All resorts

Methodology

How we source this, and what we refuse to publish.

The rule everything else follows from

If we cannot point to a source for a claim, we do not publish the claim. Not a softened version of it, not an estimate, not a “typically around”. The field comes off the page.

This sounds obvious. It is not how most travel content works, and it is the reason some pages here are noticeably thinner than the equivalent page elsewhere. A sparse page that is true is the product. A complete page that is partly invented is the thing we are reacting against.

Where the information comes from

verified

A primary source: the resort's own site, an official rate sheet or fact sheet, or a government registry.

Requires: a source URL and the date we checked it

reported

Secondary or aggregate evidence: patterns across review corpora, reef survey data, collected guest reports.

Requires: sample size and date range, never a bare assertion

editorial

Our own judgement, drawn from facts stated on the same page.

Requires: a visible label, so you can discount it if you disagree

Blogs, other aggregator sites, AI summaries, and “widely known” are not sources. Neither is the recollection of whoever is writing.

What we publish, and what we will not

We will

  • Total trip cost with transfers, taxes and levies included
  • What an all-inclusive plan actually excludes
  • A resort’s own claim set against contrary evidence
  • Say a resort is not worth its price, and show the arithmetic
  • Say we do not know

We will not

  • Invent a price, a dish, a villa count or a statistic
  • Imply we have stayed anywhere, because we have not
  • Publish a price without the date we checked it
  • Reuse resort marketing photography
  • Change anything in exchange for access, rates or gifts

Ways this site could still mislead you

  • Every price here is currently unverified. The figures were carried over from an early draft and have not been confirmed against a published rate. Treat them as indicative only, and check with the resort.
  • We have researched 15 resorts. The government register lists 177. We now list all of them, but for 162 the register entry is everything we have. Absence from our own pages means we have not got to it, not that a resort is bad.
  • House reef quality is unknown everywhere. We removed the grades we could not source and have not yet replaced them with grades we can.
  • Desk research has limits. Service, food and atmosphere are exactly what published sources describe least reliably.

Taxes and levies

Maldives rates are almost always quoted before 17% TGST, a 10% service charge and a $12 per person per night green tax. The service charge is itself taxable, so these compound rather than simply adding up.

TGST rose from 16% on 1 July 2025 under the seventh amendment to the Goods and Services Tax Act (MIRA circular). The resort green tax doubled from $6 to $12 on 1 January 2025; properties with fewer than 50 rooms charge $6. Checked 2026-08-17.

Money

There is none. No advertising, no affiliate links, no booking commission, no paid placement, no sponsored entries. Nobody has paid to be included or excluded, and no resort has seen any of this before publication.

If that changes, it will be disclosed on every page it affects before we take a penny — and ranking will never depend on it.

When we get it wrong

We will. Prices move, sources go stale, and we misread things. Every correction is published with the date, what was wrong, and what replaced it, in the corrections log. A site that has never published a correction is not careful, it is just not looking.