{"id":122581,"date":"2022-02-06T18:06:19","date_gmt":"2022-02-07T01:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=122581"},"modified":"2022-02-06T18:06:19","modified_gmt":"2022-02-07T01:06:19","slug":"7-of-the-best-places-to-stay-in-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/02\/06\/7-of-the-best-places-to-stay-in-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"7 of the best places to stay in Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"byline\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><a class=\"authorLink\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wanderlust.co.uk\/contributors\/tamara-hinson\/\">Tamara Hinson\u00a0<\/a> Courtesy Wanderlust.co.uk<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Make your trip to Sri Lanka even more special with a sleepover in one of these unique hotels, although don\u2019t blame us if you can\u2019t bear to leave\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This sleek bed and breakfast feels like&nbsp;a stylish home from home \u2013 guests are invited to help themselves to snacks and (non-alcoholic) drinks from the&nbsp;bar, or explore the countryside on the property\u2019s bicycles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Accommodation takes the&nbsp;form of a villa or one of three one-bedroom bungalows, named after the three sons of Don Hendrick Wickramarathne, a local judge who built the house in the early 20th century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After&nbsp;stumbling across the property in 2010, current owners Raf and Harold subsequently transformed it&nbsp;into a boutique hotel, and it\u2019s now one&nbsp;of Tangalle\u2019s most charismatic stays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tamara Hinson\u00a0 Courtesy Wanderlust.co.uk Make your trip to Sri Lanka even more special with a sleepover in one of these unique hotels, although don\u2019t blame us if you can\u2019t bear to leave\u2026 This sleek bed and breakfast feels like&nbsp;a stylish home from home \u2013 guests are invited to help themselves to snacks and (non-alcoholic) drinks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tourism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}