Mookai Hotel

Male


Overpriced and rather outmoded it may be – with a slew of fancy new hotels under construction nearby likely to raise the bar – but the Mookai does have a great location just seconds from the waterfront, small but clean and well furnished rooms, and a tiny but effective rooftop swimming pool to cool down in.


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1. Artificial Beach

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2. Muleeaage & Medhu Ziyaarath

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3. Old Friday Mosque

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4. National Art Gallery

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5. Rasrani Bageecha

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7. Tomb of Mohammed Thakurufaanu

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8. Grand Friday Mosque

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