The Maldives - Valentine's Day

The hubs and I have never been fans of Valentine’s Day. We don’t believe in overpriced flowers or dinners at fancy restaurants. But that's just us.

We had never intended to coincide the honeymoon with V Day. The original plan was to leave the day after the wedding but the air tickets were ridiculously expensive with the Chinese New Year long weekend. In the end, we booked our trip based on dates where we could find the cheapest air tickets.

It only occurred to us that we were going to spend V Day there when we were packing for the trip.

But boy did we succumb when we were at the Maldives.

We dressed up for dinner. I blushed with joy when I was presented with a stalk of red rose by the restaurant staff. We had the Valentine’s Day Set Dinner and the specially concocted V Day cocktail (such suckers we were). What was a romantic dinner also turned out to be the most expensive one out of all our 7 nights.

Ah yes, the irrationality when you’re on honeymoon.

The 4-course set dinner was fantastic. We finished every bit of the Seafood stew.

I really liked the little touches from the resort. Nothing over the top. Thank goodness there weren't rose petals forming a heart shape on the bed!

Tea lights in the bedroom

Rose petals and tea lights in the bathtub

And this is my favourite