Flight Review: Turkish Airlines Maldives

Updated on May 24, 2017

Trip Report Index

Part	Title	Category
1	Trip Report ✈ 20 Day Honeymoon To Asia Using Miles & Points	Itinerary
2	Review: EVA Air Lounge at New York JFK – not impressive	Flight
3	Flight Review: EVA Air JFK-Taipei Royal Laurel Class Using Miles	Flight
4	Review: EVA Air Infinity Lounge - Taipei	Flight
5	Flight Review: EVA Air Taipei-Hanoi Business Class Using Miles	Flight
6	How to Get a Vietnam Tourist Visa – Faster and Cheaper	Vietnam
7	Hotel Review: Sheraton Hanoi – Clueless in Vietnam + My Burned Shirt	Vietnam
8	Hanoi Food Tour: Cobra Wine, Water Bugs, Egg Coffee	Vietnam
9	Tour Review: Hoa Lu Tam Coc (Vietnam) Boats, Bad Food + Broken Bikes	Vietnam
10	Hotel Review: 5 Nights At The Andaman Langkawi Resort, Malaysia	Langkawi
11	Langkawi Restaurants: Leave Your Resort For Dinner!	Langkawi
12	Langkawi Island – Biking to Temurun Waterfalls	Langkawi
13	Hotel Review: Singapore Intercontinental	Singapore
14	Singapore - What do to in 3 days	Singapore
15	Review: Singapore Air Lounge	Lounge
16	Flight Review: Singapore Airlines SIN-Maldives	Flight
17	Hotel Review: LVIS Boutique, Male, Maldives	Maldives
18	Review: Conrad Lounge, Male, Maldives	Maldives
19	Conrad Maldive’s Uber-Expensive Seaplane Transfer – Video	Maldives
20	Hotel Review: Conrad Maldives	Maldives
21	Hotel Review: Newtown Inn, Hulhumale, Maldives	Maldives
22	Review: Maldives Airport Lounge (Leeli Lounge)	Maldives
23	Flight Review: Maldives - Istanbul (Business Class)	Flight
24	Review: Turkish Air Lounge Istanbul: Huge & Amazing!	Lounge
25	Flight Review: Turkish Istanbul - Warsaw Business Class Using Miles	Flight
26	Review: LOT Polish Airlines Lounge Warsaw	Lounge
27	Warsaw-New York JFK Business Class Dreamliner 787 - LOT Polish Airlines Review	Flight

Turkish Airlines Maldives – Istanbul – Business Class

I realized I never published this review so I'm publishing it now… albeit much later than the rest of the posts from this trip. Flashback to fond memories of my kick ass honeymoon.

I booked two tickets in business class from New York to Maldives as part of our 3-week honeymoon to Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, and finally Maldives. This review is for the Turkish Air flight from Maldives to Istanbul leg.

The cost: the entire round trip in business/first cost only 120,000 United Miles plus a few hundred in taxes per person. These rates are no longer available.

We were sad to be leaving The Maldives but happy to leave the Maldives Airport Lounge (“Leeli Lounge“). I was looking forward to a nice meal and to get some sleep in the full lay flat seats. I do recall flying on Turkish Air business class from the US to Europe and recall an amazing overall experience. This one was very good as well as the Turkish Airlines staff does a very good job.

SEATS

The seats were wide enough — about your average business class size when you don't have lay flat seats. It was plenty of space for us so can't complain.

Plenty of leg room to stretch out.

The cubby underneath had a slippers and blanket.

DINNER

The dinner service was pretty good. Not amazing, but certainly adequate. Had I known what was in store for me at the Istanbul lounge, I would have probably eaten just enough to hold me over. Not to worry though, I certainly had my fill there too!

This is the grilled Seer fish with potato croquette minus the prawns. If you're a butter lover, you might be in paradise with this overwhelming amount of lemon butter. More is better right?

BREAKFAST

For breakfast, I opted for the scrambled eggs with potatoes, tomatoes, and peppers. I was happy with this meal and I do love breakfasts (even as a dinner sometimes).

AMENITY KIT

Turkish Airlines provided us this red amenity kit with cheapish vinyl type of fabric. This one's not a keeper. No matter, the rest of this trip had some much better ones.

Inside was just the basics: tooth paste, toothbrush, ear plugs, hair brush, socks, eye mask, shoe horn (does anyone use those anymore?) and a some Jojoba Oil lip balm and cream. The most interesting part was the “DO NOT DISTURB” stickers. Usually, I would just ask the flight attendant but I guess this makes it easier for everyone.

My Camera: These photos were taken using my Canon S110 Digital Camera which has been replaced by the S120. I love it – it's tiny, fits in my pocket, and takes amazing pictures/videos.

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