Hotel
1. Galle Face Hotel
Colombo's grand seafront hotel, founded in 1864 at the southern end of Galle Face Green, with 156 rooms, a museum and a string of restaurants and bars.
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2. Shangri-La Colombo
A large luxury hotel opened in 2017 at One Galle Face, overlooking Galle Face Green, with 541 rooms, suites and apartments and direct access to the mall.
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3. ITC Ratnadipa
ITC Hotels' 352-room luxury hotel between the Indian Ocean and Beira Lake, with infinity pools on a Sky Bridge about 100 metres up and ten food and drink venues.
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4. Cinnamon Grand Colombo
A large five-star hotel on Galle Road, opened in 1975 as the Hotel Lanka Oberoi, with 475 rooms and 26 suites and a wide choice of restaurants and bars.
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5. Mount Lavinia Hotel
A beachfront hotel built around Governor Thomas Maitland's 1806 residence at Mount Lavinia, with a private beach, an ocean-view pool and 275 rooms.
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6. Jetwing Colombo Seven
A Jetwing hotel on Ward Place in Colombo 7 with a rooftop infinity pool and spa, studios and serviced apartments, and the Ward7 rooftop resto-bar.
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7. Tintagel Colombo
Paradise Road's boutique suite hotel in a heritage house on Rosmead Place that was once home to three of Sri Lanka's political leaders, with a courtyard pool.
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8. Lake Lodge
A small family-owned boutique hotel near Beira Lake, registered in 1967 as Sri Lanka's first guest house and reinvented by the next generation of the family.
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