GUEST ROOM

GKH

GERMAN KEBAB HOUSE

Experience sleeping within the thick walls of a 100-year-old British manor house in Sri Lanka. With a bit of luck, you may even encounter some ghostly activity at night.

We offer this experience for LKR 10,000 per night (room only). The room is designed for 2 adults and one child or 1 adult and 2 children (children = 6–16 years old, no infants or toddlers allowed). On request, you can have all your meals in our house.

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GUEST ROOM

The comfortable room with bathroom and private small veranda with panoramic window is approximately 30 m² in size, but feels much more spacious thanks to its 4-metre-high ceilings.
Facilities: One large double bed and one single bed. A wardrobe and a writing desk with a flat-screen television. The veranda has a table with 4 chairs, where we can also serve your meals on request.

Of course, you are also welcome to use the restaurant with its library or the lounge at any time. In-house service is available between 9 a.m. and 9 p.m.

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THE HOUSE

The main house has a floor area of 400 m². In addition, there is an extension, the former servants' quarters, with an area of 200 m². By English standards, however, it was quite small. The main house contained the drawing room (now our office), the salon (now the restaurant), three bedrooms, a study, a veranda and a butler's pantry. The annexe housed the majordomo's apartment (who was in charge of the staff and entrusted with the land lord of the estate), the servants' bedrooms and the kitchen. The agricultural supervisor lived with his family in a small bungalow of his own. The estate workers lived in line houses on the property.

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THE HISTORY

The house was built in 1925 in the English colonial style by Don Stephen Senanayake, who became the first Prime Minister of Ceylon in 1948 after independence from Great Britain. The surrounding land covered the entire hill and valley, which was used for growing vegetables. It was common for the British and the Sri Lankan elite to own English colonial-style manor houses on country estates in Nuwara Eliya, in addition to their town houses in Colombo. The estates had to be self-sustaining and should generate a profit. This country estate was named ‘Prince of Wales Estate’ after Queen Victoria's son, the future King Edward VII.

The Prince of Wales Estate was sold by Senanayake's family after his death and divided into several plots over the years. It now has many different owners.

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