Rating: 3.0/5 (22 votes cast)
This is our first visit to the Maldives. We only stayed 3 nights at Cocoa Island during the Easter holidays.
As we are a big group of 6 (4 adults and 2 children), we stayed in the resort's two bedroom villa for 2 nights. The design had a comfortable home feel and blended well with the natural scenic beauty.
The island is small but beautiful and quiet. You may consider visiting when there's full moon. The scene is really beautiful as you watch the moon rising above the horizon.
As we only had a short stay, there's no shortage of activities to do.
The resort has its own beautiful house reef which is just within 10 metres "walk" in the lagoon from our villa. There is excellent snorkelling and we were able to see moray eel, big sting ray and myriads of coral fish.
We had two diving trips during our stay. We've done leisure diving in Australia, Thailand and Hawaii before. We felt that the service and safety standard at Maldives is much higher. Our diving instructor Taka and assistant Sharkey looked after our group very well. Our daughter aged 10 was able to have her first experience in diving. We felt we are in safe hands.
We also went for a fishing trip one evening. We kept feeding the fish in the beginning and the staff really had patience to keep putting back the bait for us. Luckily we had a good catch and the chef cooked us wonderful seafood dishes back at the resort.
As we're from Hong Kong, we've always been pampered with variety of cusine at home. There is only restaurant at the resort. Although there is not a wide variety to choose from menu, the food quality is excellent. The breakfast menu is particularly pleasing with a good choice of organic selection.
Our return flight was 2:45 am. The hotel thoughtfully arranged for late checkout and we had a good rest before embarking on the long trip back home.
Words and pictures cant truely explain how beautiful this place is. Over water rooms, rooms to die for, not over the top, just perfectly elegant simple, modern rooms with anything you need. Staff amazing, food amazing by australian chefs, beauty rooms and treatments amazing, spa room and gym amazing, water and scenery amazing, water amazing, transport amazing, fishing amazing. As we were on honeymoon, the only slight disappiontment was having a small family around the pool for two days, nothing to really complain about, you can go anyway and hardly even bump into anyone. What we would do to be back there again. Its heaven, its paradise, its amazing. Please note this is called Cocoa Island. Not Cocoa Island Resort or anything else, just Cocoa Island, I found it flipping through an old Vogue Entertaining Travel Magazine, not through a travel brochure, however I did book through Flight Centre. This is the perfect romantic getaway, honneymoon, catch with a loved one. With perfect white sands, clear blue waters and marine life.
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