Helga’s Folly Hotel

Helga’s Folly is an art nouveau boutique hotel in Kandy, Sri Lanka, owned by Helga de Silva Blow Perera, Fredrick de Silva’s daughter. Among the notable guests who stayed at the hotel were Gregory Peck, Peter Finch, William Holden, Mahatma Gandhi, Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, Jawaharlal Nehru, and Kelly Jones of the Stereophonics. Following his stay at the hotel, Jones went on to write and record the song “Madame Helga.”

It was originally de Siva’s family home, designed in the 1930s by her mother, Esme de Silva. In the mid-1990s, de Silva inherited the hotel from her parents and renamed it Helga’s Folly.

Hotel Accommodations

There are eight superior rooms, eight deluxe rooms, eight budget rooms, and one suite in the hotel. The hotel was self-described as an ‘anti-hotel,’ and was decorated with antiques, works of art, murals, and hundreds of family photographs.

When you walk into Helga’s Folly, you might think you’ve entered a magical enclave filled with ornate furnishings and eclectic designs.

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