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Albatross

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Albatross is a tiny boutique hotel in Sri Lanka’s central highlands within the sprawling estate of the beautiful Victoria Golf and Country Resort. While Albatross is classed as a hotel it has the feel of a villa, with only five rooms, a lounge, dining area and staffed kitchen. All rooms are enb suite and available on BB HB and FB basis.

Amaya Hills

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Amaya Hills, one of Kandy’s best-appointed hotels, lies on a rocky outcrop, 15 minutes drive above the hill-country capital. This hotel has a traditional Sri Lankan feel and benefits from stirring views, standing amid steep, wooded hills about 15 minutes above the town, a peaceful land of beautiful sunsets and wispy morning mists.

Bamboo

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Bamboo is a modern three-bedroom villa with magnificent views of Victoria golf course, Victoria Lake and the Knuckles Mountain Range. Guests are welcome to use the resort’s numerous facilities. Bamboo is constructed on split levels with high timber roofs, large, vibrant interiors and wide verandahs,. It has an informal feel which is ideal for families.

Castle Hill Guest House

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Castle Hill Guest House has barely changed in 30 years -- a lick of paint here, a small repair there – and the result has been a much-loved family home where time drips backwards to a less demanding era. That unchanging reputation has made this guest house, which looks down on Kandy lake, one of Sri Lanka’s best-known budget retreats.

Chaaya Citadel

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Chaaya Citadel offers luxurious accommodation with scenic views. This reliable 3/4-star hotel has been rebranded and refurbished, and provides tranquil surroundings away from the busy city of Kandy. Days begin to birdsong and perhaps a warm mist rolling away from the river. The riverside setting also adds lustre to the twilight hours.

Clingendael

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Clingendael, a magnificent boutique manor house situated within Victoria Golf & Country Resort, exudes a stately grandeur yet is also infused with the latest in modern technology and contemporary art on the walls. Clingendael's terraced gardens, cascading waterways, verandahs and tranquil setting is ideal for relaxation.

Country Garden Resort

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Country Garden Resort is set within a 19C Kandyan manor house and spreads over a five-acre plantation with diverse crops including tea, paddy, fruit, and vegetables. Whether you want to learn of Kandy’s heritage or just relax and unwind in a homely Kandyan walauwa, Country Garden Resort provides for a good alternative to the larger hotels situated in town.

Earls Regency

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The Earls Regency, lying alongside the broad Maheweli River, offers modern and spacious four-star comfort on Kandy’s outskirts. Earls strives for a sense of grandeur, and can claim to be the best-appointed hotel in town, but some find it lacking in atmosphere for a Sri Lankan hotel. The most conveniently-situated hotel for Victoria golf club.

Ellerton

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Ellerton is a splendid hill-county property blessed with magnificent hill-country views. The 100-year-old planters' bungalow recently refurbished by British owners, sits amid a nine-acre organic tea and spice estate in Gampola, half an hour deeper into the hills from Kandy. Choose between the old-colonial manor house and the main house.

Enison Lodge

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Enison Lodge is a modern apartment block within the beautiful Victoria Golf and Country Club, one of Asia’s finest, in Sri Lanka’s central highlands. It offers a good-value accommodation option ands is ideally placed by by the first fairway at the foot of Coconut Hill. Four sdpacious a/c rooms can be booked singly or exclusively.

Hantane Shadow Resort

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The Hantane Shadow Resort is a new hotel at the edge of a forest reserve in Hantane, within reach of Kandy. It is an attractive spot for those wanting solitude and tranquility at an affordable price. Rooms are comfortable and pleasantly furnished, although they lack character.

Helgas Folly

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Helga's Folly, in Kandy, is an enchanting, high-camp hotel decorated by antiques, heirlooms and flights of fancy. Its rooms are individualistic, if quite simple, and its bohemian public areas are adored by those with an artistic bent. If you yearn for something different, and prefer gothic, wax-laden candlesticks to cool, cement floors, try it.

Hotel Topaz

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Topaz Hotel has an enviable position high above Kandy, conveniently placed barely five minutes by tuk-tuk from the town centre (ten minutes going uphill!), but with captivating hillside views, which can be enjoyed from the picture windows of a bright bar area, and from the restaurant on the floor above. Mountain seclusion at a sharp price.

Hunas Falls

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Hunas Falls Hotel enjoys one of the most scenic hotel settings in Sri Lanka. From the Hunnas Giriya mountain range, a waterfall cascades through the steeply-banked tea and spice plantations to end in the small lake alongside which this hotel is situated. This is a land of fascinating sunsets and early-morning mist. It will appeal to guests seeking seclusion in a peaceful mountain retreat.

Jungle Tide

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Jungle Tide is a self-catering bungalow with an escapist setting in the South of Kandy with views of the Knuckles hills, a beautiful mountain range, and well off the tourist trail. It is the aspect that makes this new bungalow so appealing. The interior décor is modest, but each bedroom opens out to a private verandah with magnificent views.

Kandy Cottage

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A congenial atmosphere pervades Kandy Cottage, a simple Kandy guesthouse popular with artists and nature lovers. There are three bedrooms and a dining room and the small garden is alive with animal and bird life.

Mahaweli Reach

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An intriguing mix of aristocratic Kandyan and colonial gives Mahawelli Reach a certain cachet: sumptious, refined yet not too stuffy. Its public areas are spotless, its buffets arguably the finest in town and a huge outdoor pool licks alongside the the tasteful terraced restaurant.

Manor House

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Manor House is a Kandy heritage property of 14 rooms, originally built in 1884 and now fully refurbished. Once the home of the Nugawala family – the chief custodians at one time, of the sacred tooth relic in the Temple of the Tooth -- the Manor House is an extensive property with a large, well-kept garden and swimming pool.

Queens Hotel

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Queen’s Hotel, situated in the heart of Kandy has an enviable location just opposite the famous Temple of the Tooth. This colonial property was once the residence of a British governor and is slowly being restored under new management. It has a privileged view of the annual Kandy Perehera, one of Asia’s most spectacular cultural pageants.

Randholee

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Randholee translates as a favoured means of transport for royalty in the Kandyan kingdom. Royalty would have settled for this setting. The 25-room hotel lies in tranquil, wooded surroundings, 15 minutes drive above the Sri Lanka hill-country capital of Kandy, and is blessed with great views of the city and surrounding hills.

Rangala House

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Rangala House is a converted tea estate bungalow in the Knuckles range of mountains. The Knuckles provide a majestic backdrop and in front you can gaze over the luminous, tea-covered hills of the Dukwari Estate. Watch the sunrise over the peaks, relax by the pool amidst abundant tropical foliage and birdsong, or go on walks in stunning rural scenery.

Samadhi Centre

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Samadhi is a Buddhist term, and is achieved by meditating upon one of 40 different topics, such as mindfulness of breathing (anapanasati) and loving kindness (metta). Upon achieving samadhi, the mind becomes calm, concentration is enhanced and you are prepared to discover reality, eventually obtaining release from all suffering. The Samadhi Centre was built in this spirit, created from an abandoned tea plantation on the edge of the Dumbara valley by Waruna Jayasinghe, antique dealer, organic farmer and erstwhile hippy.

Sanctuary

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Sanctuary, situated on the beautiful Victoria Golf & Country Resort near Kandy, is blessed with magnificent views over Victoria reservoir, the golf course and the surrounding hills. This beautiful three-bedroom villa has light, contemporary interiors and spectacular views over Sri Lanka’s Knuckles mountains. It also has a swimming pool.

Serendip Stone Bungalow

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Serendip is a refurbished colonial bungalow set in peaceful and tranquil surroundings. Its vegetarian-meals only policy will delight many and may even give the doubters a chance for a different culinary experience. This old stone bungalow has been caringly revived by a Sri Lankan / Dutch couple, maintaining the old architectural features and infusing them with elements of contemporary design. Interiors are stylish with soothing neutral colours, blend of antiques and modern furniture, cooling cement floors, wooden pillars and verandahs.

Suisse Hotel

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For those seeking a sense of old colonial at a great price, Suisse Hotel fits the bill. Dark wooden panelling and floors predominate in a traditional hotel that slows your step and transports you back in time. A central position, a few metres from Kandy lake, adds to its appeal, but do not expect too many modern, high-tech comforts.

Swiss Residence

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The Swiss Residence, a Sri Lankan hotel with a Swiss touch, is a hospitable, mid-range Kandy hotel situated in a peaceful and verdant cliffside location high above the hubbub of the town centre. Kandy';s hotels promote a relaxed and peaceful atmosphere, but the Swiss residencde is comparatively lively and even has its own nightclub.

Tamarind Lodge

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Tamarind Lodge is an exquisite boutique hotel, a fusion of Asian and colonial design, in the grounds of Victoria Golf & Country Resort, which manages the property. It is divided into two wings that gaze over the pool, immaculate lawn and terrace. Six airy, stylish rooms have classical furniture, balconies with mountain views and sleek bathrooms.

Tatties Hole

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Tattie's Hole is a delightful apartment in Sri Lanka’s central highlands in the beautiful estate of the Victoria Golf and Country Resort. It is attached to a larger house owned by an English couple, both club members. With a gateway onto the third fairway, the property is 10 minutes walk from the clubhouse. Breakfast under a garden pagoda.

The Kandy House

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The Kandy House is a brilliant small boutique hotel capable of offering stylish and private accommodation, personal service, and delicious food - all in a stunningly beautiful natural setting. This typical walauwa’, or manor house , has been refurbished to blend the old with the new- light white interiors, polished hardwood floorboards, Jack wood staircase, Dutch style antique furniture and careful injections of colour. The bedrooms are the finest in Kandy, with four-poster beds, soft white linen, concrete-washed bathrooms and Victorian bathtubs. The freshwater infinity pool in the garden provides an irresistible opportunity to unwind and relax under the shade of tropical trees.

Theva Residency

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Theva, Kandy’s latest independent property, has been coined an ‘Exclusive Residency’ by its owners – a Sri Lanka family with substantial hotel management experience. The simple idea is a private and luxurious ‘home away from home’, a formula based on providing guests with a unique 'non-hotel’ like experience whist pampering them with modern luxurious living, exotic cuisine and personalised service in a serene natural environment.

Thilanka Hotel

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Thilanka Hotel sits in the foothills of Udawattakelle nature reserve, with most rooms offering a picturesque view of Kandy lake. This 3-star hotel began life as a private house, built by a wealthy Kandyan towards the end of the colonial era. It has since been extended by a six-storey new wing and offers a surprisingly rural feel for a town-centre setting.

Tree of Life

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Tree of Life is a tranquil eco hotel which rests in the hills, close to Kandy. The hotel sprawls across 64 acres of woody, hilly terrain, a haven of solitude where guests prefer dawn nature walks to noisier pleasures. Cottages are built into the hillside, and the new wing commands splendid views. An individualistic hotel with Ayurvedic philosophy at its heart.

Victoria Golf Chalets

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Victoria Golf & Country Resort has two sets of chalets: Victoria and Knuckles. The four Victoria chalets enjoy grandstand views of the 17th Tee and the mountains beyond. The two Knuckles chalets are also well placed to enjoy the mountain views. Both sets of one-bedroom chalets are located just minutes from the clubhouse.

Villa Rosa

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Villa Rosa is a tasteful six-room property, five minutes from Kandy town, with stunning views high above the broad Mahaweli River. Rooms are comfortable, tastefully furnished and with a sense of privacy for such a small hotel. Public areas are tranquil, with a small library, classical music in the background and dinner by candelight.

Weir House

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Weir House is a luxurious four-bedroom villa situated amidst tranquil gardens and by a gurgling stream at the base of Ulapane Mountain, 45 minutes into the central highlands from Kandy. Named after a weir that is located upstream, this is a blissfully peaceful mountain retreat. The house is on a six-acre estate and interiors are a mix of contemporary minimalist design stylishly infused with Sri Lankan and Indian touches. Weir House can accommodate up to 10 guests and is rented to one party at a time.

White House

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The White House is a modern villa at Sri Lanka’s renowned Victoria Golf & Country Resort. It is split into two apartments, one on each floor. Situated just ten minutes walk to the clubhouse and close to the Tattie's Hole apartment, this would be an ideal base for a larger group wishing to occupy both properties.

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