Hi Burgundy,
Oct is definitely the wetter season, might even be more rainy than in July perhaps.
Hmm... ur budget is pretty good for a 5-6 nites trip.
Still it'll depends on your villa preference. Will a water villa be a must or just beach villa or even mixture of both. Probably I can sent you some information on the pricing for different resort and you can do some study on it first?
On the top of this thread, posted on March 1st, we've a list of resort that we folks went to, you can also take a look. There's resort such as Taj Exotica, Taj Coral, Hilton Maldives, Anantara, Mirihi, Club Med, Baros and Angsana etc...
In summary, your S$7.5K easily can go for a villa that cost around USD450 per nite room(6 nites) and breakfast, speed boat transfer, SQ flight return and still left with around USD200 for other expenditure, like food, excursion, fine dining, sea sports etc... I reckon for Honeymooner, USD200 is the minimum per day for u to enjoy another 2 meals there, perhaps a romantic private BBQ by the beach, sunset cruises, spa for him and her, fine dinning, some island hopping etc for your 6 nites there!
For 1 less nite, ie. 5 nites, you can use the saving to travel further to a resort that needs to take a seaplane(if u're the 1st time taking seaplane, it shld be quite fun!).
For ur S$7.5K, I think it's only good for 5 nites in Hilton beach villa or Anantara Deluxe water villa or Mirihi Water villa or maybe 6 nites clubmed water villa. Others are probably out of reach, show in our list above.
Perhaps you would like to try out some resort that I reckon is not bad also, but so far non of us here went to?
Vilu reef, Veligandu, Olhuveli or Filitheyo.... These resort need seaplane transfer.
Bandos new beach villa, fullmoon resort, speedboat tranfer.
You can view and have instant quote on the website:-
www.mal-dives.com to have a feel and quotes on the rates you have to pay for different resort in Maldives.
Take a look at those resort first, then we slowly help to choose one that suits you. Oki?
Cheers!