Bandarawela Hotel Sri Lanka

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"'Around 70 years ago, they wisely stopped updating the furniture at this venerable old tea planter’s club. Now, in a new millennium, you can ease into relax-at-all costs easy chairs, spacious rooms with high ceilings, and a cosy bar and billiard saloon. The tortoises in the garden look to be a similar age to the friendly old guy out the front who redefines the combination of a pith helmet, walk shorts, gloves and long socks as a contemporary fashion statement. The Bandarawela Hotel’s elevated garden setting is a peaceful escape from the dusty "
Lonely Planet, 2009
August 2009 More »
Bandarawela Hotel, Bandarawela
Price Guide: ££
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Location
The Bandarawela Hotel is a century-old British-built property associated with the development of the hill-country railways. It is situated in the centre of Bandarawela town, 4,000ft above sea level and within walking distance from the railway station, and is a convenient base from which to explore the sights of the southern highlands. Bandarawela can be accessed via Ratnapura or Nuwara Eliya. The scenic towns of Ella and Haputale are just half an hour away.
Introduction
Bandarawela Hotel's origins date back to the turn of the 19th / 20th century when the railways were being extended by the British from Nanu Oya to the southern highlands. The Nuwara Eiya tea planters soon saw the potential of what was then a little-known village hamlet and it soon developed into a popular holiday retreat, especially for planters and railway employees. Over the years, little has changed at the hotel with the history of a bygone era literally hanging to the walls. The hotel is well-suited for guests looking for a conveniently-located hotel offering colonial-style mid-range accommodation and facilities.
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Accommodation
There are 32 Standard Rooms (out of which eight have interconnecting doors for families) and one Suite, all of which come with en suite bathrooms. Bedrooms still retain the cast iron and brass beds fitted with mosquito netting. The cool climate doesn't require a/c. There are overhead fans for a warm day. Telephone and television is available in all rooms. The Suite is more spacious with a large four-poster canopied bed and has a mini bar in addition to the regular facilities. The bathrooms have h/w showers, bathtubs, wash basin, and w/c.
Facilities
Sri Lankan and western cuisine is served in the main dining hall, and room service is available. The front lawn is also an ideal spot to sip a cup of Ceylon Tea. The extensive lounge is filled with interesting photographs depicting the history of the railways and the hotel. A quaint bar with wood-panelled walls, teak bar stools and a working fireplace - once the favourite haunt of the colonial tea planters and railway staff - still remains. A games room with indoor games and billiards table and a children's play area is also available. Guests have access to sports and recreational facilities at the nearby Bandarawela Tennis Club which was established in 1908, soon after the hotel came into being. The Bandarawela Tennis Club, considered to be the oldest sports club in the country, had modest beginnings with just one tennis court and seats made out of wooden railway sleepers. Now the club has three tennis courts of which is one is floodlit and has a permanent stone pavilion, billiards and snooker room, bar and provides facilities for a variety of indoor sports.
Excursions
Stroll through a tea plantation and visit a tea factory where you will gain insight into the manufacturing process as well as an opportunity to taste and purchase the different grades of hill country tea. Climb to the Lipton's Seat, a favorite look out point of Sir Thomas Lipton, the tea pioneer when surveying the surrounding region for his tea plantation near Haputale. Adisham Monastery, modeled on Leeds Castle in Kent, is an interesting morning's excursion. Once the home of Sir Thomas Villers in the early 20th century, Adisham now is a Benedictine monastery with well-tended rose and vegetable gardens. En route, visit the Tangamale bird sanctuary, home to numerous species of exotic birds and butterflies.
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