Maldives Facts

Temperatures in the Maldives stay at a brilliantly warm 25-30°C all year and just drop a couple of degrees around evening time. Anybody looking for daylight - and that incorporates 99.9% of guests to the Maldives - is in karma. Notwithstanding, there are seasons that are sunnier than others.

High season runs from December to April, conveniently catching the Christmas and New Year markets. Expect resort rates to increase as needs be. Downpour and shady skies are almost certain among May and November. Notwithstanding, August regularly considers higher to be as Italians run here during their conventional excursion month. 

For jumpers, perceivability is better on the western side of an atoll from May to November, and on the eastern side for the leftover five months. Also, the surf's up among March and October. All year, the thermometer drifts at about 30°C.

All explorers to Maldives should be in control of a legitimate visa no under a half year of time before lapse and travel archives. Guests with this documentation will be given with vacationer visas on appearance (VOA) for a time of multi day, for nothing out of pocket. While the VOA is a transcendentally steady framework, it is consistently a smart thought to check the current circumstance with your administration organization preceding travel. Snap for the most recent government tourism warnings from the USA, UK and Australia.

Guests entering the Maldives ought to have return or ahead movement tickets and at least US$100, just as US$50 per individual each day of their expected stay. On the other hand, they may give evidence of an affirmed inn booking for the full time of their visit in the country.

Vacationer visas on appearance are for 30 days, yet this can be reached out to 90 days by applying to the migration division.

There is no takeoff charge.

Island Aviation Services works homegrown trips among Malé and the islands of Dharavandhoo, Kaadedhdhoo, Kadhdhoo, Ifuru, Gan and Hanimaadhoo. Various organizations (prominently Maldivian Air Taxi, Manta Air and Trans Maldivian Airways) work seaplanes and additionally helicopter administrations around the Maldives to arrive at those objections not covered by Island Aviation Services.

Speedboats are likewise the most savvy choice. Speedboats are worked by singular hotels and come in different structures, yet all offer an agreeable beginning to your vacation.

To investigate nearer to home, strolling is regularly best as most islands can be crossed by walking in thirty minutes. Malé is the special case, with taxis promptly accessible, and bikes are a decent alternative on Addu Atoll, where a few islands are connected by a highway.

Not an issue, as neighborhood sanction boats known as dhonis (conventional generally useful vessels fueled by a diesel motor) can be recruited easily from the ship counter at each hotel and can take guests to island networks near retreat islands. To make a trip to the external islands which are past the traveler zone, an Inter-Atoll Travel Permit is required; licenses must be given to those guests who are supported by an inhabitant of the island they wish to visit.

Customs Regulations

If it's not too much trouble, note that the Maldives is a Muslim country, and there are limitations on things that can be brought into the country. These limitations likewise apply to obligation free buys, including liquor. 

Other disallowed things include:

• Strict materials considered hostile to Islam, including perusing materials like Bibles 
• Icons (for love) 
• Obscene material 
• Opiates and psychotropic substances 
• Pets
• Turtle shells, coral and shells 
• Arms and ammo 
• Liquor and Spirits 
• Food containing pork and its results

Money and Banks

ATMs are still generally uncommon in the Maldives and there are none external Malé. The best spot to search for them is outside the significant puts money on Boduthakurufaanu Magu. Loans on charge cards can likewise be acquired over the counter at Male air terminal. Nearby financial hours are Sunday to Thursday from 7.30am to 2.30pm 

The neighborhood money is Maldivian Rufiya (MRF), which is contained 100 laari. 15.5 MVR is generally identical to one US Dollar. There are no limitations on changing any cash into Rufiya however Rufiya might be spent distinctly in Malé, where brokers are totally glad regardless to acknowledge US dollars. 

Most traveler objections will acknowledge all significant Visas (American Express, Diners Club, MasterCard and Visa). Lodging and travel costs are charged in US dollars. This is the favored money for the hotels despite the fact that they additionally acknowledge charge cards and money or explorers checks altogether significant monetary standards - however not Rufiya.

Dress

If it's not too much trouble, recall that the Maldives is a Muslim country. As a characteristic of regard, ladies are required to keep their thighs and shoulders covered when away from the retreats. 

Swimwear ought to be concealed in eateries and two-pieces are carefully restricted outside of the hotels. Bareness is likewise disallowed.

Food & Drinks

The overall norm of food and drink on a Maldives occasion is brilliant, with numerous islands offering a decision of smorgasbord and individually eateries and very much supplied wine basements. Fish dishes top the menus, yet you'll discover flavors from all around the planet. Private eating encounters are amazingly mainstream, with alternatives going from lobster suppers by candlelight to remote location picnics. The island's faucet water is ok for drinking. Furthermore, free filtered water is provided to all estates and suites. 

Eating at Ithaa on Conrad Maldives Rangali Island is an involvement with itself; this is the famous submerged eatery found 16 feet beneath the sea's surface. At Hurawalhi Island Resort you can wander six meters underneath the sea's surface to 5.8 Undersea.

Health

Clinical treatment in the Maldives can be extravagant and it is emphatically suggested that voyagers buy far reaching medical coverage before their visit.

In the event of plunging crises, a decompression chamber is additionally open in Malé, Baros Island and Kuramathi Maldives.

Family Holiday

Despite the fact that it probably won't be the conspicuous decision for families, the Maldives is a characteristic jungle gym and various hotels offer vivid children's clubs, fun and instructive exercises, and family estates. Well known Kurumba Maldives is only ten minutes by speedboat from the air terminal – ideal for little ones expecting to arrive at their objective rapidly after a long flight. Niyama Private Islands has a second island which has a family center, and Meeru Maldives ' delicately slanting tidal pond and wide sea shores are ideal for more youthful visitors.

Electricity

The standard European non-grounded attachment ( type C) is by and large utilized in the Maldives. In any case, it is fitting to convey an attachment connector for apparatuses which don't find a way into this attachment.

Television

Digital TV is accessible on most islands. At COMO Cocoa Island, visitors approach satellite TV stations, video on request, intuitive data and music.

Telephones and Communication

Free Wi-FI is given all through the hotels. 

By and large, cell phone inclusion is acceptable on the islands, including distant atolls. Notwithstanding, voyagers should check their worldwide wandering concurrence with their cell phone supplier to evade startling charges. 

SIM cards can be purchased in Malé to settle on modest nearby decisions. 

The worldwide dialing code for Maldives is +960.

Tipping

Tipping isn't standard in the Maldives and it is formally debilitate. Anyway it is basic practice to tip servers and room staff at the retreats, tips for staff might be left at your attentiveness. 

On the off chance that a taxi is taken in Malé it is superfluous to tip, as the admission is typically paid ahead of time.

Time Zone

Standard time in the Maldives is GMT (+5), and the nation doesn't notice sunlight reserve funds. A few hotels in the Maldives use Island Time which is one hour ahead: GMT (+6), to permit visitors additional time in the sun.

Speak Local Dhivehi

• Hello : Assalaam Alaikum (Religious greeting for anytime of the day)
• Good morning : Baajjaveri Hedhuneh
• Good afternoon : Baajjaveru Mendhureh
• Good night : Baajjavery reygandeh
• How are you? : Kihineh?
• Fine/Good : Ran'galhu
• Thank you : Shukuriyya
• Let's eat : Hingaa Kaan
• A beautiful day : Reethi duvaheh
• My name is... : Aharengenamakee…
• Fish : Mas
• Shark : Miyaru

Holidays and Festivals

• January 1 New Year's Day
• January* Islamic New Year
• March* Mawlid al-Nabi (Birth of the Prophet)
• April* The Day the Maldives Embraced Islam
• April 27 National Day
• July 26-27 Independence Day
• September* Ramadan begins
• October* Eid al-Fitr (Ramadan ends)
• November 3 Victory Day
• November 11 Republic Day
• December* Hajj Day
• December* Eid al-Adha (Feast of the Sacrifice)

*Dates of these Muslim celebrations change from one year to another as they rely upon different periods of the moon. 

Maldivians are glad for their country and deck homes and roads with red-and-green public banners on pretty much every occasion. Celebrations are unquestionably for the entire family and men, ladies and kids share in the food planning, embellishment and - an essential segment of each Maldivian celebration - the procession. 

Festivities are a mix of conventional and present day components, so Bandiya Jehun (the customary beating of metallic water pots to the tune of a going with melody) or the recounting of Raivaru, a type of verse sung in a sluggish, even tune, may effectively be trailed by a cutting edge jazz number. 

During the lunar month of Ramadan that goes before Eid al-Fitr, Muslims quick during the day and dining experience around evening time, so ordinary business examples might be intruded. Numerous cafés are shut during the day. 

Some disturbance may proceed into Eid al-Fitr itself, albeit this is by and large far-fetched to influence life on the retreat islands. Eid al-Fitr may last anything from two to ten days, contingent upon the locale.