Tangerine Travels to open Colombo’s first BB hotel

Shirajiv Sirimane

Tangerine Travels will open Colombo’s first bed and breakfast hotel on Ramakrishna Road, Welawatta next November bringing a European touch to the city life of Colombo.

Tangerine Tours, Managing Director Gerard Ondaatje told ‘Daily News Business’ that they have invested Rs. 350 million for this property. The eight-storied ‘Fair View Hotel’ would offer 45 economy rooms.

“We will prize this at US $ 70 per double with breakfast,” he said.

He said that with Colombo being converted to a busy capital they would have a lot of business. “We had to play with the land available and could not construct a bigger hotel,” he said.

With the addition of Fair View, the Tangerine product portfolio would now have a total of over 550 rooms in Nuwara Eliya, (Grand Hotel), Kalutara (Tangerine and Royal Palms), Trincomalee (Nilaweli Beach Hotel) and Wellawatta.