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For a paltry R18 million a week, you can rent out the whole island, which comes with 47 villas, a small army of staff, and a 9-hole golf course.
Lady Amelia Spencer and Greg Mallett look like they’re having quite the honeymoon.
It’s pricey, but you do get ultra-exclusive use of the private island’s 73 villas and residences, as well as all of their facilities.
Finally, someone has done it. Off the shores of a famed Maldives island will soon lie an undersea villa. Watch out for the sharks, though.
It is no small feat heading up an internationally respected travel site’s ‘Top Hotels’ list. This year’s winner looks like a rather deserving winner it must be said.
The Maldives – well known for it’s crystal blue waters, brilliant white sands and those boats with the glass bottoms that let you see the coral reefs. This is the last place on earth you’d associate with the word “rubbish dump”. But there’s something sordid just a stone’s throw away from the swankiest hotels on earth. There’s something smelly on the horizon. It is ‘Rubbish Island’, and it stinks to high hell.
Another season of Survivor South Africa is on its way – this time set in the Maldives. We bring you as much pre-release information that Mnet is willing to release, and a hunch that this coming season was so bitterly fought that at least one contestant quit production. Click through for more.
If you pop over to the Maldives in the next few years (as one is prone to do), you might be inclined to hit an extended hang out at the airport in lieu of finding accommodation. Haptic Architects (London) and Narud Stokke Wiig Architects (Oslo) have teamed up to provide a design for the Maldives […]