India, Oct. 4 -- Colombo has always had its sea. Now, at Cinnamon Life, part of Colombo's City of Dreams spectacle, there is a new way to muse over its sights with a loved one, from an enchanting hotel room.

Some hotels seem designed for the business traveller, others for families, and very few for the kind of couple who would rather not leave the property once they have checked in. Cinnamon Life manages all three, but for my husband and me, for whom the hospitality experience matters the most, a real joyride awaited us. For us, the attraction was not simply the room; it couldn't have been. The hotel is part of the US$1.2-billion City of Dreams development, but retains its own identity: 687 rooms, vistas of Colombo and the Indian Ocean, ...