Sri Lanka Holidays: the wide spectrum of Sri Lanka Hotels
Sri Lanka Holidays is supplemented, complemented and bolstered by a wide array of accommodation options ranging from luxury Sri Lanka Hotels of international standing to budget accommodation. The top of the flight luxury accommodation options range from five star resorts to handsome colonial mansions: eco-oriented hotels, boutique hotels, villas and tea estate bungalows. The high end luxury accommodation are in such close proximity to cultural, wildlife and nature attractions of Sri Lanka Holidays, staying in these hotels itself could turn out to be an overwhelming joy indeed. You may enjoy the lavish hospitality of top of the flight 5 star accommodation or opt for Sri Lanka Hotels of lesser standing. The tourists can even go for budget accommodation at guest houses or rest houses. If you a traveler on your own, you may easily rent a room with an attached bathroom in a friendly family home. The tourists who wish to enjoy at Sri Lanka Beaches could put them up at beach side cabana style accommodation too. But then again, Sri Lanka Holidays doesn’t feature dormitory-style accommodation at all, that is available, two a penny, all over in India. That is to say Sri Lanka Holidays doesn’t cater well for pot smoking shoe-string travelers, the counter culture long-haired, scantily clad hippy-like smelly weeds. Those weird weeds could even be refused visa on arrival and deported in the very next flight. Sinhalese, the local tourists who love to tour their beautiful island, as a nation find their way into reasonable facilities of privacy, space, and room. And they would hardly dish out accommodation facilities that they themselves wouldn’t choose, to the foreign tourists. Having said that, I must hasten to stress, in comparison to other Asian destinations, hotel rates of Sri Lanka Holidays, as a convention, produce high value for your hard-earned money. With numerous accommodation options available, you are free to enjoy the best Sri Lanka has to offer for a fraction of the price that your highness would pay in the western countries. You are treated right royally at Sri Lanka Hotels. Sri Lanka Hotel rates are at a slight variance during the year: the main tourist season during November to March records the higher end of the rates of Sri Lanka Hotels throughout the island, significantly in the western and southern beach resorts. But then bargains galore in the off seasons. During the month of April Sri Lanka Hotels and guest houses are in heavy demand in Nuwara Eliya of Central Highlands. Then again the tourist season for eastern coast (April to September) also records higher rates though confined strictly to the Sri Lanka Hotels in the eastern coast.
Hotels
Pride of the parade of Sri Lanka Hotels is taken by nature-oriented hotels designed by Sri Lanka’s most famous architect Geoffrey Bawa (1919–2003). Among the numerous modern hotels, the stunning sophisticated hotels with eco-orientation stands out like beacons of Sri Lanka Holidays: they are tourist attractions of their own right. In addition to Geoffrey Bawa hotels, Sri Lanka boasts of numerous other eco-oriented luxury Hotels.
Eco-oriented Hotels & Lodges Developers of Sri Lanka Holidays have risen up to the occasion caused by modern trend towards eco tourism to reap the benefit of its outstanding ecotourism potential. Sri Lanka is one of the 34 bio-diversity hot spots of the world. The latest grand scale hotel development project is Dutch Bay Resorts of “Kalpitiya Integrated Tourism Development Project”, the newly launched eco-oriented mega tourism project of Sri Lanka.
Villas & Boutique Hotels
The concept of Sri Lanka Holidays villas and boutique hotels run parallel to eco-oriented hotels and lodges of Sri Lanka. Some of these set up in reconstructed or renovated old colonial villas offer elegant and luxurious accommodation with first class service.
Tea Estate Bungalows
The recently developed concept of tea estate bungalows has become popular among the high end clientele. The accommodation is set up in the renovated colonial estate bungalows once belonged to leading tea planters of Sri Lanka then called Ceylon. Ceylon Tea Trails leads the pack.
Guest houses
Guest houses comes in all standards: some of the Sri Lanka Holidays guest houses of superior standard are similar to small hotels; some set themselves up in the mid range bracket; lower range guest houses consist of just a couple of rooms with private attached bathrooms.
Rest Houses
The concept of Sri Lanka Holidays rest houses was originally established by the colonialists Dutch (1656-1796) for the traveling Dutchmen who held sway in the costal regions of Sri Lanka. The rest houses became the entrenched feature of outstation accommodation of the traveling civil servants during colonial era of Ceylon during the British rule (1815-1948). Today, among the well maintained rest houses of the island are those operated by Ceylon Hotel Corporation. While Polonnaruwa rest house, Belihuloya rest house, Hanwella rest house, Pussellawa rest house, Ambepussa rest house, Kitulgala rest house, Dambulla rest house, Polonnaruwa rest house, Sigiriya rest house, Habarana rest house, Medawacchiya rest house are still known as rest houses, some others have been converted to fully-fledged hotels of Sri Lanka Holidays.
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