THIS is literally the holiday of a lifetime. One of the world's top luxury resorts, Coco Palm Bodu Hithi in the Maldives, is giving away a two-week holiday "for life".
The winner of its global online competition gets two weeks for two at the resort every year until he or she turns 65.
Located on its own island, a 40-minute speedboat ride from Male International Airport, Coco Palm Bodu Hithi was named the leading luxury hotel in the World Luxury Hotel Awards last year.
Each of its 100 villas, on land or over water, has its own pool and the resort has a gym, spa, six dining options and a bar for sunset drinks.
The prize also includes two meals a day.
It doesn't include air fares to the Maldives.
The holiday can be taken at any time, subject to availability. The resort's entry-level island villas cost $US14,000 ($15,409) for two weeks — and that is just for bed and breakfast. The most expensive accommodation is the escape water residence, which is $US36,148 for a fortnight.
The country of Portugal has a rich history and stretches in length almost all the way down the west side of Spain. Not directly classified as being on the Mediteranean the Southern end of Portugal known as The Algarve does enjoy the warm sunshine renowned for the southern parts of Europe and the Mediteranean. For some time now Portugal has been the understated chique of Vacation Holiday Accommodation in the Algarve ! and although many holiday visitors have heard of the airport Faro, its not that well known of where the airport actually is located !
As such, the whole area is one vast devlopment of luxury Algarve apartment complexes, gated villa resorts and lovely townhouses that many Europeans have been quietly buying as holiday homes for the past 20 years. Compared to the Spannish Mediteranean resorts, Portugal remains to its routes in style and countryside besides some notorious developments such as Villamoura which cater to the jet set lifestyle of the rich and famous.
The private pools usually found within the holiday resorts and private villa locations tend to be on the larger side as compared to Spain, and the number of top quality Golf Courses squeezed along the Algarve certainly gives Spain a run for its money too ! With the ocean providing a better atmospheric condition throughout the year than Spain, the golfing tends to be enjoyed around the year to its full as the Algarve tends to have less rainfall during the year compared to places like an apartment Marbella in Spain.
If you plan on taking a sailing course in Portugal . . then you will need to be able to speak Portugese as well as write it, as the ecxamination papers are in Portugese and the examiners refuse to speak any other language. If its sailing that you are after… beware, firstly the coastal waters are not calm like the Mediteranean. . . as such, navigating the ocean is a totally different excercise and therefor carries a different set of requirements for renting sail boats or charters !
This is luxury, exquisite but low key. Along with a shift in the type of holiday we are looking for, so too we ought to change our perception of travel,
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