COMO Cocoa Island
Makunufushi · South Malé Atoll
Luxury · speedboat · 40 min · $800 – $3,000 / night
COMO Cocoa Island is renowned for its quiet, wellness-focused escapes, making it ideal for couples and solo travelers seeking tranquility. Its standout features include a serene atmosphere and two restaurants committed to COMO's distinctive health-led culinary philosophy across discreet overwater villas.
Getting There
Forty minutes by speedboat from Malé through South Malé Atoll. No daylight restriction. A pleasant boat ride with good water views.
Food
Two restaurants with COMO's characteristic wellness-led food philosophy. Quality is excellent but variety is limited — guests at the resort for a week may find the menu rotation insufficient. For shorter stays the food is a genuine highlight.
The Vibe
Very quiet and couples-focused. COMO Cocoa Island deliberately avoids entertainment programming in favour of natural environment and spa. The overwater-only layout creates a sense of floating above the world.
Activities
Diving, snorkelling, and COMO's spa and yoga programme. The compact activity offering suits the quiet, couples-focused character of the resort.
The Reef
COMO Cocoa Island is built over an overwater lagoon with a decent house reef accessible from the jetty. Turtles and reef fish are consistent sightings and the coral is in reasonable health. It's not the most dramatic reef in South Malé Atoll but it's accessible and uncrowded, fitting the resort's quiet, couples-focused character.
Kids' Club
No kids' club — COMO Cocoa Island is an intimate, couples-focused resort.
What Guests Say
Guests value the quiet, couples-focused environment and the excellent wellness-led dining. The primary consideration is the limited number and size of dining options, which may feel restrictive on longer stays. The house reef is genuinely decent and easily accessible from the overwater suites.