A friend just told me this, I didn’t think Cheers at Cinnamon Grand was like this. Well here’s the story. World cup match, place is packed, people sitting on the floor as it was so packed, so it was happening. Well in advance they had called to see if they could book a table, and no you can’t, as it’s a pub and they don’t do reservations. Fair enough. So some of them go to the place early, tables are there free but all are reserved ?They try to get a seat no, can’t it’s reserved. Guess who gets them, yeah it’s only the foreign customers. A few locals also got places, but that was only if they were know to the place, had a lot of bling or with a foreigner.

That’s crap. Another thing they told me, a small area was free, some locals tried to come there, and they were chased off saying the can’t stay there, some foreigners came there and guess what ????? They let them stay there !!!! Since those locals were there and saw it they also were given a small space saying now they can go there as it had been christened by foreigners !!!!

Well I would like to see this for myself, there are more world cup matches to go for, and well I guess it’s no surprise, I guess the other hotels in Sri Lanka also are like this ?

Naresh