Visit Jaffna: February 2012

Sunday 19 February 2012

Tilko Jaffna City Hotel

Tilko Jaffna City Hotel is the first luxury hotel in the heart of Jaffna Town, and it opened the doors to cater for the demanding tourists from 2010 onwards. The hotel is consisting of 38 Guest Rooms and 2 pent house apartments to accommodate group tourists. The hotel is offering facilities such as restaurant, gymnasium, saloon, spa and conference hall. Tilko Jaffna City Hotel is established in a 340 perch land with an overview of the Jaffna lagoon and the beach. The Tilko Managing Director Thilagaraj stated to me that the area lacked hotels offering proper facilities to the demanding tourist in an international standard and he also described the hotel as a Luxury Hotel targeting business community, tourists and expatriates.

Restaurant and Conference Hall

The amenities and services of the hotels are designed to satiate all the discerning needs of the international travellers and the guests. The warm hospitality and welcoming staff at the hotels make the guests feel at home even miles away from home. The various facilities of comprise a mixture of basic hotel facilities as well as some luxury frills that the guests might expect from a hotel of its class. Currently there are no hotels with all the above facilities to cater the international tourists in Jaffna. After commencing the commercial operations in January 2010, the hotel served many dignitaries such as Ministers, Governors, Foreign Diplomats and INGO Directors.

One of the Bed Rooms

The hotel is under BOI Project and this is carried out as an Accelerated Development Programme for the Northern Province for an initial investment of Rs. 280 million. “There is so much investment potential in the area and investor confidence must further be enhanced” said Thilagaraj and he urged the expat Tamil community to invest in North & East to contribute the reconstruction process. Hope Jaffna will get it old time beauty in the coming years.

Contact:

Tilko Jaffna City Hotel

70/6, K.K.S Road, (In front of Jaffna main post office)

Jaffna.

Tel : +94 21 2225969

Hot Lines: +94 0770 780 393, +94 0777 696 443

Web: www.tilkojaffna.com

E.mail : info@cityhoteljaffna.com

Monday 13 February 2012

Gnanams Hotel Jaffna

Hotel Entrance

Gnanams Hotel is one of the oldest hotels in Jaffna with the good service facilities. Thirty years of war and disruption the hotel is now open for public after being occupied by the Army for 24 years. Gnanams Hotel offers travellers the convenience accommodation to enjoy their holidays, when they are visiting to Jaffna. Gnanams Hotel started their operations on May 2011 and responses from the visitors are encouraging, hotel owner Sankarapillay Kailasapillai told us on a private conversation.

Court Yard

Situated at Clock Tower Road Jaffna this 31 room property is well maintained and offers comforts of home away home for the demanding travellers. Hotel got experienced management staffs with three speciality chefs and 43 staff members to provide a courteous and efficient service to the visitors. Apart from local visitors, hotel attracts foreign visitors too. They are mainly from the various INGO’s and Indians. There are also repeated clients who are frequent visitors to Jaffna, according to the owner.

One of the Bedroom

The hotel offers all types of menus ranging from Western to Eastern. Its specialty is the Jaffna menu which includes delicacies typical to Jaffna. The hotel is popular for its food and comfortable facilities where it maintains a reasonable occupancy rate. Among the facilities available were internet services, tour guides and transport for those interested in seeing the peninsula. They also offer Conference facilities for the corporate clients and the owner is planning to further upgrade the property by adding more facilities as see high growth in the tourism sector. There is increased travel both by foreigners as well as locals and comfortable accommodation has a good market in Jaffna.

Contact:

Gnanams Hotel

299 & 301, Clock Tower Road,

Jaffna.

Tel: 0094 021 2220630

Web: http://gnanamshotel.webs.com/

Saturday 11 February 2012

Best Hotels in Jaffna

There are many Hotels and Guest houses in Jaffna, which are catering for the needs of demanding Tourists around the Globe. Some hotels are located just in the heart of the Jaffna city while many of them are located in and around the outer city such as Nallur, Kantharnmadam or Chundukulli. Most of the establishments offer Basic Accommodation facilities and Food and Beverage services to the demanding guests. However the Facilities, Service Quality and Price are different from establishment to establishments. A panel of Hotel professionals including me visited the most of the establishments and analyse the overall quality and did an unannounced survey with the guests whom are currently staying with each property and refer the Travel & Booking pages with the comments. Here we come to the conclusion and the named establishments are currently doing better, even though they cater for the different segments.