The Kingsbury , formerly the Ceylon Continental Hotel Colombo and the Ceylon Inter-Continental Hotel , is a nine-story hotel located at 48 , Janadhipathi Mawatha in the city centre of Colombo , Sri Lanka . It was built by U. N. Gunasekera , and is owned by Hotel Services ( Ceylon ) PLC , which is a subsidiary of Hayleys PLC . It was refurbished and reopened in January 2013 . It was one of the sites of the 2019 Sri Lanka Easter bombings which happened on Easter Sunday along with two other hotels including Cinnamon Grand Hotel and Shangri-La Hotel
2019 Sri Lanka Easter bombings
2019 Sri Lanka Easter bombings
The Kingsbury