so
Malé airport is your standard third world open air tropical airport
um they have seating areas this is where people are gonna come in is over here
and there's boats out there where you're going to go to your resorts we're waiting for our
group to get together so they put you over in a little area like this and say here
wait here until everybody arrives the way we got to our check-in
is that whenever you come to the airport you have two options either your resort is right when you
come out and they're there with other little signs or what's more predominantly is in here
is all of these little kiosks like there's pubmed and all of them are in here and all
of these you walk up to your counter and they check in and then after they check in they tell
you go sit and they'll call your resort as far as the process of getting here it was
ridiculously easy um third world kind of expected uh when we got off the plane
the airport is under construction complete under construction so we
had to have a stairs and then after we had the stairs you walked down you've
got a little bus they put 20 of us on a bus at a time they rode us over to immigration which was
at gate 5678 they only have nine international airports i mean they only have nine
international gates and as soon as they um got us the gate they put us in the chutes
and looked at our passports one thing that i did note was we had filled out
our health declaration form earlier and so he was able to see that online they did have
about 10 computers for the people that had not filled them out so that they could fill them out
this is what it looks like on the docks waiting to board
and go to resorts there's tons and tons and tons tons and tons and tons of all these little bitty
boats there's our boat it'll be arriving here in a second and they're going to load us up
they wait until everybody's called then they load you up and they take you to the resort
over there is the city of Malé remember that all of this
area we're on was built as a big sand bar so they have some place to put the
airport