Grandeur of Mount Lavinia Hotel to be celebrated

Irangika RANGE

ANNIVESARY: Mount Lavinia Hotel will celebrate its bicentenary by hosting a series of activities to the Sri Lankan community at large and the many guests of the hotel for their continued patronage and support over the years.

The hotel will upgrade its facilities spending Rs. 100 million for refurbishment this year, to offer guests the top quality accommodation with an appealing taste of history combined with romance.

Chairman of Mount Lavinia Hotel, Sanath Ukwatte said it will commence celebrating its historic milestone on April 14 with the starting of the Sinhala/Tamil New Year.

On the theme "celebrating the past, present and future", it will take off with a nationwide release of 200 balloons in five locations throughout the country to capture cash prizes amounting to Rs.one million.

It is Mount Lavinia Hotel's way of taking the heritage of the hotel islandwide, while offering the Sri Lankan population an opportunity to win a cash prize.

Launching of a lavishly illustrated hard bound book, depicting the history of the hotel, the opening of the museum and gift shop, meals at nostalgic rates of Rs.200 specialty high tea buffers and several attractive measures are also on the cards.

Mount Lavinia Hotel now belongs to the class of world historic hotels and the legend of the hotel continues to attract the discerning guest, offering the comforts expected of a top class hotel combined with the nostalgia of history and romance making it a truly Sri Lankan heritage bound hotel," he further said.

Director of Mount Lavinia Hotel Bazeer Cassim said it is expected to spend around Rs. 10 million for celebrations. He said that British guests are more important and the expected arrivals would be 1,000 in this year.

Today, Mount Lavinia Hotel can look back with pride at welcoming and accommodating many Presidents, business tycoons, royalty, celebrities, movie stars and aristocrats over the past centuries.