Jawakara Islands Maldives

It is a beautiful resort with white beaches and clear blue water, palm etc. just as you immagine the maldives. The food, no matter what is amazing and you have so so much to chose from every meal. There are some amazing snorkeling spots just around the islands where you can see small sharks, rays and turtles very close to the beach. The resort offers a lot of activities to chose from as well so getting bored can be easily avoided. The gym on mabin island is one of the best gyms we have ever seen in a resort or hotel. We had a beach pool villa which was big, climatised and gets cleaned twice per day if you want. Beside your own pool you have your own small beach access and since the neighbours villas don't touch yours it is very nice and quiet. Even though the resort is quite big you still feel like on a quiet paradise island. The staff is very nice as well. You will have an island host that will be your direct contact person during your stay. Shout out to Nipun who took great care of us and always made everything possible to make our time as great as possible. The waiters and kitchen stuff are also very nice. Especially Govin and Agung where always there for us, so caring and friendly that we want to mention them here as well as Yousuf from the kitchen stuff. We also had great activities with Raxnee, Fainaan, Habeeb, Aslam as guides and boat crew. Thank you all for making our stay as nice as it was.

Sadly there where some downsides as well that can not stay unnoticed if you pay for a five star resort. The first thing is that the resort creates his own time zone by making everybody add one hour to the local time and oprating by that. The given reason is easier organisation of seaplanes as well as nice sunsets while having dinner. Both seam a bit weak for the fact that you can also enjoy the sunsets outside the dinner and that it just makes your jetlag worse which might make your experience in jawakara less relaxing than in other resorts. The next minor thing is the bathroom in the beach villas which is basically outside of your room, because there is a gap between the ceiling and the outer walls. There is no protection against insects in between. Even though they spray some peoduct against mosquitos every day around the island, you still have them in your bathroom all the time and also in your bedroom if you don't keep the bathroom door closed at all times. Also you might find ants on your toilet seat in the middle of the night. This inconvenience should be avoided in my opinion. The last thing to mention is the fact that at the end of your stay the welcoming atmosphere changes and it feels more like jawakara wants to get rid of you as fast as possible. They refused us a late checkout with the reason the seaplane company had shifted their latest flight of the day to 1pm. Our international flight from male was around midnight. That's why we would really have appreciated a later checkout. And yes the weather during our stay was quite unpredictable. But we talked to the seaplane captain afterwards and he assured us his flight at 1pm was definately not the last one from jawakara during that day. On top of that in Male we where greeted by some jawakara stuff that tried to sell us a tour around Male to spend our time in an enjoyable way. This tour should consist only of a walk through male for 70 dollars whiche we refused since it was raining.

It was the best anniversary of our wedding! Special thanks to Azu for organizing congratulations, gifts and surprises! Azu is the best personal manager! He always responded quickly to the messages, reserved the events for us, solved other tasks. Thanks to him our vacation has been excellent! The hotel is lovely, staff is very attentive and friendly. Organization of transfers at the highest level. We'll be glad to come back again!

Beautiful scenery, white sands. Delicious food and drinks. Comfortable beds and relaxing private pool! Great staff! Shoutout to Chamoda and Govin for being ace!

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The villa was exceptional, the island was immaculate, the staff were very personable and the facilities were top class. The shuttle system was great when needed, good choice of restaurants and the resort was pristine and maintained daily

There could/should be more options for between meal snacks such as a coffee shop or convenience store to buy some snacks etc.