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A couple warned tourists ‘don’t take travel advice from social media’ after they spent almost all of their £9,400 Maldives holiday in – ‘thick clouds and pouring rain’.
Oskar Kappland and Dan Goz, both 26, from Gothenburg, Sweden, booked the no-expense-spared nine-day trip to celebrate their nine-year anniversary of being together.
They were expecting to experience picturesque sunsets and shimmering crystal seas at the two resorts where they stayed.
They had seen countless Instagram posts of the Maldives featuring perfect weather and never considered it might not be like that all the time.
Instead, more than half of the pricey trip was spent under shelter due to poor conditions – despite them going in December, which is the ‘high season’ for weather.