Inside Cinnamon Life at the City of Dreams — the Colombo hotel that was 10 years in the making

Having spent over 10 months in Sri Lanka, I’ve become fairly well acquainted with the Colombo hotel scene.

There are the chains, some global, some local, which take up space in sprawling buildings and sky-punctuating towers, and there are the arty boutique bedrooms often housed in colonial-era homes full of fascinating antiques and surrounded by frangipani trees — these are always my favourites.