Three generations of our family in the Beach Residence for a week. The private chef cooked my mother's birthday dinner on the sand by firelight. Every detail was thought of.
The beach villa felt completely private: sand under our feet, an outdoor bath under the frangipani and nobody in sight. Service was warm without ever being in the way.
The omakase at Hikari was as good as many I have had in Tokyo, and the tuna was caught that morning. Snorkelling with mantas at Hanifaru with the resident biologist was the highlight of the year.
Travelling with three children usually means compromise. Not here. The kids lived on the slide and at The Den, we had the deck and the pool, and our host Ahmed somehow remembered every one of their names on the first day.
We came for our tenth anniversary and could not have chosen better. Lying in bed with the roof open and the whole sky above us is something I will never forget. And yes, we used the slide more times than we would like to admit.
