{"id":21232,"date":"2013-04-18T09:42:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-18T09:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/centara-passikudah-resort-spa-sri-lanka-now-open-2\/"},"modified":"2013-04-18T09:42:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-18T09:42:00","slug":"centara-passikudah-resort-spa-sri-lanka-now-open-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2013\/04\/centara-passikudah-resort-spa-sri-lanka-now-open-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Centara Passikudah Resort & Spa Sri Lanka now open"},"content":{"rendered":"

 Alexandre Glauser, area general manager of Centara Hotels & Resorts Sri Lanka together with Teddy Roland, hotel manager of Centara Passikudah Resort & Spa Sri Lanka welcomes Sri Lankan cricket star Kumar Dharmasena and his family upon their arrival to stay at the resort as the first guests.<\/span>

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The newly opened Centara Passikudah Resort & Spa Sri Lanka <\/b>is set on beautiful Passikudah Bay, on Sri Lanka\u2019s north-eastern coast, and offers a wide range of facilities appealing to couples, families and those <\/span><\/div>\n
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longing for active holidays. The shallow waters of the bay are ideal for swimming, windsurfing and kayaking, while resort accommodation comprises 126 spacious rooms and suites with each featuring a private balcony or terrace. <\/o:p><\/p>\n


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During the soft-opening period, Reef Caf\u00e9, the resort’s all-day dining restaurant offering breakfast, lunch and dinner is open, as is Aqua Bar, serving drinks and light meals al fresco style and overlooking the Infinity Pool and beach front. Opening shortly will be Spice Market Restaurant, Spa Cenvaree, the fitness centre, and the Bay Ballroom, which will have a capacity of 150 persons.<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n

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The resort is most conveniently accessed at present via Trincomalee Airport, the road journey taking 90 minutes, and with roundtrip airport transfers available from the resort at the time of booking, at a one-way cost of USD89 and USD 165 return per person. Flights into Batticaloa Airport will become available <\/span><\/div>\n
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from 1 July 2013, with the road journey to the resort taking just 40 minutes and the single fare costing USD75, or USD140 return.<\/o:p><\/p>\n


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Centara Hotels & Resorts is Thailand’s leading operator of hotels, with 40 deluxe and first-class properties covering all the major tourist destinations in the Kingdom. A further 17 resorts in the Maldives, Vietnam, Bali Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Mauritius Indian Ocean, brings the present total to 57 properties.  Brands and properties within Centara ensure that specific categories such as couples, families, individuals, and meetings and incentives groups will all find a hotel or resort that is appropriate to their needs. Centara operates 27 branches of Spa Cenvaree, one of Thailand’s most luxurious and innovative spa brands, together with its newly launched value brand Cense by Spa Cenvaree, which provides core spa services for busy travellers. The company’s Kids’ Club is available at all the family-friendly resorts to ensure that the youngsters and teens are taken care of. Centara Hotels & Resorts also operates two state-of-the-art convention centres in Bangkok, and two in northeastern Thailand, one being located in Udon Thani and the other in Khon Kaen. The latest Centara brand is named COSI <\/b>Hotels, an economy brand designed for travellers who predominantly make their bookings via the internet and who want comfort and convenience at the most friendly prices available, which is under development with the first property due to open in 2015.<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
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Alexandre Glauser<\/span><\/i><\/b> (4th<\/sup> right), area general manager of Centara Hotels & Resorts Sri Lanka<\/b> together with Teddy Roland<\/b> (3rd<\/sup>right), hotel manager of Centara Passikudah Resort & Spa Sri Lanka<\/b> welcomes Kumar Dharmasena<\/b> (6th<\/sup> right), a former member of the Sri Lanka international cricket team that won the 1996<\/span><\/a> World Cup, and who was elected in 2012 as the best cricket umpire by the International Cricket Committee, is photographed with his family upon their arrival to stay at the resort as the first guests.<\/span><\/i><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n

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Alexandre Glauser<\/span><\/i><\/b> (far right), area general manager of Centara Hotels & Resorts Sri Lanka<\/b> and Teddy Roland<\/b> (2nd<\/sup> left),hotel manager of Centara Passikudah Resort & Spa Sri Lanka<\/b> are pictured with Kumar Dharmasena<\/b> (2nd<\/sup> right), a former member of the Sri Lanka international cricket team that won the 1996<\/span><\/a> World Cup, and who was elected in 2012 as the best cricket umpire by the International Cricket Committee, is photographed as the hotel\u2019s first guest and lighting the oil lamp to mark the opening of the hotel. This is a Sri Lankan tradition that signifies new life and prosperity and is a blessing ceremony for the newly opened resort.<\/span><\/i><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n

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For more information and reservations, please contact tel. +662 101 1234 ext 1<\/span><\/a> or e-mail to reservations@chr.co.th<\/span><\/a><\/u> or visit our website athttp:\/\/www.centarahotelsresorts.com\/cps\/cps_default.asp<\/span><\/a><\/u><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
Facebook: www.facebook.com\/centarahotelsresorts<\/span><\/a><\/u><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
Twitter: www.twitter.com\/MyCentara<\/span><\/a><\/u>.<\/span> <\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

 Alexandre Glauser, area general manager of Centara Hotels & Resorts Sri Lanka together with Teddy Roland, hotel manager of Centara Passikudah Resort & Spa Sri Lanka welcomes Sri Lankan cricket star Kumar Dharmasena and his family upon their arrival to stay at the resort as the first guests. The newly opened Centara Passikudah Resort & Spa […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}