- I recently had the chance to spend five nights in the Conrad Maldives Rangali Island , a unique luxury resort in the Maldives, thanks to a pile of Hilton hotel points I'd been saving up.
- To get to the resort, which is located on two private islands, you have to take a seaplane from the Maldives' main international airport in Mal.
- The hotel arranges the seaplane for guests through Trans Maldivian Airways, a unique airline that exclusively flies seaplanes.
- The airline flies about 50 de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter planes modified to land and take off on water.
- It was my first time on a seaplane, and I had an absolute blast. Here's what it was like.
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I flew in a seaplane for the first time, and I'd say it's easily the most fun way to fly
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My wife and I landed at Malé after a 90-minute flight from Sri Lanka, and disembarked onto the tarmac. We were next to the terminal building, so we were able to walk right over instead of getting on a bus.
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