Maldives..

We went to Kuramathi... amazeface.

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We are going to Meeru Island resort! I done a lot of research and this one seems the most resonablly prices and has excellent reviews, It is costing 6K but we get an over water JACUZZI villa dfshsjkafhjkshalkh so excited! I did see another Island I really liked and when I enquired in to it is it was £18,000!!!!!!!!

Mrs C- That island looks beautiful, it was one that came up on the search I did on Kuoni. Did you just stay for 7 days then? You said you would have liked to have stayed 10 days but was that because you needed longer to relax from all the travelling? Due to work we can only for for 7 or 10 days.

Sara- Jane- Is that price for 1 week or 2?

It was amazing... it's Kuoni exclusive in the UK.

Yeah, we really would have liked to have had a few days to come down after all the travelling we did in Sri Lanka to enjoy Kuramathi fully and it was just amazing, the food was lovely, the views amazing, the snorkelling fabulous...

I would go back there in a shot.

Don't book direct through Kuoni though as its more expensive - we booked through Tropical Warehouse (Blue Bay Travel) and they were miles cheaper even though it is still a Kuoni holiday.

Thanks very much for the help, appreciate it.

Will check out that website when I finish work later!

Hiya,

It really on what time of the year you are going as to the prices. But we picked our honeymoon before the wedding date and wanted to go 5* and spend £8k - best seasion Nov-Apri - we booked our Feb wedding.

We went to Veligandu 5* all inc, 2weeks water villa with outdoor jacuzzi - it was amazing and worth all the money £7.5K we went with First Choice and upgraded flights too. there are only 70 villas on the island and we hardly saw people the whole time it was true bliss.

Depends on the experience you want - the girls that worked in the spa preferred Meeru for more people, but that is double+ the size, and you can cycle around the island - but we wanted the quiet, get away paradise island. You could walk the length in 10 mins! I would go back in a heartbeat

Mrs C....that's my honeymoon destination. I'm counting down more to that than the wedding now haha!

Sara Jane, can I asked who you booked with? That seems really reasonable! Is that all inclusive too? Briefly looked at Virgin for Indian Ocean islands, and they all seem to be half board and we would much rather know that everything is paid for in advance...

We are going to Kandooma for 14 days in Jan, think I'm more excited about that than the wedding!

We're going to Kuredu mainly because it has a golf course and my OH is obsessed with golf! Can't wait it looks lush ? The plan is to relax and do bugger all because we're doing lots of trips in Sri Lanka in the first week of our honeymoon x

I recognise the amazing picture from your avatar!!

This time in 2 weeks I'll be in Kuramathi. Cannot wait, will hopefully be amazeballs.

Kuramathi for us as well - can't recommend it enough. We went for 10 night and had a fantastic time, would go back every year if we could afford it!

http://www.kuramathi.com/

Any questions about it give us a shout!

We booked through Kuoni as we didn't know about Tropical Warehouse and on arrival got bumped up by about 5 grades of accommodation, which was a nice suprise and I think not something people got if they booked through Tropical Warehouse (could be wrong here!)

We're going to Meeru Island at the end of March/ begining of April for 1 week. We chose it because it had the accommodation we wanted (jacuzzi water villa) for the best price and had great reviews. Our's is booked thrugh Kuoni and is costing just over £4k. Can't wait, this time in 8 months we'll be there! x

Oooooooh I went to cure and it is A M A Z I N G'!!!!!! Loved it! Try the night fishing, wind surfing and the snorkelling and diving is immense!

Thanks for all your replies, sounds like we have got a lot to choose from. At least I have a bit more of an idea now, going to go into a travel agents just to get bit more of an idea on prices and the accommodation etc.

1 more question though... someone told me that June (which is when we would be going) will be crap weather. Can anyone verify this?

Cheers

I know that Nov-Apr is the best season so we picked it to go during that time.

May-Sept is classed more as "wet" and it can be very wet - someone will hopefully advise if they've been out during June - Obviously the price will go down during this time anyway (low season)