Sri Lanka holidays: three ways to travel
Small group, private, or a tour with beach time at the end: the same hotels, the same team. The difference is who you travel with and how free your day is.
The Classic
Island of Contrasts
Sri Lanka at Leisure
The Grand Tour
Next group departures
No more than 11 guests, escorted by our own English-speaking guide, hotels with character. Prices per person sharing a double room, flights not included.
Hotels we chose ourselves
Tea planters’ bungalows in the hills, lodges on the edge of the national parks, colonial villas in Galle. Small, quiet and full of character.
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Five places every holiday should include
Three minutes of Sri Lanka
Short clips from our tours – filmed by our own team, not taken from a stock library.
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Sri Lanka holidays, planned on the island
A Sri Lanka holiday can be many things: ancient cities and cave temples, misty tea estates, leopards and elephants on safari, and long palm-fringed beaches – often all within two weeks. What makes the difference is the planning. Our team lives in Kandy, in the centre of the island, and plans every route with the season, the roads and your pace in mind.
Whether you choose one of our small group tours with fixed 2027 departures or a private holiday with your own driver-guide, you get the same hotels, the same people and the same attention to detail. Most of our guests stay two nights in most places, so the holiday feels like a holiday, not a checklist.
Holiday packages to Sri Lanka from the UK and US
Our holiday packages include hotels with breakfast, an English-speaking guide or driver-guide, transport and airport transfers. Flights are not included, which gives you the freedom to fly from any UK or US airport with the airline you prefer – we time your pick-up to your arrival. Prices are shown in pounds, US dollars or euros, depending on where you are.
Sri Lanka holiday questions
No more than 11 guests. We travel in a vehicle with far more seats than that, so everyone gets a window.
No – our holidays are land arrangements from and to Colombo airport. We are happy to suggest good connections from the UK and the US.
Yes. Every tour can be extended by 3, 5 or 7 nights on the beach – in the south or on the east coast, depending on the month.
December to April for the south, west and hill country. May to September for the east coast and the north.
10 days cover the highlights. With two weeks you travel at a gentler pace; with three weeks you also see the north and east.
Our small group tours start at £1,460 per person, private tours at £1,030 per person (for 2 travellers), flights not included.
