Cape Weligama - Relais and Chateaux

除了貴，沒毛病。斯里蘭卡著名茶品牌Dilmah旗下的酒店產業，整座酒店在懸崖之上，所以沙灘相對是弱項，衹有兩處很小的沙灘，不過卻是沖浪聖地。房間密度很低，私密性絕佳。入住時會有歡迎飲料，可以點椰子或者果汁啤酒。套房面積非常大，尤其是洗手間，淋浴間還可以作為濕蒸房用。早餐是點餐式，選擇很多，不過都是西式，水果很好吃。客房服務很好，第二晚疊的毛巾大象有被可愛到。在酒店裡竟然還看到很多衹散步的孔雀，動物與人類和諧共處的畫面很有意思～

2023.9.30下午兩點來到cape weligama酒店，這個酒店在懸崖上，是斯里蘭卡三家羅蘭夏朵集團的酒店之一，在11月到4月從酒店有時候能看到鯨魚。位置不錯，有點類似於峇裏島的寶格麗酒店，但是不如寶格麗這麼大，服務一般般。晚餐基本衹能從酒店吃，感覺不便宜，早餐很豐富。從酒店能看到蜥蜴和孔雀，最近新來了個博物學家，可以帶小朋友收集樹葉觀察各種動物，很有意思。不過這種酒店也就住一次體驗一下，後面也不會再住了。

房間很大，用餐環境無敵，泳池面向印度洋.人少景美，食物服務都很好，很適合度假.

It was our first stay at Cape Weligama for seven nights. The Villas are equipped beautifully and just recently renovated. Everything is well maintained. The Housekeeping-Duo Sampath and Dinush takes care of the facility with love and passion. Everything is of the highest level. We were particularly impressed by the great people who spoiled us every day. We love the chats with Stephanie! The Assistance of Brendan and Restaurant Service of Praneeth are wonderful. The daily chats with chef Ishara was so caring, the food was presented tailor-made, so tastefully and lovingly. We will never forget the Chefs Table and the Sri Lankan Curry Omelett. Each Villa has a pool, surrounded by birds, peacooks and green scenery. Overwhelming! Special thanks to Mega for the yoga classes We will be back! Thank you for this warm hospitality. AMAZING!!

This was our first visit to Sri Lanka, which we were looking forward to as part of our winter tour including Maldives, Sri Lanka, Thailand and a return to the cold UK through Oman and Quatar. Our 25 yrs son spoke highly of his experience during his backpacker/surfer visits to Sri Lanka, but we were looking for a higher level of comfort. Cape Weligama is a member of the Relais and Chateaux hotel association. We have a friend amongst the management team at R&C whose advice I sought prior to our decision to book. I personally don’t enjoy Indian spices although my wife loves curry, hence the combination of western and local cooking at the resort was important. The resort scored perfectly well in that respect, overall, the food offering is very good. We had booked a King bedded Master Suite and were allocated one in the eastern beach side of the property at ground floor level overlooking the “family” swimming pool in the “Arthur C Clarke” building of 4 suites. The villa blocks are named after reputed writers, personalities, or navigators, coincidentally my wife’s maiden name is “Clarke”. We were a little disappointed with the view from our ground floor suite, the upper-level suites have more light, especially on the west side of the resort (closer to the adults-only halfmoon shape pool). During the first 24 hours there seemed an absence of senior management presence at the resort, but this significantly changed on our second day when having expressed our disappointment, the assistant Executive Director Mr da Silva met with us and expressed his objective was to ensure our full satisfaction. Since then we received an outstanding level of personal attention to our needs thought our stay. Two days prior to departure, we received a complimentary upgrade to one of the higher elevation villas – this was very appreciated and offered spectacular sunset and ocean views with an abundance of wildlife proximity. Should we return, this would be the sector of the property that we would prefer. The rooms are well constructed with good quality furnishings. Not quite the latest technology seen in more modern luxury hotels, but the internet connectivity was excellent, and everything works. The rooms resemble the earlier Aman properties we stayed in such as Amanpulo in Philippines. There is direct access to a small beach where the hotel has a rustic bar with limited drinks. We sensed that this area could be improved with more extensive cocktails and smartened up. As a guest you are assigned a “curator” or butler who’s role is as an individual concierge and point of contact with the hotel. Our curator “the Brilliant Brenden” was very attentive, and instantly responsive on WhatsApp, not only helping whist in the resort, but also being on hand and contactable during our off-property excursions. Another star performer in their team was Mr Senith, the restaurant manager. Each day we would discuss our bespoke menu, and which place and time we would like to eat. These intimate

We spent the last leg of our three weeks of honeymooning in the Maldives and Sri Lanka at Cape Weligama - it's such a wonderful, peaceful place! Rooms are enormous, even our junior suite (smallest alternative) was larger than any other hotel room we have ever stayed at. All thinkable amenities included, quite a generous minibar policy too, where everything in the minibar is free once. Staff is friendly, attentive and professional. Food was extraordinarily good, with a huge variety of everything from local curries to cordon bleu - the chef's version of the latter was very delicious! But what really sets Cape Weligama apart from other options, is the property: it's like walking into an enormous tropical garden, with fruit trees, flowers, birds and butterflies everywhere. On the property we also saw komodo dragons, cameleons, bright blue kingfisher birds. The pretty moon pool overlooks the beautiful bays below the cape where the property lies, but our most terrific experience was just sitting outside the hotel in the afternoon, with some wine, seeing the sun go down, listening to the life in garden; suddenly two grey langurs (rather big monkeys) sat down on the roof above us, before they ran off into some other trees on the property. A peacock wandered by. Next thing, a wonderful moonlit dinner on the nearby terrace. Cape Weligama is very tranquil and relaxing, but also interesting and fun! Rather pricy for Sri Lanka, we would still chose this hotel over any other, should we return to the island.