Are you visiting Angsana Velavaru this year? wohoooo let me share one great experience when I travel to Maldives and stay in that 5 star luxury resort back few months ago cause I will fly with double propeller seaplane from Trans Maldivian Airways. It’s quite different from my past travel to Lux* South Ari Atoll where I choose to go to the resort with combination of domestic flight from Velana Airport to Villa Airport in Maamigili than continue my journey with awesome speedboat.
This is my second chance to Maldives both for traveling and shooting pre wedding for lovely Singaporean couple who I met personally in Jurong East. Nina love beach so much since she was in a university, before we getting married we go to the beach nearby my town quite often so after I running my photography business than I ask her to promote my services to the worldwide couple. I’m shooting wedding in Bali quite often too and yeah we still have a beach too for ourself than in 2014 we got our first change to visiting Maldives.
If this gonna be your first time to visiting Maldives than there are various of international flight that you can choose, from the budget airlines like Air Asia and Tiger Air (I fly with this from Changi) till full services Airlines like Cathay Pasific, Turkish Airlines, and surely the Srilankan Airlines. You could try to browse your international flight ticket to Maldives by using Jetradar, affter all you also can directly browse from the form that I put below:
What to do After Landed in Velana International Airport
Main airport of Maldives is Velana International which formerly known as Ibrahim Nasir International Airport. So if you book to stay in Angsana Velavaru than the hotel staff will send you the booking proof or stay itinerary that come with desk reservation number, make sure you got this because you have to find Angsana’s representative staff at outside of terminal building. All you need to do is re-confirm your arrival and tell the hotel’s staff either you need a transit in Male City or directly go to Angsana.
Please remind that if your plane landed in Velana after 4pm than they usually don’t provide any transfer to the resort at the same day, you might have one if you stay in a resort that close to Velana airport. But if you need to stay than 1 night transit in Male City is enough and you can book a cheap nice hotel as low as $100/night including breakfast.
Since I flew with Srilankan Airlines from Singapore than I have to transit for 5 hours in Colombo (the airlines gave me 48 hours limited visa and free stay in a nearest hotel from Bandara Naike Airport). My Srilankan jumbo jet landed at 8 am in the morning so I can go directly to Angsana Velavaru at the same day. Some great resort like Angsana provide their guest with lounge at the airport so after I report my arrival at the representative desk officer than they took me and my wife the their lounge that full with AC room, free WiFi, and surely the fresh orange juice in a glass….what a perfect and luxury day!
As you see on the pictures above, your hotel staff will give you the orange Angsana Velavaru’s special tag on your luggage and give your Trans Maldivian tag and boarding pass and once you’re done with this than you gonna ride with a free shuttle to the Trans Maldivian waiting room. You could be fast while waiting the seaplane but I got stuck for 1 hour just to wait the seaplane. There is a seaplane harbour and I saw couple of seaplane standing by to took their guest to some resorts.
One thing that you need to know about staying in Angsana Velavaru is…
You got only 1 option to go Angsana Velavaru resort, that is by double propeller seaplane that landed in a water
When I stay in Lux* than there are two option to go to the resort, the seaplane or domestic flight + speedboat which is way cheaper but when you choose to stay in Angsana Velavaru than there is only one option of airport transfer, the seaplane that cost around $480/person for return, it’s quite expensive cause Angsana is quite far from the Male City, approximately 145km away.
Than the joyful of seaplane ride is coming and we’re so excited with this journey for sure!
This joyful ride will take around 45 minutes to Angsana Velavaru resort, the propeller seems to be noisy but you got majestic view of amazing Maldive’s atoll just outside your plane’s window. Definitely you gotta enjoy this journey even I already twice to Maldives together with Nina. 45 minutes is flies and my seaplane landed in a water and that was wonderfuuuuullll, I saw the boat board landed and the ocean water is splashing and truly great experiences that I ever had during 10 years in wedding photography industry.
The beauty of staying in Angsana is they made an artificial area for the water villa complex cause generally Angsana is standing by above the Velavaru island or called as turtle island. After your plane landed than there is a floating wooden deck nearby your plane’s door and you get down on that deck. See what my wife did after landed at the sea.
Just wait for 5 minutes while the hotel staff help the Trans Maldivian pilot to put your luggage down and the traditional dhoni boat will pick you up and bring you into the majestic Angsana Velavaru Resort. On that day I choose to stay in a beach villa at Velavaru Island and my Singaporean couple stay to water villa, I suggest them to stay here even bit more expensive but we will get the best pre wedding scene while exploring the water villa complex.
No Time for Relax in This Such Beautiful Paradise Cause the Photo Session Will Start Soon
I’m here for shooting pre wedding session and today I got wonderful couple living in Singapore that I met in Jurong East. Surprisingly the groom told me that he gonna propose his girl friend to get married in Singapore next year so this is such wonderful surprise proposal….can’t doubt more for this and every groom in this world MUST TRY THIS method ha3x. Let me share some photos that I took in Angsana Velavaru area.
I serve destination photo shoot in wedding, engagement, and portrait since 2009 and work together with beautiful wife Nina who belong to my personal assistant and make up artist so if you considering my artworks and want to invite to shoot on your wedding than you could drop me a message and we will reply it soon.
By the way ff you want to see more about this pre wedding sesson in the whole gallery than you could visit Denise and Joel Pre Wedding in Angsana Velavaru.
Recommendations
- Check the Angsana Velavaru’s stay rate before your honeymoon
- Make sure you got the right international flight schedule, use Jetradar
- Don’t forget to got your own health protection with WorldNomads cause you can choose the most reliable travel insurance and buy it online.
- Wanna invite me to shoot on your engagement or wedding in worldwide area, just drop me a message and give me your details