Accommodation
Hotels
There are four hotels on Malé and one on Gan; there are also a large number of guest houses on Malé, although most visitors stay on resort islands. There are no guest houses or self-catering facilities on any of the resort islands. For more information, contact the Maldives Association of Tourism Industry (MATI), 3rd Floor, Gadhamoo Buliding, Malé (tel: 326 640; fax: 326 641; e-mail: mati@dhivehinet.net.mv).
Resorts
There are over 90 resorts which vary from extravagantly luxurious to fairly simple. Accommodation almost invariably consists of thatch-roofed coral cabanas with ensuite facilities. Most of the resorts have air-conditioned rooms with mini-bar, although some of the resorts still have fan-cooled rooms. Many resort groups have recently installed desalination plants to provide clean tap water. The resorts are fully integral communities with sport and leisure facilities including scuba diving and snorkelling, restaurants and bars and, in some cases, a shop and/or disco. A few islands have more than one resort and these generally range in size from six to 250 units, with most having 30 to 100 units. There is a shop on every resort island. Different islands tend to attract different nationalities.
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