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Living at The Gardens, with the marina outside
A supermarket downstairs, the marina restaurants across the road, a terrace big enough to host on. A week at The Gardens.
The Gardens is the building for people who want the marina in the window and the supermarket in the lift. It is small enough to know the neighbours and placed well enough that the evening does not need a car.
The view
Front-row, the listing says, and it is: the Marina View building and the shimmering waterfront, from the balconies on the first floor and the terraces on the seventh. Tenants who took the seventh-floor three-bedroom spent their evenings on a terrace larger than most Malé living rooms.
Daily life
The supermarket and the café are in the building, so the weekday shop is a lift ride. The pool and gym are the morning. The play area and the garden lobby are where the children end up. The marina's restaurants and the beach are across the road; Phase 1's schools and hospitals are minutes away; the bridge to Malé is at the end of the island.
The apartments
Open-plan living with island kitchens in the newer refits, en-suite bedrooms with built-in desks, fitted wardrobes and private balconies in the seventh-floor unit, a private pool in the tenth-floor suite. The building is ten floors, so the lifts are never a wait.
The feel
Quiet luxury, in the phrase from one of the listings: not the biggest facilities in Hulhumalé, but the ones you use every day, and the water.
Sources and method
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