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.
The Loft Suites: ( 4 )
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.
The sitting room is elegant and comfortable and furnished with antique almaris, long cushioned settees and a round, antique, dining table
The Blue & White Porcelain Suite :
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.
Le Grand Appartement du Comte de Mauny :
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 Cheng Ho Pavilion :
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.
The Library Suite :
This oversized, fully air-conditioned suite has two king size beds and a large seperate bathroom with a large, open shower.
Perfect for a family of four or two people wanting two king size beds..
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.
The Garden Rooms :
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.
The Mews Suite (1) :
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 and behind 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 inSinghala, clothes being washed and even some Buddhist chanting
Galle Fort & Beach Villas :
We have made an exclusive selection of only the best and most private, beautifully renovated villas inside the Fort and on the beach. They are maintained to the highest possible standard and come with their own staff. Villa guests have all the conveniences and presentation of a Galle Fort Hotel Suite but with greater privacy, your own pool, your own personal houseboy and with the full hotel cafe and dining room menu and bar service just a phone call and tuk tuk ride away.
Hotel breakfasts of fruit, pastries and espresso coffee can be served from the hotel fresh to your doorstep daily.
Our Villa guests have exclusive and full access to Galle Fort Hotel facilities and can have Spa treatments in the privacy of their own villa or in one of the hotel suites. ( when available)
