Besotted – Don’t You Want To Go To The Maldives?

I spy with my rose tinted eyes images of excessive gorgeousness whichi I want to immerse myself in…Now! Nevermind the fact that I have loads of deadlines hanging over my head like a 300-pound gorilla. See the pictures? Can one humanly resist?

Well, if I were aflush with vast gobs of moolah and time, I’ll waft my way to the Shangri-La’s Villingili Resort and Spa, Maldives. Particularly between 27 March and 11 April when the hotel offers one free night for each night paid for stays in Water Villas and Tree House Villas. In other words 50% discount. They'll toss in guaranteed upgrade from Pool Villa to Water Villa and from Deluxe Pool Villa to Tree House Villa. If you have kids below 12 in tow, they’ll throw in up to two complimentary extra beds for the chickadees.

Celebrating their first Easter, the hotel will also hold special activities and dining options: like an Easter egg hunt in the resort’s jungle for the kids, as well as feeding the rabbits and chicks of the Easter farm and chocolate-inspired breakfast and a lamb barbecue on the beach for grown up foodies. Then there’s also the CHI spa at the resort, and getting close to nature like cycling on that beautiful white beach or head out dolphin watching. And if you still can’t find time to go, just scroll up and down this post and soak in the scenery. No, sweeties, they didn’t give us the price, but I’m told we gotta be ready to fork it out for this luxurious piece of heaven.

E-mail reservations.slmd@shangri-la.com