Fort Bazaar
Galle Fort, Galle — 158.3 km from Bandaranaike (CMB), about 2 hr 26 min. Fixed fares from Rs 24,540, agreed before you fly.
About Fort Bazaar
Fort Bazaar is in Galle Fort, Galle, about 2 hr 26 min by road from Bandaranaike International Airport. The hotel lists 5 room types, including Upper Suite and Upper Family Suite. The hotel lists 1 restaurant or bar, including Church Street Social. Check-in is reported as 14:00 and check-out as 12:00. Your driver meets you in arrivals and takes you to the door at a fixed price.
Getting there from the airport
Your driver meets you in arrivals and takes you to the door. One fixed price for the whole car, agreed before you fly, with free cancellation up to 24 hours before pickup.
Location
6.02684, 80.21760
دليل الزائر: Fort Bazaar
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- Upper Suite: 75 sqm, private terrace, bathtub
- Upper Family Suite: 100 sqm, mezzanine with twin beds
- Banyan Bedroom: 32 sqm, private balcony or terrace
- Bazaar Bedroom: 35 sqm, four-poster king or twin, courtyard
- 8 Leyn Baan: 56 sqm split-level suite, 150 m away
- Church Street Social: restaurant and bar; multi-cultural dishes from local farmers and fishermen
- Guided Galle Fort walks
- Whale watching in Mirissa
- Swimming pool
- Spa treatments
- Swimming pool
- In-house spa
- Bar (complimentary drinks 5-18:00)
Near Fort Bazaar
Places to visit close to the hotel. Drive time is by road, from the same pricing data as your quote.
Day trips from Fort Bazaar
Further afield. Drive time is by road, from the same pricing data as your quote.
Fort Bazaar occupies a merchant's house inside Galle Fort dating back to the sixteenth century, restored by Teardrop Hotels into an 18-room boutique property that reflects the Fort's mixed Moorish and Dutch colonial heritage rather than a single architectural style. The building is arranged around a traditional central courtyard, in the manner of the Fort's old trading houses, a layout that goes back to the Fort's centuries as a working port town with a settled Moorish merchant community alongside its Dutch and, later, British administrators.
Most of the eighteen rooms — named "Bazaar" and "Banyan" — open directly onto that courtyard, while three larger upper suites have private balconies looking out over Galle's terracotta rooftops toward the Indian Ocean. It is a small enough property that the courtyard functions as its social centre, rather than a lobby or a beach, and the arrangement keeps most of daily hotel life under a shared canopy of trees and old brickwork.
On site, Fort Bazaar runs the Church Street Social restaurant and an accompanying library space, along with Z Spa and a fifteen-metre outdoor pool — a fair amount of amenity for a property with fewer than twenty rooms, built to keep guests within the building rather than sending them out to the Fort's restaurants for every meal, though naturally many do explore Galle Fort's own streets. Complimentary Wi-Fi and complimentary soft drinks stocked in the room mini-fridge are part of the standard offering, and breakfast and afternoon high tea are included for all in-house guests, a touch that leans on the hotel's own restaurant rather than assuming guests will eat elsewhere.
Teardrop Hotels, the group behind the property, runs several similarly restored boutique hotels elsewhere on the island, and Fort Bazaar is consistently counted among the better-reviewed properties in Galle Fort by independent travel reviewers, reflecting the level of restoration work and service that went into a comparatively small building.
For travellers who want to stay inside Galle Fort's walls in a restored heritage building, without taking on the scale or history-museum formality of Amangalla nearby, Fort Bazaar's courtyard house, restaurant and library offer a more relaxed, socially-minded version of the same UNESCO setting.
Your transfer to Fort Bazaar
The nearest hotel on this site is Galle Fort Hotel in Galle Fort, a few minutes on foot.
What it costs
| Vehicle | Seats | Typically | Prices from | Book |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Economy car | 3–4 | Alto, Aqua, Axio | Rs 24,540 | Book |
| Van, SUV and group | 4–50 | Every, Vezel, Toyota KDH, Coaster | Rs 32,630 | Book |
| Premium car | 3–4 | Camry | Rs 46,210 | Book |
One price for the whole car, not per seat. Drivers and fleets set their own rates, so these are typical prices from our system, not a guarantee — your actual quote can differ. Quoted by the same engine that prices your booking, for the 158.3 km shown — your own quote reflects the exact address, the time of day and any waiting time. See all 9 vehicle classes ↓
Questions about this transfer
How much is a taxi from Colombo airport to Fort Bazaar?
From Rs 24,540 for the 158.3 km, about 2 hr 26 min. That is a fixed price for the whole car, quoted before you book, not a meter reading.
How long does the transfer to Fort Bazaar take?
About 2 hr 26 min in normal traffic. Arrivals at Bandaranaike are busiest in the early morning, when the long-haul flights land together.
Will the driver wait if my flight is late?
Yes. Give your flight number when you book and your driver has it. There is no automatic flight tracking yet, so if you are delayed, message your driver on the number in your confirmation. Extended waiting beyond the pickup window is chargeable on a point-to-point transfer, and the terms say by how much.
Can I book a return transfer from Fort Bazaar?
Yes — the same journey in reverse, at the same fixed price, booked at the same time or later.
All vehicle classes and prices
| Vehicle | Seats | Prices from | Book |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mini / Small Car | 3–4 | Rs 24,540 | Book |
| Economy / Medium Car | 3–4 | Rs 27,070 | Book |
| Sedan | 3–4 | Rs 29,540 | Book |
| Mini Van | 5–7 | Rs 32,630 | Book |
| SUV | 4–5 | Rs 33,240 | Book |
| Van | 8–14 | Rs 35,100 | Book |
| Luxury Car | 3–4 | Rs 46,210 | Book |
| Mini Bus | 15–30 | Rs 48,060 | Book |
| Bus | 30–50 | Rs 67,820 | Book |
Every class, every price, none hidden. Each Book button opens the booking form for this transfer with that class chosen.
Book your transfer through us
- Fixed price in advance, for the whole car. No meter.
- Your driver's profile is shown before you book.
- Free cancellation up to 24 hours before pickup.
- Day trips from the hotel can be booked from the cards above.
How this transfer works
One fixed price for the whole car, not per seat. There is no meter, so the figure you are quoted is the figure the booking honours. Give your flight number when you book and your driver has it.
The return leg from Fort Bazaar is the same journey booked the other way, at the same price, and can be arranged now or later in your stay. Departures want you at Bandaranaike three hours before a long-haul flight, so add the 2 hr 26 min back to that.
Before you book
- Taxis in Galle — what the roads do at different times of day, and how being collected here works.
- Airport transfers — meeting your driver, luggage, child seats and how payment works.
- The airport to Galle route — the drive itself, in detail.
- A driver for several days — the usual arrangement for anyone travelling beyond Galle.
- The district map — where Galle sits, and what is around it.