| Bandos Island is located in north Male' Atoll, only six km from the airport (15 min ride by speedboat). Bandos is an up-market resort with luxury accommodation and a selection of restaurants, coffee shops, and bars. They have a sports complex with well equipped gym, sauna and steam room, aerobics room, billiards, squash, indoor badminton, tennis and an outdoor fresh water swimming pool. The island is popular for big game fishing and scuba diving, and has a fully equipped dive centre. They offer snorkelling safaris to surrounding islands and regular island hopping excursions. Also available are windsurfing, water skiing, cat sailing, parasailing. All rooms are air conditioned with fresh hot & cold water, IDD telephone, minibar and patio facing the beach. The suites have a separate living area, with en-suite bathroom with full size bath. Bandos also has Conference facilities, with a fully equipped business centre, to cater for conferences of up to 450 persons. COSTS Seven night packages start at R4 990 pps, depending on departure date. Price includes return flights on SAA, boat transfer to island, shared accommodation with breakfasts and dinners daily and a CNS shirt. Bar bill, lunches, SA and Maldives dep tax are excluded. The SAA flights depart Jhb close to midnight on Friday evening, arriving at Male' airport shortly after noon on Saturday. (Maldives are 3 hrs ahead of SA time). The return flight departs Male' on Sat. afternoon and arrives back in Jhb Sat. evening. FISHING AT BANDOS Fishing is from an 11 metre Australian sportfisher with twin 200hp Volvo Penta engines. All fishing tackle is provided. Prowler carries a range of Shimano and Penn International tackle from 20lb to 80lb. Prowler is skippered and owned by William Morall, a former Kenyan and will take 4 anglers and a couple of non-anglers. An eight hour day starting at 0600 and ending at 1400 is $735 for the boat including coldrinks and a meal. Half day hires (5 hrs) are also possible. Pre-booking of boats is essential and is done and paid for through Charles Norman Safaris. Should you wish to extend your fishing day once on the island, this can be done at approx $75 per hour and this additional cost is to be settled directly with William. Price are subject to change without notice. |
