Araliya Green Hills

Araliya Green Hills sits on Glenfall Road in the heart of Nuwara Eliya, within easy reach of the town's central shopping streets, Victoria Park and the Nuwara Eliya Golf Club. Where several of the town's best-known names are converted colonial residences or planters' clubs, Araliya Green Hills is a purpose-built modern hotel, and at around 160 rooms it is one of the larger properties in a town where most hotels run to a few dozen.

That scale shows in the facilities. The hotel runs two restaurants and a spa offering aromatherapy and body treatments, and, notably for a town at nearly 1,900 metres where evenings turn cold year-round, an indoor pool — a genuine convenience in a hill-station climate where outdoor pools go largely unused. Rooms are fitted with the amenities expected of a four-star city hotel: work desks, in-room safes, laptop-friendly workspaces and round-the-clock room service, a level of consistency across a large room count that smaller boutique properties in the town cannot always match.

The hotel is part of the Araliya group, which operates a small chain of properties across Sri Lanka, and its Nuwara Eliya branch is positioned as a comfortable, no-surprises base for exploring the town rather than a destination in its own right. That makes it a practical choice for travellers who want central-Nuwara Eliya convenience — walking distance to the lake, the park and the shops — without booking into one of the smaller heritage properties that dominate the town's higher-end listings, and it is a useful option for groups or families who need a run of similar rooms together rather than a scattering of individually characterful ones.

Nuwara Eliya itself is Sri Lanka's best-known hill station, developed by British planters from the mid-nineteenth century around tea cultivation and a cooler, European-feeling climate that earned it the old nickname "Little England". Much of the town's charm still comes from that legacy of parks, a historic golf course and mock-Tudor architecture built to recall a home climate the colonists had left behind. Victoria Park itself, a short walk from the hotel, dates back to the same colonial period and remains one of the best-tended public gardens in the country, laid out with flowerbeds and mature trees that flower through much of the year thanks to the town's unusually cool climate for a tropical island.

Araliya Green Hills gives guests a comfortable, modern base inside that setting, with the practical amenities of a bigger hotel rather than the period character of its smaller colonial-era neighbours, and its central position means the town's landmarks are a walk rather than a drive away. For travellers who would rather spend their stay exploring the town than admiring the hotel building itself, that combination of scale, modern comfort and central location is the property's main appeal.

Your transfer to Araliya Green Hills

The nearest hotel on this site is The Hill Club in Grand Hotel Road, a few minutes on foot.