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The Galle Face Hotel, an iconic landmark in Sri Lanka’s hospitality sector, is thrilled to unveil the ‘Yaalpana Santhai’ at The Verandah Restaurant. Translating to ‘Jaffna Market’ in English, this two ...
The tales of the GFH and the Galle Face Green that it overlooks have been captured by writers, artists and even scientists who favoured the hotel as their retreat of choice.
As a tasteful ending to the 4th French Spring Festival in Sri Lanka, the Embassy of France to Sri Lanka and the Maldives, the Alliance Française de Kotte in Colombo, the Alliance Française network and ...
Galle Face Hotel celebrates this fiesta of nature with a Mango promotion at the Verandah Restaurant and Verandah Bar from July 5 to 15 from 11.00am to 11.00pm.
The Galle Face Hotel. Martin Sasse It's a steamy afternoon but still pleasant sitting on the veranda of the Galle Face Hotel on Colombo's waterfront, sipping tea from Sri Lanka's highlands and ...
Checking in at the Galle face Hotel is almost mandatory for any first-time visitors to Colombo. Opened by a group of British entrepreneurs in 1864, the property - said to be the oldest east of the ...
Situated on the seafront overlooking the famous Galle Face Green, generally alive with families picnicking and children flying kites, the hotel opened in 1864 and quickly established a reputation ...
An icon of Sri Lankan hospitality, Galle Face Hotel allows guests to revisit the golden age of travel in the Indian Ocean. Here Thomas Reynolds visits for Breaking Travel News to discover more ...
It’s 1982 and I’m in Colombo, Sri Lanka, at a travel conference. We rock up at the portico of the legendary Galle Face Hotel in a decrepit 10-seat minibus that the organisers managed to ...
Sri Lanka's oldest hotel doorman, Kottarapattu Chattu Kuttan of the venerable Galle Face Hotel in Colombo, has died after a brief illness. He was 94.