HOTELS designed by arty types, one feels, can go either way. Possibly Gulliver’s favourite hotel on the planet is Helga’s Folly in Kandy, Sri Lanka—a madhouse that came from the imagination ...

There can be few hotels that actively avoid 100% occupancy, but Helga’s Folly, overlooking the Sri Lankan city of Kandy, is one of them. “I do not like it full,” says owner Helga da Silva ...

Where is it? In Sri Lanka's leafy Kandy hills overlooking the lake and the gold-roofed Temple of the Sacred Tooth, reputed to hold one of Buddha's teeth.