To find out if your hotel is on a local island or if it is a resort on a private island, the best is to check on Google maps. Typically the name of the resort would be that of the island and there would be only facilities of the hotel such as restaurants,...

We moved to the Maldives in 2020, that's right in the middle of the pandemic. I remember seeing that airplane screen with the map, and thinking: the plane will land in the ocean! These numerous and tiny islands were to become our home for the coming years....