on to white fluffy sand. We were allocated room 147, and to be honest, initially was disappointed as the sand is not as I'd expected, but I understand it's because of the reef, by the end of holiday it didn't matter and the location of the room was brilliant for snorkelling, which is what we had gone to do, right outside the room there was a lagoon, which shelved quite steeply and had some gorgeous fish in there. We were also on the right side of the island for the reef, we found entry point 1 and 2 the best, 3 nearly always had a red flag, but there was plenty to be seen at either of the points we used, depending on the weather. Our room was beautifully appointed and looked after by Kashem, twice a day we had fresh towels, water and fridge topped up and little sweep round to remove sand- he is also a demon with leaf letters! :) The food is amazing, breakfast is at the Aqua, you can have a fresh cooked omelette, fried eggs as well as various curries (!), the danish patries and cakes are delicious, if you get an outside table, there are sharks and fish swimming about too! We ate in Aqua restaurant most lunches, the choice of food is amazing, we had lunch at The Spice restaurant twice and that was lovely, dinner there was fabulous as well, it's quite nice to have dinner brought to you to eat at the same time! Well Done restaurant has a great menu, service sometimes a little slow, but that was quite nice instead of wandering around the buffet with an eclectic plate! We didn't need any adaptors as the plugs were all 3 pin, UK style and for plugs from other countries, adaptors were supplied. We took our own snorkels (the full face ones) and flippers so we had them available to us, and that is a good tip, reef boots and rash vests too. We also bought a cheap waterproof camera from Amazon for under £50 which was great. Clothing, not particularly formal and by the end of the holiday, I'd given up on shoes for dinner! The most special thing about this place is the staff, they are always smiling and happy to help. I have an extensive list of people to thank, who made our holiday so so memorable, Maihaan, Dilshad, Vijay, Tharinder, Rita and Manita at the Aqua, Sujita and Ranjith at the Aqua bar, Bhuwan and Nisha at the Nautilus bar to name a few. Really really lovely people, Maihaan and Dilshad have wicked sense of humours and really enjoy chatting, but they ALWAYS have their eye on the game - one night was so busy and they were so short staffed, but the smiles never dropped! Chef Charminder in the Aqua restaurant was so proud of his food and his team, lovely chap!