{"id":24951,"date":"2025-09-22T10:36:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T17:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kiwicollection.com\/blog\/?p=24951"},"modified":"2026-01-15T11:25:59","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T19:25:59","slug":"como-laucala-island-travel-diary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kiwicollection.com\/blog\/como-laucala-island-travel-diary\/","title":{"rendered":"A Dream Realized on COMO Laucala Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For over a decade, one destination sat at the very top of my bucket list\u2014an island so mystical in its beauty it almost felt too paradisiacal to exist. That place was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kiwicollection.com\/hotel-detail\/como-laucala-island\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">COMO Laucala Island<\/a> in Fiji. My husband, Anush, and I finally had the chance to experience it, and even now we catch ourselves wondering if it was all just a dream.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Editor&#8217;s note: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comohotels.com\/fiji\/como-laucala-island\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">COMO Laucala Island<\/a> is temporarily closed for renovations<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inside Jyo Shankar\u2019s new favorite island escape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":25005,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"stoc_hidden_slugs":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[4109,589,3918,3336,3613,1025,2613],"class_list":["post-24951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel-diaries","tag-como-laucala-island","tag-fiji","tag-jyo-shankar","tag-jyotsna-shankar","tag-pr008356","tag-south-pacific","tag-taveuni"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwicollection.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwicollection.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwicollection.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwicollection.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwicollection.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24951"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwicollection.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25973,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwicollection.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24951\/revisions\/25973"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwicollection.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwicollection.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwicollection.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwicollection.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}