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January 3, 2026
We have been to Fiji more than a dozen times. We come to dive, but we like luxe. We've also dived Maldives, Australia, Vanuatu, Trobriands, Solomons, Palau, French Polynesia and Tonga. We like Fiji because it's quick and easy to get to from Sydney, and if you choose your flights and island correctly, you can get there within the day. Kokomo was a step up to a new level for us in terms of Fiji expenditure. It's not cheap, that's for sure. But well worth the money. Kokomo makes you feel like a valued guest at every turn. The food is exceptional. The menu is varied and the quality is excellent. For dinner there is a good selection of options, or, as the waiter charmingly says "perhaps a little bit of everything?". And so we did ! Important to mention you just want small portions, but even so you end up with a table crowded with items. The genius of this approach, from the resorts point of view, is that while everything is excellent, there will inevitably be a "hero", and so by sampling everything you are guaranteed to get some of the hero from every meal, and your impressions are calibrated accordingly. The accommodation is palatial. Room serviced twice daily by magic. The transfer is frictionless. Snorkelling around the jetty is surprisingly good. The dive operation is friendly, professional and very slick. Snacks for surface interval. As the boat returns to the jetty you'll be asked if you would like a buggy to meet you on the jetty. Yes please ! We did a double tank dive every morning. On the boat at 9am, back at the resort about 1pm, quick shower and back for lunch at 2pm. We mostly dived the Solo reef, just a couple of dives on Astrolabe, because apparently the better stuff is at Solo albeit a longer (25min) boat ride. How as the diving you ask? Well I hesitate to answer. It was the equal of anything we've seen in Fiji, except better. My hesitation comes from the fact you may not see what we did. Doing the Solo walls we saw a manta on two occasions, eagle rays on three - AND - had an encounter with a school of 8 hammerhead sharks ! Stunning ! Unexpected ! The guides were amazed and while you can ask them to "take you to the place you saw the hammers", there's every chance you'll just have to make do with eagle rays. So our impression of the diving is hugely coloured by one 60 second encounter with 8 hammers, and I find it hard to get that out of my mind and put the rest of it in perspective. That said, the diving is great, the resort of great, food is surpurb, and Kokomo is worth every penny.