Michelle Beach, an upmarket boutique hotel in Balapitiya won the Luxury Boutique Hotel of the Year 2016 Award at the Luxury Travel Guide Global Awards recently.
These awards recognize and celebrate excellence across all sectors of the affluent travel and tourism industry in Europe, The Americas, Asia and Australasia, and Africa and Middle East with their team of experts having scoured the globe and travelled extensively to identify everything from the very best hotels.
Michelle Boutique Hotel was chosen in the Luxury Boutique Hotel category as it merges the elegance of contemporary architecture with luxurious furnishings and classiness, offering the supreme in privacy, security, connoisseurial cuisine and matchless service. Michelle comprises sixteen suites, which fall under Deluxe, Super Deluxe, Rose Petal and Infinite, according to a press release.
These awards identify the best accommodation options throughout the continent with its criterion focused on innovation and design, rooms and facilities, gastronomic achievements, service excellence, use of technology, sustainable development, and location. The Luxury Hotel Awards also recognise the hotels connection with their guests.
A luxury hotel under the Michelle Group will be opened in Waskaduwa in the near future.
The awards that the Michelle Group has received over the years brought about this impetus to start another such venture that is currently under construction in a 293-perch land that was acquired by the Group for this project.