The Kingsbury
| The Kingsbury Colombo | |
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| Hotel chain | Hotel Services (Ceylon) PLC |
| city | Colombo |
| address | 48, Janadhipathi Mawatha |
| Website | www.thekingsburyhotel.com |
| Hotel information | |
| opening | 2012 |
| owner | Hayley's PLC |
| management | Otto Mathias Stohl |
| Classification | 5 |
| Awards | Regional Winner Luxury Business Hotel in South West Asia (2016) Best Luxury Business Hotel in Sri Lanka (2017) |
| Furnishing | |
| room | 269 |
| Restaurants | 6th |
| Bars | 2 |
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Coordinates: 6 ° 56 ′ 6.7 ″ N , 79 ° 50 ′ 30.8 ″ E
The Kingsbury is a luxury hotel in Colombo , the de facto capital of Sri Lanka . The nine-story building in the Fort district with the ordinal number 1 is located on the Indian Ocean not far from the port . The two high-rise buildings of the World Trade Center Colombo are directly opposite .
The hotel built by UN Gunasekera was first called Ceylon Continental Hotel Colombo and Ceylon Inter-Continental Hotel . In 2012 President Mahinda Rajapaksa announced the opening of the current hotel of Hotel Services (Ceylon) PLC, a subsidiary of Hayley's PLC, after extensive renovation. Since then, the Austrian hotelier Otto Mathias Stohl has been the manager of the hotel. The three ballrooms, The Balmoral , The Victorian and The Winchester , which opened after the renovation, are used, among other things, for wedding celebrations .
Individual evidence
- ↑ About Us | The Kingsbury Colombo Sri Lanka Hotel. Retrieved June 28, 2018 (American English).
- ^ Life Online - The Kingsbury is unveiled. Accessed June 28, 2018 .