Grand Udawalawe Safari Resort

The Grand Udawalawe Safari Resort, offering 4-star facilities, is the only hotel of its’ class in the area. This is an environmental friendly hotel, with infrastructure such as sewerage treatment plant and waste water treatment facilities geared for the whole project presently in place.

The Grand Udawalawe Safari Resort, situated on 7 acres of land, is located 163 kilometers away from Colombo, and only 500 meters from the Ath Athuru Sevana (Elephant Orphanage), and is only a five minutes’ drive from the Udawalawe National Park. It is very conveniently located with easy access to places such as the Mahinda Rajapaksa International Cricket Stadium, Sooriyawewa, the Ruhunu Magampura Port and the Hambantota International Airport, Mattala.

The Resort consists of 79 rooms, 24 Deluxe Rooms, 29 Super Deluxe Rooms, 4 Suites and 22 Grand Suite Rooms. The hotel is equipped with a Banquet Hall seating 400 pax and a Restaurant seating 250 pax, a fully equipped Conference Hall and a state-of-the-art Business Centre, a complete Gymnasium, a Mini-Theatre, the Main Kitchen catering to the Restaurant, and a satellite kitchen catering to the Pool Bar and a Banquet Kitchen in the upper floor catering to the Banquet Hall. The other significant feature of the Grand Udawalawe Safari Resort is its’ open air theater named “Wala”. The hotel has 24 hour room service and extensive laundry facilities.

Ingeniously fashioned from the Malabotu Ara, a natural waterway bordering three sides of the property, it preserves the natural ambience and the awe-inspiring quality of the jungle atmosphere with the shade of the stately Kumbuk trees, which were preserved in order to allow the guests of the hotel the coolness and to maintain the healthy quality of the air and water.