Rooms and Suites

10 suites and 3 rooms in a 300 year old Dutch, World Heritage Villa.

"Guests have a choice of 11 large and shuttered rooms and suites, including a blue-and-white suite decorated with Chinese porcelain, another with traditional Peranakan decor, and two-level loft suites with mosquito net-swathed four-posters, opening off open-sided galleries overlooking a beautiful courtyard. The white sheets are talcum-soft, the pillows of the sort you want to take home, the floorboards are teak and the paintwork lime-washed; although the feel is minimalist, the comfort factor is high and the detailing perfectly apposite."

Susan Kurosawa

" The sheets, the pillows, the light throw are all luxurious. I could just settle down and live here. "

Madhur Jaffrey the financial times September 2006

The Loft Suites: ( 4 ): USD200++

More like a small villa these large, double storey, fully air-conditioned suites have a romantic loft bedroom overlooking the garden and pool from your antique four poster bed. Very Romantic

Very generous.

The sitting room is elegant and comfortable and furnished with antique almaris, long cushioned settees and a round, antique, dining table. A six metre atrium rises above the staircases where they open onto a light- filled inner courtyard framed with a panel of ancient tiles and fan palms. The bathrooms are fitted with Grohe taps and modern, Italian ceramics and perfectly clean, floor to ceiling terrazzo. Your own large, private verandah is furnished with colonial-style furniture with views of the swimming pool, garden and grand columnade.. We can add one child's bed for USD25++.

The Blue & White Porcelain Suite: USD200++

A fully air-conditioned suite with twenty foot ceilings and its own separate dressing/bathroom. The monumental, Dutch windows and shutters open onto a spectacular, columned walkway which frames the courtyard, swimming pool and garden. The towering, bedroom walls feature C18th, blue & white porcelain imported by the Chinese to the Galle area. The antique Sri Lankan cabinets and four poster bed make this one of our most spectacular and romantic suites. A day bed can be used as an extra bed for one teenage child. ( USD 25 extra) Very elegant!

Le Grand Appartement du Comte de Mauny : USD500++

This grand and massive apartment occupies the entire top floor of the old wing and has two fully air-conditioned king size bedrooms with their own attached bathrooms and oversized showers. The 115 foot long suite is 22 feet wide (more than 2500 square feet in all) with its own private, full- length, colonnaded verandah with shuttered windows and is the largest hotel suite in Sri Lanka.

The Salon/Dining Room has views of the Churches, Mosque and Galle Harbour as well as majestic panoramas of the ancient, Portuguese, tiled rooves of the Fort. Private in-room dining is available at the eight-seater antique dining table.

Twelve inch teak floorboards and fifteen foot, lime- washed ceilings are part of an original design by the Comte de Mauny, the Edwardian 'faux noble' who lived and worked in Ceylon having fled his wife after she reputedly caught him in bed with the Valet. An acquaintance of Oscar Wilde and Delacroix , in the 1920's his houseboys would ferry him to shore from Taprobane Island at low tide in his favourite armchair"

The apartment feature orginal artworks, antique chests and cabinets and two enormous Dutch, spiral, four poster beds.

One bedroom has an attached bathroom and the other features a dressing room and vanity leading to an outdoor terrazzo shower.

Sprawling! (but without valet)

The Cheng Ho Pavilion: USD200++

To commemorate the visit of Admiral Cheng Ho to Galle in 1406 this oversized, double-storey suite, with six metre ceilings, has been decorated with antique Chinese and Peranakan fittings. The fully air-conditioned, mezzanine bedroom has an antique-style, carved, Chinese, Opium-bed, 100 thread cotton sheets and mosquito net.

A screen made from rare, antique columns provides privacy from the generous living area below. The two-storey outdoor bathroom has 6 metre columns with a huge, elevated waterfall shower which makes bathing seem like a fresh tropical downpour. A day bed can be used as an extra bed for one teenage child. ( USD 25++ extra)

The Library Suite USD250++

This oversized, fully air-conditioned suite has two king size beds and a large seperate bathroom with a large, open shower.

Perfect for two people wanting a king size bed each.

The library houses a fine collection of Kandyan hat pins bejwelled with rough cut semi precious gems and glass as worn in the Kandyan Perahera by celebrants dressed as members of the royal family.

A matching chest and almirah of 'tiger'satinwood and 'king' ebony are the main feature of a very cosy sitting area which opens as a balcony onto the archway of the main building.

Swank! a maximum of 3 people

The Garden Rooms: ( 3 ) USD160++

Three very generous rooms, air-conditioned with a modern King Size four poster bed with white cotton sheets and a canopied mosquito net. The bathroom has a shower, Grohe taps and an Italian basin. The tiny, private, parterre garden and wall fountain is beyond double French doors and your verandah provides a comfortable daybed to overlook the pool and garden. Perfect for afternoon tea or reading. Accommodation for 2 people only. These rooms book early.

The Mews Suite (1) USD 250++

The staff quarters to the Markan Markar Villa occupied an entire lane running down the side of the East Wing.

Through a beautiful arched, double storey vault andbehind a pair of huge wooden doors is Galle Fort Hotel's latest suite. The Mews Suite is more like a tiny villa. As well as the benefits of all our suites: air conditioning, king size bed, talcum soft sheets and stealable pillows, the double storey Mews offers a huge outdoor daybed in its own private courtyard garden.

Upstairs the kids can hang out in their own mezzanine or share the large single, antique four poster. Down the antique jackwood stairs is your large granite shower, the main king size bed and antique doors and windows which open the villa to the garden courtyard and the private entranceway beyond which is lined with giant Ginger Plants.

We designed the Mews to be somewhere you could bring the kids and let them make as much noise as they like without you having to worry about other guests. In return you will be rewarded with the sounds of the other Sri Lankan families living in the staff lane; dogs will bark, you'll hear conversations in Sinhala, clothes being washed and even some Buddhist chanting.

And the joy of other kids playing cricket in the lane. Feel free to open the trellised gates and join in. The Mews is your own tiny, private, and beautifully renovated villa in the Fort but with all hotel services and the pool just through the huge gateway and less than a stone's throw away.

28 Church Street, Galle Fort, Galle, Sri Lanka, P:+94912232870 F:+94912232939