Alpine turns 100

Alpine Hotel, Nuwara Eliya will celebrate its 100th year of operations.

Chairman Mahinda Dodampegamage said that to mark the occasion, construction work will commence shortly to add 32 deluxe guest rooms with all modern facilities, but retain the 'old world charm' and the colonial look of the hotel.

Dodampegamage who is concerned about the colonial structure of the hotel, said that adding another 32 to the 30 rooms, will not change the present design of the hotel. He said that more unemployed youth of Nuwara Eliya will be offered employment at the hotel soon.

"Each day we light up the 100-year old chimney at the main lobby and also in some of the guest rooms," he said. Dodampegamage said that the hotel was built during the British era. The first owner was his grandmother after which the hotel was vested with his mother, who gifted it to him.

The pool table at the hotel is one of its kind inNuwara Eliya. A novel feature of the hotel is that tourists are offered a eight-hour 'waterfall tour' which covers over 14 beautiful waterfalls in and around Nuwara-Eliya.

"Some Sri Lankans too do not know that there are over 14 beautiful waterfalls in and around Nuwara Eliya," he said.

This waterfall tour is a unique feature which is enjoyed not only by foreign tourists, but Sri Lankans too.

Guests at Alpine Hotel get a panoramic view of the beautiful mountains and waterfalls which surround Nuwara Eliya.