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From its hush-hush hilltop setting, this beautiful seven-bedroom boutique hotel watches over the colourful chaos of Kandy.
This historic address, all quiet luxury and teak furnishings, is named after the elephants that used to graze on its lawns. You’ll find guests swimming in an outdoor pool that almost touches climbing trees and clinking glasses at sunset, seduced by views over Kandy’s hills. Rooms and suites are understated but elevated in design, with teak four-poster beds and huge windows letting tropical air waft in. Be the cat who got the cream with an upgrade to The Royal Luxury Suite, equivalent in size to a two-bed apartment and Sri Lanka’s largest ever tented bedroom.. Evenings are spent snuggling in the living room with classic movies and board games whilst the kids jump around on the space hopper, or padding over to the bar for a signature cocktail, jestfully called The Elephant UNstable.
Why we love Elephant Stables
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The cooler climate and cracking location make it easy to tick off Kandy’s Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic and the Sea of Milk.
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Your letter-perfect location, 15 minutes drive from Kandy, makes Hill Country tea estates and Cultural Triangle tours a breeze.
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This is a casual but plush pad to place your head. With the pool, garden lounge, reading room and living room, everything feels classy but chilled.
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It’s a firm family favourite, not only for the wow-factor jumbo-sized tent, but also offering additional beds in the other suites so the whole tribe can be accommodated.
Rooms
Rooms and suites are in two separate wings on the upper floors of the main estate, plus The Royal Luxury Suite and standalone bungalow a short distance from the hotel. All rooms, some with balconies, are elegantly decorated with beautifully crafted teak four-poster beds, flowing fabrics, pretty details and big windows. A third bed can be added to each suite and The Vanilla Suite has an interconnecting room featuring bunk beds.
Cosy room with a four-poster bed and a balcony with garden views. On the upper floor of the hotel.
- air-conditioning
- four-poster bed
- balcony
- television
On the upper floor of the hotel’s New Wing, with views of the gardens from the wrap-around veranda.
- air-conditioning
- four-poster bed (a third bed can be added on request)
- balcony
- television
On the top floor of the Colonial Wing and windows that overlook the pool and gardens.
- air-conditioning
- four-poster bed
- television
A spacious room on the upper floor of the Colonial Wing with views out the windows towards the distant Knuckles Mountains (on a clear day).
- air-conditioning
- four-poster bed (a third bed can be added on request)
- television
Traditionally designed rooms in the Colonial Wing that features a four-poster bed and bunk beds for the kids (under 12 years).
- air-conditioning
- four-poster beds ( a third bed can be added on request) with small interconnecting room with bunk beds
- television
A huge permanent tent that is sectioned into a master bedroom, second bedroom and a living room. An extra bed can be added in the living room for larger families. Accommodates up to five adults or children.
- air-conditioning
- king-size four-poster bed
- second bedroom with twin four-poster beds
- television
- 85m²
A large standalone cottage in the garden overlooking the back lawn and pool. The room is partitioned with a ‘cut out’ wall so that one area contains a ‘private’ bedroom with a four poster-bed and the other part contains a living area with two separate single teak four poster-beds.
- air-conditioning
- king-size four-poster bed
- second bedroom with twin four-poster beds
- television
- 85m²
A large historic colonial bungalow about 15 minutes away from the main hotel with a private full-size pool and a private butler as well as a personal chef.
- air-conditioning
- king-size four-poster bed
- second bedroom with twin four-poster beds
- television
- 126m²
Facilities
The restaurant serves up Western dishes with Sri Lankan ingredients and native delights that consistently get great reviews. Breakfasts are hearty, there’s a small bar and the hotel is famed for their Rice and Curry dish served with a spectacular ten different curries to try. Yum.
What's Included
Breakfast at the restaurant
Upgrade Options
Half Board • Breakfast and dinner at the restaurant
There are plenty of spaces for all the family to relax and play whether they’re enticed by a game of scrabble and a bob on the space hopper or a swim in the pool and a sunset chill. Rooms can be configured to fit all the offspring, from that oversized tent to the possibility of an extra bed set up in most of the suites. There’s a connecting room with bunk beds in The Vanilla Suite and the hotel offers a standalone bungalow, fifteen-minute drive from the Stables.
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