MBA Badminton Courts

The Mercantile Badminton Association hall in Colombo 7, and the venue for the MBA all-island open each May. Five courts — four on synthetic mat, one wooden — laid out side by side in a single steel-roofed hall, with umpire chairs and enough standing room along the walls that tournaments draw a real crowd. This is a competition venue rather than a casual drop-in hall, so expect a higher standard of play and a calendar that tightens around tournament season. At LKR 1,200 an hour it is among the dearer halls in Colombo, and well above the Rs 700–900 that older directory listings still quote, so budget for the current figure rather than the one you find in search results. The association keeps its phone number off its own website — the contact page lists only an email address — so if the mobile does not answer, info@mbabadminton.lk is the fallback. Traffic on Malalasekara Mawatha around six in the evening is genuinely bad.