Fort Bazaar

Sipping tea and eating cakes at afternoon tea time (complimentary at 3-4pm daily).

Checking in with friendly staff in the lobby. Fruit cocktails on arrival are always a treat.

The foyer overlooking the central courtyard where you can take afternoon tea.

Entering that verdant central courtyard, around which most of the rooms are set.

There is also a day spa here offering lush ayurvedic treatments – massages and facials.

The bedroom with colonial touches - a four post bed, Ceylon posters and linen lamp-shades.

The desk in our room came with a cute finger wheel phone and colourful illustrated post cards and maps of the Fort.

A quiet nook to get lost in with a book.

Or try the upstairs library.

: Some rooms have a private patio overlooking busy Church Street below. These get great morning sun and you can have breakfast delivered to enjoy here.

Church Street Social, the hotel’s in-house restaurant. Indulgent breakfast, great milkshakes, open all day. Check out the floor tiles.

The Beach Club in Talpe - available to guests while the pool at Fort Galle is being built.