What your clients are buying
Boutique, full of art, and quietly attentive
Nayantara "Taru" Fonseka founded Nyne Hotels and chairs the group. Airavata represents it in India. Four things set its hotels apart, and each takes a single sentence to pass on to your clients.
Never lost in a crowd
Lake Lodge has just 10 rooms. Landesi has four bedrooms, and Stafford Bungalow six rooms and suites. Mayur Lodge is simply two private villas. At this scale, your clients share the place with a handful of other guests, never a crowd.
A gallery to sleep in
Every property doubles as a small gallery of contemporary Sri Lankan art. Rock Villa alone holds more than 90 works by local artists. At Landesi, lithographs by Donald Friend hang among Dutch period furniture. For clients who love art, the walk to breakfast becomes part of the stay.
Sleep inside the story
Rock Villa is a Walauwwa, an ancestral heritage home. Landesi, inside Galle Fort, was restored by architect Ashley de Vos. Lake Lodge has been a registered guest lodging in Colombo since 1967, the first of its kind in Sri Lanka. Stafford Bungalow was built by Scottish tea planters in 1884. Each has a past your clients can feel, and a story worth retelling at home.
Service that waits to be called
At Rock Villa, The Muse, Landesi and Mayur Lodge, brass swan bells sit in the public areas. Ring one, and the "Guardian" appears. Nyne calls this its shadow butler service: attention when your clients want it, privacy when they do not.
Who to place where
Match the occasion to the property
Start with what your client is celebrating or looking for. You’ll see which Nyne properties fit, why they work, and what to check before you quote.
The properties compared
Eight properties side by side
Room types, sizes and capacities exactly as Nyne publishes them. Nyne does not publish rates on its website, so we quote every rate live for your dates.
Where they are
Five places, from Colombo to the tea hills
Four of the eight sit together in Bentota on the southwest coast. The other four make natural next stops: Colombo for the first night, Galle Fort for heritage, Yala for safari and Ragala for the cool air of the tea country.
Walk the grounds
See each property from the air, in photographs supplied by the hotels. Choose a hotel, then tap a numbered point to see what your clients will find there.
Hotels and villas
The Nyne collection
Nyne groups its properties into three collections: Essence, Signature and Luxe. Nyne does not publish star ratings, and rates are quoted live.
Every room category
All 26 room, suite and villa types
Every category each property publishes, with size, occupancy and beds exactly as the hotel states them. Where a hotel leaves a figure out, so do we. All photographs are the hotels’ own.
Every Nyne room page lists Wi-Fi, air conditioning, television, tea and coffee, and a private bathroom. Room sizes appear in square feet for the Nyne hotels and in square metres for Stafford Bungalow, as each publishes them.
Plan a stay
Getting there, seasons and what to know
Sri Lanka is a short hop from India, and its two monsoons decide which coast to sell in which months.
Getting there
From India
Nine Indian cities, as listed by SriLankan Airlines on its route network to Colombo:
- IndiGo started direct Delhi to Colombo flights on 29 March 2026, six a week, adding to its Mumbai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Chennai services.
- SriLankan's daytime Bengaluru flight was scheduled at 1 hour 30 minutes when it launched.
- In a straight line, Colombo airport is about 650 km from Chennai, 710 km from Bengaluru, 1,530 km from Mumbai and 2,400 km from Delhi.
- Schedules change by season. We confirm the current flight options with every quote.
On the ground
- Bentota: Anuprit and Anugrah are under two hours from Colombo and the international airport by the Southern Expressway. Nyne puts Anugrah 90 minutes from Colombo.
- Galle Fort: Landesi is about an hour's drive from whale watching at Mirissa.
- Yala: Mayur Lodge is twenty minutes from Yala National Park.
- Tea country: Stafford Bungalow is about 5 hours by road from Colombo, about 2 hours from Kandy and about 35 minutes from Nuwara Eliya town. The train takes just over six hours to Nanu Oya, followed by about 50 minutes by car.
- Nyne arranges airport transfers for guests arriving from abroad.
When to go by coast
Sri Lanka Tourism describes two monsoons and four seasons. Every Nyne beach hotel is on the southwest coast, so the northeast monsoon months, December to February, are their high season.
Stafford Bungalow reports July to September as usually dry on its side of the hills.
Northeast monsoon
Peak season on the southwest coast. Clear skies and calm seas bring the beaches, whale watching and watersports into their own. This is the time to sell Bentota, Galle and Colombo.
First inter-monsoon
Warm and humid with afternoon thunderstorms. Sri Lanka Tourism recommends it for the hill country and the cultural triangle.
Southwest monsoon
Heavy rain falls on the southwest coast and in the hills. The dry zone, including Trincomalee, Arugam Bay and Jaffna, has the better weather, though Nyne has no hotel in any of the three. In these months, sell Mayur Lodge near Yala, in the dry southeast, and check the park’s status for September and October.
Second inter-monsoon
Expect occasional heavy showers across the island and rough seas. The highlands turn lush and green, and Stafford Bungalow notes mist drifting over the hills in these months.
Strong fit
- Multi-generational families who want a place to themselves: Rock Villa’s Whole Villa for up to 16 adults on the coast, or Stafford Bungalow’s Full Bungalow for up to 17 guests in the tea hills.
- Small family celebrations, birthdays and anniversaries at Anuprit, Rock Villa or The Muse.
- Beachfront weddings: Anugrah hosts up to 150 guests on the sand.
- Couples who want privacy: The Muse's room with a private outdoor jacuzzi, or a Junior Suite at Anugrah or Anuprit.
- Safari add-ons: Mayur Lodge’s two private villas, twenty minutes from Yala.
- A full Sri Lanka circuit with one hotel group: city, beach, fort, jungle and tea country, from Colombo to Bentota, Galle Fort, Yala and Ragala.
Think twice
- Clients who want a large resort with many restaurants and a kids’ club. These are boutique hotels and villas, and their appeal is intimacy rather than scale.
- Beach-led trips to Bentota or Galle from May to September, when the southwest monsoon brings heavy rain.
- Weddings above 150 guests. That is the largest number Nyne states, at Anugrah.
- Guests who expect to step from the room onto the sand at The Muse or Rock Villa. A single-line railway track runs between the gardens and the beach.
- Guests who need a Halal-certified kitchen. Nyne states its food is not Halal certified.
- A one-night tea-country stop. Stafford Bungalow is about 5 hours by road from Colombo, and the Full Bungalow needs two nights.
- Wheelchair users, unless we have checked first. Nyne states that wheelchair access is limited at certain properties.
Quotes and bookings
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Book whichever way suits you: through your DMC, directly with the hotel, or through us. Ask us for a quote, or simply let us know once your clients are booked, so we can stay close to the hotel on their behalf.
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- Number of guests, their ages, and room mix
- Travel dates and flexibility
- Preferred hotel or area, and the occasion
- Whether your clients want the whole villa
- Dietary requirements and any mobility needs