Thanks to the generous donation of my Tita Inday and Tita Agie, Clare and I were lucky enough to stay in a 5* Luxury Resort in the Maldives called Lilly Beach… It was all-inclusive (breakfast, lunch, dinner and Champagne as well as 80 different kinds of wines) and they also gave us complementary sunset cruises, snorkelling excursions, and candlelit dinners by the beach! It was very plush…. ?
The snorkelling at the house reef was also probably the best I’ve seen. It was teeming with all kinds of fish, sharks, turtles and rays! It’s hard for pictures to capture how amazing the resort was and what a great time we had there, but just some highlights:
Beach front bedroom 
… and the beach outside it! 
Evenings (and all meals really) were filled with wine and cocktails 
Sunset cruise on a Dhoni 
The cruise was complete with Champagne and Canapés 
Evening cultural show 
Snorkelling trip to the Coral Garden 
A Filipino chef who was more than delighted to cook us kare-kare and Adoba 
View from Aqua 
Sunset from Aqua 
Our seaplane ride home