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Location: Fortress Hotel is located at the beach village of Koggala (of stilt fisherman)130 km from Colombo & 157 km from Bandaranaike International Airport (CMB), 16km south of historically living & thriving southern seaport city of Galle, home to UNESCO World Heritage Site of Sri Lanka Holidays VOC Galle Dutch Fort. Lovely Unawatuna Bay Beach is just 5km away.
Setting: Fortress Hotel is of a magnificent tropical setting. It stands right next to the palm fringed pristine beach of Koggala close to the picturesque Lake of Koggala. The free flowing enormous Infinity swimming pool overlooking the Indian Ocean adds onto the oasis of peace and serenity.
Architecture: Fortress Hotel, Koggala inspired by the style of Dutch Fort is another one of those numerous Sri Lanka Holidays edifices, where the modernity of interior design synthesis with the traditional Sinhalese concepts of eco-orientation. Rising by the seaside, the fortress-like resort’s wall enclose the beautifully landscaped verdant gardens giving shelter & shade to the hammocks, day bed. The massive gates befitting a fortress open up to an awesome view of Indian Ocean through the open air reception area.
International recognition: Fortress hotel is Small Luxury Hotel.
Type of Lodging: Hotel.
Luxury category of the hotel: 5 star Hotel by International standings.
Hotel chain franchise: none.
Accommodation: All 49 rooms with high ceilings & multi level floors are luxuriously appointed with designer fittings & equipped with super king size beds, open plan bathrooms, & sophisticated entertainment systems with plasma TV screen.
The range of rooms: Fortress Room, Ocean Room, Ocean Loft & Fortress Residence.
Restaurants: “Pepper” for breakfast, lunch & dinner; “Heat” for wood fired seafood pizza & Mediterranean a la carte; ‘T’ Tea lounge for a range of exquisite “Ceylon Tea”
Spa: Ancient Ayurveda medical treatment to the fore at the modern spa. The resident Ayurvedic doctor is at hand to direct most suitable Ayurvedic treatment for you.
Excursions: Fishing, Turtle hatchery, Kottawa tropical rain forest, VOC Galle Dutch Fort, Ruhuna Yala National Park, Handunugoda Tea Factory are few among the regular excursions. Water sports center offers Scuba diving with PADI certified professional divers.
SRI LANKA HOLIDAYS ECO TOURIST VILLAGE AT AMPITIGALA, SRI LANKA
The very first Sri Lanka Holidays Eco tourist village was established at the hamlet of Ampitigala, Bulathsinhala area in Madurawala, Horana by Minister of Tourism Nandana Gunathilaka on 27th August 2009.
Distance from Colombo: 60km
Distance from Kalutara tourist Hotel Zone: 24 km
Cost of the project: LKR 8 million
Concept: Sri Lanka Holidays Eco tourist village is established to showcase & promote the traditional local industries of the region: Hand loom, Pottery, Rubber industry
Objectives:
(a) To educate local tourists as well as foreign tourists on traditional life style & traditions of the region.
(b) To upgrade the living status of the inhabitants of the Sri Lanka Holidays eco villages.
The road ahead: pioneering project will be followed with a chain of Sri Lanka Holidays Eco tourist villages around the island of Sri Lanka.
Sri Lanka Holidays Aditya Sustainable tourism (Green i.e., eco) credentials: to be edited. Location : Aditya boutique hotel is located at the coastal village of Rathgama midway between the Surf beach of Hikkaduwa & the VOC Galle Dutch Fort in the South Western Coastal belt of Sri Lanka.
Setting: Beach front on the secluded stretch of beach.
Luxurious Accommodation: Aditya boutique hotel consists of 12 spacious and elegant suites. Each & every suit is stylishly decorated objects d’art and antiques & set on its own theme. Facilities: In-room facilities include large-screen TV, DVD/CD player, mini-bar, safe, hairdryer, tea / coffee making facility. Each suite consists of private plunge pool/Jacuzzi.
The Amal restaurant: It cannot get any better with the guests being free to pick their own sweet timings for meals. You may have full breakfast at the midday, with no worries at all. Over & above the timings, the guests may request their custom feast and the master chef would oblige. Then again you may have your own private table set up wherever you choose- in the restaurant, by the pool, in the gardens, on the beach or in the privacy of your own suite.
Savitri Garden Spa at Aditya Resorts The Savitri Garden Spa at Aditya Resorts open to all hotel guests, is not confined to regular massage & regular foot reflexology. The Spa goes beyond the regular therapies to infuse a deeper sense of well-being and rejuvenation to their guests with an elaborate course: Aditya Signature Massage that uses a fusion of techniques and essential oils to restore the glow to body and soul. The couples are offered floral or milk bath in the utmost in privacy in addition to the regular & Aditya Signature therapies.
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Location: Jetwing Kurulubedda is located 116 km from Colombo at Mahamodara, Galle. Setting: Back to the nature. Then again, not any other nature, but Sri Lanka Holidays nature, that would never cease to amaze you all. A serene boat ride of ten minutes in a short waterway off river Gingganga takes you all to the luxury boutique hotel on a quiet village patch off the river, secluded deep inside a spread of mangroves.
Accommodation: In 3 acres of land are the two luxury private dwellings built on stilts consist of bedroom suite, a spacious plunge pool & large terrace with relaxed seating arrangement. Sri Lanka Holidays Jetwing Kurulubedda is a luxury eco-retreat extension of Sri Lanka Holidays Jetwing Lighthouse Hotel & Spa at Galle.
Ambience: no nonsense, though the dwellings are luxurious, you are right in a village. You can have a bath at the well as if you are a humble peasant. You can enjoy a traditional village by the lagoon drink of Kirala, a mangrove tree botanically identifies as Sonneratia caseolaris at the dining pavilion overlooking the paddy fields & marshy lands. A ramp from the dwellings takes you to the sprawling lawn at the edge of the river. All these are among the bounty of bird life of Sri Lanka Holidays. Kurulubedda means the Woods of the birds in Sinhalese.
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Location: Sri Lanka Holidays Boulder Garden is located 198km from Colombo at Kalawana of south west region of Sri Lanka close to Ratnapura, the City of Gems.
Riolta Remarks by bunpeiris: Sri Lanka Holidays Boulder Garden is a modern day interpretation of twist, turn & rock of ancient Sri Lanka’s tradition of building onto the Rock caves. But then again, in ancient Sri Lanka, while it had been temples that were built into the rock caves, during your Sri Lanka Holidays in the modern Sri Lanka, it is eco-nature holiday resorts that are built into the rock caves & boulders. Boulder Garden built into the rocks, onto the rocks & sheltered by the rocks is a nature based secluded evergreen sanctuary of a hotel, an oasis of tranquility with its distinctive features. It is another one of those unique nature master hotels of Sri Lanka Holidays.
Setting: Back to the nature. Located at a foot of a hill overlooking a tea estate with exotic tropic surroundings including paddy fields on the fringes of Kalawana village, the Boulder Garden is the gateway resort to Lion king (Sinharaja) Tropical Rain Forest, a Sri Lanka Holidays World Heritage Site.
Architecture: The main entrance of the resort is located in an open cave. 2 out of 10 suits are quite literary rock caves. Then again the bar is another rock cave. Such is the design the rocks are allowed to intrude into some of the bathrooms while the resort is equipped with all modern amenities such as swimming pool, telephones, air conditioning, mini bars & Jacuzzis.
Ambience: Winding steps of stone leads to 10 suites set up in 4 rising tiers. The deep corridors with rock walls, grilled windows with massive timber beams and mirror-polished cement floors combine to create a medieval ambience.
Accommodation: Spread over 15 acres, the evergreen secluded hideaway of all suite luxury boutique resort is well sheltered by gigantic overhanging boulders. All suits provide private balconies and terraces for you to enjoy the magnificent evergreen tropical surroundings of Sri Lanka Holidays Boulder garden.
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In a nutshell: Bliss, luxury & serenity
Location: Mandara Resort, a luxury boutique hotel is located on the pristine beach at the hamlet of Mirissa 150km south of Colombo.
Setting: Sri Lanka Holidays Mandara Resort sits tight between the estuary of Pollathu Modara River & the beaches of spectacular Mirissa village situated between Weligama Bay Beach & Matara of southern coastal belt of Sri Lanka. Pristine beach fringed by lush coconut groves, the river flowing silk smooth at the delta, the lagoon & the Red Cliff hill brings in magnificent vistas all around the lovely boutique hotel
Accommodation: Twenty air-conditioned luxuriously furnished suits are equipped either with Jacuzzi or plunge pools. Each room, supremely comfortable, is of its own design & décor. Among the luxury comforts & conveniences are audio visual features of satellite TV, Home theatre system & DVD/CD player. Mini-Bar & Wi-fi enabled Internet complete the features at your finger tips.
Good habits: enjoy fresh food. International as well as local traditional dishes are served at your convenience in the main dining area, in suite, garden or in the shade with fresh & fresh sea food just unloaded from the fishing boats. Gymnasium is equipped with the state of art equipment so that not a single beat of your keep-fit regime would be lost; swimming pool is twinkle-illuminated in the evening with fiber optic lighting for your sun-down swim.
Water sports: Among the numerous water sports are river cruises, sailing, fishing & snorkeling
Dolphin and Whale spotting excursions are organized by Mirissa Water Sports during the season from December to April. Tropical island of Sri Lanka is in contention to be recognized as the “The Best Place in the World for Seeing Blue & Sperm Whales Together.”
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Riolta Remarks by bunpeiris: Sri Lanka Holidays Yala Village, a luxurious star-class jungle resort immerses you in the wilderness and unleashes wildlife but prevents you from the wide beach of silver sands.
Location: Sri Lanka Holidays Yala village is located 250km from Colombo at Kirinda in Deep South of tropical island of Sri Lanka. The resort in wilderness is just 10 kilometers from the town of Kirinda & 22 kilometers from Tissamaharama, an ancient city of the kingdom of Ruhuna.
Setting: Right in the wilderness with a lagoon, then again the beachfront of pristine sandy beach but with wild waves & underwater currents. Make do & be content with the hotel swimming pool & that’s at once a plea & order. Ten acres of scenic wilderness blending evergreen forest and typical Sri Lanka dry zone vegetation of the eco-friendly property consists of an observation deck giving bird’s eye view of the Sri Lanka’s most famous national park that borders the hotel: Sri Lanka Holidays Ruhuna Yala National Park.
Wildlife at close quarters at the Yala Village: Just outside your luxury chalet you would view the roaming wild elephants or illusive leopard sunning on a nearby rocky outcrop or a grazing deer in the panoramic landscape teeming with birdlife.
Accommodation: 61 fully air-conditioned individual luxury chalets with private verandas spread over 10 acres of wilderness provides you absolute privacy. All chalets are equipped with satellite TV, tea/coffee-making facilities & mini-bar.
Restaurant: The elevated open-air sheltered restaurant set in nature serves you freshly prepared western & traditional Sinhalese cuisine.
Activities: Participatory/Luxury/Super Luxury Movable Camping, Wildlife Safaris, Bird Watching & Special Study Tours for Flora and Fauna of Sri Lanka.
Heritance Ahungalla Hotel, one of the finest among the Sri Lanka hotels, is an outstanding architectural achievement of a luxury beachfront hotel in Sri Lanka by illustrious Geoffrey Bawa, one of the foremost architects of Asia. The driveway to the front of the hotel brings to the view, the grand open-plan lobby designed in a concept of light and space. Natural light that pours into the lobby, reigns over the whole hotel. As much as it is sunny indoors, outdoors are shady: the expansive wooded gardens of the hotel are well shaded from the tropical sun.
Herein is another glorious Geoffrey Bawa Special. Bask in the light and space special effects show. Glorious!
Herein is a stunning telescopic view: the airy and spacious lobby ends at the infinity pool that runs all the way to reach the beach. The effect is astonishing: the bluish expanse of infinity pool blending with the blues of the sea and the blues of the horizon. There’s blue and shades of blue, tones of blue, there’s space, there’s more space, there’s light, again light, the expansive blue pool, still more of pool and the sea, the sea, the horizon, then endless horizon- it holds your breath up. Let your breath fall, now. Jesus, you nearly choked. Bunpeiris
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Heritance Ahungalle is an architectural landmark; it is also a geographic landmark of the area between prime Sri lanka Holidays beach resort of Bentota & the surf beach of Hikkaduwa. Most of all, Heritance Ahungalla is a landmark of the history of tourism in Sri Lanka: it is the first ever 5 star beach resort of the tropical island of Sri Lanka.
Location: Heritance Ahungalla (5 star) is located 76km from Colombo at the fishing village of Ahungalla between the prime beach resorts of Bentota & Hikkaduwa of South western coast of Sri Lanka.
Setting: Beachfront. Heritance Ahungalla is set on the prime stretch of pristine beach amidst dense coconut groves.
Architecture: Heritance Ahungalla is an early architectural masterpiece of a classic beach hotel by Sri Lanka’s illustrious architect Geoffrey Bawa. The entrance to the lobby provides a long vision across the huge expanse of a swimming pool merging to the sea at the far end. Ground floors as well as upper floors are designed with linked pavilions providing views & breeze of the sea. Geoffrey Bawa’s hallmark of architecture is manifested herein with the concept of interior too having the virtues of exterior: tropical sun, sea breeze, lush greenery & flowing water. Among the numerous architectural masterpieces of Geoffrey Bawa are Heritance Kandalama at Dambulla & Cinnamon Beach at Bentota, Serandib Hotel at Bentota & Jetwing Lighthouse at Galle.
Accommodation: Heritance Ahungalle comprises of 160 spacious comfortable well furnished & stylish rooms. A host of amenities and an array of services of lavish luxury spoil you to the very fingertip.
Awards: National Cleaner Production Awards 2008 by National Cleaner Production Centre (NCPC), Sri Lanka. NCPC is a member of United Nations International Development Organization’s and United Nations Environment Programme’s global network of cleaner production centers.
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A PATA Gold Award Winner and a Kuoni Green Planet Award Winner for the year 2007-2008
Location: Chaaya Village is located at the tranquil small town of Habarana 176 km away from Colombo. Habarana is at once an elephant village & a green tourist hub with a chain of fine back to the nature lodges & resorts conveniently situated within easy accessible distance to Sigiriya Lion Rock Citadel, Polonnaruwa & Minneriya National Park.
Setting: On the banks of Habarana lake, the property is absolutley lovely tranquil natural surroundings of 27 acres of all green garden of sun & shade teeming with bird-life & roaming monkeys.
Architecture: traditional native fashion low roof thatched village cottages in harmony with the nature.
Accommodation: Sri Lanka Holidays Chaaya Village in Habarana offers 108 lovely spacious and comfortable well furnished & air-conditioned cottages spread out in clusters that blends well with the nature. The 2 suites Kingfisher Lodge and Eagle Lodge provide luxury accommodation option.
El Hena Restaurant: On one side the large open-air restaurant is Pool, garden and lake. On the otherside is show kitchen of busy chefs preparing western & eastern dishes.
Ritigala Pauwwa Bar serves up signature cocktails, local and imported spirits, liqueurs and fresh fruit juices. at the open lounge bar overlooking the Pool.
Panthaliya Coffee Shop next to the bar serves up delectable snacks and hot drinks for you to enjoy the view of the pool, the garden and the lake beyond that.
Sri Lanka Holidays Sustainable tourism (Green i.e., eco) credentials of the hotel: World Travel Awards named Kumbukriver World’s Leading Eco-Lodge in October 2008. It is shortlisted for World Travel Awards for year 2009 too.
Location: Sri Lanka Holidays Kumbukriver eco-lodge is located at Buttala , Monaragala district of south eastern Sri Lanka 250km away from Colombo.
Setting: Kumbukriver is a 14-acre up market eco-lodge, an adventure wildlife hotel by the waters of 116 km Kumbukkan Oya River which originates in the Central Central Highlands of Sri Lanka and flows south then south-east to the delta at the southern edge of Sri Lanka Holidays Ruhuna Yala Wildlife Sanctuary.
Architecture: Let me put it with no nonsense. Welcome to the spellbinding 40 ft edifice designed in the shape of an elephant & constructed mostly with the material & resources found in the area without disturbing the habitat. Sleep in the belly of the giant elephant & swing low, slow & gentle on a windy day.
Accommodation: Elephant villa consists of two huge bedrooms with large lounge (upstairs) and living/ dining area downstairs with plunge pool. Large and spacious bathroom and separate toilet. Only 6-8 people (to optimize standards) Kumbuk chalet with large bedroom, dining, lounge and bathroom. Also features a tree-shower and an eco-toilet in the court yard.
KumbukRiver Elephant Villa is complemented by an eco-oriented chalet, once again showcasing the indigenous engineering with large bedroom, dining, lounge and bathroom. Also features a tree-shower and an eco-toilet in the court yard.
Experiencing nature: Explore the fascinating riverfront and miniature island; trek to the other side of resort, reach & explore Sri Lanka Holidays Ruhuna Yala National Park, Sri Lanka’s most famous most famous wildlife sanctuary; spot elephants in the moonlight; view peacock show off their colors at dawn. Learn about bio-diversity of Sri Lanka, one of the Conservation international bio-diversity hotspot in the world.
Location : Aditya boutique hotel is located at the coastal village of Rathgama midway between the Surf beach of 
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