BDT 3,500.00 / night
Standard Room
Comfortable room with garden view, ideal for short stays.
- Sleeps
- 2 guests
- Beds
- 1 Queen
- Room size
- 22 m²
Twenty-eight rooms,
one quiet stretch of sand.
A small beach house at the Kolatoli end of Cox’s Bazar, where the day’s menu is decided by whatever came in off the boats before six.
- Where
- Beach Road, Kolatoli
- The house
- 28 rooms, sea or garden
- Reservations
- Daily, 8:00 – 22:00
Small enough to know your name by the second morning.
Tropicana opened with twelve rooms and one cook. There are twenty-eight rooms now and a kitchen team of nine, but not a great deal else has changed. The fish still comes off the boats at Kolatoli before six. Breakfast is still served until eleven, because nobody should have to set an alarm on holiday.
Rooms look out over either the water or the garden courtyard, and none of them are far from the sand — the walk from the lobby to the waterline takes about two minutes, less if you aren’t carrying anything.
Almost everyone who works here lives within a few streets of the house, and several have been on the payroll longer than the current owners. It is a small place run by people who are not passing through, which turns out to be most of what a stay here is made of.
- 28
- Rooms, across two low buildings
- 2 min
- From the lobby door to the waterline
- 2001
- The year the house opened on Beach Road
Where you’ll sleep.
Sea-facing or over the courtyard, all of them within ninety metres of the water. Rates below are the direct rate — the same room costs more everywhere else.
From BDT 8,000.00 / night
Deluxe Room
Spacious room with sea view and balcony.
- Sleeps
- 3 guests
- Beds
- 1 King or 2 Twin
- Room size
- 32 m²
From BDT 15,000.00 / night
Tropicana Suite
Two-room suite with living area, sea view, and private terrace.
- Sleeps
- 4 guests
- Beds
- 1 King + Sofa Bed
- Room size
- 55 m²
Two minutes on foot. Most guests don’t manage more than that on the first day.
This is a working fishing shoreline, and it stays quiet because of it. No jet skis off our stretch, no hawkers past the gate, nothing playing after ten. Loungers go out at seven and come in at dusk.
What there is, and what there deliberately isn’t.
Twenty-eight rooms doesn’t stretch to a spa or a nightclub, and we have never wanted either. What we do have, we look after.
The beach
Through the garden gate and down eleven steps. Loungers and umbrellas are set out from seven; towels are in your room, not at a desk. The tide runs a long way out in the afternoon and the sand it leaves is the best walk on this coast.
The kitchen
One menu, rewritten most mornings around the catch. Bengali plates, a short grill list, and dinner served until half past ten. Tell us at breakfast if you want something particular and there is a fair chance it can be found by evening.
Out on the water
Boat trips down the coast most mornings in season, and snorkelling gear for anyone who wants it. The front desk books both a day ahead and will tell you honestly when the water is not worth the trip.
Breakfast
On the terrace or in your room, until eleven. Paratha and eggs, seasonal fruit, and coffee made properly rather than quickly.
The courtyard
Shaded seating under old palms, a shelf of left-behind paperbacks in the lobby, and enough room not to run into anyone.
The front desk
Staffed 8:00 to 22:00 and on the phone the rest of the night. Laundry, bus tickets, and honest advice on where to eat in town.
Getting here
Cox’s Bazar airport is a fifteen-minute drive. Send us your flight number and a car will be waiting for it.
An afternoon here, more or less in order.
The pool by two, the terrace by seven, and the long quiet bit in between that nobody puts on a brochure.
“The kind of place where you put your phone down by the second day. Wonderful staff, a quiet beach, and the best grilled hilsa I’ve had outside Dhaka.”
Come for three nights. Most people wish they had booked four.
Booking here is the lowest rate we offer — no agency mark-up, no booking fee, and free cancellation up to seventy-two hours before you arrive.
Book your stay
Or call the front desk
Daily 8:00 – 22:00 (GMT+6). Somebody who has actually seen the rooms picks up — ask which side of the house is quiet in December, or whether the two on the end can be held together.