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Ceylon Tea Trails
Hatton, Central, Sri Lanka · Resplendent Ceylon · Apex Luxury
The world's first tea bungalow resort sits at 1,250 metres in the Bogawantalawa Valley, where Dilmah's Fernando family restored five colonial planters' houses on working estates. Ceylon Tea Trails is Sri Lanka's only MICHELIN Three Keys hotel and the island's first Relais & Châteaux property: 27 rooms across Castlereagh, Summerville, Dunkeld, Norwood, and Tientsin, each with a butler and cream teas on the lawn. Guests walk the fields and tour the Dunkeld Tea Factory beside Castlereagh Lake.
- 27 rooms
- Opened 2005
- Neighborhood: Nuwara Eliya District
- Rooms from 430 sq ft (40 m²)
About Ceylon Tea Trails
- Five restored planters' bungalows total 27 rooms and can be booked room-by-room or taken over as private houses.
- Tientsin, the estate's oldest bungalow, is named for the Chinese village that supplied Ceylon's original tea seedlings.
- Castlereagh Bungalow, built in 1925, sits on Castlereagh Lake, where a floatplane can land beside the Dilmah Dunkeld tea factory.
- Relais & Châteaux's first Sri Lankan resort, created by Malik J. Fernando's Dilmah tea family as Resplendent Ceylon's highland address.
- Awarded three MICHELIN Keys in 2025, the only Three Keys hotel in Sri Lanka (sibling Wild Coast Tented Lodge holds Two Keys).
Experiences
- Guided tea estate tours — Guided tours of the tea estate.
- Tea tastings and pairings — Tea tastings and tea pairings.
- Walking trails — Walking trails with scenic vistas.
- Spa treatments and tea-inspired rituals — Spa treatments and tea-inspired rituals adding a wellness element to the stay.
Amenities
- Spa
- Pool
- Hot tub
- Tennis
- Butler service
Awards
- MICHELIN Three Keys (2026)
- Condé Nast Traveller Readers' Choice Awards (2025)
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