alffiesharp
8. december 2024
We have been to 6 different islands and this is our favourite to date. There is a great house reef with abundant fish and eels, rays, nurse and reef sharks etc. Tamarind has gorgeous food, as does lily maa restaurant. We had a sunset water villa for a week which also gave us a butler. Kina was our butler but soon became a friend , what a lovely man, couldn’t do enough for us, he has great attention to detail. This is the friendliest island we have been to, from a guest and staff point of view, There are plenty of bar areas during the day and evenings, We spent time at vibes, Aqwa and spirit bar, plenty of evening entertainment if you want it and quiet bars if you don’t . The only thing we didn’t enjoy was the whale shark trip, maybe 12 boats were there when we arrived - around 125 people in the water all trying to see one whale shark - if I’d realised it was going to be like that we wouldn’t have gone. With so many boats , the noise etc it would have been awful for the shark as well as how awful we found it. I did the coral reef garden snorkel which was lovely to snorkel somewhere new and also the night snorkel with prodivers dive centre on the island, great people and a great experience to see nurse sharks sleeping and different fish at night. The island is well kept, the rooms are kept very clean, mini bars are topped up every day, the rooms may need a dab of tlc here or there, but nothing to worry about. The island was at 80-90% capacity when we went, but never felt crowded, we don’t like lots of people, but we never felt surrounded by lots of people to be honest, would we go back ? absolutely. Thank you to Kina our butler friend and all of the team for such a wonderful friendly stay. The other point I have to mention - we chatted with lots of different people in bars etc - they had all been there many times - one couple had been 7 times in two years - that in itself speaks volumes about this island in the sun
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