Proud to have been with you, in Maldives

The name Maldives came to me in the late 80's from my old best friend.  Going to Maldives was a dream to me as I wasn't even able to buy a ticket to the nearest place like Taiwan, or I should say not even being able to Macau.  Time really flies.  Every time I touched down Maldives, I often thought about my old best friend.  This time I brought his another 2 old best friends to come here.  We did it.  Proud to have you be our friend and delighted that we came here finally.

Not only once being nice, but also another one, from Velassaru Maldives

The resort has been so nice again for a late check out until 7pm (as the flight departure is at 11pm).  It's been the 2nd time as well as the last time I got such a friendly offer that I was so impressed to have this coming-back.  When the resort being nice, we had to be nice and spend a bit more by taking a dinner buffet at Vela restaurant.  Apparently this main restaurant is much better than the beachside grill place.

BBQ dinner buffet, at Velassaru Maldives

The waiter of Vela recommended us to try the beachside BBQ buffet for the next day dinner by highlighting lobster and other seafood.  So if lobster is included, US$85++ isn't expensive.  However, it turned out no lobster and what's worse, the prawns weren't fresh enough.  Quite many restaurants often made a mistake by thinking grilled seafood may not be fresh.  A very wrong approach and mistreat the guests.  Though the other food weren't bad, the whole experience wasn't nice at all.  Later on I brought up this to the front office and hoped that they should look into it since it's not a US$35 deal.

The umbrellas, Velassaru Maldives

2014 Oct review: Vela, the restaurant of Velassaru Maldives

It's quite interesting that every time when I tried some restaurants which were good.  However, it became not that good when I brought friends or family members to visit it.  This resort restaurant is one of the examples.  This time it wasn't as good as the last time, though not that bad.  The western dishes are better than the Asian ones, especially their burgers and salad.

The truth of the Nature, at Velassaru Maldives

This bird makes the resort more lively and even more in what the nature tells.