Cinnamon Grand Hotel


The Cinnamon Grand Hotel, formerly called the Hotel Lanka Oberoi, is a luxury five-star hotel in Colombo, Sri Lanka. It is one of three hotels in Colombo popular with tourists, along with Kingsbury Hotel and Shangri-La Hotel. The Cinnamon Grand is located at 77 Galle Road, Western Province, Kollupitiya, Colombo.

Terrorist attacks

On 28 January 1984, a bomb exploded in the hotel, then called the Hotel Lanka Oberoi. One employee was killed.

2019 Easter Bombings

It was one of the sites of the 2019 Sri Lanka Easter bombings which happened on Easter along with two other hotels including Kingsbury Hotel and Shangri-La Hotel. Raadhika Sarathkumar, a popular Sri Lankan born Indian Tamil actress narrowly escaped from a bomb explosion which happened at Cinnamon Grand Hotel where she was present after wrapping up shooting for a film.