Hotel Taj Samudra, Colombo *****

Well known first-class hotel of the Indian Taj chain

Location: In the centre of Colombo at the Galle Face Green, in a tropical park.

Accommodation: 400 comfortably furnished air-conditioned rooms with telephone, satellite-TV with video channel, radio, mini bar, attached bathroom with bath, shower, WC, and cosmetic articles, bathrobes. Renovated rooms are available from 1st November with 4 fixture bath rooms, wooden flooring, flat screen tv, coffee/tea maker s, 2 phone lines, internet connectivity, data port

Facilities: Large, elegant lobby with lounge and bar, 5 restaurants (Coffee shop, Chinese, Indian, French and local). Business centre, shopping arcade, beauty salon with hairdresser, large tropical garden with ornamental ponds. Conference rooms with facilities.

Sports & Leisure: Swimming pool with pool bar and snack corner. Swimming lessons, fitness centre, tennis courts (hardcover) with floodlight, air-conditioned squash court, discotheque.