Tourists to get new luxury houseboats on Kaptai Lake next month

Luxury houseboats are very common in the European countries and USA where one can stay day and night on rivers and lakes by rent.

Bangladesh lacks this facility despite it is criss-crossed by hundreds of small rivers.

A new boat service of houseboats with the title ‘Shopnodingi’ is set to be launched on February 14 at Kaptai Lake in Rangamati district.

This boat will be wooden but it will have all facilities like a three star hotel, said a director of the boat service. All the fittings and furniture of that floating boat will be European standard level, he added.

"We will just start with one boat, and within a very short time four of our boats will be in operation there, two of them will be wooden and the other two will be still structured," said Jenars Chakma, one of the directors of the boat service provider.

Company insiders mentioned the rent will not be as high as the quality of the boat. First boat ‘Shopnodingi’ will be basically a floating apartment with a maximum capacity of 12 people. Per head rent will be around Tk 6,000 per night, but anyone can rent the whole boat also. There will be a three to five days package for the tourists including food and other facilities.

After Rangamati, this company also has a plan to promote similar boat service in Tanguar haor and Sundarban Also.