If you are from Philippines and plans to travel to Maldives you need to carefully plan everything, specially your flights. I’ve done my research and found out that we need to have stop over whether in Kuala Lumpur or Singapore. So I chose Singapore since I am more familiar with the airport and the airfare is quite good.
You need to plan it in advance. In our case we plan it months before our travel date since we are comparing airfare prices. Our travel date was supposed to be last year (2016) but due to our busy schedules we adjusted our travel date.
In planning a trip, you need to set aside a certain budget for it. When we decided to which place to stay, we set a budget for it and when we reach a certain amount, we paid the hotel in advance. Be sure to check the Hotel terms and conditions in terms of payment, in our hotel, the reservation is not refundable but it can be rescheduled. So I am comfortable with that since I know that I might change scheds due to our business activities but I know that I won’t be cancelling this trip because it’s non refundable. hahahah sayang ang pera.
When we finally got our travel date then we booked our flights.
Here are the details:
Manila to Singapore – Jetstar
Singapore to Male – Tiger Air
Male to Singapore – Tiger Air
Singapore to Manila – Cebu Pacific
From Male to the Resort we need to ride a Seaplane ($500/each)
So far the travel time from Manila to the Maldives resort is 24 hours, including waiting and transfer time in the airports. Make sure to wear comfortable clothes and shoes.
That’s all for now…