Como Laucala

On the private island of Laucala in the Qamea archipelago of eastern Fiji, Como Laucala Island is one of the most comprehensively self-sufficient luxury island resorts in the Pacific, occupying an island of 1,200 hectares that produces the majority of its own food from an organic farm of considerable scale — 240 goats, cattle, pigs, chickens, and extensive vegetable, fruit, and herb gardens — supplemented by the extraordinary seafood of the surrounding Fijian waters. The 25 villas are among the most architecturally ambitious in the Pacific, with the Garden Ridge Villa’s hillside position and the Beach Pool Villas’ direct shoreline access representing very different expressions of luxury within a single island landscape. The island’s beach, reef, and interior mountain terrain provide a rare combination of marine and land-based ecological diversity within a single private estate.

The farm’s production defines the kitchen’s menus in ways that very few luxury hotel operations can claim: the goat cheese is made in the island’s dairy, the bread is baked from the farm’s wheat, and the diversity of tropical fruits and vegetables grown on the estate gives the cooking a self-sufficiency that reduces the island’s dependence on external supply without compromising the quality of the table. The diving and snorkelling programme explores the surrounding reef system, the golf course winds through the island’s forested interior, and the seaplane connection to Nadi gives the island a practicality of access that balances its physical remove. The spa’s programme draws on Pacific wellness traditions and the island’s own botanical resources.

Laucala’s environmental approach to the island’s ecosystem includes the farm’s organic and regenerative agricultural practices, the reef conservation programme managed in partnership with local Fijian communities on the neighbouring islands, and the island’s community development investment in the Fijian village of Laucala, whose residents have worked on the island estate for generations and whose livelihoods the resort’s operations sustain.