Ratnapura, which is 101 kilometers away form Colombo, is always a blessing to the pearl of the Indian Ocean. With its charm environment, the Ratnaloka Tour Inn always ensures their unique ability to provide a totally relaxed holiday experience by touching the hearts of the guests whoever who chooses this hotel to spend a holiday. The hotel features 53 rooms with 11 deluxe rooms with air-conditioning, mini bar, attached bathroom with hot and cold water. Surrounded 50 acres of land with tea cultivation, trees of tropical fruits, number of herbs provides the luxury to each and every guest to breath with fresh air to soothe their body and mind from the morning they wake up. The picturesque swimming pool shaded by an array of cardamom trees provides with an invigorating swim.
Some of the other facilities are the main restaurant facing the tea estate, the air-conditioned Orchid Restaurant, bar, etc. Some of the very unique facilities this hotel offers are the Gem Museum and the Gem Shop which has kept large collection of local and foreign gems for display. Blue sapphire, yellow sapphire, cats eye are some of the local gems they display in the museum while Opals, Lapise, Amber are examples for the foreign gems that they display. Also there are many gem studded jewelries made out of silver and 14K, 18K gold are kept for sale. Within the hotel premises there are few gem mining sites maintained by the hotel to experience their guests in gem mining in Sri Lanka.
Tea plucking competitions, Rubber tapping competition are some of very special events that the hotel organizes. Besides the main restaurant there is a small pond shaded with tea bushes and perennial fruit trees. This area provides an excellent opportunity to observe a number of bird species in the morning and in the evening for the people who enjoys bird-watching. Sri Lanka Yellow Fronted Barbet, Brown Headed Barbet, Black Hooded Oriole, Indian Robin, Pied Thrush, Red Vented Bulbul are some of the bird species can be observed in the hotel garden.
From journal The Only Star Class Hotel in the City of Gem