Cora Cora Maldives, all-inclusive for every guest, with 4 à la carte restaurants, on Maamigili island in Raa Atoll, 45 minutes by seaplane from Malé
A week here, month by monthCora Cora suits families who want a kids’ club and an easygoing island holiday, with the lowest seller on Google showing one night for 2 adults from $709. For a trip built around silence, choose a quieter island.
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For 2, I would ask for the 84 m² Beach Pool Villa: flowering hedges screen the private pool, and the indoor-outdoor bathroom lets you move between water, deck and bath in privacy.
Read on 12 October 2026, the nights from 9 to 15 November 2026 range from $709 to $747 each, searched separately for 2 adults. The dearest night shown is 2 January 2027, at $1,474.
Add the seaplane: $558 per adult return until 31 October 2026, then $590 from 1 November 2026. Teppanyaki at Teien costs another $105 per adult, including tax and service.
Ask your Freedom Coach for a free guided tour of the Dutch Onion museum: more than 400 relics come from across the Maldives, while the outdoor heritage site tells the island’s own story.
Cora Cora Maldives has Maamigili to itself, an island in Raa Atoll 177 km from Malé that you can walk round in 20 to 30 minutes. There are 9 villa types, from the 63 m² Beach Villa to a 251 m² 2-bedroom lagoon villa with a slide into the sea; Tripadvisor and Expedia count 100 villas in all. Every guest is on the Premium All-Inclusive Gourmet Meal Plan: 4 à la carte restaurants, MYCOFFEE from 6am to midnight, premium spirits and wines, a minibar restocked daily and the non-motorised water sports.
People come so as not to think about the bill, and for the service. In the 244 Google reviews with text we read, from 2021 to September 2026, 90% of those who mention the staff are positive, and the same things keep coming up: the personal «Freedom Coach», coffee roasted on the island, dolphins at breakfast. It is a lively resort, with a DJ at Acquapazza in the evening and a kids’ club, livelier than islands built around seclusion, as one guest put it in September 2026.
Everything else is on top. The seaplane costs $558 a head return until 31 October 2026 and $590 from 1 November, per Booking.com, plus a Green Tax of $12 per person per night; the spa, diving, jet skis and excursions carry 10% service and 17% tax, and teppanyaki at Teien a $105 supplement per adult. The house reef is easy to reach from the beach, while from the lagoon villas what you see depends on the side; the resort closed for works from 27 August to 29 September 2026.
Lumina Guide 2027
Cora Cora Maldives has Maamigili, in Raa Atoll, to itself and gives every guest the same all-inclusive: 4 à la carte restaurants, cocktails, the minibar and non-motorised water sports.
Distinctions
What we found reading the hotel’s own pages, one thing at a time.
An island to itself, 45 minutes by seaplane; the house reef is easier to reach from the beach than from the lagoon villas.
Bright and playful, with a museum of the island’s finds and temple tanks some 900 years old.
9 types from 63 to 251 m²; a private pool in 6 of them, and no railings on the lagoon villas.
4 à la carte restaurants and a café included; Teien is the most sought-after and fills early.
7 treatment rooms, 4 over the water, a steam room and sunset yoga included.
Google, read 12 October 2026: $709–$747 per night for 2 adults on 9–15 November 2026, with each night searched separately.
A badge is an experience travellers look for, that is really here and that few hotels in the guide have.
Here: the beach runs all the way round the island and ends in a sandspit; the lagoon in front is shallow.
85 of the 88 guests who write about the beach and the lagoon are pleased. 18 hotels of 335 hold it.
Every hotel with this badgeWhat do Cora Cora’s guests say? They write it in their reviews, even those who only came for a drink or dinner: we read every one and tell the 5 things that matter, from the location to the bill.
9 in 10 guests who mention it are happy with it. Guests write about the turquoise water, the beach that runs right round the island, baby sharks seen from the shore and dolphins passing at breakfast.
Nearly every guest who mentions it is happy with it. Guests like the villas for being clean, spacious and modern; the private pool, for its privacy, and the steps down into the lagoon come up often.
9 in 10 guests who mention it are happy with it. The personal «Freedom Coach», often thanked by name, staff who remember each guest’s preferences and the touches for anniversaries and honeymoons come up most.
7 in 10 guests who mention it are happy with it. Tazäa’s buffet is the favourite, with its à la carte dishes and plant-based choices.
6 in 10 guests who mention the price find it fair. When they write about the bill, guests cite the all-inclusive, with its 4 à la carte restaurants, premium spirits and a minibar restocked every day.
| What | Score out of 10 | Guests who mention it | Happy |
|---|---|---|---|
| Location | 8.9 | 88 | 93% |
| Room | 8.6 | 90 | 98% |
| Staff and service | 8.9 | 208 | 90% |
| Breakfast | 7.0 | 26 | 69% |
| Price | – | 40 | 57% |
The scores come from 244 Google reviews with text, left from 19 July 2021 to 17 September 2026. The other hotels are the ones weighed for a stay in Raa Atoll: for each we read its latest 500 Google reviews with text, or all of them where there are fewer, as of 7 October 2026. The score is the average of what they say, from 0 if they speak of it very badly to 10 if they speak of it very well. Where only a few mention something, the score stays close to the guide’s average: a handful of voices does not make a reputation.
The hotels we weigh it against in Raa Atoll:
Price: for two on the night of 9 November 2026, from $709 (seen on Google Hotels on 12 October 2026).
From 23 April to 6 September 2027, individual nights for 2 adults range from $670 to $777 in the reading of 12 October 2026. I would recheck a winter date before booking: 6 January 2027 rose from $849 to $1,460 between the readings of 4 and 12 October 2026.
| Period | Dollars a night |
|---|---|
| 13 October to 23 December 2026 | 543–1,376 |
| 25 Dec 2026–8 Jan 2027 | 802–1,474 |
| 9 January to 22 April 2027 | 533–1,419 |
| 23 April to 6 September 2027 | 670–777 |
Lowest price any seller showed on Google Hotels for one night searched alone for 2 adults, read 12 October 2026; no room category is named. The calendar stops on 6 September 2027; 5 January is an isolated $802 night within the festive period. The isolated lows on 5 and 6 April 2027 are $533. For 7 October 2026, read 6 October, Google’s calendar showed $579 and the resort’s own listing $997.
You & Me is the Raa Atoll choice for adults seeking an island without children. Emerald suits travellers who want another all-inclusive option in Raa, with a house reef and boat trips for snorkelling.
| Hotel | A night, from |
|---|---|
| Cora Cora | $736 |
| You & Me | $760 |
| Emerald Maldives | $1,019 |
Lowest individual night for 2 adults during 23–29 November 2026, read on Google on 12 October 2026.
4 kitchens at dinner, a spa over the water, a reef within swimming distance and 9 centuries of island history.
Tazäa, inspired by the Spice Route, serves breakfast, lunch and dinner; Acquapazza is the Italian beach club by the pool; in the evening Teien opens for sushi, kushiyaki and teppanyaki, and Ginger Moon for the street food of Asian markets. All of it is on the plan except teppanyaki, at $105 per adult including tax.
7 treatment rooms, 4 over the water and 3 on the beach, open from 9am to 8pm. Prices run from a 30-minute back massage at $80 to a 2-hour couples’ ritual at $390, plus 10% service and 17% tax; the 5.30pm yoga class is included.
Masks and fins are included for the whole stay, and Expedia puts the reef 30 metres from the shore. The dive centre goes out to Manta Hub, where mantas come to be cleaned at 15 metres from November to April, and a first try at diving costs $145 plus service and tax.
Digs on Maamigili have turned up more than 60 finds, and the museum in the lobby shows over 400 relics from across the Maldives, among them 17th-century Chinese porcelain and cowrie shells once used as money. In the middle of the island are 2 temple tanks about 900 years old and a 120-year-old Maldivian house; the guided tour is free.
A Green Tax of $12 per person per night is added to the rate, according to Booking.com. Source: booking.com
The island is lively: a DJ plays at Acquapazza in the afternoon and in the evening until 12.30am. Source: 244 Google reviews read, 19 July 2021 to 17 September 2026
The seaplane is not in the rate: $558 a head return until 31 October 2026 and $590 from 1 November, children half price until October, according to Booking.com, which also asks for a bank transfer before arrival. It flies only in daylight: land in Malé after 3.30pm and you spend the night there.
The resort was closed from 27 August to 29 September 2026 to enlarge Ginger Moon’s kitchen and dining room, reposition the groynes that hold the beach and rebuild the staff housing, according to a tour operator’s notice of 1 March 2026. It was due to reopen on 30 September.
The house reef is easier to reach from the beach than from the lagoon villas.
Outside the plan: the spa, diving, jet skis, waterskiing, boat trips, the photographer, the chargeable drinks list and teppanyaki. The official price lists add 10% service and 17% tax.
The lagoon villas have no railings and there are no lifeguards around them: the resort recommends them to confident swimmers. Lagoon Villas and Lagoon Pool Villas take 2 adults and one child under 11 at most.
By seaplane from Velana airport, or a domestic flight to Ifuru and a speedboat
| Seaplane | 45 minutes from Velana airport in Malé, daylight only: arrivals in Malé by 3.30pm, departures after 9am |
|---|---|
| Domestic flight | 30 minutes to Ifuru airport, then 20 minutes by speedboat on the official site, 25 on Tripadvisor |
| Price | $558 a head return until 31 October 2026, $590 from 1 November, plus a Green Tax of $12 per person per night, per Booking.com |
| Luggage | 20 kg checked and 5 kg hand luggage per person on the seaplane; excess at $6.04 a kilo plus tax |
From the official FAQ and contact page, read on 7 October 2026, and Booking.com on 3 October 2026. The official site does not publish the seaplane fare; Booking.com wants flight details 7 days ahead and gives 3 kg of hand luggage, the official site 5. In Malé a resort representative meets guests at the arrivals exit and takes them to the lounge.
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Begin with the buffet and cooking stations, or order from the à la carte breakfast menu.
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Acquapazza brings Italian food to the pool and beach, with lunch from noon.
Join the included sunset yoga class, an hour set aside before dinner.
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The platforms’ scores, read on 3 and 6 October 2026, and what guests say about the food, the reef and the service.
On 6 October 2026 Google showed 4.8/5 from 301 ratings, 92% of them 5 stars. The figures by theme come from the 244 reviews with text Google showed on 3 October, written from July 2021 to September 2026 in many languages; those from September describe stays before the closure for works. They are accounts of stays we have not checked.
6 stays told on Google between February and September 2026.
GoogleIn September 2026 a guest who knows the Maldives wrote that the Lagoon Villa is worth choosing and that the real draw is the all-inclusive: different restaurants, so no boredom even on a long stay. The mood is young and relaxed, livelier than at resorts that sell seclusion.
GoogleA honeymoon couple, there in February and March 2026, moved beach villas to avoid needing reef shoes on the sunrise side, and from the steps of their lagoon villa saw fish, a shark and an eagle ray. On the sunset side, they say, there was nothing to see; the seaplane kept them waiting 2½ hours.
GoogleIn July 2026 a German guest praised the food, Japanese, Italian and Asian, and the windsurfing, paddleboards and snorkel gear included. The reef, though, is largely empty, he wrote, with few corals and fewer fish, and diving and jet skis are expensive.
GoogleIn February 2026 a family with a toddler of 2½ and a baby of 9 months had milk delivered to the villa every morning; the club could not take them alone, too young, but the elder joined in with the parents beside him. They watched turtles hatch on the beach, and wished Tazäa had high chairs ready.
GoogleIn February 2026 one guest gave 3 stars: after a seaplane delay he arrived at 4.30pm, the menus felt the same in every restaurant, and tables were assigned in advance, with Teien and Tazäa already full when he asked to change.
GoogleIn March 2026 a Czech family stayed 13 nights instead of 9 because flights through Dubai were grounded, and say the resort behaved impeccably. They found the reef easy to reach from the beach, harder from the lagoon villas, with sharks, rays, turtles and, once, a manta.
What people ask before booking Cora Cora, answered from sources read between 3 and 7 October 2026.
A 5-star all-inclusive resort, as Google Hotels and Tripadvisor class it, on Maamigili island in Raa Atoll, which holds nothing else. It is owned and run by the Maldivian company HMM Pvt Ltd, according to the official site’s terms, and belongs to no chain. The site does not publish a villa count; Tripadvisor and Expedia give 100, in 9 types.
Among the awards on its awards page: Tripadvisor’s Travellers’ Choice Best of the Best 2026 and, in 2024, a World Travel Award as the Indian Ocean’s leading all-inclusive resort.
The villas page lists 9 types. On the beach: the 63 m² Beach Villa and the 84 m² Beach Pool Villa with its pool. Over the lagoon: the 70 m² Lagoon Villa, the 101 m² Lagoon Pool Villa and the 2-storey 168 m² Duplex Lagoon Pool Villa. With 2 bedrooms: the 126 m² Family Beach Villa, the 173 m² Family Beach Pool Villa, the 181 m² Beach Pool Suite and the 251 m² lagoon villa with a slide.
All have a thatched roof, a king bed, a sofa bed, an included minibar and a smart TV; the beach villas have indoor-outdoor bathrooms. 6 of the 9 types have a private pool: the Beach Villa, the Lagoon Villa and the Family Beach Villa do not, although Expedia says all 100 rooms have one.
On Maamigili, in Raa Atoll, 177 km from Velana airport in Malé according to the official FAQ: 45 minutes by seaplane. You can walk round the island in 20 to 30 minutes, and the resort is all there is.
It is livelier than the islands that sell silence: a DJ plays at Acquapazza in the afternoon and in the evening until 12.30am, and there is a kids’ club. The villas at the far end of the jetties are a long way from the restaurants: 2 guests in 2026 mention the walk, and a mother travelling with her daughter wrote that staff carried her bags on a bicycle.
By seaplane from Velana airport, 45 minutes, or a 30-minute flight to Ifuru and 20 minutes by speedboat, per the FAQ; Tripadvisor says 25 minutes by boat. Seaplanes fly in daylight only: they meet international flights landing by 3.30pm and, on the way home, flights leaving after 9am; outside those hours you spend a night in Malé.
The official site does not publish the fare. Booking.com gives $558 a head return until 31 October 2026 and $590 from 1 November, children half price until October, paid at the resort, plus a Green Tax of $12 per person per night. Before the flight you wait in the seaplane lounge: guests report waits of 2 to 3 hours.
No: Cora Cora is on an island reached only by seaplane or by domestic flight and speedboat, and on it you get about on foot, by bicycle or by buggy, which the resort provides for guests who find walking hard, according to the FAQ. The Google Hotels listing shows a paid airport shuttle, meaning the transfer; no source describes any parking.
From the beach, which runs right round the island, and from the lagoon villas, each with steps down into the water, per the villas page; the slide villa has its slide as well. The resort warns that there are no lifeguards around the lagoon villas and recommends them to confident swimmers.
On the sunrise side, a couple wrote in April 2026, parts of the beach call for reef shoes; in front of the sunset-side beach villas you can walk straight in.
Yes. The water sports page describes the house reef, Expedia puts it 30 metres from the shore, and the dive sites booklet describes Cora Spa, a reef top 3 metres down that drops to a 10-metre plateau with batfish and nurse sharks. Masks, snorkels and fins are included for the whole stay.
Guests in 2026 say where best to get in: for a family in March the reef is easy to reach from the beach and less so from the lagoon villas; for a couple in April the best is off the sunrise-side villas, with little to see on the sunset side. For mantas, Manta Hub is a cleaning station at 15 metres, from November to April.
The main pool beside Acquapazza, by the sea, open from 7am to 6pm according to the restaurant’s page; Booking.com describes it as an infinity pool. The CoRa kids Club has its own pool, open to children from 11am to noon and 3 to 4pm. Expedia counts 2 outdoor pools and a children’s pool.
Then there are the private pools, in 6 of the 9 villa types. The site gives no sizes for the shared pools; several guests describe the floating breakfast in their villa pool.
The main pool is open from 7am to 6pm every day, per the Acquapazza page, and the kids’ club pool in 2 slots, 11am to noon and 3 to 4pm. No source we read gives a temperature or mentions heating.
According to the dining page and the meal plan document of 15 January 2026: Tazäa, inspired by the Spice Route, breakfast 6.30 to 10.30am, lunch 11.30am to 4pm and dinner 6.30 to 10.30pm; Acquapazza, Italian by the sea, lunch noon to 3.30pm and dinner 6.30 to 10.30pm, its bar until midnight; Teien, Japanese, and Ginger Moon, Asian street food, dinner only, 6.30 to 10.30pm; MYCOFFEE from 6am to midnight, with coffee roasted on the island.
Every restaurant offers vegan, vegetarian, gluten-free and refined-sugar-free dishes and asks for 24 hours’ notice for other diets. Teppanyaki at Teien has 2 sittings, at 6.30 and 8.45pm, and a $105 supplement per adult, free for children under 12. In February 2026 one guest found tables pre-assigned and Teien full; swimwear is not allowed in the restaurants.
Just one, for everyone: the Premium All-Inclusive Gourmet Meal Plan, built into every villa rate according to the about page and the site’s terms. The plan covers breakfast, lunch and dinner in the 4 restaurants, the grab-and-go menu, premium spirits, unlimited cocktails, wines and the champagne on the included list, a minibar with beer and wine restocked once a day, the non-motorised water sports, snorkel gear, the kids’ club, the gym and the welcome at the airport.
Not included: teppanyaki, the chargeable drinks list, the spa, diving, excursions, motorised sports, the club’s paid workshops and babysitting. One FAQ answer says the plan runs until 11am on departure day, another until you leave. Stays of 4 nights or more add a sunset cruise per person, 8 nights or more a 45-minute treatment.
MOKSHA Spa & Wellbeing Center has 7 treatment rooms, 4 over the water with ocean views and 3 on the beach, for couples or one guest, according to the spa page; the site gives no floor area. The treatment menu describes a steam bath at the start of its longest journey and a steam room for the body wrap, and there is a salon for hair and make-up.
No official page mentions a sauna, which the Google Hotels listing nonetheless shows. Around it are the yoga pavilion over the water and a gym open round the clock, with a sea view.
Treatments are paid for, plus 10% service and 17% tax, per the menu. The all-inclusive plan covers the gym, daily introductory wellness and fitness sessions, a 15-minute wellbeing consultation and the sunset yoga class; stays of 8 nights or more add a 45-minute treatment per person aged 15 and over.
The site publishes no day pass for anyone not staying on the island, which holds only the resort and is reached by seaplane or by flight and speedboat.
9am to 8pm daily, according to the menu; the gym is open 24 hours and the included yoga class is at 5.30pm. Book with the spa team or before you travel through the resort’s app; arrive 15 minutes early for the health form, and cancelling with under 4 hours’ notice costs half the price, a no-show the full price.
From the menu, in dollars plus service and tax: the relaxing massage at $130 for 60 minutes and $160 for 90, traditional Thai at the same prices, deep tissue and hot stones at $150 and $180, a 30-minute back massage at $80, and the 2-hour Essence of Maldives signature, with a coconut scrub and oil, at $199.
For 2, the 2-hour couples’ journey costs $390 and the 2½-hour Ultimate Spa Escape $440. There are also facials from $120 to $130, a pregnancy massage at $130, Tibetan singing-bowl sessions from $50 and a head treatment created with the French brand Accueil Tohi Kéal.
Yes, it is one of the more family-minded resorts in the Maldives. The CoRa kids Club takes children aged 3 to 12 in 3 groups, 3–5, 6–8 and 9–12, with its own pool and activities from 8.30am to 6pm; under-threes need a parent or a babysitter, at $25 an hour in the club and $35 in the villa after 6pm, plus service and tax, per the activity calendar.
The resort counts under-twos as infants and 2 to 11-year-olds as children; the cot measures 120 by 60 cm. The 2-bedroom villas sleep up to 6; Lagoon Villas take only 2 adults and a child, and have no railings. Booking.com charges $270 per person per night for an extra bed. Teppanyaki is free for children under 12 on the kids’ menu.
4 restaurants and 2 bars, MYCOFFEE among them, the pool, the spa, the gym, the yoga pavilion, the dive and water sports centre, the kids’ club, the museum with its open-air heritage site, an island photographer and a resident doctor with a clinic, according to the FAQ. Drones are not allowed.
On a 12-metre tower among the trees you can have dinner or sunset drinks, per Expedia. The site describes no underwater restaurant and no adults-only area. Wi-Fi covers the villas and public areas, and the sockets take international plugs.
The offers page, read on 7 October 2026, lists 3, unpriced: a discount for booking 60 days ahead, a last-minute discount and direct rates with year-round perks and unlimited date changes. On 6 October, on Google Hotels, the official site was selling the Beach Villa for 7 October at its Last Minute Getaway rate.
From 4 nights, honeymooners within a year of the wedding get a candlelit dinner, a decorated bed and a cake, anniversary couples a decorated bed and a cake, and birthday guests sparkling wine as well, according to the meal plan document.
Yes, but the ceremony is symbolic only, according to the 2026 wedding price list, valid until 31 December 2026 and meant for one couple per stay. A vow renewal costs $1,040, Barefoot Chic, with photos and the bride’s make-up, $1,600, Love at First Like, with a video, a couples’ spa treatment and a 5-course dinner, $2,600, and a proposal on Ginger Moon’s beach $600, all plus 10% service and 17% tax.
Every package includes a beach set-up and bodu beru drums; dinner in a beach cabana is $200 extra. The site gives no maximum number of guests.
Yes. The festive programme «The Enchanted Tide», from 19 December 2026 to 7 January 2027, has «The Great Atlantis Countdown» on 31 December: a gala with dinner, a live band, a DJ and fireworks at midnight, 8.30pm to 1am on Ginger Moon’s beach; on Christmas Eve there is a banquet from 7pm.
The programme names no supplement, and on 6 October 2026 Google Hotels had no price for the night of 31 December. A Canadian family who spent New Year’s Eve there in 2026 recommends it.
No: no official page mentions golf. The activities are the reef, diving with the PADI centre, the included windsurfing, catamaran, kayaks and paddleboards, and paid jet skis, waterskiing, wakeboarding and boat trips, according to the water sports page.
All year, with one exception: the resort closed for works from 27 August to 29 September 2026 and was due to reopen on 30 September, according to Lets Go Maldives’ notice of 1 March 2026; in April a guest wrote that their booking for those dates had been cancelled. The official site does not mention it, and on 6 October the Google Hotels calendar had a price for 109 of the 117 nights from 7 October.
Per the FAQ, the dry season runs from November to April and the wet season from May to October, with more showers; mantas visit Manta Hub from November to April.
Google Hotels, read on 12 October 2026, shows the lowest seller’s price for one night searched separately for 2 adults: $543 on 23 October 2026, $709 on 10 November 2026, $736 on 11 December 2026 and $1,474 on 2 January 2027. The 23 October night falls 11 days after that reading. For 9–15 November 2026, the separately searched nights range from $709 to $747.
The calendar names no room category or meal plan; ask the seller for a quote for the whole stay. In the earlier reading of 6 October 2026, the cheapest seller for 7 October 2026 was Agoda, at $579 for the Beach Villa, while the official site asked $997 for the same villa at its Last Minute Getaway rate. In that reading, there was no price for 28 October, 6 November or 2, 3, 20, 23, 24 and 31 December 2026. The seaplane and Green Tax are extra.
On 6 October 2026 Google showed 4.8/5 from 301 ratings and Trip.com 4.9/5 from 60; on 3 October Tripadvisor gave 4.9/5 from 2,940, with the Travellers’ Choice Best of the Best 2026, Booking.com 9.6/10 from 53, with staff at 10 and value for money at 9.2, and Expedia 9.4/10 from 61.
In the 244 Google reviews with text, 90% of those who mention the staff and 98% of those who mention the villas are positive. Guests like the all-inclusive for its premium spirits and restocked minibar; the seaplane, spa, jet skis and excursions are excluded and charged separately. Dinner tables are booked ahead: Teien is the most sought-after and fills early.
The official price lists for the spa, diving, water sports, excursions and weddings add 10% service and 17% tax; the $105 teppanyaki supplement already includes them, per the meal plan document. The Green Tax is $12 per person per night, according to Booking.com.
Also extra: the seaplane, excess baggage at $6.04 a kilo plus tax, and babysitting. Drinks on the included list are unlimited; those on the chargeable list are billed.
Check-in from 2pm and check-out by noon, according to the official FAQ and the villa pages; early arrival and late departure depend on availability and are charged. After check-out the plan still applies, and nothing you consume before you leave is billed.
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This guide is written with Lumina, the marketing system for hotels.
