Are you wondering to go to such wonderful destination following this COVID-19 crisis? than you must consider to go to Lux South Ari Atoll Maldives and spend few days in this incredible resorts.
Dear all friends my name is Bima and thank you for visiting my blog and truly honour for me for having you today reading all story that I had for staying in this 5 star resort. By the way I’m a wedding photographer and that’s my primary job so I went to Maldives for pre wedding shooting and having a good time with my humble couple that flew from Hong Kong. Since I’m not going to share to you about my photo session today, so that I already put the link before if you wanna see my works but now I’m gonna share to you about the joyful living in Lux South Ari Atoll Maldives.
Before I continue to write about this experience than I would like to consider you to read my previous story about how to go to Lux Maldives, it’s on other post and if you would like to stay here than this article will help you as well.
How Finally I Choose this Resort?
Generally I found Lux about a year before my photo session, I simply found it on Google and I love its wooden bride that connecting between the main island into Lux* prestige, their most extraordinary room that built above the sea level. Just for your information that Lux South Ari Atoll Maldives is built on 2 km long island and if you need to move from one part to another than you can walk, ride a bike, or using free buggy that you can easily find because they always mobile for whole day.
As a photographer who host a photo session I generally following my couple but surprisingly they choose it for their pre wedding venue, what a law of attraction just like in the Secret written by Rhonda Byrne that really surprise me so far.
How to Book Lux?
Honestly you can book this resort with various option but in fact using the Agoda will be my best suggestion since it’s so easy and come with the most reliable price so far comparing with other platform.
So kindly check the Lux’s rate here!
Lux South Ari Atoll Maldives Living Style
There are two options to go to this resort but I choose to use domestic flight from the main airport to Maamigili island than connect with 15 minutes speed boat directly into the resort. Once my boat is approaching than I saw few hotel assistant sway their hands to us and it just we feels like we’re at home and somebody will take care of us during our stay.
I receive a cold white towel from them so I can wash my face and it feels so fresh during this hot afternoon. Every hotel assistant will guide you personally for the checking in procedure no matter where you wanna sit and I choose to sit outside the lobby under the wooden umbrella. So I sign the paper, give me their email and tell them what time I must leave the resort due to my flight back to Indonesia, and yes their cold cucumber welcome drink are so fresh, you guys can bet on it for your re-freshness!
An this is what me and Nina looks like,
We’re so happy those day because this is our first time to visit Maldives even it was so hot and we got our skin burned just within an hour, so if you wanna go there than I highly suggest you to bring your own sunscreen lotion. Our assistant directly show us the room in Beach Pavilion (cheaper than Lux* Prestige) and we live separately with our couple but generally all the view is extremely insane!
If you stay here than you also can join a voluntary activity too because Lux South Ari Atoll Maldives is also a supporters of the FenMaaDhiguRan Conservation Project which will allow you to participate on their projects of saving marine’s life. Nowadays they have 8 restaurants with various international delish food and beverages and they also provide 6 amazing bars offering cocktails and Mediterranean snacks so no matter you travel for honeymoon or a family holiday than this resort will give you the best hospitality experience for sure.
The good news is, they just upgrading their interior design so I sure that you will come with more comfy room which is come with superb facilities. As I said before that I stay in a Beach Pavilion with 95m2 room size that have a door that go through the beach, surely I have garden too right in front of that door with lovely greeneries that separate our room with the neighbour.
Let me show you some photos that I personally took during stay there,
6 Things That You Might Consider While Staying at Lux*
Generally there are 5 things that I must telling you while staying in Lux South Ari Atoll Maldives, some people don’t really care about it but it means a lot for you,
- You might rent a jet ski, boat, or other water based entertaining program, here I also suggest you to bring your own Snorkel set ro save your budget.
- Even you stay in a Beach Pavilion than you always can visit and sightseeing around the Lux* Pestige
- Buggy is free but you might consider to give some tips to the driver
- There are two type of bike, the free one and paid one, you may choose depend on your needs
- There are baby shark and sting ray feeding time just before the sunset so I suggest you to ask the hotel officer about it, I personally love this so much!
- Simply telling the hotel officer the reasons why you staying there because some special moment like pre wedding or honeymoon will get free champagne in a bottle or fruit platter on your room
Woke Up at 5.30 for Breakfast, But We Got Amazing Peaceful View for All
It’s 4.30,
And I heard that there is rainy out there and just hoping the rain will over soon so I can walk around the beach with Nina. The saddest thing about this journey is we here for working and got only chance to stay here for a night since we have to continue our journey to other destinations. Generally I only have 3 hours for walk around, take a bath, pack up our luggage and get the breakfast because we have to leave Lux* to around 8am to the main International airport.
Thanks God the rain is stop around 5.15 so I can walk and sightseeing around the villa which is close to the restaurant where the breakfast will set up.
This is the views,
Just before we stay in Lux I have to take 1 night transit in Male City because our flight is landed in the afternoon and I think it would be nice to spend in the capitol city to see some new things in our journey. When I read on TripAdvisor, there some traveler that recommend me to buy some food to reduce my meal budget on the resort and it works so far so I bought some bread, rice, chicken, and some snacks for dinner following my photo session.
But since booking the Beach Pavilion is compliment with breakfast than when the morning come I truly excited to visit their restaurant and want to sit on the wooden deck while I could see the sea water just next to me or even see some fish swimming towards me.
Wanna Shoot and Edit Your Maldives Holiday Photos Like Me?
If you consider to make a great photos during your holiday than you must prepare some gears that rely you to make nice photo, you may use you smartphone or any cameras but if you only concern those photos for social media platform than these following gears are fine to buy:
Shooting for great photos is ain’t hard as the previous time especially when I still use 35mm film camera because with all features that your camera had than you can easily can shoot in focus and sharp. In fact there are some details that you must be concern to make great photos such as:
- COMPOSITION – there are no specific ways to make great composition but no matter you shoot for landscape or portrait than make sure that you put your primary object at the centreline and don’t let any ridiculous things that you don’t need to be in on that frame.
- LIGHTING – There are two type of lighting, available (the sunlight) and artificial (using lighting system like speedlite or continues light). The easiest way is just set up your camera on Auto Mode and shoot whatever you want and enjoy it as well
- DO IT WITH FUN – When you shoot at anything just do it with fun, you may consider about several things that I mentioned above but the most important thing is you love for what you shoot. Let you shooting activities become of your documentary session so once your holiday is over than you still can enjoying those moments and feel how is your day during the holiday in the next decades. To make this happen you must do your session with a lot of fun.
Having Such Beautiful Presets to Improve Your Photos
I personally use Lightroom to edit all my travel photos because I want fast result as a content for my blog or simply selling all of my travel and food photos on Shutterstock. To make this action works faster than I use my own Lightroom presets to boost everything due to time and quality.
So if you love how I works and wanna improving your ordinary photo into something that blown away than you could consider to have my own Lightroom presets as your own copy. In general case using presets will as simple as cooking a sunny day for your breakfast because you can simply import your photos on Lightroom develop mode and click my presets and your photos change its colour within a second.
So let me show you how my presets work so great for my Maldives travel photos,
So if you love my presets than you can use it to improving your photos no matter for fun or give a better impression on your social media page, or working on any business that you running at now but fore you download it so kindly watch how the preset work in real,
Go download Maldives Unveiled Presets here!