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Wornels Reef reborn as Bay of Beruwela by Jayampathy Jayasinghe Wornels Reef Ltd, a subsidiary of the Colombo Fort Hotels Ltd, refurbished at a cost of Rs 300 will be re-launched in December to cater to up market tourists visiting the country during the winter season next month. The new hotel has been named as "The Bay of Beruwela ". This was announced at a media briefing held at Club Palm Bay Marawila last week by officials of the Colombo Fort Hotels Ltd, that owns Wornels Reef Ltd. The refurbished hotel which has a room capacity of 105 with 4 spacious suites is located in a sprawling eight acre property at the picturesque Golden mile stretch at Beruwela. Colombo Fort Hotels Director Operations, Nishadar Periya Perumal said the hotel has been designed in such a way to provide tired guests mostly with jet lag time to relax a bit before checking into their rooms. The guests arriving at the hotel's entrance are escorted through a rain forest full of butterflies to a enclosure where a tea ceremony is performed in the presence of Percussionist and a Flutist. Thereafter the guests are escorted to the main lobby area which can accommodate around 350-400 persons. Colombo Fort Hotels Director, T. Thiyagamoorthy said a remarkable feature of the hotel is that from every room, a panoramic view of the ocean could be observed. The other features include a well laid out restaurant from where the Rain Forest and the Ocean could be viewed. Palms, an air conditioned 24 hour coffee shop with glass panelled to view the lobby area, an open air theatre, Fisherman Warf, a speciality sea food restaurant on the beach, an elevated beer garden giving a scenic view of the ocean, a pub and a library with pool tables a state of the art Business Centre, a large fresh water pool along with a kiddies pool and a well designed Ayurvedic centre. ************** Luxury resort to lure tourists The signing of a MoU between Fortress Resorts Limited and Per Aquum Resort and Spas has given the latter the management of Fortress Resorts Limited a luxury boutique styled hotel. Fortress Resorts is a two storey building modeled on Dutch architecture and will comprise 40 luxury suites and two presidential suites.Built at a cost of Rs.700 million by the Connaissance Holding Ltd, this luxury boutique style hotel is located conveniently in the vicinity of the Koggala airport and spans across 3.3 acres of land with 600 feet of beach frontage.Operations will start next winter. Managing Director, Per Aquum Resort and Spa,Tom Mcloughlin said, "we are delighted to bring the Fortress into the per Aquum collection.Sri Lanka is showing tremendous potential for growth and we believe that Per Aquum's management experience combined with that of Fortress Resort Ltd will ensure that Fortress becomes Sri Lanka's premium resort." He said that they hope to provide 125 direct job opportunities through this venture. Deputy Chairman,Connaissance Holdings Dhammika Perera said under the Per Aquum's experienced direction the Fortress will bring unsurpassed levels of design ,service and hospitality to Sri Lanka whilst retaining a truly natural environment. The Fortress Resorts was formally known as Hotel Club Horizon which was demolished and rebuilt. (CM) ************** Bonus miles on Cathay Cathay Pacific Airways is offering a travel promotion for round trip tickets on their flights operated to - Colombo/Singapore/Colombo, Colombo/Bangkok/Colombo and Colombo/Hong Kong/Colombo - and multi destination tickets such as Cathay's unique and highly popular Colombo/Bangkok/ Singapore/Colombo v.v routing. The promotion, which is from October 25 December 6 offers double miles for passengers who are members of the airlines "Asia Miles" frequent flyer program. New members who join & fly on Cathay during the promotional period are in for an additional bonanza. They will be entitled to an additional 2000 miles on top of the double miles offer. Membership of the Asia Miles programe is free and passengers who are not yet members can enroll by accessing the Asia Miles website at www.asiamiles.com And that's not all. At the end of the promotional period a lucky draw will be held for all Asia Miles members who have flown with Cathay Pacific during the promotional period. A total of 100,000 Asia Miles will be up for grabs! They will be shared amongst three winners as follows: 1st Prize - 50,000 Asia Miles (enough to redeem a round trip ticket Colombo to Hong Kong in Business class),2nd Prize - 35,000 Asia miles (enough to redeem a round trip ticket Colombo to Bangkok in Economy class),3rd Prize - 15,000 Asia Miles (enough to redeem a round trip ticket from Hong Kong to Taipei in Economy class). "Everyone's a winner with this promotion" says Ed Higgs, Country Manager Sri Lanka & Maldives - "Anyone who takes advantage of the offer can return from their trip with enough Asia miles to make them want to start planning their next trip on Cathay Pacific early in the New Year". Bonus Asia Miles will be credited to the passenger's account within four to six weeks after the promotion ends. |
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