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The Saffron

3.0 star property
Family-friendly Art Deco hotel with free WiFi

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Reviews

7.2 out of 10

Good

Popular amenities

  • Breakfast available
    Breakfast available
  • Room service
    Room service
  • Pet-friendly
    Pet-friendly
  • Laundry
    Laundry
  • Air conditioning
    Air conditioning
  • Housekeeping
    Housekeeping

Explore the area

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32/5, Galpotte Rd, Koswatte, Nawala, Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte, 00500
  • Lanka Hospital
    4 min drive
  • Asiri Hospital
    4 min drive
  • Bandaranaike Memorial International Conference Hall
    6 min drive
  • Beira Lake Seaplane Base (BYV)
    24 min drive

Room options

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Standard Room | Bathroom

Standard Room

  • 22 sq m
  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 Double Bed

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Family Room

Family Room

  • 28 sq m
  • Sleeps 6
  • 1 King Bed OR 2 Twin Bunk Beds

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Economy Single Room

Economy Single Room

  • 19 sq m
  • Sleeps 1
  • 1 Twin Bed

Standard Triple Room

  • Sleeps 3
  • 1 Queen Bed and 1 Twin Bed

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Deluxe Room

Deluxe Room

  • 22 sq m
  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 King Bed

About the area

Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte

Heart of Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte.You'll find Lanka Hospital and Golden Key Eye & ENT Hospital within 2 miles (3 km) of this hotel. Asiri Hospital and Park Hospital are also within 3 miles (5 km).

What's nearby

  • Lanka Hospital - 4 min drive - 2.5 km
  • Bandaranaike Memorial International Conference Hall - 6 min drive - 4.4 km
  • Colombo City Centre - 9 min drive - 7.2 km
  • Nawaloka Hospital - 9 min drive - 7.5 km
  • Galle Face Green - 10 min drive - 8.3 km

Getting around

  • Bambalapitiya Railway Station - 18 min drive
  • Bandaranaike Intl. Airport (CMB) - 47 min drive

Restaurants

  • ‪McDonald's - ‬4 min drive
  • ‪PappaRich - ‬10 min walk
  • ‪Viking - ‬9 min walk
  • ‪Chopsticks - ‬17 min walk
  • ‪Wasthi Restaurant - ‬17 min walk

About this property

The Saffron

Family-friendly Art Deco hotel with free WiFi
There's a restaurant on site. WiFi is free in public spaces. There's an onsite business center. An airport shuttle (available 24 hours) and an area shuttle are available for a fee. A rooftop terrace, a library, and barbecue grills are also featured at the family-friendly The Saffron. Self parking and valet parking are free.

This 3-star Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte hotel is smoke free.

  • 1 building
  • 12 guestrooms or units
  • 3 levels
  • Built in 2001
  • Childcare (free)
  • Terrace on the roof
  • Business facilities
  • Breakfast available (surcharge)
  • Coffee in lobby
  • Dry cleaning
  • Self-service laundry
  • Front desk (24 hours)
  • Express check-in
  • Express check-out
  • Staff is multilingual
  • Storage area for luggage
  • Front-desk safe
  • Tour and ticket information
  • Concierge
  • Library
  • Garden
  • BBQ grill(s)
  • Outdoor picnic space
  • Newspapers in lobby (free)
  • No smoking on site
  • Dining venue
The Saffron offers 12 accommodations, which are accessible via exterior corridors and feature video-game consoles and complimentary newspapers. These individually decorated and furnished accommodations include desks. 22-inch LED televisions come with cable channels.

Bathrooms include showers with rainfall showerheads, bidets, and complimentary toiletries. Guests can surf the web using the complimentary wireless Internet access. Additionally, rooms include complimentary bottled water and ceiling fans. Irons/ironing boards and hair dryers can be requested. Housekeeping is provided daily.

Languages

Arabic, English

Property amenities

Family friendly

  • Free babysitting
  • Laundry facilities
  • Rollaway/extra beds (surcharge)

Internet

  • Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
  • Available in some public areas: Free WiFi

Parking and transportation

  • Free self parking on site
  • Free valet parking on site
  • Wheelchair-accessible parking available
  • Free offsite parking
  • 24-hour roundtrip airport shuttle (surcharge)
  • Airport shuttle on request
  • Area shuttle (surcharge)

Food and drink

  • Breakfast available for a fee: LKR 725.00 for adults and LKR 500.00 for children
  • 1 restaurant
  • 24-hour room service
  • Coffee/tea in common area(s)

Accessibility

  • If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please contact the property using the information on the reservation confirmation received after booking.
  • This property does not have elevators
  • Wheelchair-accessible parking

Room amenities

Entertainment

  • 22-inch LED TV
  • Cable channels
  • Video-game console

Bedroom

  • Air conditioning (climate-controlled)
  • Ceiling fan
  • Rollaway/extra beds (surcharge)

Bathroom

  • Bidet
  • Free toiletries
  • Hair dryer (on request)
  • Private bathroom
  • Rainfall showerhead
  • Shower
  • Towels

Food and drink

  • Free bottled water

More

  • Access via exterior corridors
  • Desk
  • Free newspapers
  • Individually decorated
  • Individually furnished
  • Iron/ironing board (on request)

Policies

Check-in

Check-in start time: 2 PM; Check-in end time: 8 AM
Express check-in available
Minimum check-in age: 18

Check-out

Check-out before noon
Express check-out available

Special check-in instructions

This property offers transfers from the airport (surcharges may apply); to arrange pick-up, guests must contact the property 24 hours prior to arrival, using the contact information on the booking confirmation
Front desk staff will greet guests on arrival

Access methods

Staffed front desk

Pets

  • Pets are welcome and stay free

Children and extra beds

  • Children are welcome.
  • Kids stay free! One child 5 years old or younger stays free when using existing bedding.
  • Rollaway/extra beds are available for LKR 1500 per night.
  • Cribs (infant beds) are not available.

Property payment types

Important information

Optional extras

The fees and deposits listed below will be charged at the time of service, check-in, or check-out.

  • Fee for continental breakfast: approximately LKR 725.00 for adults and LKR 500.00 for children
  • Airport shuttle fee: LKR 4032.00 per vehicle (one way)
  • Rollaway bed fee: LKR 1500 per night

This may not be a comprehensive list. Fees and deposits are subject to change and might not include tax.

You need to know

Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card, debit card, or cash deposit may be required at check-in for incidental charges
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges; special requests cannot be guaranteed
This property accepts credit cards
Charges for extra guests may apply and vary according to property policy.
A cash deposit, credit card, or debit card for incidental charges and government-issued photo identification may be required upon check-in.
Special requests are subject to availability at the time of check-in. Special requests can't be guaranteed and may incur additional charges.
    This property is managed by a professional host. The provision of housing is linked to their trade, business, or profession. This property accepts Visa and Mastercard.

We should mention

  • One child 5 years old or younger stays free in the same room as the parent or guardian when using existing bedding.
  • Registered guests are the only ones allowed to be in guestrooms.
  • Alcohol isn't served at The Saffron.

Property is also known as

Saffron Hotel Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte
Saffron Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte
Saffron Sri Jayawarnepura Kot
The Saffron Hotel
The Saffron Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte
The Saffron Hotel Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte

The Saffron Reviews

Reviews

7.2

Good

Rating 10 - Excellent. 6 out of 23 reviews" "
Rating 8 - Good. 9 out of 23 reviews" "
Rating 6 - Okay. 2 out of 23 reviews" "
Rating 4 - Poor. 3 out of 23 reviews" "
Rating 2 - Terrible. 3 out of 23 reviews" "

7.8/10

Cleanliness

8.2/10

Staff & service

7.2/10

Property conditions & facilities

Reviews

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Lovely and good room etc perfect. Thank you.
Even allowed for 3 am check in! All wonderful. Thank you very much. Just need to update sign so can see from road in the dark.

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, room comfort
Friendly helpful staff in a lovely old building
I arrived late, there was someone there to greet me. I didn't stay long but would recommend this hotel.

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Lovely people
Anthony and Dilrukshi are fabulous hosts. They were helpful before arrival with information and suggestions, and really stepped up when travel plans had to drastically change. Great breakfast!

2/10 Terrible

Verified traveller

Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Outdated. Horrible location.
No facilities. Too far from the city colombo. Completely outdated. Needs renovation.

4/10 Poor

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Disliked: Staff & service
Not worth the savings
We were just staying the night to catch our flight out of Colombo the next day at noon. Every tuk tuk driver we had, none of them knew where it was. They refused to look at my map on my phone and just went around asking instead. They ended up having to call the hotel. There is nothing around the hotel, no food or anything. While my reservation said that it included breakfast, we arrive and they told us there is no breakfast. We went downstairs in the morning to confirm our airport transfer, there was no staff there until 8:00 until we were making a lot of noise til he woke up. Not with booking this place. Stay closer to city center to cause less stress.

10/10 Excellent

Xavier

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Best guesthouse option in Colombo
Run by a friendly couple, this is probably your best guest-house option in Colombo. Unless you want a fully-serviced hotel in the busy city center and mind being 10-15 minutes away from the hustle-bustle, I can't think of a better place to stay, in a relaxed, residential neighbourhood by a green lake, with spot-clean rooms decorated with wooden furniture, and some of the best food I had in Sri Lanka, served in a homely hut in the garden. The staff is superb, from the owners to the three family-like assistants who will go out of their way to make your stay pleasant.

8/10 Good

khaled, dubai

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Hotel in perfect place/value of money
Hotel in perfect place near to all tourist attraction places we took toktok to everywhere there and doesn't cost us match it's also near Colombo fort in case u need train to visit candy..the madam owner of hotel is very helpful and advised us a lot ...really value of money

6/10 Okay

Vin, Toronto

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Overall good value, great service
Location is the "killer" I had to take taxi (tuk tuk)about 10 times during my day and a half stay in Colombo,unfortunately I found most of the drivers were cheats, therefore it really becomes a problem when your hotel is NOT a walking distance to any important sight. Staff was extremely helpful, in a way that compensates for the location!

10/10 Excellent

Dr Vinitaa Apte, Pune India

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Dr Vinitaa Apte
Our stay was very comfortable.its like home away from home. People are very fReindly. Good hotel.

4/10 Poor

Mature Couple, UK

Liked: Property conditions & facilities
Disliked: Cleanliness
Nice people - poor location
Positives -- Nice people who run the hotel. Breakfast and evening dinner were very good. Wifi was reasonable. Bed was quite comfortable. Negatives -- the hotel is very difficult to find for taxi drivers as it's located away from the city centre in a not-so-wonderful residential area [it's wise to use Google Maps on a Smartphone to direct the driver...]. The cleanliness could be greatly improved. Also, with the government imposing a 25% tax on hotels and guest houses, most accommodation seems very expensive compared to other countries and the Saffron is no exception.

4/10 Poor

Verified traveller

Disliked: Cleanliness, room comfort
Prima hotel, maar enorme kakkerlakken in badkamer!
Prima kamer, zolang je geen gebruik hoeft te maken van de badkamer (of de wifi, die werkt niet). Enorme (!) kakkerlakken in de badkamer, waardoor ik de hele nacht wakker heb gelegen omdat ik niet naar de wc kon (durfde) en 's ochtends zelfs de douche (en het ontbijt) heb geskipt om zo snel mogelijk uit te checken en te vertrekken.

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Disliked: Room comfort
Hotel tres simple.
Hotel tres tres basique.....Douche sans bac à côté de la cuvette des toilettes.....Ménage pas fait durant Les 3 jours,pas de papier toilette( fallu En demander ).Assez éloigné du centre.Repas:pas terrible. Mais, hôtes charmants,tres aimables,rendant service.Bonne proprete.Petit déjeuner tt à fait correct. Donc: hotel pas tres cher, mais tres simple,plus pour globe trotteurs...

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, room comfort
Barato. Wifi. Airco
Hotel basico, comodo, barato. Gente simpatico y muy amable.

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Nice Accomodation
Good Hotel, very friendly and kind staff, a bit far off but a nice hotel to stay for a couple of days!

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Nice and cozy, friendly staff, good food and price
For the price very nice and cozy hotel. With extremely friendly and helpful staff. Especially young boy that is working there was very helpful and "handy". The food from restaurant was very good and unlike in the other hotels on Srí Lanka not overpriced. The same is for the price for the taxi to the airport. Rooms are small but clean and well cared. Location off the hotel is hard to find for the first time. Once you get by bus to Nawala it is easier to get tuk-tuk to got you there. After that it is just a matter off 20 minutes and 50 rupees for bus to get there from or to Colombo. Overall impression is very good and I would go there again. Za danou cenu velmi pěkný hotel. Zaměstnanci velice příjemní a ochotní. Především jeden mladý hoch nám pomohl se vším co bylo třeba. Jídlo z vlastní restaurace bylo velmi chutné a narozdíl od jiných hotelů na Srí Lance za velice dobrou cenu. To samé platí i pro taxi obednané hotelem na letiště. Pokoje malé ale v dobrém stavu a čistotě ostatně tak jako celý hotel. Jedinou nevýhoda je umístění hotelu, ale poté co zjistíte kterým autobusem se dostanete na místo je to otázka 20 minut a 50 rupií z centra.

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, room comfort
Quiet and Friendly Place to Stay
Peaceful and quiet place to stay. 10-15 min. drive by rickshaw to Colombo. Very nice meal.

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Saffron: Ruhe und Entspannung mitten in Colombo
Das Hotel nimmt die (europäischen) Gäste in der Regel schon sehr viel früher am Anreisetag auf, als es vertraglich verpflichtet ist; die Flieger landen ja noch mitten in der Nacht. Bei uns hat das nicht geklappt, da das Saffron nicht nur komplett ausgebucht war, sondern auch unser Zimmer ungeplant noch belegt war. Trotzdem wurden wir um ~5:30 Uhr früh aufgenommen, bekamen eine Sitzecke zugewiesen, wo wir uns auf Sofa und Sessel ausruhen konnten und wurden mit Tee, Wasser, Brause und einer warmen Mahlzeit auf Kosten des Hauses verwöhnt. Mittags konnten wir dann auf unser Zimmer. Sauber, sinnig (Steckdosenleiste mit Adapter!), Fan AC, herrlich ruhig, Bett und Nasszelle o.k. sowie kleiner Balkon. Schön ist die offene Frühstückshalle und das "Roof-Top" wo wir einige Abende haben ausklingen lassen. Das Continental Breakfast könnte etwas langweilig werden: wir haben z.T. auf Sri Lanka Breakfast umgesattelt: lecker! Da uns der Aufenthalt sehr gut gefallen hat, haben wir vor dem Start unserer Sri Lanka Rundreise gleich wieder den Tag vor Abflug nach Deutschland im Saffron gebucht. Das hat problemlos geklappt und wir bekamen viele wertvolle Tipps, wo wir in Colombo die geplanten Mitbringsel gut & günstig bekommen können.

2/10 Terrible

Fam. Petersen, Danmark

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Desværre ikke et sted vi kan anbefale
Due to our experiences - absolutely not a hotel we can recomment.

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
schöner Garten, tolles Personal
Das Hotel liegt etwas ausserhalb (ca 7 km) vom historischen Stadtkern, ist aber leicht per Mopedtaxi zu erreichen. Die Zimmer sind groß und sehr sauber und klimatisiert. Das Hotel hat einen kleinen Garten mit Terasse, was ein angenehmer Rückzugsort in der etwas hektischen Stadt ist. Das Personal ist sehr hilfsbereit und freundlich und immer für die Gäste da. Auch das Essen war durchwegs gut.