Centara Grand Island Resort & Spa Maldives

The best thing living in the water villa is that the ocean is just a staircase away. 1, 2, 3, and there is the coral reef. Whole island is surrounded by corals of different colours. The water is not so deep but just as clear as possible to let you see all the living creatures. I was lucky to meet a giant turtle twice in front of my villa. And if you are still looking for something more exciting, join the excursions! The must-joins are whale sharks, colour sea turtles and reef mantas tours. We took 1.5 hours boat trip, and I was lucky enough to see the first two, thanks to the fabulously helpful coach @Choppi and @Saafai. Special thanks to Choppi for helping my mum in swimming and getting her squeezed in to see all the animals. @Sathish makes the best cocktail, including something warm to fill my Chinese stomach. @Sojib, @Green and @Santa at the Reef Restaurant also make a family trip completely worthy.

The property was good but they had no control or backup plan for bad weather and 17 of us were stranded at the sea plane airport for 8 hours with no food no plan to what will be the plan B .. we kept on contacting and telling them to give some alternate as we had 6 kids in the group from 3 years to 8 years and we all were stranded for more then 8 hours .. and finally at 9 pm they told look for ur stay tonight for all rooms with kids and rooms with no kids can be accommodated in their other hotel which has no children policy in the property. Next day after reaching the property they hadwere rude to the core GM dint even gave us appointment to meet us we booked 8 rooms for 4 days which is 30 nights and there was no facility given for upgrade or evn basic facility like baggi for kids ..