Saturday, December 10, 2011

New cool and interesting places to stay in Colombo!


I was looking for some digs for one of my friends visiting Sri Lanka in December and was amazed to find the new mid priced (Roughly 70 U.S Dollars) accommodations Colombo had to offer. I just thought I should share/save them on here for future reference though a simple search through trip advisor would yield the same results. Tripadvisor! What a great invention. These were some of the places I discovered.

Lakelodge down Alvis place. Casasusana in believe it or not Galle Face courts on top of German Restaurant. A place I have been frequenting so much without realizing there was a hotel right above my head. And of course Colombo haven which is situated near the Carnival ice cream parlor on the Galle Road.

Colombo Haven had such great reviews that I suggested to my friend he stays there and I am relieved to say it lived up to its reputation. My friend was gushing with praise about how good and friendly they were. And what an enjoyable time he had.

There were also two properties which were getting lambasted by clients. One was the Colombo City Hotel just outside WTC and the other a place called Ranjiths Ambalama? I have not been able to figure out where it is situated yet though it is supposed to be somewhere down Torrington Avenue. You have to see the reviews to believe how terrible these people have been! In fact if not for the negative reviews I would have suggested Colombo City Hotel as the first choice to my friend.
Isn’t this a great example of the power of the information age where bad service and cheating cannot be kept under wraps.
More power to those of us who are on the net and take the trouble and effort to share our experiences.

17 comments:

GG said...

:-)
Tripadvisor is cool isn't it? I've made good use of it for international travel. Love it.

Anonymous said...

Thanks so much for being so king to share this info. Never knew such places existed in Colombo...!

Anonymous said...

apologies for the spelling error, meant to say "... kind..."

santhoshi said...

Cj that was a really useful post did not know about these places. Thanks

crystal flame said...

ahh such a useful post. perfect timing :)
thanks CJ

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