I flew in a seaplane for the first time, and I'd say it's easily the most fun way to fly - Business Insider

To get to the resort, which is located on two private islands, you have to take a seaplane from the Maldives' main international airport in Malé.

The hotel arranges the seaplane for guests through Trans Maldivian Airways, a unique airline that exclusively flies seaplanes. The airline flies about 50 de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter planes modified to land and take off on water.Visit Business Insider's homepage for more storiesMy wife and I landed at Malé after a 90-minute flight from Sri Lanka, and disembarked onto the tarmac. We were next to the terminal building, so we were able to walk right over instead of getting on a bus.Once we were through customs, we found a representative from our resort, who brought us to a dedicated seaplane check-in area.

The seaplane terminal at Malé airport is separate from the main terminal building, so you'll need to take a shuttle to get there — it's a quick 5- to 10-minute drive.Trans Maldivian Airways operates with a different schedule each day, based on how many people are going to and coming from each resort. We were scheduled on a flight about 90 minutes later, so we had some time to wait.

Many of the resorts have lounges near the seaplane terminal where passengers can wait until their flight — ours was specious and fairly empty, with just one other couple in transit.The lounge had an outer deck where you could watch the planes coming and going.We took a van ride to the main seaplane terminal shortly before our flight ...David Slotnick/Business InsiderIt was a little chaotic, mostly just because the propellers were very loud as planes came and went.

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