We travelled to the wonderful Maldives for our 40 th wedding anniversary. We decided to upgrade to a water villa for a couple of days to celebrate our 40 th wedding anniversary We arrived to our beautiful room which led out to a balcony with sun bed , table and chairs , a jacuzzi and glass viewing platform into the ocean . Stairs from the balcony which opened up a whole new world to snorkel and view reef sharks , dolphins , sting rays and a multitude of colourful, tropical fish .. quite incredible ! We quickly realised how lovely it would it be to extend our stay by another 2 days which our very lovely butler Manoj organised . Manoj ensured our anniversary would certainly be a wonderful occasion , requesting house team to decorate our room , a special thanks to Riaz for all his service the beautiful hand made bed decorations and restaurant staff to decorate our table for our anniversary , he then came to our villa when we had finished dinner armed with a beautifully decorated cake, wine and a photo of us inscribed with good wishes for our anniversary . Thank you so much Manoj you really made our stay perfect and made our 40 th wedding anniversary a very happy one indeed ! ❤️ The fine dining restaurant was superb , delicious food and fabulous service, excellent pianist The chef came out and chatted to the clientele who were all very appreciative of his fine food , wonderfully presented and served Noham our waiter from a local atol was just lovely sharing his island insights with us and providing great hospitality. Nishan Lasantha the barman created for us our signature cocktail, the best cocktail ever! Manoj had to return to Male for work and his role was taken over by Addhu and he was very capable with no request too much trouble and made sure when we had to leave and return to our prestige villa everything went seamlessly