A lot of PROS and CONS, albeit the comfortable hotel.
May 15, 2022 truefalse00
We stayed 5 days in May 2022 in Beach Bungalow (Room 202). 3 days with rain/sun, 2 days with sun.
Our overall rating score is 4 of 5.
Let’s break it down.
Pros:
1. Clean, pristine and sophisticated room. Nifty-looking interior and exterior. Outside patio is great with little exceptions (see. Cons).
2. Soft descent to the water. Flat cost…
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We stayed 5 days in May 2022 in Beach Bungalow (Room 202). 3 days with rain/sun, 2 days with sun.
Our overall rating score is 4 of 5.
Let’s break it down.
Pros:
1. Clean, pristine and sophisticated room. Nifty-looking interior and exterior. Outside patio is great with little exceptions (see. Cons).
2. Soft descent to the water. Flat cost inside the water in front of the Bungalow. Nice! The waters is 0.4 - 0.5 meters deep, no more. In the front of other bungalows that located nearby our bungalow the waters is less low (around 0.2 - 0.3 m).
3. The small distant island in front of beach bungalow is the good opportunity to meander to it ‘by water’. The path takes 10 min one side.
4. Broad-ranging meals. Each day restaurant offers certain cuisine (Sri Lankan, Italian, Mexican and others).
5. The staff is warmly-welcoming and go-to.
6. The hotel perfectly set up and well-maintained transfer in and out. Timing was great. Outbound flight was scheduled on 09:55 from Male, so plane was prepared to be depart from the Cinnamon at 06.10 am.
7. Entertaining shows for the first two or three days of our stay was interesting (live music, DJ), but the forth, fifth were the same and no changing in shows at all (same songs, same singer). But on Friday night there was… Ocean Discovery … wait-for-it SLIDE DECK. Friday. Night. On the background of live music (the same as before).
8. Azure waters. Free ride to coral reef twice a day (at 10 am and 3 pm) where you will have one hour to do snorkelling. But it is because the island have not home reef AT ALL.
Cons:
1. Beach bungalows are extremely close to each others. Without difficulties you can hear shouts, tittle-tattle from the neighbours. No privacy at all. When sitting on your patio you see neighbour’s wall at the distance of two meters.
2. Umbrella that used as a cover from the sun because of sunbeds are located underneath it stays too close to vegetation where a lot of insects are flown (for example, huge bees), so only one of two beds are stay on the opposite side of vegetation and is proper to use. If you love insects it will not bother you. Otherwise - it will.
3. Ants in the bungalow. A lot. After room cleaning they were disappeared on a short time and resurface again in a few hours.
4. Flies in restaurants were coming on the third day of our stay (first two days the sky was clear). And didn’t flied anywhere. It’s awful to eat when flies fly around and touch your meals.
5. 5.1. Crows! In restaurant. Yeah, if you prefer to sit on the open side of restaurant get ready to crows look at you and wait while you get up from your chair so they were able go to your dishes, glass and grab a food, drink you beverages. So you had not have the opportunity to leisurely get up and go grab a desert. 5.2. Crows were shouting on the island during our stay. That afflicts disturbance, especially while sleeping at the morning.
6. Asian Koel. To be simple: cuckoo. That BIRD definitely has a nest above our bungalow so we were hearing its calls and shouts EVERY MORNING, EVERY DAY and every afternoon (see videos: Asia Koel calls / shouts). For us, loving quietness, it was a torture.
7. The roof of bungalow is made of canvas or tarp. That great thing! It’s perfectly bright and sunny in the bungalow during the day. But get ready to meet with tropical rain. The rain pounds and it makes (again) impossible to sleep at the night or at the morning. It’s a rattle hearing from the above.
8. When you have all inclusive you have approx. 10-12 cocktails included in your menu during the day. Yeah, that’s sounds great, but each cocktail (if compared to Europe or the USA) has not so much in common with its original version. Cocktail serving is another pet peeve. There is no culture to select special glass for the each cocktails. No, the one half of cocktails were served in one kind of glassware, and the other in another kind. No highballs, snifflers, hurricanes and etc. Cosmopolitan serves in standard glass instead of a martini glass. They have only one white wine and one red wine. And there is one Australian brand: Berri Estates, which is arrived in 5L bricks (OMG), not 0.75 L bottles. But they don’t spare alcohol in cocktail. That is +.
9. We can’t find order-in-the-room menu.
10. There are no other restaurants on the island (except for the Crab Restaurant which upon our observations is not enjoy sympathy among the visitors and requires pre-reservations).
11. No fish swimming at the lagoon at all. We came across few kinds, not more.
Please, consider aforementioned as a positive feedback. Overall experience was above our expectations.
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