Corrections

What was wrong

The page stated "$190 round trip" for the speedboat transfer. Adaaran publishes the USD 190 figure on its own transfers page, but nowhere on that page does it say whether the price covers the return journey or one leg. We asserted the more favourable reading because it is the industry norm. If it is in fact each way, two adults pay $760 rather than $380, and a reader budgeting from our page would have been short by the entire cost of the transfer.

What changed

The stored field asserted the basis in its own name, which is how the assumption slipped through. It has been renamed and now carries an explicit basis of round trip, one way, or not stated. Rannalhi is recorded as not stated, and the page says the resort prints the figure without saying what it covers and that the difference is the whole price again. Found by reviewing a scheduled run against its own sources.

What was wrong

Distance from the airport was a hand-entered number on each resort, and several were badly wrong. Kandima was listed at 270km against an actual 171km, and Niyama at 270km against 181km — both overstating how remote the resort is by around 50%. Soneva Fushi, Soneva Jani, Sun Siyam Iru Fushi and Conrad Rangali were each out by 20 to 26km. A reader judging how far into the ocean they were going was being misled.

What changed

The field was deleted. Distance is now computed from each resort’s verified coordinate and the airport position, so it cannot drift and any reader can check it. It is labelled "direct" because it is straight-line: a seaplane routes around atolls and a boat further still, so the real journey is always longer. Three resorts whose coordinate we could not verify now show no distance at all rather than an unsourced number.

What was wrong

The homepage, every resort page and our own data-collection brief stated that Maldives rates exclude 16% GST and a $6 per person per night green tax. Both figures were out of date. TGST rose to 17% on 1 July 2025 under the seventh amendment to the Goods and Services Tax Act, and the resort green tax doubled to $12 from 1 January 2025. The homepage worked an example off the old numbers, so the single most prominent figure on the site — what an advertised rate really costs — was wrong and understated.

What changed

Corrected to 17% TGST and $12 per person per night, with the rates, their effective dates and their sources held in one place (lib/taxes.ts) instead of retyped into page copy. The worked example now also accounts for service charge being taxable, which the old one ignored: a $499 rate is about $666 a night for two, not $640. Found while trying to source resort pricing.

What was wrong

We listed Velaa Private Island as being on Fonimagoodhoo. Fonimagoodhoo is a different island, in Baa Atoll, occupied by another resort. Velaa is in Noonu Atoll.

What changed

Corrected to Fushivelaavaru, the island recorded against Velaa in the Ministry of Tourism register. Found by cross-checking all 15 researched resorts against the government register rather than by anyone reporting it.

What was wrong

The original dataset carried claims that could not be traced to any source: 30 "upgrade strategies" with invented success rates and dollar figures, 17 named signature dishes, 15 dining scores that simply tracked price tier, and house reef grades asserted without evidence. Ten booking tips claimed specific discount percentages. Two restaurants were credited with Michelin pedigree, though Michelin publishes no Maldives guide. Several descriptions asserted a resort had the best reef in its atoll, or in the country.

What changed

All of it removed rather than softened. House reef grades reset to unknown across every resort. Pros and cons rebuilt to claims derivable from structured data on the same record. Taglines rewritten to state villa counts, transfer times and atolls. The schema now records sourcing and check dates, and the absence of a date is shown rather than hidden.

What was wrong

Every resort page displayed a photograph presented as that specific property. The images were randomly generated stock photos from a placeholder service and bore no relation to the resorts they illustrated.

What changed

The image pipeline was deleted. Pages now state that there is no photography and why, rather than showing an arbitrary beach captioned with a resort name.

What was wrong

Both resorts show a minimum age of 8 and 12 respectively, but their quick facts read "Kids welcome", because the interface only checked the adults-only flag. A family with a five-year-old could have read that as an invitation.

What changed

Both the card and detail views now show the minimum age wherever one exists.