Australian Cricket In Galle

Australian Cricket Tour To Sri Lanka 2025 | Cricket In Galle

Tour: Galle ONLY
When: Jan - Feb 2025
Dates: 8 Nights Per Test
1st Test: Jan 27 - Feb 4 (TBC)
2nd Test: Jan 4 - Feb 12 (TBC)

Hotel: Blue Beach Galle (4-Star)
Double | Twin Per Test: A$2300pp
Single Room Per Test: A$3000pp
Book: Blue Beach Galle

Hotel: Araliya Unwatuna (5-Star)
Double | Twin Per Test: A$3200pp
Single Room Per Test: A$4300pp
Book: Araliya Unawatuna

Visit: SO Sri Lanka

We provide links to the hotels that we'd like to stay. If you do not wish to stay at these hotels, please book your preferred hotel and then our Match Tickets Package

Call | WhatsApp: +61.402.222217

*Pricing is land only. No travel to/from Sri Lanka included.

THE FOLLOWING SRI LANKA VS AUSTRALIA 2025 CRICKET SCHEDULE IS UNCONFIRMED, BECAUSE IT IS NOT CONFIRMED. IT IS A BALL PARK SCHEDULE TO ILLUSTRATE OUR TOUR PROGRAM PENDING THE CONFIRMED MATCH SCHEDULE, WHICH IS STILL UNCONFIRMED!

Sea-Tea-Sea Jan 19-27 (TBC)
1st Test Jan 27-Feb 4 (TBC)
2nd Test Feb 4-12 (TBC)
Journey To Jaffna Feb 12-17 (TBC)

**VISA FREE ENTRY TO SRI LANKA FOR AUSTRALIANS FROM OCT 1, 2024**

Australian Cricket In Galle

The first match we saw in Sri Lanka was at Galle Cricket Ground, an ODI vs Sri Lanka at the start of the Australian Cricket Tour to Sri Lanka 1999; back in the day when tri-nation tournaments were common, and nations toured for 6+ weeks.

Our second match was against India, incredibly, the following day. How the game has changed. Playing ODI's on consecutive days is now unheard of. Teams don't even play T20's back-to-back as they need 'rest'. Training sessions last longer than some T20's so who knows what they are resting from.

Your Galle ONLY Tour Includes:

Airport Meet & Transfer
Return Airport Transfers
8 Nights 4 Star Hotel*
Breakfast Daily
Match Tickets To All 5-Days
Match Day Transfers If Req.
Pre-Test Dinner Party With Drinks
Post-Test Dinner Party With Drinks
Cool Sri Lanka 2025 Apparel
Our 30 Years Touring Experience

*We no longer offer twin-share unless you book to share a room with someone you know. If you are travelling alone, you must book SINGLE or phone a friend.

With 3 games in Galle in 1999, one test in each of 2004, 2011, 2016, and two tests in 2022, along with pre-tour tours, we have spent much time in Sri Lanka's south coast Galle. Although the test cricket ground is the worst of its kind for what it should be, lounging at this unique venue is one cricket's great pleasures.

It was a gift that the Australian Cricket Tour to Sri Lanka 2022 was played in Galle, giving us 17 nights at our beach resort in Hikkaduwa (below). It was also curse, as Colombo and Kandy are great places and we missed going, yet no one complained about living it large in this tourist hotspot for more than 2 weeks.

Beaches, surf, bars, restaurants, cafes, well-being, turtles, diving, cooking, fishing, golf, and countless hotels are on the coast 15km either side of Galle.

From Hikkaduwa to the north, Koggala to the south, and Galle Fort in the middle, there is a world of options.

In 2025, with Sri Lanka rebounded from their depths of 2022, we move closer to Galle.

Our more affordable hotel is the brand new Blue Beach Galle Hotel. With a rooftop bar & restaurant, and opposite 'Beach of Bonavista', we are barely 10mins walk to our much-loved The Shack Beach Cafe and just 10mins drive from the cricket.

PLEASE KNOW: There is no pool at Blue Beach

Our other hotel takes us back to famed Unawatuna Beach and spectacular Araliya Beach Resort.

Hip Artwork In Reception Of Hikka-Tranz By Cinnamon Beach Resort | Hikkaduwa | Sri Lanka

When you fly in to join us in Galle, we meet you at Colombo's Bandaranaike Airport and drive you to Galle for 8 nights on the popular south coast.

Along with the transfer to Galle, everyone on our hotel tours also receives cool Sri Lanka 2025 apparel, dinner parties with drinks, and match tickets.

Man Bicycling Past HIKKADUWA Sign Outside Hikka-Tranz By Cinnamon Beach Resort | Cinnamon Hotels | Hikkaduwa | Sri Lanka | Australian Cricket Tours

If you stay at Blue Beach Hotel, just 3.4km from Galle International Cricket Stadium we won't 'transfer' you to/from the game. Walk out of the hotel, and make your own way by public bus or rickshaw, which is far more convenient, and affordable!

If you stay at Araliya, return match day transfers are included.

The Australian Cricket Tour to Sri Lanka 2022 played both tests in Galle, so we prepare the same for 2025. We had 4 days scheduled break between tests, and with the first test ending in 3 days, we had 6 days to fill. It wasn't hard.

You can do Sri Lanka cooking classes, tee-up at unique Eagles Catalina Golf Course at Koggala Airforce Base, along a live runway (below), visit rainforests, go boating, learn to dive, surf, or simply while away the time before the 2nd test.

**HOT TIP: Do not believe the hype. DO NOT VISIT Yala National Park. It is rubbish**

Having 2 tests in Galle won't be ideal, but will be fun; especially living close to Unawatuna and Galle Fort, and the cricket where you have cold beer in a can, and hot lunch served to your seat; if you book our hotel tour!

If you don't want lunch at the ground you can, as we have always said, pop-out at the break for lunch at the markets opposite the ground, or enjoy a glass of misery at Sydney Hotel (below) and be back in your seat without missing a ball.

It's not often one says 'the best seats in the house are at square leg', but in Galle you have little choice. The ground is small with most of the vantage being open embankments, and one small public grandstand at deep third.

For those that love to sit behind the bowler's arm, there are no seats that look up and down the wicket. The only way to do so is from atop the famous 16th Century Dutch Fort (below).

This makes our preferred seats at square leg extremely limited and why we can only welcome 60 on our hotel tour.

Tickets with our affordable 'match tickets package', will be in the public grandstand.

If want to enjoy our Australian Cricket Tour to Sri Lanka 2025, it is first in, first ball. The tour is just months away so in a flash you'll be waxing about your Sri Lanka tour... or not if you're too slow.

After Galle, we get you back to Colombo for your flight home, or to Jaffna, after which you'll have a few more tales!

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