The Grand Hotel

Decorated with a relaxing and modern style, these Edwardian-styled rooms offer sophistication and ambience for guests just looking for a place to rest and recuperate. The thoughtful blend of charm and exuberance ensures that even the shortest visits become a nostalgic memory.

Room Specifications:

• 400 sq. ft
• King-size bed
• Grand Breakfast
• Bath Robe
• Slippers
• Branded Toiletries
• Wi-Fi
• Television
• Hairdryer
• Lighted make-up/shaving mirror
• In-room heater
• In-room safe
• Iron and ironing board
• Minibar
• Smoke Detector
• Key Door Lock System
• Tea/coffee maker
• Down duvets and pillows

The heritage of the Hotel is combined here with design aesthetics, ensuring that the Junior Suites promise comfort and relaxation in their purest form. These bright and spacious suites come with breathtaking views that seduce the senses, offering the emotional luxury the traveler desires.

Room Specifications:

• 826 sq. ft
• King-size bed
• Grand breakfast
• Bath Robe
• Slippers (pairs)
• Down duvets and pillows
• Wi-Fi
• Lighted make-up/shaving mirror
• Branded toiletries
• In-room Heater
• In-room Safe
• Iron and ironing board
• Minibar
• Smoke Detector
• Key Door Lock System
• Tea/Coffee Maker
• Living Area
• Sofa
• Dining Area
• Fruits Basket
• Butler Service
• Hairdryer

Rediscover serenity as you step into our sensational Presidential Suites, where contemporary facets are mingled with the British architecture to offer a private haven of peace and tranquility. Staying here is nothing less than an iconic experience.

Room Specifications:

• 1260 sq. ft
• King-size bed
• Grand Breakfast
• Bath Robe
• Wi-Fi
• Down duvets and pillows
• Hair dryer
• Slippers (pairs)
• Lighted make-up/Shaving Mirror
• Branded Toiletries
• In-room heater
• In-room safe
• Iron and Ironing Board
• Minibar
• Smoke Detector
• Key Door Lock System
• Tea/coffee maker
• Two Bed Rooms
• Living Room
• Dining Room
• Kitchenette
• Fruits and sweets
• Butler Service

Named after Sir Edward Barnes, the founder of this luxury resort in Nuwara Eliya, Barnes Hall is a grandiose setting that offers a repertoire of culinary creations from across the globe. Guests can enjoy watching their favourite dishes being made in front of their very eyes in this magnificently styled buffet restaurant.

The Grand Indian offers guests the chance to explore the unique culinary delights of Sri Lanka’s neighbours. The menu is a journey of flavour that spans the subcontinent, making each delicacy a treat for your tongue’s tastebuds.

The Grand Thai offers guests a truly authentic Thai experience, a paradise of scent, sight and sound. The tantalising flavours of Thai cuisine makes this an exotic and luxurious dining option.

Sophisticated dining, traditional English interiors and ancient artefacts all come together at the Magnolia all-day restaurant to provide you with a nostalgic atmosphere. Savour your favourite international delicacy, as presented by the Grand Hotel’s culinary experts, in their own inimitable style.

Witness the Barnes Fusion Grill as it comes alive with colourful shisha, sizzling Asian and Arabic fusion cuisine, and a sumptuous wine selection.

The Tea Lounge is a stylish semi-outdoor venue, serving the best of best teas in a classic British style, accompanied with a delightful array of cakes, scones and savouries. The Grand Tea Lounge is a quintessentially British experience and this makes it one of the favourite rendezvous in town.

Revel in the serenity of a resplendent Coffee Bar, offering cafe-style seating that allows you to bear witness to the beauty of Nuwara Eliya. Enjoy a rich coffee experience, complemented by freshly baked treats that perfectly accompany the beverage.

This pub-style offering features intricate interior design that exudes personality and decadence combined with heavenly, classical fare which brings an international feel to the Bar. It is mix of worlds and that makes it one of the most vibrant and interesting places to spend your evening at.

Prepare your tastebuds for a pageant of aromatic wines from around the world. The Grand Hotel offers access to an exclusive wine bar and cellar selection of delicate wines, set to the tone of yesteryear. Do not forego a trip to this sumptuous Bar during your stay in Sri Lanka.

The Grand Hotel’s Mindfulness Studio is a calming, gentle place with the sole purpose of soothing your mind, body and soul. Using methods such as music therapy and yoga, a trip to the studio will help you find peace and be at one with the mountain, ensuring that you come out the other side feeling fresh and relaxed. A perfect place to visit for anyone with feelings of stress or tension.

The Grand Spa is committed to giving guests a magnificent spa experience with unique elements and natural aromas. The Spa is operated by Coco Spa, who have several Spas in a number of five-star hotels across Sri Lanka.

Coco Spa uses their own line of blended pure massage oils and authentic herbal cosmetics made in Sri Lanka from only the finest natural ingredients: exotic oils, fragrances, spices, herbs, flowers and fruits. The two Balinese therapists have been trained in the Coco Spa school. Give you mind and body the treat it deserves with a visit to this incredible Spa.

Come take a dip in the heated indoor swimming pool, perfectly adjusted to ensure that your swim is as pleasant as possible.

The fully-equipped Gym is another component of the Mindfulness Studio which gives guests the opportunity to indulge in weight management, muscle building or toning exercises and ensure that their progress at home isn’t lost during their stay.

The Gym is surrounded by glass windows, giving users an incredible view of the surrounding garden as they exercise. The fully conversant Personal Trainer is always on hand to provide any guidance, instructions etc. if you are struggling with any part of your routine.

1: Responsible

• “Continuous Staff training on responsible care on the Environment & Social aspects. Continuously include the staff participation for the Environment & Social activities.

2. Re–Think

• Introduction of “NO BIN DAY” and every member has to consume whatever he/she has served to his/her plate, as there is no Waste Bin kept in the dine the staff restaurant on the said day. So, each staff member has to be mindful about how much they could consume. This effort saves approximately 2028kg of food waste per year.
• Avoiding polythene and Styrofoam for Christmas decoration

3. Refuse

• Stopped using centre pull paper roll and kitchen paper in kitchen department
• Stopped usage of paper serviettes in the hotel staff dine area

4. Reduce

• Partnering with suppliers to reduce non–degradable packaging material. To coincide with our Food Safety Management System, our suppliers were educated on the standards they should adopt in packaging of supplies and also initiatives of minimising non–degradable packaging material. The introduction of colour-coded re–usable crates for vegetables, meat and dry goods, the reduction in the use of polythene in fish are some of the changes made in our receiving process
• With the introduction of the show kitchen, live cooking stations and the Fusion Grill, the flow of operation was engineered to produce high quality food product made to order in front of the guest ( a la minute). This resulted in an unprecedented decrease in wastage, as the final process of cooking was executed only on demand. This resulted in the overall reduction in the food requisition and consequently a monetary gain by the reduction of waste.
• Single use of paper –avoid the use of sugar sachets and use sugar cube and avoid use of 132,606 number of PE coated Paper stick bags and save Rs.190,566 annually.

5. Reuse

• A total of 136,705 kg of wet wastage was reused during the year 2018/19. The Hotel farm consisting of 275 pigs absorbs an average of 374 kgs of Kitchen wet waste per day

6. Repair

• In–house engineering team or outside contractor takes maximum efforts to repair equipment when broken or damaged without buying new equipment. Grand Hotel Practices the Preventive maintenance system to early identify the equipment breakdown and increase the life of the equipment.

7. Reclaim

• Grand Hotel annually organises an auction for staff to buy old equipment, furniture and other items.

8. Replace

• Straw Upon Request –From 2018 Grand hotel has decided to refrain from providing straws with the drinks served. Customers who want a straw could still get non–plastic paper straw, but employees would only provide straws upon request of the customer. Yearly saving more than 70,000 plastic straw ending up in landfill.
• Discontinued polythene in housekeeping department and kitchen department and used reusable cloth bag and reusable containers.
• Introduced eco–friendly food take away box

9. Refill

• In the Housekeeping department individual bottles of shampoo, body lotion and conditioner were replaced with re–fillable bottles, which have drastically reduced the generation of plastic waste from 154 guest rooms.

10. Rot

• Composting Tea Waste, used Coffee Grounds & Garden Waste in on site or send to the compost cycle available in the

11. Recycle

• Recycling of solid waste in the form of cardboard, plastic bottles, metals, tin, e–waste & polythene is done with the collaboration of a contractor who delivers them to the respective recycling facilities on a regular basis.
• Waste iron is segregated according to iron type and gage to sell at higher price

12. Reward

• Identify staff who support for 12R and other responsible care and rewards them by identification certificates to motivate them and other for future activities.”

“The Green Bank encompasses the Grand Hotel Waste Management Centre which is an
important element of environmental protection and provides hygienic, efficient and economic solid waste storage, collection, transportation and treatment or disposal of waste without polluting the atmosphere, soil or water system.”

“‘No No Sili Sili’ is a movement created by a group of colleagues employed at Grand Hotel with the intention of eradicating the use of single use plastic bags in Nuwara Eliya. The Movement was initiated with a group of 7 youngsters who strived to bring in the concept of “rejecting” single use plastic bags and using alternatives.

Now the group is assisted by 165 youngsters employed at the Grand Hotel who are the “Grand Millennials” and support the endeavor wholeheartedly. The group was created on the 7th of July 2019.”

“The Grand Hotel Sustainability COMPASS is designed to manage the three pillars of sustainability. In 2018 Grand Hotel released its first version of sustainability COMPASS embedding 14 committees which was executed for two years.

The different initiatives from these committees contributed immensely towards creating a huge impact on Environment, Social and economic. As of this year, we have navigated towards the release of the second version reengineering it to 12 committees.

Although the number of committees were reduced, the scope of coverage was enhanced. In order further impact the three pillars in sustainability. The Sustainability COMPASS connects and makes partnerships with all these committees in an attempt to achieve the goals. We believe sustainability COMPASS is the next generation of key development of the Grand.

Why is it named as the Sustainability COMPASS. The initiatives cover Nature(N), Economy(E), Wellbeing(W) & Social (S) directions.

Each committee has representation from each department in the hotel with specific objectives and goals for year 2021. Sustainability COMPASS aims at covering all United Nations 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs).”

“Setting in motion the wheels for a sustainable future, from within their own halls, Grand Hotel uses reusable cloth garbage bags and recyclable bedroom amenities, focusing on a future free of single-use plastic.”

“Creating a community of conservation, led by a Senior Naturalist, focused on the well-being of the environment, Grand Hotel in Sri Lanka pledges to continue the responsible management of the planet’s natural resources through projects that focus on heritage, such as Lake Gregory, Galways Bird Sanctuary, Horton Plains National Reserve, etc.”

“The promise made by Grand Hotel, Nuwara Eliya to protect endangered and near threatened species has led to a preserved forested area. Here resides a variety of species of Birds, Butterflies, Dragonflies, Pygmy Lizards and predators such as the Leopard.”

“From organic animal farms to self-sustaining environments, Grand Hotel’s expansive farms have become home to pigs, cattle, rabbits, chicken and an additional array of friendly farm animals. Grand Hotel has taken a stoic stance in its efforts towards 100% sustainability and green care.”