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Ceylon City Hotel was announced as the latest winner of the 2016 World Luxury Hotel Award as the best ‘Luxury Family Hotel’ in Sri Lanka. The awards gala ceremony held in Qatar had paid recognition to hoteliers’ achievement over the past year and provided them a splendid opportunity to celebrate within industry peers.
World Luxury Hotel Awards is the pinnacle of recognition of accomplishment by a hotel in the luxury hospitality industry, offering recognition to hotels for earning the respect of guests and industry players alike, by awarding hotels, as voted for by the public, in over 60 categories. The World Luxury Hotel Awards is a recognised global organisation providing luxury hotels with recognition for their world class facilities and service excellence provided to guests. Winners were selected out of 2,000 nominees.
Ceylon City situated at Upatissa Road, Bambalapitiya is one of the latest hotels to join the Sri Lankan hospitality industry. Comprising of three types of room categories all of Ceylon City’s room comprises of modern facilities with king size beds, mini bar, 32 LCD TV with satellite connection, air condition, spacious sofa, coffee table, TV table, dressing table, hospitality tray with tea coffee making facilities and free Wi-Fi in all rooms and public locations making it a perfect choice for business and leisure travellers.
In addition to these facilities Ceylon City also has 24-hour room service, very spacious restaurant that also can be used for special occasions, conference hall and a very unique eye catching lobby and a coffee shop.
“We are honoured to be chosen as one of the winners of the World Luxury Awards 2016. We are extremely honoured to have won the pinnacle of recognition in the hospitality industry after resuming operation just over two years. This truly reflects the quality and the service level of our hotel. Our goal is to establish ourselves as a leading City Hotel in this country and this award certainly helps us get closer towards our goal. I would like to thank our Chairman A.L.M. Uwais for driving us towards success and all our staff for working tirelessly over the years and this is a result of their hard work,” said Ceylon City Hotel Managing Director Ulfath Uwais.
“We wish to congratulate all our winners for the 2016 award year, who through their tireless efforts and unbounded passion to satisfy their guests needs, have received this honour tonight. True luxury is no small feat, it takes a team of highly dedicated staff willing to go the extra mile and stop at nothing to ensure that no request goes unanswered. This is the definition of luxury, this is what defines a World Luxury Hotel Awards winner,” said World Luxury Hotel Awards Managing Director Anton Perold.
Ceylon City Hotel recently won the award from prestigious travel website Trip Advisor as ‘Trip Advisors Travellers choice’ award for 2016 which is their highest recognition of awards for hotels. Travelmyth.com website named Ceylon City Hotel as one of the Top 5 three-star hotels in Colombo.
Ceylon City Hotel was also selected as ‘Best Budget City Hotel – Sri Lanka’ by Hotel of the Year Awards 2015 and was also named as one of the ‘Top 100 Hotel’s Worldwide 2015’ by Hotel of the Year awards.
