Many travellers considered Hunas Falls Hotel as one of the most scenic spots in the country. Hunas Falls provides an astonishing setting for the Jetwing Hunas Falls Hotel.
Hunas Falls Hotel is popularly branded as one of the top honeymoon destinations in Sri Lanka. Situated in the highlands of 123 acres in Elkaduwa in Matale District about 3000 feet above the sea level, Hunas Falls Hotel is indeed an ideal hideaway for newly weds.
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| GM Gemunu Sri Lal |
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| W. M. N. W. Bandara |
This Valentine month, Jetwing Management has decide to offer many attractions to the newly weds as well as old wed families. The most outstanding offer for the month of February is 50% off for those, who have spent their honeymoon earlier.
‘We offer half of the normal rate for the families of all the ex-honeymooners. If you have spent your honeymoon at this hotel wuring the period of past 40 years, you are eligible to enjoy the half rate of current price for you and your family’ said Gemunu Sri Lal, the veteran General Manager of the hotel.
Apart from this, newly wedded couples are entitled for special honeymoon package, which includes full board accommodation, romantic boat ride at the Hunas Lake with special cocktails and candle lit dinner with private butler service at any location of their choice.
‘We really want to give something special for the honeymooners, this month, because, rest of the year is too like Valentine for us’ he added. ‘The hotel is still a honeymooner’s paradise. Our clientele is majority Sri Lankan based and about 70% keeps all the time’ said Indika Gamage, the Front Office Manager of the hotel.
Built in early seventies against the Hunasgiriya Mountain Range in the Hunasgiriya Tea Estate, the hotel is now managed by Jetwing hotels. The Hotel comprises of 28 rooms and two suites - Highlander, Katsura on Japanese theme and one on Royal Scottish theme.
Since lately Hunas Falls is being promoted as eco friendly nature hotel, which is surrounded by a variety of habitats, grassland, woodland, streams and waterfalls. Hunas Falls Hotel is committed not only to preserving nature but also to enhance the naturalness of the environment.
‘The Hotel practices responsible environmental management that reduces, reuses and recycles the natural resources’ said W. M. N. W. Bandara, the naturalist, man behind the green story of the hotel.
Hunas Falls practices HACCP (Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points) programme , which covers related areas such as preventive maintenance and monitoring of equipment, pest control, and waste management.
Nature tours are popular amongst overseas visitors. The Hotel has introduces a few trails, tours and walks, specially designed for nature lovers.
Simpson trail, Shaheen trail, Mount Hunnasgiriya trail, twilight and night walks, tour to a tea factory, excursions to Sembuwatta rainforest, Puhuarambe rainforest tour, excursion to Meemure, Knuckles and Nitre Caves, Corbets Gap, Wasgamuwa National Park, Aluwihara Kitchens and Peradeniya Botanical Garden are some of the top attractions.
Simpson’s Forest is a small sub-Montane forest patch in the Hunnasgiriya Mountain extending towards the Wattegama-Elkaduwa road, located at an elevation of about 1300 metres above sea level.
‘Also we have found and have recorded 121 species of birds and wout of 17 are endemic. So bird watching too is so popular’ Bandara said.
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