Travel / Lifestyle

Chaaya Citadel Kandy awarded three ISO certifications

Chaaya Citadel Kandy recently received three ISO certifications - ISO 22000; 2005 for Food Safety Management, ISO 14001 for its environment and OHSAS 18001 for occupational health and safety.

ISO certifications are presented by the "International Organisation for Standardisation", the world's largest developer of standards. Such international standardisation occurs when a majority of products and services in an industry conform to standards set through careful analysis of specifications and criteria applying to various parts of the business.

Thus from a consumer's point of view, these certifications provide assurance about important factors such as quality, safety and reliability.

The most recent Chaaya hotel to be launched on September 23, 2006, Chaaya Citadel Kandy received these certifications not too long after Chaaya Village Habarana received the same certifications.

CEO, Chaaya Hotels and Resorts, Jayantissa Kehelpannala thanked everyone involved, especially the staff of the hotels, for their dedication and effort put in at all times to obtain these certifications.

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Double for Single offer

The ever popular "Double for Single" offer from May-July 2007 gives the opportunity for two guests to enjoy full board accommodation while only paying the price of a single room, therefore allowing two people to stay for the price of one!

For those who haven't already visited the newly rebranded Chaaya Village Habarana and Chaaya Citadel Kandy, this is the time to do so.

Wildlife enthusiasts can opt to stay at the Yala Village, while Coral Gardens Hikkaduwa is the ideal place to enjoy the sun and sand.

Elephant Corridor and Isle of Agnes go for trophy limousines

"Elephant Corridor" Hotel in its 4th Year, goes in not only for constant refurbishment but also enhancement. "The "Isle of Agnes" "our next Hotel will sell from US$1000 - US$ 10,000 but we believe it will be complimentary to our one of a kind hotel in the jungle, being on the beach" said a spokesperson for the hotel.

"As we increase our base rate by US$ 50 every year our Presidential Villa rates which we do not discount just like all our other rates, is over the "Isle of Agnes" base rate and sells at US$ 1,300.

"By the end of the year we hope to have Vintage and Classic Trophy Limousines at "Isle of Agnes" which will be open then and at "Elephant Corridor" for guest use.

A "Daimler" used by the Queen of England, an "Austin Princess" used by the Prime Minister of Ceylon and a "Jaguar" used by a Malaysian Prince are among the limousines owned by our Management Company "Tropical Leisure Management and its Chairman Prasanna W. Jayewardene and Deputy Chairman Ms. Susanne Filippin, the spokesperson said.

Moleskine's new City Notebooks for travellers launched

A new city notebook from Moleskine, the world's most celebrated notebook manufacturer, has arrived in Colombo offering those who travel for pleasure or work a way to organise and preserve information about cities into reliable guides.

The Moleskine City Notebook is described as the first travel guide you write yourself. it is beautifully designed with typical Moleskine attention to detail, enabling its user to create peerless travel guides for a lifetime of use. Because such travel guides would be redolent with the writer's personality, they would be cherished by loved ones who inherit them as repositories of emotions, taste preferences and opinions, the sole distributor of Moleskine in Sri Lanka, Thef:;llstop (The Fullstop) said.

Twelve Moleskine City Notebooks each dedicated to a popular European city are now on the shelves of the specialist stationer, Thefr:;llstop, months after they were introduced internationally to instant critical acclaim. The 12 cities are London, Paris, Rome, Milan, Vienna, Berlin, Amsterdam, Madrid, Lisbon, Barcelona, Prague and Dublin.

"This is an exciting new addition to our Moleskine notebook range," said Mrs. Lai Ming Ukwatte, of Thef:;llstop. "We have stocked the entire European City collection, and look forward to receiving the American collection of four cities, New York, Washington DC, San Francisco and Boston after they are launched in May".