Tea Factory in Sri Lanka Receives award

21 October 2007

The Sunday Times of UK has named Sri Lanka’s first theme hotel, The Tea Factory among the “World’s Best 100 places to stay” in its September Travel issue. Situated 6,800ft. above sea level, the magnificent Tea Factory is part of the Aitken Spence Hotel chain. The UK’s largest selling Sunday newspaper commenting on the Tea Factory said :sitting on a grassy terrace at 2000m in the lush tea planted hills of Sri Lanka is the Tea factory. For years that’s exactly what it was, but now its a 57 room boutique hotel. Outside, it preserves its corrugated iron construction, within are still some of the old Professor Potts – style innards- machines for moving, sorting and drying tea – that whish and shirr into life each evening. The Tea Factory holds the distinction of being awarded the Southern Asian Architecture Award in 1995. The hotel also received outstanding recognition and fame when it was conferred with the RICS award by the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors, London in October 2000. Tea Factory is also the recipient of the UNESCO Asia – Pacific Heritage Merit Award 2001 for the impressive conversion of a dilapidated tea factory into a luxury hotel complex. Why not stay in the hotel as part of a tour of Sri Lanka with Tropical Sky

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