James_Toney

What make you fall in love with Colombo? I know that it used to be the capital of Sri Lanka.

Kathie

Actually, I don't know anyone who fell in love with Colombo. I chose to skip it on my trip and I spent my time in the cultural triangle, Kandy and tea country. Colombo still is the capital off Sri Lanka.

filmwill

Well, we enjoyed it--and I know other who have as well. It's not a fascinating city when compared to other SE Asian capitals, but definitely worth a 1 or 2 day stop, IMO. Interesting architecture, nice shopping (particularly some great art galleries!), great food...and if you're heading back towards the airport it's a nice way to be closer to it if you (like us) happen to have an early morning departure.

thursdaysd

I went to Colombo because my father had been there during WWII. Otherwise I wouldn't have bothered, and I would have been right not to have bothered.

inquest

Great sea food of course not to mention other Srilankan specialities.Arriving early morning 26th Aug( 3 days to go).In Colombo for a day before driving north.Breakfast thrown in,so I got lunch and dinner to ponder about.So much to try and so little time.

Lunch:

Upali's

http://www.upalis.com/colombo/menu/default.aspx

Sea Fish Restaurant & Bar

http://www.seafishcolombo.com/

Dinner The beach & ambience )

Barracuda Seafood and Grill On Dehiwala beach.

http://www.barracuda.lk/index.html

The Sailor's Zouk
Lounge & Grill
Dehiwala Beach

https://www.facebook.com/thesailorszouk/

Ministry of Crab ( great, but I've been there it earlier )

Nihonbashi ( Galle face )

filmwill

<<Otherwise I wouldn't have bothered, and I would have been right not to have bothered.>>

Care to provide any extra context as to why...other than just being negative as usual?

thursdaysd

"other than just being negative as usual?"

So polite. Clearly you don't read much of what I write.

https://mytimetotravel.wordpress.com...ncool-colombo/

Smeagol

Totally agree with FW- I too quite liked it and can't really see why people dislike it so much. We had a whistle stop city tour, a great dinner and then left early for the airport the next day.. I'd stay again to negate a long journey to the airport and I am quite sure I would happily return there..

CaliforniaLady

filmwill - My mother always said that "you catch more flies with honey than vinegar." A classy way to word your comments to thursdays would have been, "I quite liked Colombo, thursdays, perhaps you could elaborate as to why you did not."

Sarcasm is against the posting rules. Thank you.

thursdaysd

Negombo is considerably closer to Colombo airport than Colombo is.

A whistle stop tour doesn't seem like a whole lot on which to form an opinion. (You can get a good dinner a lot of places.)

Smeagol

Well somehow I managed.... stayed at Negombo on the way from the airport ....

filmwill

Ahh...now I see. A million thanks for the tips on how to speak and be classy at the same time (I still can barely rub my stomach and pat my head together!)

My mother didn't have such wise words for me (obviously). She just used to tell me "Go get my wine!"

Alas, sarcasm may be against the rules (though, really, in life it's a treasure!), but, in my response to dear old thursday, I wasn't being sarcastic, you see.

Honest assessments, last I checked, are not against the rules.

Just as Colombo isn't for everyone, some people are habitually negative.

annhig

We spent a day and a half in Colombo, and though we weren't blown away by the city itself, we couldn't help but be impressed by the location of our hotel [the Galle Face, which had the temerity to try to burn itself down whilst we were in it, which is definitely NOT cricket] and the nearby Cinnamon Grand hotel where we had a very good curry dinner, and which has one of the most stunning atriums [if that's the right word] I've ever seen. [We also got an unscheduled guided tour of the bowels of the hotel as they took us from the restaurant we didn't want to be in to the right one, which was a definite first for me].