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Kandia was paradise for us

We stayed at Kandima Maldives in April for 4 nights, with 2 nights in an Ocean Pool Villa and 2 nights in an Overwater Villa with Swirl Pool on a Full Board package. Pros : - The beaches are absolutely beautiful, with crystal-clear water and stunning views. - Both the Ocean Pool Villa and Overwater Villa were spacious, well-maintained, and very clean. - The resort itself is picturesque and offers a relaxing Maldives experience. - We had booked domestic flight transfers, but due to an issue, our departing flight from the resort was cancelled. The resort arranged a seaplane transfer to Male at the last minute without any additional cost, which we appreciated and found very helpful. Cons : - As an Indian vegetarian couple, we informed the resort in advance about our dietary requirements and specifically requested Indian vegetarian food options. Unfortunately, despite prior communication, there were very limited Indian vegetarian choices available during our stay. One of the chefs made an effort to prepare Indian dishes for us, and we appreciate the attempt. However, the food was not up to the mark in terms of taste and authenticity. Considering that our dietary preferences were communicated well before arrival, we were disappointed with the lack of suitable Indian vegetarian food options. - During our stay in Overwater Villa with Swirl Pool #425, the air conditioning was not working properly, and the room remained quite hot and uncomfortable. A technician was sent to inspect the issue, but despite the visit, the AC problem was not fully resolved and continued to affect our comfort during the stay.

A very decent resort, with very attentive and caring stuff who will do their best to make your stay impeccable, however carefully consider the below points when entrusting Kandima with you Maldives vacation. We stayed there in Mar as a couple, 35-40 years old, without kids, and this is how it was. + very attentive staff, will go out of their way to attend to your request. With that said, not necessarily all things you ask (reasonable) will be done unless you follow up multiple times, call reception, etc. + Good food – even in the Zest and Flavour, two buffet-style restaurants, one can always find very decent food. We liked fresh and delicious tuna sashimi, variety of Indian cuisine options (meet and seafood curries, naan bread, etc.), fish, meat, pasta, open fire BBQ station, deserts, plenty of fruits and vegetables. Very decent a la carte restaurants, can enjoy table service with waitresses, etc. + beautiful location, big island to enjoy walks, good facilities – boats, water toys, diving, swimming pools, etc., large area to walk or cycle. We never took a bike, walked all the time as it’s always a beautiful walk either by the beach or central alley covered by natural shade from trees. + Great diving centre and instructors, loved every dive with them. Proper 5 star service. Thanks to Hassan, Adam and Ronaldo. What we didn’t like is - enormous number of kids, 2-5 years old. If you imagine relaxed swim in the pool, sipping pina colada by the pool bar, enjoying the calm of Indian ocean and the views – forget about it. Kids invading the pool entire day – ball games, screams, tears and laughs. Because of this we only been in the pool 2 times. Parents are of course trying to get the most for their own time in Maldives and don’t care much about kids letting them do their crazy kids-stuff. Same goes for restaurants both buffet style and a la carte (Smoke, Sea Dragon, Azure) – running and shouting kids, losing food on the floor, so you walk on the squashed pineapples and fried calamaries. This is very pronounced in buffet restaurants as they are large but also very annoying in some a la carte places e.g. Sea Dragon where we went twice and both times there were lots of kids making the place unbearably noisy. - expect to follow up on your requests multiple times until resolved, don’t be fooled that things got done by the first enquiry with the reception it’s not the Four Seasons type of service. A few times our reservations at restaurants and photo session simply were never properly recorded so we had to rebook it and some things need to be booked 2 days in advance so if you too late before your departure you just don’t get it. - some facilities need attention: only two coffee machines in huge buffet restaurants and they are always broken, I mean always. There wasn’t a single day I didn’t stand in a queue for a coffee only to end up with the machine been broken. Yes, personnel quickly rushes to fix it, nevertheless I didn’t appreciate going through this experience every day. Very often difficult to find an empty plate to get food, again because of big families with kids take unnecessarily big amounts of food, small kids of course don’t understand that and just keep piling on whatever looks good taking all empty plates and coffee mugs which staff struggles to replenish. - At least 70% of guests are Russian speaking, the resort has several Russian-speaking staff and once a week throws in Russian-style food-corner in buffet restaurants. I suppose this is hotel’s strategy and its target market so expect to have overwhelming exposure to Russians for good or bad, matter of personal choice. Conclusion: within its price range it is a decent resort, not a five star by any metrics but gives you all you need on a very good level. Bear in mind, this is a big resort so lots of people in any place unless of course you are in your private beach or ocean villa etc. Hotel enjoys good food, caring staff, beautiful location. Don’t expect rel

It’s was excellent I recommend

it was an amazing stay, words are not enough to describe how beautiful the place was..it was an unforgettable moments for us.. the staff’s are very accommodating specially to the bar staff at breeze ms.carmela