A birthday, a small wedding, a few families. The stay is a private island or a cluster of villas — not a ballroom on a busy house reef.
No other hotel guests. The jetty, the reef, and the restaurant sit with your group.
A beach residence, two or three villas on the same sand, or the whole island. Everyone close. No long boardwalk of strangers.
Dinner that stays put. A sandbank if you want one afternoon. The rest of the time is the lagoon.