ARALIYA GREEN HILLS
FIVE YEARS OF EXCELLENCE
Seated atop mountains, 6200 feet above sea level, Nuwara Eliya is now experiencing a much needed cooler climate and ringing the bells for the coming Festive Season. After a heavy downpour during the past few weeks, Little England has boomed with greenery and is unexaggeratedly scenic. Rains bring not only the true colour of Nuwara Eliya, but also the large number of guests too who love to enjoy a glimpse of European climate. Celebrating five excellent years in December, Araliya Green Hills
Hotel has walked a long way to reach the top rank in the District. The Green Hills Hotel of Araliya group is a sensational four-star hotel that makes guests feel like home away from home, mainly because of their ‘five star’ service and cuisine.
‘Nuwara Eliya has finally got a five star accommodation where you can totally be yourself with the best of everything’, said Pradeep Sooriyaarachchi, the
General Manager of the hotel.
Each room is a cocoon of absolute comfort where your senses are appeased and spoiled at the same time. It offers well-designed rooms festooned with every amenity imaginable, which provide the truest forms of luxury accommodation imaginable in Nuwara Eliya. Araliya Green Hills Hotel boasts a total of one hundred and sixty luxury rooms, including one Royal Suite, four Presidential Suites on its fourth
floor, nine Super Deluxe and 146 Deluxe rooms.
Facilitated with all the right modern amenities and comforters, the Araliya Green Hills Royal
Suite is one of the best enclosed luxury rooms with all modern amenities, which will create beautiful memories for a lifetime.
With vast space, expensive tapestries and artistic interior concepts, the finest timber furnishings and the greenest freshest views of Nuwara Eliya, the Presidential Suites definitely hypnotise guests, with the unbreakable charm of the Hotel Green Hills. All the rooms are beautifully furnished with imported furnishings and fittings to create a cosy and comfortable ambience that compliments the climate of Nuwara Eliya. In addition to the mini-bar and complementary tea/coffee making facilities, the rooms also come with heaters, safety lockers, and piped music. For the convenience of the guests, a control panel has been installed by the bedside table of each room. Featuring a bathtub and free bath amenities are en suite.
‘Our Chefs, whose culinary skills have been honed to perfection, are well versed in preparing up a meal fit for royalty. Whatever your appetite desires, our chefs led by Executive Chef Milroy
Nanayakkara will not disappoint. Satiate your hunger for fine fusion cuisine at our Fine Dining Restaurant or wrap your taste buds around some tantalising short eats from our Coffee Shop, which is open around the clock’ explained Krishan Koddippilli, the Operations Manager of the Hotel.
The main Glen Fall Restaurant offers a gourmet selection of Eastern, Western and
Sri Lankan cuisine. The Marigold a la carte restaurant just off the main lobby offers the most discerning of travellers a tempting choice of dishes in a classy setting.
The main High Forest bar is just off the coffee shop where the hotel's main buffet set up offers all guests a great chance to indulge in Asian and Western delights specially prepared by the hotel's Executive Chef, Milroy Nanayakkara.
‘If the cool climate makes you just want to snuggle in bed, we are ready to serve your favourite cuisine in your own room’ added Chef Nanayakkara.
‘To complete the plot in delivering one of the best holidays in Sri Lanka, we have opened up our heated swimming pool, where guests can dive in and splash around the entire day, breathing the freshest air from the mountains. Other main features of the property include the second to none Horton’s Wine Bar on the 4th floor with a gym and Spa as well,’ said GM Pradeep.
Araliya Spa offers pampering spa treatments or a soothing traditional massage. Guests can go mountain cycling, trekking, hiking and horse riding too. There’s much to explore in Nuwara Eliya, for the adventurous souls, a walk into town will take you to shops selling fresh local produce and vendors displaying their lovely collection of bright and colourful flowers. The Racecourse, Golf Club and the red bricked post office are residues of a bygone era which are now viewed as architectural masterpieces.
‘From a trek to Horton Plains, a visit to the Hakgala Botanical Gardens or Ambewala Farm and Lover’s Leap, there’s much to see up in Nuwara Eliya district. Excursions could be organised to Horton Plains, Hakgala Gardens and a number of other historical, religious and tourist sites from the Hotel on request’ GM Pradeep said..
Seetha Amman Kovil, Sri Baktha Hanuman Kovil, Galway Forest Reserve, Victoria Park, Lover's Leap, Piduruthalagala and Moon Plains are some of the popular attractions. ‘To maintain the same uncompromising commitment to the highest standards of business ethics that has sustained the good name of this property and to become the preferred destination in the Hill Country is our main aim’, explained General Manager Sooriyaarachchi.
The room rates at Araliya Green Hills range from Rs 22,000/- (BBS), 25,000/(FBD) to Rs 32,000/- (FBD). The triple FB rate is Rs 38,000/-. For more details call 0522224150/59, 0777770479 or log onto www.araliyagreenhills.com