Tropics Motor Hotel - Indio

Indio, California, United States

This Tropics location was built in the mid-1960s. There is still a half-tiki that is probably original under the porte cochere, and three tiki masks that are likely later additions. Inside the lobby there are a tiki mask and war clubs hung on a rock wall.

The Tropics is of five Polynesian-themed Tropics hotels built by hotelier Ken Kimes. The most elaborate of the chain was in Palm Springs, now called the Caliente Tropics Resort.