Curio Collection by Hilton Hotels in Malé

Exciting expirience. Location is very convinient, just 20 mins from Airport on boat. The landscape of the Islands is used very wisely - Marina for all the facilities (shops, restaraunts, dive and discovery center and kids clubs) while Saii island is mostly rooms, villas and garden. Therefore, it's very distinctive for Maldivian hotels to have so many entertainments at one place without sailling off the islands. We were very happy with double family beachroom with private pool. Ideal for family with 2-3 kids. The stuff was very friendly and many times they were favorably to guests. Especially I would love to thank Taya and Muhammad (Russian speaking) from reception and also Rejina from ms.Olive Oil restaraunt. Also Kid's club girls (also Russian speaking) were very helpful. Food is of a very high quality, many restaurants that you can chose for lunch and dinner. And very authentic food by the way. I mean if you go to Chinese or Thai restaurant, for example, be sure that it has been cooked by Chinese’s or Thai cook from products imported from these countries. So exploring the restaurants (more than 10 overall) is one of the main entertainments on the islands. Very interesting and animations and programs for all. My mom (59y) went to morning yoga, while kids spent time in the kids’s club. In the schedule we always found 1-2 interesting activity for us every day. Few things that could be improved. As to describe the moment al of our family felt the most stress in the Island is when we first time came for dinner. We were very hungry and as we just came and had no chance to reserve the restaurant for dinner, we were told by reception that usually ms.Olive Oil and mr.Tom Yam needs no reservation. But this very day ms.Olive Oil had a open air buffet diner that had to be reserved. And as we went thru the buffet it was a temptation, but we were told that we can come back in 1,5 hours only or go to mr.Tom Yam. For kids it was a punishment as mr.Tom Yam menu was very poor, especially comparing to the variety of dishes next table but not accessible to us. BTW, during next days of our stay, we still saw people like us staying at the entrance and negotiating to get a table. So my suggestion is to keep 2-3 free tables for a newcomers in the open air buffet days. Another small issue was with the safe in the room. Because of the backlight was turned on all the time, battery was drained every 2-3 days, and I had to call reception to open the safe and change battery.