Tower Room
Water-view rooms in the towers
The signature rooms, each with a private balcony over the ocean or the lake, finished in a calm contemporary style drawn from the island.
- Ocean or lake
- Private
- Contemporary
ITC Ratnadipa
Rising above the Galle Face waterfront, ITC Ratnadipa is the collection's contemporary chapter of Colombo, a design-led hotel where Sri Lankan craftsmanship and modern architecture meet at the edge of the Indian Ocean.
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Sky Bridge
Galle Face
Colombo
Where contemporary Sri Lanka finds its voice.
Ratnadipa was an old name for this island, the island of gems, and the hotel that carries it now stands where contemporary Colombo meets the sea. Its towers rise between the Indian Ocean and Beira Lake, joined high above the city by a sky bridge, yet the architecture keeps turning homeward: terraces that cascade like the tea gardens of Nuwara Eliya, lotus motifs in the lobby, local artistry in the detail. This is not international luxury borrowed for Colombo, but a confident, modern Sri Lanka expressed in steel, light and craft, and rooted in the culture it rises from.
Mornings begin high above the city, the ocean on one side and the lake on the other, the light coming up over Colombo. Days move between contemporary spaces and Sri Lankan flavours, then out into the streets and galleries of the capital. There is swimming a hundred metres up, an hour in the spa, and the quiet return, at day's end, to a room that holds the whole city below.
Choose your suite
Towers Suite
Larger suites with wide water views
More generous suites with a separate living space and sweeping views across the waterfront, for those who want room to settle in the city.
- Suite
- Waterfront
- Separate area
ITC One
The club floors, with dedicated service
Rooms and suites on the upper club floors, with a private lounge and personal service for a quieter, more attentive stay above the city.
- Club
- Private
- Dedicated
Serviced Residence
Studio apartments for longer stays
Self-contained studio apartments for travellers pausing longer in Colombo, with the ease of a private residence and the hotel at hand.
- Studio apartment
- Longer stays
- Self-contained
Moments to carry home
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Two pools on a sky bridge, a hundred metres up
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Terraces drawn from the Nuwara Eliya tea gardens
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Sri Lankan craft worked through the design
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The waterfront capital laid out below
Every collection of Colombo needs its contemporary chapter, and this is ours. Where our other city stays look to heritage and family, ITC Ratnadipa looks forward, to a Sri Lanka confident in its own design and hospitality. We choose it for travellers who want to feel the modern capital, its architecture, its art, its energy, before the island's older rhythms take over. It is the sharp, current opening note to a longer journey.
Choose your suite
Tower Room
Water-view rooms in the towers
The signature rooms, each with a private balcony over the ocean or the lake, finished in a calm contemporary style drawn from the island.
- Ocean or lake
- Private
- Contemporary
Towers Suite
Larger suites with wide water views
More generous suites with a separate living space and sweeping views across the waterfront, for those who want room to settle in the city.
- Suite
- Waterfront
- Separate area
ITC One
The club floors, with dedicated service
Rooms and suites on the upper club floors, with a private lounge and personal service for a quieter, more attentive stay above the city.
- Club
- Private
- Dedicated
Serviced Residence
Studio apartments for longer stays
Self-contained studio apartments for travellers pausing longer in Colombo, with the ease of a private residence and the hotel at hand.
- Studio apartment
- Longer stays
- Self-contained
Everything within reach
- Avartana, progressive South Indian
- Peshawri, Northwest Frontier
- The Islander, seafood
- Ahasa, sky bar at 100 metres
- Kaya Kalp spa
- Sky-bridge infinity pools
- 24-hour fitness centre
- Sky bridge at 100 metres
- Tea-garden terraces
- Local craft throughout
- LEED Platinum certified
Galle Face, Colombo 01
ITC Ratnadipa stands on the Galle Face waterfront, at the meeting point of the Indian Ocean and Beira Lake, in the heart of the city yet open to the sea. From here Colombo is yours to read at height and on foot, its galleries and markets, its restaurants and old quarters gathered around a hotel that looks out over all of it.
It makes an elegant place to begin. A night or two here sets the contemporary note of the capital before the journey turns inland and south, to the ancient cities, the hills and the coast. Our designers arrange the private transfer and the passage from city to island, so the first chapter flows easily into the next.
- Bandaranaike International (CMB)
- About 45 minutes
- Private car
What sets it apart
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Twin towers joined by a 100-metre sky bridge
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352 contemporary rooms and suites
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Ten restaurants and bars
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Kaya Kalp spa and sky-bridge pools
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Galle Face waterfront, Colombo
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LEED Platinum certified
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