In short: For our sixth visit to the Maldives, we were recommended Fiha. Excellent food, spacy and clean bungalows, many mosquitoes and a mediocre reception, combined with pleasant sandy beach with a tiny coral reef and quite a few fishes. If you like dolphins - that is your island. If you like advanced snorkeling or god forbid diving – better go somewhere else. Long version: Very green island, middle sized, South Male atoll, about 45-60 mins per boat. 150 rooms, millions of mosquitoes, which although the island is being covered in smoke every day at around 4 for about an hour - are still there. Even the cheapest rooms, garden bungalows are huge, very well equipped ( no TV though, but free internet with a good reception and decent speed, enough for streaming is available almost everywhere), relatively new, tons of amenities, cleaned two times a day to perfection. Reception is a bit clueless. We had two rooms on the same reservation, with kids. We get two bungalows, 4 buildings apart. We had to specially ask for neighboring rooms, which was after all granted, which we do appreciate, but is still strange, that we had to explicitly ask for it. Due to the bad weather trips were constantly postponed. The one trip that was confirmed, and we got written notice the same morning turned out to be cancelled as well in the afternoon. No notice for the cancellation whatsoever. When you ask at the reception if some event is taking place, they usually do not know. The yoga master for the previously confirmed yoga class was summoned by phone 3 min before the class was supposed to start, nobody knew if the class would take place or not. Paying the last day was also somewhat strange, cashier was theoretically there, but no one could pay (some friend has similar problems throughout the day) and it was not due to a technical issue, but the guy was not there, he was having lunch, there was supposed to be an additional payment due (guess what, there wasn’t). A somewhat unserious attitude as a whole. The food is indeed excellent. Variety is not great, but more than enough and everything is very tasty, quite a few local dishes always there and amounts are ample - food is being served and brought out of the kitchen almost until the last minute. Personnel are very helpful, polite and nice. Water is unlike many other islands for free. Special thanx to Teddy. During our stay we needed a doctor for the kid, he was extremely friendly and professional, his help is much appreciated, a big personal thank you. As for the sea and snorkeling, this is where things go sour. Very strong currents on the eastern beach, a lifeguard is patrolling there, which is somewhat unpleasant, because he rushes people out of the water even if no real danger is present. No binoculars, no boat, no other life saving equipment present. There are no buoys indicating the current strength and/or direction, so everything is done on a feeling. If you just want to snorkel along the north side of the
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