How To Reach Colombo From India

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India to Colombo Distance

  • India to Colombo

    By Air

    3.0 hours

Taking a flight from Delhi, Mumbai, or Chennai to Colombo is the best way to reach the capital of Sri Lanka. It takes less than 2 hours to travel from Chennai to Colombo. Tourism of Sri Lanka attracts the heart of every tourist with its serene beaches, historical monuments, golden desert, quiet backwater, pilgrimage sites, rich wildlife, and colorful fairs.  Following ideas will help you in knowing that how to reach Colombo from India:

By Air:

Flights are the most popular way to reach Colombo from India and major airlines serve this route. Malaysian Airlines, Emirates, Singapore Airlines, Jet Airways, Qatar Airways and Srilankan Airlines are the prominent flights to fly from India to other Colombo. A traveler will reach Sri Lanka for the destination Colombo where Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) ensures the landing of all major airlines. This airport is located in Katunayaka and it will take around one-hour drive to reach Colombo.

The airport is situated around 32 km from Colombo, and on an average, any road service will take more than 45 minutes for reaching Colombo city. The flights from South India will be the cheapest and it will take less time to reach the Colombo as it is the nearest place.

By rail:

Colombo has wide rail connectivity and one can visit all nearby tourist places by availing rail services. One can get regular train services from Katunayake south Railway station. From this railway station, one can easily reach to Colombo. One can check the online status and timings of these trains. Also, the facility of online booking is available from anywhere in India for all desired destinations across the globe including Colombo.

Though trains are not such practical way to reach Colombo from India but trains are the cheapest way to go from one to another place in Sri Lanka itself only. One can expect the heavy crowd in the same. So, it is advised to book the trains in advance in order to entertain the comfortable and worry-free journey.

By Road:

 

Bus, taxi, cab and other services are available from the Bandaranaike Airport and Katunayake railway station to reach anywhere in the city. One can book a private car or pre-paid taxis in order to visit the best tourist places of the Colombo. Buses are a great connecting transportation means in Sri Lanka. The bus services are comparatively cheap and one can go from one place to another with the help of buses.

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Overall experience was good but very uncomfortable , driver was professional, humble and knowledgeable, car was decent, though we didn’t get what we had paid for and definitely we’ll never opt for travco in future. Since my wife is in her final trimester we requested the the travel agent to cut-short our trip skipping sigriya , dambulla and bentotta and keeping 2 days at one destination so that we don’t have to hop from one hotel to another every single day. We covered colombo, kandy, nurwa elliya and ella in 8 days. But the room provided to us were not what we paid for. Both in kandy and nurwa eliyya on first day there was no view/ balcony and we were forced to adjust on day one and were provided the promised room on day 2. UpOn confirming with the hotel reception we were told that the travel agent was told about the unavailability of the room on the provided dates. He played smart, keeping us in dark and had the audacity to threaten us to cancel the trip in nurwa eliya upon complaining when it happened for the second time in nurwa eliyya. So technically we cut short 3 destinations, paid more than the initial quotation and switched rooms every single day for 8 days pretty much adding to the discomfort. Secondly, considering my wife’s pregnancy in mind we preponed the trip by one day without any change in the itinerary thereby adding extra day in colombo to rest and readily paid extra for one day accommodation plus airport transport( that was covered in trip). Travel agent said his service is from airport to airport so if we are coming one day before we’ve to pay extra for airport to colombo transfer. We paid without arguing but we strongly feel this could have been avoided. Thirdly, travel agent always increased the price by 10-15 usd saying the economic conditions in srilanka isn’t good which is clearly unprofessional. Moreover he provided the wrong booking name in all four hotels adding to the confusion.

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