After a busy Q1 2013, and no rest at Christmas, we decided to get away, as far away as possible, for Easter.

Enter the Maldives, a collection of Atolls about an hours’ flight from Sri Lanka’s capital of Colombo, and just south of India.

We stayed at Vivanta by Taj Coral Reef, a small island 32km north west of the capital Male.

If you’re looking to get away, this is the place. If you’re a workaholic and want to get away (but still check in “just in case”), this is the perfect place.

We found at Vivanta you can easily get by without doing anything. Some popular pastimes for us were:

-Snorkelling the coral reef
-Relaxing on the balcony
-Relaxing on the beach
-Relaxing at the Reef Bar
-Relaxing in the room watching TV
-Relaxing with an espresso coffee in the business centre

Hopefully the theme of the island becomes obvious from the above.

Vivanta’s purpose must be to keep guests relaxed, and they act accordingly.

There are no clocks on this island, except on the TV when it’s on and even then it’s wrong. Vivanta staff go out of their way to make it easy by locating you on the island and reminding you where you need to be and when you need to be there.

This is one of the advantages of being on such a small island. This island is tiny, but big enough that everyone gets their own space, and, the only time you really see anyone else is at breakfast.

Drinks and dinner poolside is where we spent most of our last evenings and why not? The poolside doesn’t have a direct view of the sunset, but it’s a nice place to be at dusk.

This probably isn’t a place for children. But I think most people who visited knew this.

If you are looking for some R&R away from it all, but enough access to the real world that you can touch base relaibly if needed, this is the place.