Here is a comparison between the prices we found in the resorts we visited and the expenses we had on the local island. The price is per person and it includes:
– transport (resort with cheapest transport, local island with the more expensive option)
– 7 nights accommodation with breakfast
– Food (resort – 7 snack lunches and 7 dinners; local island just 5 lunches and 5 dinners, because on 2 days you are going to a resort where food is included)
– Drinks (I calculated only non-alcoholic drinks, because on local islands you can’t get any alcohol)
– Diving (4 dives)
– Sandbank trip
– Evening crab race
– Visit to a resort (only for the local island)
| Expanses | Resort | Maafushi |
| Transport | Speedboats from 150 $, Sea planes from 250 $ (both round trip) | Daily public ferry 2$, speedboat 20$ (one way) |
| Accommodation | Cheapest over water villa 220$, rooms from 100$ | Private rooms from 20$, we payed 38$ per night with breakfast |
| Food | Pasta 15 $, pizza 15$, set dinner 110$, Lasagna 20$, Mains from 25$ (All + 12% tax + 10% serve charge) | A la carte pizza 10$, pasta 8$, soup 3$, unlimited Dinner buffer 10$ |
| Drinks | Can drinks 4$, coconut 5$, alcohol | Can drinks on the beach 2$, coconut 3$ |
| Diving | 80$ per dive with equipment (+ 12% tax + 10% serve charge) | 30$ per dive including equipment |
| Sandbank trip | 93$ with snorkelling equipment and picnic lunch | 30$ with drinks, snacks, snorkelling equipment and 2 snorkelling stops |
| Crab race | Free or N/A | free |
| Visit to a reasot | You are already there | Depends on the resort, but 80$-220$ |
| 7 nights holiday (per person) | 150$ + 7×50$ + 7×15$ + 7×25$ + 10×4$ + 4×80$ + 93$ 1223$With taxes, service charge and environmental fee 1546$ |
2×20$ + 7×19$ + 5×10$ + 5×8$ + 8×2$ + 4×30$ + 30$ + 2×100$ 629$Taxes included 629$ |
Conclusion:
In a resort you’ll spend 1546$ (1365€) for 1 week per person with all the mentioned activities and the same amount of food and drinks as on a local island, where a week will cost you 629$ (564€).
