the maldives are so beautiful in this video i'm giving you some helpful travel tips if
you're considering spending a little bit or a lot of time in Male so let's dive in
Male is actually really really small really really dense in other words it's this size but has
this population and so you'll see things like people getting around on scooters etc because
space is pretty tight on the island so you'll find in male a lot of affordable hotels anywhere
from 50 to 200 a night versus staying at some of the amazing resorts that are out here which
the one that's right behind my shoulder is three thousand dollars a night uh also very nice by the
way i spent 24 hours in male and specifically hulu malay which is a man-made island actually
and i stayed at the sea salter inn which was a totally great hotel i was comfortable and had all
the things that i needed and was only a 15-minute ride from the airport and i know you guys like
to ask how much you paid so i paid 120 in total with taxes and fees for my stay at the sea salter
and let's talk about getting in because this will be helpful the airport is it's not that
small and it's not that big either when you enter there's a large welcome area where a lot of the
resorts are picking up their guests and taking them off to wherever the resort is located so
you'll see seaplane transfers domestic transfers as well as the boat taxis and
regular taxis and it's actually quite civilized what i mean by that i don't know tell me in the
comments below if this has ever happened to you where you land in a foreign country and
everybody's all over you at the airport trying to get you to get into their taxi it's not like that
they have posted set prices for taxis a taxi line outside and i was able to pay a 10 taxi ride from
male airport to hulu malay which was about a 15 minute ride so the price is normally six to
seven dollars and then they just charge extra if you have luggage and i had a lot of luggage
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let's talk about the weather it's generally really really sunny here but there tends to
be more rain april through october and monsoons june to november and so
i would say for me we got a lot of sunny days but we got plenty of rain and plenty of rough seas
while i've been out here i'm here at the beginning of november 2021.
it's helpful to know that this is a muslim country so if you're a woman consider bringing something
to cover your shoulders and your knees and don't flaunt that bikini until you are out
at your resorts etc and same thing with alcohol actually it's illegal to bring alcohol into the
country and they do not serve alcohol anywhere in malay totally different story at the resorts
but don't expect that glass of wine when you're eating in malay which speaking of which meals are
totally affordable i ate around hulu malay a little bit and typically meals for 10 to 20
dollars by the way if you have helpful tips add them in the comments below because we're all a
community here and just sharing all the research that i did so if you have an extra tip drop it
in the comments below and also tell me when are you going to the maldives i'd love to know okay
this is the poor woman that has had to share a room with me
for the last two weeks oh you're a lovely roommate there's a very nice place called the coffee club
sea house that's by the coast so you get an ocean view oh i like that speaking of ocean
views so i'm learning that all the beaches of malay are man-made is that right yes
unfortunately but where which one is your favorite of the ones that they do have neither
by your standards yeah by maldivian island stairs it's pretty compared to i mean kamala
is a very chaotic city so the beaches are an okay place but it can be very crowded in the evenings
and there's a very nice park next to our official artificial beach near the bridge
called laura sierra park it's a very nice wall like it's not huge but it's very green
and one thing that was helpful was i could actually pay in u.s dollars
so they accept us dollars or you can exchange for their local currency
but it was totally fine using a credit card or us dollars to pay
the other thing is everybody speaks english so it wasn't a difficult thing to get around and
communicate with people so that was really really easy the other thing to note is they use a three
pin g plug basically looks like this and that's the type of plug that will help you to stay
connected and speaking of staying connected if you're a tourist they have tourist sim cards
and so i picked up one of those at the store super easy cost me this much and gave me this much data
and i would say for the most part as i've been out adventuring these seas
i have been able to be pretty connected obviously the closer you are to islands have
the resorts on them the better but generally speaking i've been fairly connected out here
we all know i like to keep it 100 so i would say the thing about Male is i understand why so many
people just use it as a jumping off point to go somewhere else it's kind of a busy island
that doesn't have those beautiful beautiful beaches you can go hang out and enjoy and have
a drink out of each club etc so a lot of people generally use it as a jumping off point so just
being honest it was awesome to stay there but it was a great place to rest my head before going on
this adventure i'd love for you to join me check out the playlist in the description below for
some crazy scuba diving and manta ray expedition stories and i'll see you in that adventure ciao