SRI Lanka’s historic Galle Face Hotel, first opened in 1864, has completed a 30-month long restoration of its North Wing’s 72 rooms and suites, restaurants, bars, lobby, ballrooms and executive lounge.
Interiors now come with mahogany furnishings, grey marble casing in its bathroom walls as well as private balconies in 21 of the 26m2 to 60m2 rooms. There is also now a 120m2 signature suite, the Empress Eugenie, featuring a 60m2 terrace.
Other restorations of the iconic hotel include the addition of an executive lounge, The Long Room, the Verandah restaurant doubling in size, as well as the Poolside Bar and Terrace extending its open-air perch. The Americano Bar is now renamed Traveller’s Bar, a 19th century-inspired space.
The hotel last refurbished its adjoining South Wing in 2006, and is now undergoing a lower-impact redressing of the 84 rooms there.
