The Cinnamon Grand Colombo, trading as Asian Hotels and Properties PLC and formerly called the Hotel Lanka Oberoi,
is a luxury five-star hotel in
Colombo,
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...
. The Cinnamon Grand is located at 77 Galle Road,
Kollupitiya, Colombo.
History
The construction of Hotel Lanka Oberoi began in 1973. The hotel commenced operations in 1975. It was the first hotel located outside India of
Oberoi Hotels. The hotel was constructed on the land which the
Bishop of
Church of Ceylon resided until the 1970s. The
atrium of the hotel was designed by
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) is an American architectural, urban planning and engineering firm. It was founded in 1936 by Louis Skidmore and Nathaniel A. Owings, Nathaniel Owings in Chicago, Illinois. In 1939, they were joined by engineer Jo ...
. Until then, only
Hyatt Regency Atlanta had such architectural features.
On 28 January 1984, a bomb exploded in the hotel, then called the Hotel Lanka Oberoi. One employee was killed.
The operators of the hotel, Oberoi Hotels agreed with Asian Hotels, the owner of hotel, to terminate the management agreement in 2003. The hotel was relaunched as Colombo Plaza Hoel after that. In the same year,
John Keells Holdings acquired a controlling stake of 60.5 per cent of Asian Hotels Ltd for LKR4.1 billion. John Keells Holdings rebranded the hotel as Cinnamon Grand in 2005.
2019 Easter bombings
It was one of the sites targeted in a coordinated string of terrorist bombings that occurred on
Easter.
Raadhika Sarathkumar, a popular Sri Lankan born Indian Tamil actress narrowly escaped from a bomb explosion which happened at Cinnamon Grand Hotel where she was present after wrapping up shooting for a film.
Amenities
The hotel houses seven restaurants and two bars. These include the Lagoon, a seafood restaurant; Noodles, an Asian restaurant; Nuga Gama, a Sri Lankan restaurant; Tao, an Asian
fusion cuisine restaurant; London Grill, a
steakhouse; Chutney, a South Indian restaurant; and Cheers Pub. Other amenities include, two gyms, two pools, one outside, one on rooftop; and saunas.
See also
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List of hotels in Sri Lanka
According to Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority (SLTDA), there are 156 classified tourist hotels and 239 unclassified tourist hotels in Sri Lanka. Additionally, there are 36 boutique hotels, 46 boutique villas and 493 bungalows in the coun ...
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