Hotel Jaffna.

by Hema Bala

Hotel Jaffna offers information on accommodation, food and interesting places in the Jaffna town and its district and on Sri Lanka. Currently there are no 5 star hotels in this town. Although there are some star class hotels available with good facilities for you to enjoy your stay here. Recently it was announced that a new star class facility named as Hotel Nallur and it is expected to be constructed soon with 80 rooms and facilities at a cost of 400 million rupees here.

Also there are many lodges, motels and Inns are available for you to stay comfortably in and around this town with good facilities. Most of them offer A/C rooms, hot water shower, breakfast, lunch and dinner. Some of them are located just in the heart of the city while many of them are located in and around the outer town. You can find motels with ample car and vehicle parking facility. Also if it is necessary, they can provide cheap lodging facility with food for your driver at low price.

Nallur which is part of this town is another place where you can find good accommodations with nice local food and beverages. Here most of the service providers offer European style rooms with bed and breakfast. It is better to make advance booking, if you are going to visit the Nallur Murugan Temple during festival season, as there is lot of Srilanka expatriates used to come over here annually.

All the management offer their guests chauffeur driven transport services with or with out A/C at affordable rate. Also you can hire or get self driven Japanese cars and passenger vans for to transport around the Northern Province from your accommodation providers.

Visitors can get vegetarian and Non-vegetarian meals from their hotel or lodge. Most of the people here are Hindus and they don't eat non-veg food around the month of August as they used to celebrate their local temple festivals. There are many top class restaurants that can offer you Eastern, Western and popular local dishes in good atmosphere.

This part of the island is famous for its untouched virgin silver sand beaches, golden sand beaches around the Indian Ocean and the lagoons, Palmyra trees and their products, fresh seafood and for local traditional food dishes.