Originally Posted by
quarryking
All the below centrally located:
Hilton Colombo (rooms fairly dated)
Hilton Colombo Residences (more like long stay, serviced apartments)
Taj Samudra (right on Galle Face)
Cinnamon Grand (right on Galle Face)
Cinnamon Lakeside
Also consider Negombo as an option. Much nearer to the airport and lots of hotels right by the beach:
Hotels in Sri Lanka Jetwing Hotels in Sri Lanka Official Site
Travel times to the airport can stretch a bit if it's round about rush hour. Took me over 1.5 hours getting from the city to the airport on my last trip there.
Hope this helps.
Thanks. We landed up staying at Hotel Galle Face. Nice location though rooms were a bit dated. Reached there by 1:00 pm. Left the hotel by 8:45 pm and reached the airport by 9:30 pm. Since we already had our boarding pass we were at the gate before 10:00 pm.
It's amazing how Srilankan Airlines starts calling last call 90 minutes before the flight but doesn't actually start boarding the flight till 20 minutes before flight time. So you have to sit in a small room and twiddle your thumbs!!