COMO Cocoa Island is a small, quiet island in South Malé Atoll, known locally as Makunufushi, about 40 minutes by speedboat from the airport. Its 33 villas all stand over the lagoon along a wooden boardwalk, their curved shapes taken from the traditional Maldivian dhoni boat, with white interiors and steps down into the water.
Dhoni villas are split-level, the loft villas put the bedroom on a mezzanine, the pool villas sit on the eastern tip, and two big COMO villas, Sunrise and Sunset, have two or three bedrooms and their own pools for families.
COMO Shambhala has four massage pavilions, a yoga pavilion over a gym, a steam room and a hydrotherapy pool, one of few in the Maldives. Ufaa serves Indian and Mediterranean cooking by the pool and beach, and the house reef, which the resort calls one of the finest in the country, is a swim from your villa.