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Rs 4000-8000; )
This is a very pleasant colonial villa set in flowering gardens and filled with little hide-
aways where you can curl up with a book on a wet afternoon. Rooms are a mixed bag and
it definitely pays to check out a few first. Bigger rooms can accommodate a family. The
manager speaks fluent French.
King Fern Cottage
GUESTHOUSE
Hands down Nuwara Eliya's funkiest place to stay, King Fern combines immaculate,
artistic rooms with huge handmade beds, warm-as-toast bedspreads and a laid-back ambi-
ence that sometimes sees the owner breaking out his drums for an after-dark, fireside ses-
sion. It's all wrapped up in a timber pavilion beside a bubbling stream.
Ferncliff
BOUTIQUE HOTEL
This delightful place truly ticks all the 'unique' boxes. Set in spacious grounds, this
colonial-era bungalow is straight out of a period drama - even the sprucely turned out staff
hovering in the background play their parts perfectly. It is filled with furnishings that are
not just reminiscent of 1899 but actually are from 1899.
Everything is perfectly maintained and there's barely a speck of dirt anywhere. All up
this is a wonderful time capsule.
St Andrew's Hotel
HERITAGE HOTEL
US$135; )
North of town on a beautifully groomed rise overlooking the golf course, this Georgian
manor house was once a planters' club. Today it's the most luxurious, and carefully renov-
ated, of the colonial-style hotels. Highlights include a graffiti-stained cocktail bar, a library
filled with dusty books and a roaring log fire, a billiards room and a decent restaurant.
The rooms themselves are a melange of the old and the new. It's worth splashing out on
a deluxe room which has more character and better sound insulation. There's an in-house
