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Born of AMAYA era
Connissance Resorts recently re-launched their brand as Amaya Resorts and Spas. This new concept is an initiative to further manifest the company's Sri Lankan roots while at the same time identifying its offerings as boutique level products. Amaya - the Sanskrit word for reality and non-illusion - has been named as such because it offers its customers the best of the country's indigenous cultural and ecological heritages.

This new brand has been carried across all of the company's resorts and spas, with improvements in facade, products offered and service standards showing the Amaya's enhanced commitment to its customers.

The impact of this new service standard will be immediately apparent as the company's properties in Kandalama (formerly called Culture Club), Kandy (formerly called Le Kandyan), Hikkaduwa (formerly called The Reef), and Ayurevedic Health Centres located at each facility now take on the Amaya persona.

Kandalama will now feature the Amaya Lake and Kandy will host the Amaya Hills while Hikkaduwa will be the location for the Amaya Reef. Although each persona will continue to have its own unique vista, the changes will reflect more product offerings, such as spas at all resorts, and higher service standards through the retraining of all staff.

There will so be an added emphasis on offering customers a greater cultural experience by increasing the number of opportunities to learn about Sri Lanka through visits to heritage sites, museums, villages and similar sites of interest.
Amaya Lake is a resort designed to invoke the cultural heritage of the Kandalama region. In the centre of Sri Lanka's cultural triangle, the resort is within easy access of all cultural and archaeological sites of Sri Lanka.

omprising 92 air conditioned luxury chalets with all the amenities and the 12 lodges in the Eco-Village nearby, the resort also offers customers a large variety of opportunities for cultural and recreational activities such as Ayurvedic health centres, visits to gem mines, wild life safaris, fresh water fishing trips and more traditional option such as the facility of a swimming pool, boating, tennis courts, etc.

Amaya Hills is designed to manifest the cultural heritage of Sri Lanka's last kingdom of Kandy. With easy access to cultural attractions such as the Kandy Perehera, the botanical gardens in Peradeniya, the Dalada Maligawa and Nuwara Eliya, the resort has 100 rooms with each featuring a picturesque view of the forested hills of Heerassagala.

Guests at this facility will also have access to a multitude of recreational settings such as spas, restaurants serving international and local cuisine, a tea cafe, swimming pool, several bars including on jazz/Karaoke bar, and Kandy's most popular night club called "Le Garage". The easy access to Kandy's heritage sites allows visitors to the region staying at Amaya Hills the freedom to explore this region extensively. Aside from being easily accessible, the Kandyan foothills are also the most tourist friendly areas of the island with friendly helpful people, a multitude of cultural and colonial landmarks. There are more traditional activities like tennis, squash, hiking, etc., to suit the mood of any guest, with the Kandy Golf Club also located close by.

Amaya Reef is a resort designed to provide the best of Sri Lanka's seaside culture along with the vista of the wide blue expanse of the Indian ocean. Located in sunny Hikkaduwa within easy reach of the cultural and archaeological sites of the south , this 54, room resort and spa offers guests a wide variety of facilities for their vacation. Experiences include excursions to places of interest such as Galle, the Martin Wickramasinghe Folk Museum in Koggala, stiltfishing in Ahangama, the world famous Singharaja rain forest, the "Madu Ganga' safari in Balapitiya, the turtle hatchery in Kosgoda, water sports in Bentota, deap sea fishing from catamarans in Hikkaduwa or Galle, a train tour to Matara, and a moonstone mine in Meetiyagoda.

The resort also features a myriad of water and land sports, a pub and a night club. Ayurvedic Health Centres are spas featuring a range of age old herbal therapies at each resort location. Utilising indigenous herbs and other items like milk, oil, etc., the facilities offer massages, baths and treatments to soothe and relax all worries to make the vacation a treat for the senses.
In addition, all Amaya Resorts and Spas are MICE enabled so they geared to provide the atmosphere and the space conducive to corporate learning such as committee rooms, conference and seminar facilities, etc, They also have a range of wedding packages available for foreigners and locals to enhance their wedding experience.

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