8/10 Very good
Great price, good location and nice hotel.
Nice place to stay for a great price, would recommend
Emik
Emik, 1-night trip
Hotel Nippon Colombo
Hotel with restaurant, near Colombo City Centre
Located in Hunupitiya, Hotel Nippon Colombo offers a warm welcome with its local cuisine restaurant, The Bamboo Room. Enjoy breakfast and brunch options while staying connected with free in-room WiFi and unwind at the bar or coffee shop/cafe after a day of exploring. Previous guests have praised the property's overall condition.
Good
Popular amenities
- Airport transfer
- Free parking
- Free WiFi
- Restaurant
- Air conditioning
- Bar
Main amenities (12)
- Daily housekeeping
- Near the beach
- Restaurant and bar/lounge
- Breakfast available
- Room service
- Coffee shop/cafe
- Business center
- Airport shuttle
- 24-hour front desk
- Air conditioning
- Front-desk safe
- Snack bar/deli
Feel at home (6)
- Rollaway/extra beds
- Private bathroom
- Premium TV channels
- Daily housekeeping
- Laundry facilities
- Coffee/tea maker
$49 nightly
$58 total
Feb 26 - Feb 27
Total with taxes and fees
Room options
Showing 3 of 3 rooms
Standard Double Room, Ensuite
Exceptional
Highlights
Air conditioning
Flat-screen TV
Hair dryer
Bidet
Private bathroom
Free bottled water
Electric kettle
Coffee/tea maker
- City view
- 237 sq ft
- Sleeps 2
- 1 Double Bed
Deluxe Double or Twin Room, Balcony
Exceptional
Highlights
Balcony
Air conditioning
Flat-screen TV
Hair dryer
Bidet
Private bathroom
Free bottled water
Electric kettle
- City view
- 248 sq ft
- Sleeps 2
- 1 Double Bed
Standard Triple Room, 1 Bedroom
Highlights
Air conditioning
Flat-screen TV
Day bed
Hair dryer
Bidet
Private bathroom
Free bottled water
Electric kettle
- City view
- 125 sq ft
- Sleeps 3
- 1 Queen Bed
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About the neighborhood
123 Kumaran Rathnam Road, Colombo 2, Colombo, 00200
About this property
Hotel Nippon Colombo
Hotel Nippon Colombo offers a great location, putting you within just a 10-minute walk of Colombo City Centre. The bar is a great place to grab a drink, and guests looking for a bite to eat can check out The Bamboo Room, which serves local cuisine and is open for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Fellow travelers say good things about the overall property condition.
At a glance
Property amenities
Room amenities
Special features
Dining
The Bamboo Room - This restaurant specializes in local cuisine and serves breakfast, brunch, lunch, and dinner. A children's menu is available.
Onsite venue #2 - café. Open daily.
The Cabinet Bar & Lounge - Onsite bar. Open daily.
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Hotel Nippon Colombo Reviews
Good
7.6
Cleanliness
7.2
Location
7.4
Staff & service
7.2
Property conditions & facilities
10/10 Exceptional
Perfect hotel in the heart of Colombo
Fabulous hotel professional staff and delicious food at the restaurant , an easy Tuk Tuk ride to anywhere you want to go
John Jay
John Jay, 2-night trip
10/10 Exceptional
Quality
Very nice stay excellent accommodation and restaurant
bruce
bruce, 1-night trip
6/10 Good
Breakfast can be better and more international flavours.
Sanjeev
Sanjeev, 3-night trip
10/10 Exceptional
A relatively small hotel that still maintains it's heritage. Staff were very pleasant and extremely helpful.
The area around the hotel has seen better days but there are plenty of options within walking distance if you are doing the tourist things.
The money we saved by staying here was well spent on a fantastic meal at Ministry of Crab!
Michael
Michael, 3-night trip
10/10 Exceptional
Luxurious stay for a steal! You cant beat this price!
Sathiyendrah
Sathiyendrah, 1-night trip
4/10 Fair
This was the first hotel that had an odour of unclean/unwashed bedding and didn’t feel fresh. I would say you get what you pay for but other hotels at the same price did feel clean. The staff were lovely and did let us check in early after a long flight. Sadly for the bedding we cancelled our future reservation as we were going to stay on our return leg.
Linda
Linda, 2-night trip
10/10 Exceptional
The hotel Nippon was lovely. One of the old type hotels which has been refurbished. The lounge area was nice, lift was clean,staff helpful. The room was average size bed was comfortable. The view from the window wasnt appealing as it was residential and area not that good. However a 3 minute walk from the hotel took you to beautiful gardens, temples etc.
Yolanda
Yolanda, 2-night trip
2/10 Poor
Very hot oven room
Location is good. AC is not working at all call couple of time spend an hour still no luck. Inside is burning.
Not plasent stay.
Sukumar
Sukumar, 1-night trip
6/10 Good
It's rightly prices as this is not a relaxing venue. Can't complain because the price is pretty low despite being located in the heart of the city. That goes to say the noise from vehicles will keep you awake at night and wake you u before the alarm.
And they definitely need to replace towels as the ones provided are very old. And the definitely have to clean up the balcony as it seems like it had never been cleaned.
Nadee
Nadee, 3-night trip
4/10 Fair
Could be better
We arrived to the hotel at about 1030pm, the hotel lost our booking ans our room wasn’t ready till about 1145pm when the cleaning stuff were cleaning the room.
The room was ok, we understand the hotel is a beautiful and very old building (137 years old) but small thing could have been don’t to make the room look better, windows were dirty, window blinds didn’t work very well, and towels were ripped.
Staff were friendly, food was ok, one morning we had breakfast buffet and the second morning it was menu service.
Hotel is places in a good location, close to bars, restaurants shops and other amenities.
Zoltan
Zoltan, 2-night trip
8/10 Very good
The property was within walking distance to both One Galle Face and City Centre. It also has a convenient cafe with quite okay selection of “short eats” for quick snacking.
Only drawback was when we requested for house keeping, they did throw out the trash from the main room but left out the one in the toilet. Towels were also not changed as well as the daily toiletries supply though we didn’t need them but it’s standard hotel practice unless I missed out on the request when needed fine line print.
Over all an okay stay.
Ana Loella Cuenca
Ana Loella Cuenca, 4-night trip
8/10 Very good
Bel hotel, en bon etat... on a eu de l'eau chaude...!
sylviane
sylviane, 2-night trip
8/10 Very good
Hotel Nippon Colombo
Bra boende för priset. Trevlig och gästvänlig personal som gav oss en hel del tips. Sköna sängar. Eftersom hotellet ligger i en storstad och bredvid en väg kan det låta en del från vägen. Okej frukost.
Olivia
Olivia, 3-night trip
8/10 Very good
Good Location in Colombo 2
The staff were very helpful when approached for advice and directions. Breakfast was good. Traffic noise was evident most of the time. Busy street outside. TV worked well. Had trouble with internet access. Could not connect to the secure portal. Staff tried to help but to no avail. Used the unsecured portal but in a limited manner.
Verified traveler
3-night trip
2/10 Poor
The property was almost empty so when we arrived they refused to give early check-in @ 7am but wanted charge if wanted so asked to come back at 11am. When we went at 11, there was no room but the guy at the reception found another room. When we went to the room, surprise!!! The bathrooms were almost see through. When complained and mentioned that we will checkout, room was changed to a lower category.
Verified traveler
2-night trip
8/10 Very good
Great location
Great location, right around the corner from the main road. Rooms were comfortable, staff were super friendly and helpful. Breakfast was great!
Tala
Tala, 1-night trip
8/10 Very good
Good hotel, apparently the oldest in Colombo, within short tuk-tuk distance from Colombo train station. Check-in was quick and easy. Room was spacious,with large balcony overlooking the road, and one of the most comfortable beds we've ever slept in. Nice restaurant with sufficient choice for breakfast and choice of a la carte or bar bites in the evening. The bar bites were particularly good with good sized portions. Decent bar room available too. All staff in the hotel were very pleasant and helpful.
Within easy walking distance from Galle Face, Twin Towers, Clock Tower and Pettah.
Clean hotel. Though we only stayed 2 nights we'd definitely recommend this hotel for either short or longer stay.
jacqueline
jacqueline, 2-night trip
4/10 Fair
立地は落ち着いた場所で徒歩でもトゥクトゥクでもすぐに移動できる便利なところです。すぐそばに教会、モスク、お寺があり、礼拝など様々な時間で宗教音楽が聞こえてきます。そういう体験が楽しめる方には良いですが、静かに過ごしたい方は嫌うと思われます。アメニティは石鹸・シャンプー・ボディーソープのみ。エアコンはコントロールできなかったです。客室清掃の責任者らしき人がカギを無理やり開けて入ってきたので、普通は大クレームになると思いますが、スリランカスタイルなんだと思えば気にならないという事で我慢。
MAX
MAX, 5-night trip
6/10 Good
Underwhelming
Overall the Nippon did not meet our expectations. All standards could be improved. Paid for transfer from the airport and was then charged extra for tolls, paid online for room but at hotel was charged extra for taxes. Breakfast was slow, cold and a strange combination of food. Overall you could get better value for money elsewhere.
Jeannine
Jeannine, 1-night trip
2/10 Poor
The nastiest restroom I ever seen !
For the money it is really really not acceptable by no means.
I never excpected from a hotel with a good name and history to have unclean bed sheets, dirty pillow covers and nasty toilet bowl.
Will never come again.
Verified traveler
2-night trip
8/10 Very good
Quaint
A lovely, colonial style building, (we had a balcony room, which was massive). Nice spacious room with a huge, comfortable bed.
The concierge was very friendly and helpful. He gave us plenty of information about places to go and he helped us with various bookings.
The food options were a bit limited, but we did most of our eating in the city anyway.
Good location if you don't mind walking, about 700 metres to Galle Face, same as the Dutch hospital.
Earl
Earl, 2-night trip
8/10 Very good
Happy enough on our stay, hotel location is very convenient as is it quite near where our meetings are held, the buffet they have in the morning is very good, really enjoyed it. The staffs are very courteous, friendly and helpful. Their rate per room is very reasonable, and hopefully when I come back will get a good rate again.It was indeed an interesting experience visiting Sri Lanka.
Elisa
8/10 Very good
Otel tarihi bina ,çok güzel yenilenmiş.Resepsiyon çalışanları ,oda hizmetlileri harikalar.Otel çok temiz hergün oda temizliği yapılıyor ,havlu ve çarşaflar değiştiriliyor.Kahvaltısı çok iyi yöresel yiyecekler ağırlıklı olsada lezzetli ve doyurucu.Cadde tarafındaki odalar biraz gürültülü ancak idare eder.Otel her yere yürüyüş mesafesinde.
Güray
Güray, 4-night trip
10/10 Exceptional
Gut ausgestattetes Zimmer, nettes , sehr hilfsbereites Personal
Verified traveler
2-night trip
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