COMO Cocoa Island, The Maldives

From pickup at Velana Airport to farewell, everything was absolutey perfect. We would like to thank every single staff member for their warmth, kindness, highly professional service, helpfulness. We really felt at home "away from home",on this small paradise island. It was a beautiful experience under all points of view. We'll definitely come back.

Cocoa Island offers individuality, privacy, unspoiled nature combined with luxury, very personal and extremely friendly service, beautiful over-water villas and excellent food. Only thirty-three villas guarantee that you will have the island almost to yourself. There may be more prestigious, opulent and expensive resorts, but you'd struggle to find a place that better epitomizes the original luxury of the Maldives: Vast white beaches mostly all to yourself, vast and wide crystal clear lagoons deep enough to swim in and, as they say, one of the most beautiful reefs. An unforgettably beautiful place!

The most relaxing and luxurious accommodations, wonderful staff, and great adventures. We stayed 7 nights in a pool villa. The snorkeling at all 3 house reefs is amazing. We saw a turtle in our first ten minutes of swimming from the room. Reef sharks and sting rays were seen regularly swimming around our villa. We did the shark adventure, sunset cruise/dolphin watching and guided reef snorkeling with Ilaria who was a fantastic guide. Ali and a great crew took us on the whale shark excursion and we had a great time, despite not getting lucky with the whale sharks. But Ali and the team searched hard for hours in the sun and led us to a manta ray, a green sea turtle and some beautiful snorkeling. We tried an introductory scuba diving lesson and Daniela was a great teacher. I was so comfortable despite my initial fears and would love to come back one day and do PADI certification with her. The variety and density of marine life along with the clearest water was unlike anything we’d ever experienced. A huge thank you to the incomparable Fanny for making our trip so special. It only took her a couple days to learn our tastes and she was soon capable of reading our minds! She is so caring and kind hearted, making sure I was well supplied with carefully prepared fresh aloe leaves from the garden for my burnt skin. The rest of the staff are also just so lovely and friendly, they make Cocoa Island truly special. The food was fantastic with so much variety. We did half board with breakfast and dinner and it was plenty. Regretfully we didn’t use the spa on this occasion, so we hope we can come back to enjoy it. Thank you to Arta and Wissam for their generous hospitality! We hope to see you all again soon!!

Our first time to Maldives, to a private island, to a room which offers direct access to the house reef. Como Cocoa Island did not disappoint. The only negative I would say is the loft water villa does not have a horizon view (there is an island with some building in construction opposite although it is quite far away). Besides that, everything was really nice. From getting all my queries answered, booking, arrival and speedboat transfer, check in, all the activities, meals, check out. Room was clean, well maintained and we wake up every day looking out and wondering what fish, turtle or black tip reef shark we will see. Sunrise is beautiful when viewed at the sandbank. We took the half board and the meals are delicious and of generous portion - we are very well fed and taken care of! We enjoyed the top-up activities: Yakiniku dinner, sandbank picnic lunch (a bit hot but it was a fun experience) and candlelight dinner. The sunset fishing and cruise were very nice as well but our highlight was the nurse shark snorkelling - we saw nurse sharks, sea turtles, dolphins and many fishes on our trip and the water is just amazing. Overall it has been such a wonderful holiday in Maldives and we are glad we chose to spend it at Como - we could not ask more.

Such a wonderful laid back and chilled place to stay, absolutely superb service throughout, extremely friendly and personal without being intrusive, delicious food with dinner menu changing daily, wonderful spa and wellness programme, and excellent snorkelling. Diving extremely well run, although currents can be strong so better for confident/advanced divers. Rooms are beautiful and very comfortable and well equipped. Everything just works so well and seemingly effortlessly. Worth being aware that the island is about relaxing and being laid back and private, if you want more going on maybe go elsewhere but for us it was just perfect. It’s not as remote as some other places in the Maldives but this is because it is closer to Male. Thank you to all the wonderful staff for such a fanastic holiday, hope to be back soon.