When you arrive at COMO Cocoa Island, you will experience the change for yourself. The pace slows down; you find yourself in an environment where time seems to stop, and the horizon opens up to reveal the only sounds coming from the tides under your villa. At COMO Cocoa Island, guests get the chance to unwind and explore new experiences that allow them to reconnect with a slower pace of life dictated by water, light, and intuition. On the island, guests can see the reefs located just a few steps away from their villas. They can enter the water and become part of the vibrant marine ecosystem where they can witness the life of colorful parrotfishes, reef sharks swimming from afar, and the graceful movements of turtles.In more advanced diving trips, guests can come close to nurse sharks swimming within the atolls surrounding the island. Divers are also welcome to explore the exciting underwater topography comprising caves, channels, and coral walls.
A personal sandbank rises from the horizon without a single soul around—the pristine sands impossibly white. Lunch is enjoyed against a backdrop of only the sound of the waves breaking. There are no distractions, no agendas. Just the feeling of floating between the waters and the sky. As nightfall draws closer, the dhoni boats sail through the Saii lagoon Maldives. The lighting shifts. Gold gives way to amber before becoming deep blue. On some occasions, there are dolphins too—never a show, just part of the rhythm of the day.
At COMO Cocoa Island, wellness does not have any boundaries. It lies in the gaps. Yoga classes begin with a view of the ocean. Inhaling and exhaling synchronize with the tides while meditating at the sandbanks becomes intuitive—dictated by the wind and warmth and the ever-present ocean.The COMO Shambhala Retreat adds more depth through treatments that are meticulous yet intuitive—they aim to heal rather than change you.
Cocoa Island hasn’t ever been about doing more – it’s about experiencing more, with less,” says Peter Nilsson, Managing Director, COMO Maldives. It lies in this restraint that makes Cocoa Island unique. We aren’t all about filling up our days with more activity but giving time to the ocean, to being still, to being authentic. Our guests go away not because they have done enough but because they have truly lived it all.”Rather than an endless checklist of activities, COMO Cocoa Island gives you something that is harder to find in many other inclusive resorts in maldives—the memory of your experience. The memories aren’t of what you did, but of the feelings associated with them.
