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Re: Honeymoon: BOB, MLE, Or LIH?
« Reply #60 on: February 01, 2012, 12:32:56 PM »
Almost every major city in SE Asia has a chabad house.

HKG is great for shabbos.

Great, thanks.

So maybe I'll leave pre-weekend, go to a city in SE Asia for Shabbas (maybe CMB), and then try to dart over to MLE on Saturday night or Sunday.
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Re: Honeymoon: BOB, MLE, Or LIH?
« Reply #61 on: February 01, 2012, 12:36:08 PM »
So maybe I'll leave pre-weekend, go to a city in SE Asia for Shabbas (maybe CMB), and then try to dart over to MLE on Saturday night or Sunday.

Might be prudent to find out what Chabad of Sri Lanka is like (I have no idea) and whether there are decent hotels close by) before deciding to go that route.
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Re: Honeymoon: BOB, MLE, Or LIH?
« Reply #62 on: February 01, 2012, 01:05:09 PM »
Might be prudent to find out what Chabad of Sri Lanka is like (I have no idea) and whether there are decent hotels close by) before deciding to go that route.

Damaxer91 said a few posts earlier that it's a very nice Chabad. I checked online and they also have shabbas meals which is a big plus.

I'll check the hotels in CMB around the Chabad if and when I get a workable routing there.
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Re: Honeymoon: BOB, MLE, Or LIH?
« Reply #63 on: February 01, 2012, 01:18:27 PM »
I was shabbes in the maldives at our hotel. In was a amazing relaxing shabbes. Eating on our porch on the owb, hearing the waves, it was really amazing.

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Re: Honeymoon: BOB, MLE, Or LIH?
« Reply #64 on: February 01, 2012, 01:22:55 PM »
I was shabbes in the maldives at our hotel. In was a amazing relaxing shabbes. Eating on our porch on the owb, hearing the waves, it was really amazing.
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Re: Honeymoon: BOB, MLE, Or LIH?
« Reply #65 on: February 01, 2012, 01:28:40 PM »
I was shabbes in the maldives at our hotel. In was a amazing relaxing shabbes. Eating on our porch on the owb, hearing the waves, it was really amazing.

OK, you've convinced me to make Shabbas in MLE a possibility :P
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Re: Honeymoon: BOB, MLE, Or LIH?
« Reply #66 on: February 01, 2012, 01:29:05 PM »
I was shabbes in the maldives at our hotel. In was a amazing relaxing shabbes. Eating on our porch on the owb, hearing the waves, it was really amazing.
Was the minyan in your OWB or do they have one especially for shabbos minyan? ;)

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Re: Honeymoon: BOB, MLE, Or LIH?
« Reply #67 on: February 01, 2012, 01:34:53 PM »
Was the minyan in your OWB or do they have one especially for shabbos minyan? ;)

You can always have a minyan with Google+ Hangout :P
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Re: Honeymoon: BOB, MLE, Or LIH?
« Reply #68 on: February 01, 2012, 01:35:23 PM »
Was the minyan in your OWB or do they have one especially for shabbos minyan? ;)
Staying at the Maldives he probably davened 5x a day  :D

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Re: Honeymoon: BOB, MLE, Or LIH?
« Reply #69 on: February 01, 2012, 01:36:50 PM »
Staying at the Maldives he probably davened 5x a day  :D

Haha
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Re: Honeymoon: BOB, MLE, Or LIH?
« Reply #70 on: February 01, 2012, 02:59:40 PM »
@AJK Anantara Dhigu - Maldives coming up on JS
American can do 45k each way to Male in coach and its 30k in business each way from CDG on Etihad

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Re: Honeymoon: BOB, MLE, Or LIH?
« Reply #71 on: February 01, 2012, 03:15:08 PM »
@AJK Anantara Dhigu - Maldives coming up on JS

Link?

American can do 45k each way to Male in coach and its 30k in business each way from CDG on Etihad

Can you elaborate?
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Re: Honeymoon: BOB, MLE, Or LIH?
« Reply #72 on: February 01, 2012, 03:18:26 PM »
Link?
My bad it just went active. OWB=$875/nt
Can you elaborate?
You can book to MLE through AA reqrds on Etihad for 60k in Business rt from CDG or 90k in Coach from JFK

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Re: Honeymoon: BOB, MLE, Or LIH?
« Reply #73 on: February 01, 2012, 03:21:55 PM »
You can book to MLE through AA...90k in Coach from JFK
Not true AFAIK.  Would require booking 2 separate awards and overnighting both ways in AUH.
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Re: Honeymoon: BOB, MLE, Or LIH?
« Reply #74 on: February 01, 2012, 03:24:56 PM »
Not true AFAIK.  Would require booking 2 separate awards and overnighting both ways in AUH.
Just got off the phone with them. She was willing to book me a rt from CDG to MLE on Etihad with one stop in AUH (for 2 hrs and 20 min).

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Re: Honeymoon: BOB, MLE, Or LIH?
« Reply #75 on: February 01, 2012, 03:26:22 PM »
Just got off the phone with them. She was willing to book me a rt from CDG to MLE on Etihad with one stop in AUH (for 2 hrs and 20 min).
I'm talking about from ORD/JFK.
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Re: Honeymoon: BOB, MLE, Or LIH?
« Reply #76 on: February 01, 2012, 03:28:00 PM »
I'm talking about from ORD/JFK.
Also not true AFAIK. She couldn't find availability JFK-CDG direct, so she was willing to do JFK-LHR-CDG-AUH-MLE for 45k.

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Re: Honeymoon: BOB, MLE, Or LIH?
« Reply #77 on: February 01, 2012, 03:29:40 PM »
Also not true AFAIK. She couldn't find availability JFK-CDG direct, so she was willing to do JFK-LHR-CDG-AUH-MLE for 45k.
Again, I'm talking about the direct JFK/ORD-AUH-MLE flights.

JFK-LHR-CDG-AUH-MLE and then 2 more flights and a boat transfer...sounds more like a nightmare.
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Re: Honeymoon: BOB, MLE, Or LIH?
« Reply #78 on: February 01, 2012, 03:29:52 PM »
My bad it just went active. OWB=$875/nt

Thanks. Great find. Will have to research a bit more.

JFK-LHR-CDG-AUH-MLE and then 2 more flights and a boat transfer...sounds more like a nightmare.

What two more?
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Re: Honeymoon: BOB, MLE, Or LIH?
« Reply #79 on: February 01, 2012, 03:32:34 PM »
$875/night is a great find?
Why not just go to BOB?
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