“the perfect colonial meets Ceylon chic bolt hole. …the Galle Fort Hotel conjures up a lost era, when Somerset Maugham, not Paris Hilton, blazed the traveller's trail…. whirring fans and cocktails on the terrace, served by serene sarong clad staff, enormous guest rooms decorated sparely with impressive antiques are clustered around a shady courtyard where pink frangipani petals confetti the pool and the kitchen turns out sensational Straits Chinese food."

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