Rooms - old rooms, ancient TV, size is OK.

Bathroom - it took the housekeeping 1 hour to repair a fault in the bathtub. More to this, they came after an hour of followup with the reception and housekeeping.

Buffet - Decent breakfast. Dinner was OK as they did not had any Indian chapati or naan, even though they had dal fry, paneer and other Indian curries.

Reception - Funniest of all, they did not have any hotel info brochure and the receptionist said that they will e-mail me a copy if I want to refer.

Wifi - They charge 5 USD per hour of WiFi.

Location - only positive was the prime location near the beach road and the old parliament.
But the receptionist advised me not to go to the beach road in the evening as it is not "safe". So we ended up sitting in the hotel for the whole evening. In the morning it was very hot and sunny to go to the beach.

We spent 2 nights at Galadari Hotel during a private tour (selected by our travel agency, last week of December 2011).
Galadari is ideally located in the Colombo security area, in front of old parliament and at the beginning of the famous Galle Face Walk.
The hotel is supposed to be a 5*-hotel by local standards, which are quite different from South-East Asia standards. Hotel owners should really plan a comprehensive refurbishment.

We appreciated to have 2 connecting rooms with sufficient space.
But hotel rooms are old and not sound-proof (other customers or staff talking in the corridor woke me up in the middle of the night).
The swimming pool is OK with a nice view on the ocean.
Hotel Staff are generally nice and helpful (exception: a housekeeping man came into our kids' room at 8am, without knocking at the door before. When he realised the mistake it was too late ... and he woke our kids up while closing the door).
Catering is correct, though we deeply regretted not finding any true bacon for breakfast.

I am afraid Galadari is just another international hotel without a soul and without anything special.

i stayed this hotel few months ago that was just for one night. it wasn't at all good. The hotel is really old & not well sound proofed room . i paid nearly 170 us$ for one night. not good value for the price but good location though. the Hotel management need to seriously think to renovate the hotel. at the moment if you can get a room from this hotel 100 us$ per night that will be worthy considering the location,

Although its location is excellent, but it seems like they have not refurbished the hotel since the 80's. Rooms are really worn out and look more like a 2/3 star hotel rooms. Dirty carpet, CRT type TV's, rooms stinking with cigarette smoke etc. Perhaps the only positive was the amazing beach view from the room. For $ 200 / night it is a rip off.

No complaints about the service though, amazing breakfast and lunch at the coffee shop.

Will definitely not stay at this hotel again unless they do a major renovation.