Resort = Heaven

29/01/2012

After a quick jet boat ride we made it to the resort. At first I didn't even realise it was Robinsons until we started to slow down.

How can I describe the resort? Fantastic is probably the best word. Robsinsons is beautiful. Back at the school Shifa told me it is only a 3 star resort... If it is 3 star I can't even imagine 5 star... 5 star must be out-of-this-world amazing.

We were greeted with cold towels, champagne (!!!) and iced tea on arrival before we were taken to breakfast. Oh wow, the food; I think I died and had gone to heaven.

Four helpings of breakfast later we were exploring the resort and hitting up the pool bar for cocktails. It was so nice to be in water that wasn't ridiculously salty and was absent of screaming children. We chilled in the pool, floating on pool noodles, for the remainder of the afternoon. Our floating and drinking was briefly interrupted when we took our bags to our room and checked-in. The rooms were, again, beautiful, if not a bit dark. The bathroom was amazing. The beach was amazing. By the end of the day I was able to cross sting-ray and shark off my list. The sting-ray was seen off the deck at the buffet, the shark in the shallow water of our private beach. It was only a baby.

The remainder of the night was spent eating, drinking, eating, drinking, drinking and eating. Robinsons put a DJ on for the night because we were there (usually they don't have any music on a Sunday night) which was great. I think we must have gone to bed at around 2 or 3am.


30/1/2012

Some of us were leaving to go back to Thinadhoo later in the afternoon, while the other volunteers were staying an extra night. I was one of the ones who only stayed a night. I couldn't really afford the extra $260 and figured that I could see everything the place had to offer over two days. Apparently in the off season you can stay there for about $160 maximum per night, so to anyone travelling during the June/July placement all I can say is that you made a very good decision!

The rest of the day was fairly uneventful, unlike the previous night. The morning was spent swapping stories, making the most of our private beach, eating and chilling out in the pool.

The boat ride back to Thinadhoo was interesting to say the least. For some reason the engine kept cutting out. Each time the men had to start it again I hoped it wouldn't and we could go back to Robinsons. No luck there. I won't lie: it was a bit of a let down setting foot back on Thinadhoo and dinner was a painful affair; I was so over noodles and now that I knew what we could have been eating? I wasn't a very happy camper. Caitlin, Nicole and I finished the night by eating a tub of ice-cream with wafers in our room. The original plan was to sit on the wharf and eat it but that got scrapped pretty quickly when we saw Chappey wandering around. We didn't feel particularly comfortable around Chappey and, for some reason I can't explain, the vibe of the island seemed to have changed too. Maybe we just wanted to go home, I still don't know.