The 36 room hotel is located in the heart of the city on Victoria Road, opposite Jaffna Hospital.

[1] Sangaran owned several businesses in the Jaffna including Subhas Café and Ice-cream which had a virtual monopoly on ice cream in the 1970s.

[1] After recapturing Jaffna the Sri Lankan military declared the centre of the city, which included Subhas Hotel, as a High Security Zone (HSZ).

[1] During the Norwegian mediated peace process the Sri Lankan military claimed it would hand the hotel back to the owners by mid-2003 but this never happened.

[5][6] In March 2011, two years after the civil war ended, the military handed the hotel back to the family.