The story
Le Caméléon opened as the Caribbean coast's answer to the boutique design hotels of the Pacific side — minimalist white rooms with shifting accent colors (the name is literal: today's orange room may be blue tomorrow), set back from the beach in jungle at Playa Cocles, three kilometres from Puerto Viejo town. Its private Noa Beach Club sits directly across the road on the sand, with loungers, hammocks, four-poster daybeds and a restaurant and bar of its own, so the "hotel" experience and the "beach club" experience are two different, complementary places.
The property has three swimming pools including beachfront ones, a spa built as an open-air jungle treatment deck, and a restaurant (called Ocho y Medio in some materials, Gigi Beach in others as the offering has evolved) doing modern international and Mediterranean-leaning cuisine. It is part of Small Luxury Hotels of the World, and at 51 rooms plus suites and villas is the largest true hotel on this stretch of coast.