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The hotel is right next to the boat that takes you to the airport (Malé is so small that distance isn’t an issue). When you arrive, you have no idea what to do! You’re standing in front of a building with no signs or information—where do you go? After a while, a person kindly calls the owner, and we discover the hotel is on the 0th floor (I say this! signage was a struggle). When we finally get there, no one is there. A guy shows up after about 20 minutes, asks for passports, takes a photo, and tells us we have to pay $6 each for the tourist tax in local currency; he was supposed to give us 20 rubies in change, but he vanished. It’s not about the value; I’ll decide whether to tip or not. You can’t keep it on your own initiative. We enter the room and find missing towels, toilet paper, and soap. The room in the photo looks cozy, but it’s really a good job by a photographer or AI. After a long time we find missing sheets—stretched and dirty to the point that we preferred sleeping in our clothes. The shared kitchen was filthy. If you open the cabinets, you see black stains that go back to who knows when.
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