Cocoa Island Maldives, known locally as Makunufushi, is located among South Male’s coral atolls. The Cocoa Island Maldives location has a clear advantage over others: you don’t, as with many resorts, need to take a seaplane but a 40-minute speedboat transfer from Male.

Cocoa Island Maldives is long and thin with sand snaking out into a perfect spit that disappears with the evening tide. The first thing to strike guest on arrival is the welcome of palms, hibiscus and Kadjan/Coconut Thatching while the house reef, which encircles Cocoa, delineates a gin-clear lagoon.