Ayada Maldives Brand Ambassador Scheme review

Its product list is hotels, so the scheme covers the resort group's own hotels and nothing further. If your trip also needs a flight, a ferry or an airport transfer, you will be arranging those elsewhere. The trade-off is a narrow choice in exchange for a single set of benefits and one point of contact.

There is a mobile app, so your booking details stay on your phone instead of buried in email. It covers the same thing the site does, hotels, and support still runs on email and phone if you would rather ask a person. Comparable booking sites also carry an app, at 82.9%.

Support runs on email and phone, so a phone call or an email both get through. Live chat is not in that list, which matters if you are trying to settle a question in a hurry while travelling. The app holds your own records, but the people are reached by phone or email.

Cancellation follows Cancellation policy per booked rate. That means the terms travel with the rate you book, so a flexible rate and a discounted one can carry different rules. Read the rate before you pay, because the scheme does not promise a single blanket policy across every Ayada property.

It suits a family already set on an Ayada Maldives resort who wants the ambassador route rather than a wide search. Travellers arranging flights, rail or ferries need a different kind of site: MoMo lists flights, rail and bus and 12Go lists flights, rail and bus.

A broad site such as WayAway sells flights, rail and bus, covering hotels alongside transport, packages and car hire. The Ayada scheme offers hotels only, so it wins on focus for its own resorts and loses on everything else the same trip might need.