The Galle Fort Hotel Is A 300-Year Old Dutch Masterpiece In Sri Lanka

Geoffrey Bawa is without question Sri Lanka's most famous architect, so when one of his top proteges Channa Daswatte agreed to transform a 300-year old Dutch merchant house into a 14-room boutique hotel, you had to know the results would be spectacular, and they are.

..this 14 room hotel is in a seventeenth century Dutch merchant's house in the heart of Sri Lanka's historic, now hip, Galle Fort. Owners Karl Steinberg and Christopher Ong, exacting guests themselves, have trained the young staff to abandon Oriental bows for genuinely great service ...Ong oversees a daily menu of Asian favourites that draws deserved raves from across the island, particularly a Kung Pao Chicken that elevates the take out classic to haute cuisine. Dutch antiques fill the rooms, no two of which are alike..." - Cynthia Rosenfeld CONDE NAST TRAVELER The Best New Hotels of 2005

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