Luxury Hotels Private island
Rank 10
COMO Laucala Island
Three thousand acres and 25 villas is a private island with a golf course — not a village of 11.
Why it is here
Condé Nast Traveler’s Laucala Island page is the long Gold List / RCA file: 25 villas, private airstrip, plantation-scale Fijian island. Robb Report’s May 2024 ‘Billionaire’s Eden’ review is the independent 2024–26 stay piece after the COMO takeover — COMO Shambhala, David McLay Kidd golf, and the honesty that this is a 3,000-acre estate, not a hide. Held behind North Island and The Brando because 25 villas plus golf is a resort-island hybrid; Kokomo is the Fiji swap on the watchlist so this does not become a double-Fiji lead.
Who it is for
UHNW families who will charter onto a private Fijian airstrip, want a golf hole and a Shambhala spa, and will fill a villa rather than buy out 11 keys.
Sources
- Laucala Island — Fiji hotel reviewCNT Gold List / RCA history for the 25-villa Fijian private island.
- COMO Laucala Island Is a Billionaire’s Eden in Fiji‘Billionaire’s Eden’ stay review covering COMO Shambhala, golf and the post-Mateschitz operating era.
