Heritance Kandalama - Dambulla

A still forest of dense green, floating whispers of bird song; a monkey chitters – watching, unafraid, flowers… heady and fragrant, nod in a soft, silky breeze – the lake shimmers in the distance, walls of rock – so cool to touch. A dream, so wonderful; so real – because it is…

In the heart of historic Sigiriya, accommodation of the most indulgent kind awaits you at our Superior Rooms. Set in the Dambulla Wing you can relax in the comforts.

Our three Luxury Panoramic Rooms sit on the 7th floor of the hotel. Dambulla Rock, the inspiration behind the Dambulla wing, can be seen from each of them.

Since you are visiting the ancient kingdom of Sigiriya, hotel accommodation of a most stately sort is perhaps a must; and our Royal Suite is ready to oblige. Fittingly named, it is a spacious apartment of two suites with a shared living/dining room.

Heritance Kandalama,
PO Box 11, Dambulla,
Sri Lanka
Tel : +94 66 5555 000,
Fax : +94 66 5555 050
Email : hk.ebiz.lk@aitkenspence.lk

http://www.heritancehotels.com/kandalama/ 

Living Heritage Koslanda

 
Our villas are perfectly suited to the wonderful climate and combine boutique-style luxury and traditional Sri Lankan design and architecture. We worked with local craftsmen and revived forgotten construction techniques to ensure that every building is authentically Sri Lankan down to the smallest detail.

Colours and textures recurrent through the centuries are used throughout, and the rooms are furnished with beautiful antiques from all over the country.

Each villa has a private courtyard, outdoor plunge pool and hot water garden shower – if you’ve never showered by moonlight before, it’s an experience that we guarantee will leave you reluctant to go back to your usual routine…

You can swim or laze by the infinity pool or settle back on the cushions in one of the three open-sided, roofed houses, known as Ambalamas, which were the meeting place within every village in years gone by. There’s also a long veranda, another aspect of traditional Sri Lankan living, ideal for relaxing, chatting, having a drink and enjoying the tastes and smells of Sri Lankan food prepared by our chef.

Egodawatte Estate, Naulla, Koslanda.

info@koslanda.com

+94 779355785

http://www.koslanda.com/ 

The Kandy House - Kandy

Seductive boutique hotel The Kandy House, in Kandy’s leafy outskirts, effortlessly purveys intimate luxury. A 200-year-old aristo palazzo gone 21st-century, it blends minimalist lines, atypical antiques and quirky strokes of colour around a central courtyard, with just eight romantic individually designed rooms, named after indigenous butterflies. If you can bear to leave the genial grub and your chaise longue on the veranda, enticing hammocks beckon for ginning and sinning around the infinity pool. For romantics, Deluxe room the Pioneer (though small and sans bath tub) is nearest the infinity pool and has its own veranda and garden with a hammock. We also love Ultra room Indian Admiral, which sports an original mahogany veranda with French café table. You may need high-jump skills to access the ancestral four-poster, but you can recover afterwards in the claw-foot bath-with-a-view. Ultra room Red Spot Duke will bring the scarlet harlot out in anyone, with a shiny metal bathroom and cane chaise longue on the wraparound veranda.

The Kandy House

Amunugama Walauwa, Gunnepana

 tel:+94 814921394

info@thekandyhouse.com

http://www.thekandyhouse.com/ 

Hotel Sigiriya

Located under the shadow of the Sigiriya Rock Fortress, within the UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Sigiriya Nature Reserve and in the heart of the Cultural Triangle - Hotel Sigiriya is the perfect vantage point for travellers looking to step back in time. The rustic "one-with-nature" feel of the hotel is brought to life by the Resident Naturalist who will walk you through the bird trails, through the jungle or when you safari through the National Parks; all in close proximity to see the magnificent elephants in their natural habitat. 

Explore the Sigiriya Rock Fortress and around. Trek in the wild, hop on a bike, visit a local village or witness the big elephant migration.

Reservations Hotline : +94 11 4626626

inquiries@serendibleisure.lk

https://www.serendibleisure.com/hotelsigiriya/ 

Kodev Wilderness Camp - Kalpitiya

Kodev Wilderness Tented Camp was built in an untouched natural mangrove reserve, overlooking Kalpitiya lagoon and the Indian Ocean. Situated in Dutch Bay Island, Kodev offers a tantalizingly unique synergy of undisturbed and eco-friendly outdoor camping, luxury facilities. Which would only leave you with the best memories of this breath-taking peninsular where land and water converge in perfect symphony.

Kodev is dedicated to offer an atmosphere which connects individuals with natural wilderness. We are committed to sustainable conservation to preserve and protect large tracts of wilderness for future generations. We encourage our guests to connect with wilderness while experiencing nature and luxury camping. Glamping accommodation designed to take guests away from modern urban distractions and direct them to the wilderness. We’re driven by environmentally conscious hospitality, sustainable conservation and empowerment of local communities.

Kodev is a project by Wild Ceylon Luxury which promotes authentic luxury wilderness retreats Ceylon (former name of Sri Lanka) offers. Kalpitiya is not simply about sun, sea and sand. There is a whole other dimension to experience on the island, in the midst of its lush vegetation.

Dutch Bay Island, Kalpitiya, Sri Lanka

+ 94 778693940
info@kodev.lk

http://www.kodev.lk/ 

Chena Huts - Yala

 

In Sri Lanka’s deep south, the rustic farming villages round Tissamaharama are divided from the teeming animal and bird life of Yala – Sri Lanka’s oldest and second-largest natural reserve – by a belt of semi-protected jungle running down to the sea. For centuries, people here have farmed small clearings in the jungle called chena, sleeping beside their crops in modest huts to protect them from hungry elephants.

Here today, nestled among dunes and trees at the ocean’s edge, you will find Chena Huts, a Yala Hotel, which is the latest addition to Uga Escapes’ world-renowned portfolio of luxury boutique hotels. Overlooking a beach where sea-turtles come to lay eggs by moonlight and elephants wander down from the nearby jungle to play in the surf, Chena Huts is fringed on one landward side by the tropical jungle and on the other by a saline lake where ibises, painted storks and even flamingos may be seen, wading in the shallows.

For guests at Chena Huts, easy access to these natural wonders involves no compromise with comfort or good taste. At this small, select property, the ‘huts’ are in fact luxurious detached, private pavilions offering fine views of the surrounding wilderness and seascape. Guests enjoy fine dining at the Basses restaurant and sip cocktails at the Bar -. A swimming pool and other amenities for recreation are available. Yet one need to take only a short walk in any direction to find oneself surrounded by unspoilt nature, and find a place to invoke its spirit and calm one’s own.

Chena Huts
Palatupana Yala
Tel : +94 47 2267100
reservations@ugaescapes.com 

http://www.ugaescapes.com/chenahuts/ 

Uga Bay - Pasikudah

Uga Bay is one of the finest Sri Lankan vacation options available: an elegant luxury beach resort hotel owned by Uga Escapes with an outstanding reputation for comfort, cuisine, genuine hospitality and tropical-paradise charm. It’s located, moreover, on what is arguably one of the best Sri Lankan beaches, Passekudah. This is one of the best-rated beach hotels among Pasikuda Hotels in Sri Lanka by guests and industry experts alike and, it’s easy to see why. Though the island offers a multiplicity of attractions, many guests travel to Sri Lanka simply to experience the amazing beaches. Sri Lankan beaches are some of the most spectacular in the world, and Uga Bay is one of the finest resorts in the country. Each of its 46 spacious rooms and suites offers breathtaking views of the Pasikuda Bay over the palm fringed gardens of Uga Bay. The natural beauty of the location is complemented by the hotel’s stunning amalgam of Mediterranean and tropical architecture.

Uga Bay by Uga Escapes
Coconut Board Road, Passikudah, Sri Lanka
Tel : +94(0) 65 5671000 | Fax : +94 (0) 65 2050231
reservations@ugaescapes.com

http://www.ugaescapes.com/ugabay/ 

Cape Weligama

Luxury resort Cape Weligama, on Sri Lanka’s southern coast, follows in sister hotel Ceylon Tea Trails’ footsteps as one of the island’s most wanted. Laid out village-style over an Indian Ocean headland, each butler-attended contemporary villa – designed by architect Lek Bunnag – sits within a flower-scented watta (garden), steps from a cooling pool. Bays and beaches are a short meander away, and the crescent-shaped, cliff-edge infinity pool has swoonsome panoramas. 

The two-storey 307sq m two-bedroom Cape Pool Villa will suit privacy-seekers with a blow-out budget. Upping the ante for honeymoon romance, they have sweeping Indian Ocean views from both bedrooms, and this is the only category with a private infinity pool on the roof terrace. However, Master Suites are more intimate and cost-effective, flaunting the same ochre and ultramarine-hued style as larger villas.

Cape Weligama, Abhimanagama Road, Weligama, Sri Lanka

+94 11 774 5700
reservations@resplendentceylon.com

http://www.resplendentceylon.com/capeweligama/

Ulagalla Resort - Anuradhapura

Ulagalla Resort is where the wild things are – expect to see monkeys, peacocks and elephants galumphing around this Cultural Triangle treat. An open-air spa, resident horses, ravishing dining and serene villas make romance as natural as air here.

58-acre grounds, stables, day spa, basement wine cellar, library, stash of CDs and DVDs. In rooms: TV, DVD player, iPod dock, minibar.

Villa 21 is the most private and romantic of the sleeping quarters, set furthest from the main building, overlooking a little lake (a hammock for two swings temptingly by the water).  All rooms come with a private plunge pool, except for One and Two, which have an in-room Jacuzzi instead. There’s also a large, family-friendly communal pool, whose pretty azure and opalescent tiles are a vivid contrast to the hotel’s lush green foliage and red-tiled roofs. A lifeguard keeps watch over the pool between 6am and 11pm daily (timings may vary). 

Tel : +94(0)25 2050280 | Fax : +94 (0)25 2050284
reservations@ugaescapes.com

Ulagalla Resort

Ulagalla Walawwa, Thirippane, Ulagalla Rd, Anuradhapura 50072, Sri Lanka

http://www.ugaescapes.com/ulagalla/

Kalundewa Retreat - Dambulla

Kalundewa Retreat is rooted in nature: it started life as a 25-acre agricultural project, its dazzling design champions natural materials and even its pool – an ulpatha (spring) – scorns artifice. An excellent chef captains the open-air restaurant, which sources 85 per cent of its produce from the gardens.

100-acre grounds, swimming pool. In rooms: desk, minibar, Sri Lankan bath products.

Sleeping quarters are spread across three buildings: the first sits in the paddocks, housing three entry-level rooms; the second and third buildings are overwater, set in the wetlands and shrouded by a canopy of trees. One building holds two bedrooms, the other holds just one – the Kumbuk Chalet, which is the most private option and has its own overwater plunge pool.

Kalundewa Retreat

Kalundewa Road, Dambulu Oya, Dambulla.
+94 775 205 475

reservations@kalundewaretreat.com

http://www.kalundewaretreat.com/