Like most Maldives resorts, you’re captive to the property once you arrive. (Or, if you’re coming from another resort, the resorts will coordinate your transfer.) In either case, the resort will organize your transfer once you provide your arrival and departure flight details. If you arrive later in the day, you may be able to take a 20-minute domestic flight to Dharavandhoo airport and then a 35-minute speedboat ride to the resort.

You should plan to arrive in Male in the morning or early afternoon to catch a seaplane and make the most of your experience. The InterContinental Maldives Maamunagau Resort is in the Raa atoll, about 40 minutes from Male by seaplane. Related: Why I’m happy to pay the annual fee on the IHG Premier Card Location View from a seaplane traveling to the InterContinental Maldives Maamunagau Resort. At TPG’s valuation of IHG points at 0.5 cents per point, you’d get good value redeeming $600 worth of points per night at this resort. (Screenshot from ihg.com)Īlthough this is the most expensive award rate you’ll find at IHG properties (excluding select Six Senses and Mr and Mrs Smith hotels), it’s a good rate if you can snag it – especially if you can get a fourth-night reward as an IHG Rewards Club Premier Credit Card holder. Although the resort didn’t offer any award availability on our dates when we booked, I found availability shortly before our stay at the standard-for-this-resort rate of 120,000 IHG points per night. However, be sure to compare prices, as the Chase Luxury Hotel & Resort Collection often doesn’t offer the best rates, even when you consider the extra perks of booking through the program.įinally, it’s also worth checking award availability. You could also book this resort through Chase’s Luxury Hotel & Resort Collection. After all, all bookings at the InterContinental Maldives Maamunagau come with Club InterContinental benefits (which I’ll detail later in the food and beverage section) regardless of how you book. So, if you don’t care about earning IHG points and qualifying for IHG elite status, it may make sense to book through an online travel agency program like Rewards.

And we earned 58,280 redeemable IHG points on qualifying expenses thanks to Spire Elite status.īut, as an InterContinental Ambassador, you get Ambassador benefits regardless of how you book. We booked directly with IHG to earn IHG Rewards elite qualifying and redeemable points. But, as the booking page made it seem like this rate didn’t include breakfast, I thought the “dinner, bed and breakfast” rate for $1,564 per night was a better deal. We could have paid $1,276 per night for the “book now, pay later” rate. When my husband and I booked our two-night stay at the InterContinental Maldives Maamunagau Resort, an overwater pool villa was the least expensive option.

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