Starting with three meals a day
Breakfast is usually served from 7.30-9.30am, with a variety of juices, breads, desserts, fruits, green vegetables, etc. The higher the level of the hotel, the richer it is, even for three-star hotels, the breakfast is much richer than that of the five-star hotels in the mainland, and there is free coffee. Guests are charged for water and beverages, usually US$3-5 for a liter of bottled mineral water or cola, and US$5-8 for a liter of beer. The largest variety available is brandy, with some hotels having thousands in their collections.
Lunch is usually served from 12.00-14.00, most hotels don't have juice, but add a main course of grilled fish, grilled chicken and so on on top of the breakfast, and a single lunch order is 25-100 USD per person depending on the level of the hotel.
Dinner is usually served from 7.30pm until the last guest leaves, and is the most varied, with additional dishes on top of the brunch. There is also a barbecue dinner and party one or two nights a week, when king crab and prawns may be served. Dinners range from 50-200 USD per person.
Special reminder is that there are hotels, three meals a day are a la carte (including meals included), all meals are ready to do, but the variety is far less than the buffet, if your English is not very good, this kind of hotels or not to choose for the better, because the South Asian-style Western-style food is not to the taste of the country, on the food do not eat not polite, thrown also let people look down. In addition to the ready-made always need time, a meal at least two hours. It is really a waste!
Pay attention to the differences in eating habits
Because of the different eating habits around, Chinese people eat Western food for the first two days is not a problem, and later on to appetite. So it is recommended to go to the Maldives can bring some instant noodles and convenient rice or convenient porridge, cooked food, pickles and other snacks, used to improve taste. When you feel there is a surplus, use it to feed the fish. Even if you eat in the restaurant, you can bring some salted vegetables and barbecue seasoning to accompany the meal, where the grilled fish, grilled beef, grilled turkey really does not have much flavor. But the vegetables and fruits are very fresh and flavorful. Note; no bathing suits are allowed in any of the restaurants.
Suggest booking HB type of dining (including breakfast and dinner)
General nationals to go to Mardai, it is recommended that the best is to book HB (including breakfast and dinner), because there, the morning will not get up early, the rich breakfast to eat time is certainly longer, eat breakfast is not long before lunch, and then dinner, most of the daytime time is used in the eating, is really a kind of waste. Get yourself some food, that can save time to dive or participate in other activities, (if you participate in the hotel charges activities, such as sea snorkeling activities, as long as the time to cover the meal time, the ship will bring meals, the cost has been included). Bring your own food can also improve the taste. Dinner can be waived if you are not used to western food.
If you go for three or four days, you may not be able to make it to the barbecue dinner. Besides, not all islands have this kind of dinner. Generally speaking, the ones with good diving are going to have worse dining, unless they are luxury hotels. So your choice has to be a trade-off. One thing to note here is that once you make a reservation, it is non-changeable and non-refundable if you don't eat it, and then again, with all reservations, it does not include breakfast and lunch on the day you arrive, or lunch and dinner on the day you leave the hotel. However, if you are transferring in Male to take the early seaplane to the hotel and arrive before 8am, you can enjoy breakfast and dinner, but no matter what time you leave the hotel, lunch and dinner are not included on that day. Most people book flights that leave the Maldives at night, so you will need to negotiate with your hotel on what time you will leave the hotel, and usually the hotel will guarantee to send their guests to the airport three hours in advance. If you want to have some fun in Male before you leave, you can negotiate to leave earlier. But either way, you'll need to fix lunch and dinner. Eating at the hotel is expensive, eating at the airport is only good for filling you up, and there is a cafe between the departure and boarding entrances from the airport that has less food and higher prices. Exit the right-hand side of the slope down a fast food, cheap, varieties are also many, you can order, a person choose their own two dishes and a meal with a drink is only five U.S. dollars can eat very full.