Galle Fort Hotel sits on Church Street in the heart of the fort, steps away from great shops, restaurants and all the sights. The international test cricket ground is also only five minutes’ walk.

Next door is the Galle Fort Hotel, which, along with Amangalla up the road in the building that once housed the 19th-century New Oriental Hotel, led Galle Fort's post-civil war tourism revival.

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Go with a big appetite to the Lucky Fort Restaurant (average cost, ... ₹ 3000 for two, including cocktails) at Galle Fort Hotel is Sri Lanka’s only arrack-forward bar.