Raa Atoll

I booked the holiday back in April. I was somewhat amazed to not be able to get my first choice island, and settled on Meedhupparu instead. We arrived at Gatwick airport about two and a half hours before takeoff and there was absolutely no queue at all. Clearly the events of September 11th had mad a lot of people cancel their holidays. So we were quite surprised to find that the plane was quite full, though there were still some spare seats. The reason was that they had combined the Manchester and London flights. The next surprise was that we weren't stopping in Bahrain, as had been

We decided that Easter would be a nice time to go back to the Maldives. I hadn't planned on returning to Meedhupparu so soon, but even booking months in advance, our choice was limited. So we decided to stick with somewhere we knew we would enjoy. This time I booked the holiday with First Choice because the flight was with Air 2000 rather than Airtours/MyTravel who had given us so much trouble on our last trip. I'm a firm believer in voting with your feet and your