Escape to Cocoa Island, Maldives
Cocoa Island the beautiful private island in the Maldives owned by COMO Hotels and Resorts has been designed to maximise a guest’s sense of escape - endless horizons, a still lagoon and powder white beach.
With the recent introduction of holistic health packages for 2008 it’s the perfect place to address issues of well-being, supported by spacious, meditative accommodation in calming whites, healthful cuisine and quietly efficient service.
Cocoa Island is only 35 minutes by speedboat from Male. The resort has a foot-in-sand Retreat offering a carefully edited selection of meaningful treatments for mind and body with four ‘paths’ comprising a day’s suggested treatments to purify, rejuvenate, relax and restore. The following package, designed for sale in this market, is in Australian dollars.
Honeymoon Worldwide Holidays is offering the Cocoa Island Earlybird Escape for $3099 per person, (ex Syd, Melb, Bne and Adel) which includes:
- Return economy airfares to Male flying Singapore Airlines
- Seven nights staying at Cocoa Island
- Accommodation in a Dhoni suite
- Return speedboat transfers
- American breakfast daily
- FREE 60 min COMO Shambhala treatment for 2
- USD$200 cash credit to be used towards spa treatments, food and beverages or excursions for bookings before 31 March 2008.
- Valid for travel 16 May to 30 June and 1 September to 15 October 2008
Call Honeymoon Worldwide Holidays toll free on 1300 65 09 65 or email: reservations@honeymoon.com.au
Cocoa Island in the Maldives introduces new holistic health packages for 2008Cocoa Island is COMO Hotels and Resorts’ private island property in the Maldives. With everything designed to maximise a guest’s sense of escape – empty horizon views, a still lagoon and powder-white beach – it’s the perfect place to address issues of well-being, supported by spacious, meditative accommodation in calming whites, healthful cuisine and quietly efficient service. The resort has a foot-in-the sand Retreat offering a carefully edited selection of meaningful treatments, for mind and body. Taking this health-giving purpose further for 2008, the resort has introduced four ‘paths’ comprising a day’s suggested treatments to purify, rejuvenate, relax and restore.
The Purification Path ($600 per couple; 150 minutes) focuses on Ayurvedic healthcare – a 5,000 year-old holistic system that hails from India – and is made up of Abhyanga, Shirodhara and an Ayurvedic Facial. All three elements work together to purify and detoxify by releasing stress while bringing stability to your particular constitution (or Dosha). The Purification Path starts with a 45-minute rhythmic Abhyanga massage using warm herbal oils. This is followed by a 15-minute application of exfoliating herbal powder. Guests sink into a deeper state of relaxation with Shirodhara whereby a steady stream of warm herbal oil is gently poured over the forehead, feeding the scalp and turning thoughts inward to induce clarity of mind. The session concludes with an Ayurvedic facial – a herbal-infused beautifying treatment involving a nourishing facial massage.
The Relaxation Path ($900 per couple; four hours) is ideal for honeymooners who want to zone out completely. The four-hour session begins with a Javanese Royal Lulur Bath involving an Indonesian Massage, a body scrub with aromatic mixed spices, the application of cooling yoghurt, a relaxing flower-filled bath and a soothing application of body lotion. What follows is an Aromatic Facial utilising aromatherapy preparations and botanicals from Guinot. The path concludes with a 60-minute reflexology treatment to stimulates your body’s own healing processes.
The Rejuvenation Path ($960 per couple; 5 hrs and 15 minutes, including lunch) incorporates Yoga into the day’s programme – 60 minutes at the start of the day with Pramod Kumar, our resident Yoga teacher. This takes place in Cocoa’s open-air pavilion overlooking the mirror-flat sea. Pramod teaches a gentle yet dynamic private session based on Hatha Yoga working on Asanas (postures) that are suited to a guest’s ability (those new to Yoga can learn basic elements). Following this, enjoy a Cocoa Island Bath – a cleansing treatment that exfoliates and softens the skin with dry brushing, a COMO Shambhala salt scrub, an Invigorating soak and relaxing hour-long COMO Shambhala Massage. Let the body rest over lunch, which comprises a healthy main course and energising juice. To loosen the muscles more completely, The Rejuvenation Path concludes with a Deep Tissue full body massage that releases deeply held patterns of tension.
Our fourth, most pampering option is called the Restoration Path – a six-hour, head-to-toe pampering extravaganza costing $1250 per couple (5 hours 45 minutes), incorporating an Indian head massage, COMO Shambhala massage, reflexology, an aromatic facial using Guinot botanicals, manicure and luxury pedicure.
