My only hesitation was the noise coming from the party on the Saturday night. No problem for a couple looking for a good time, but not so great with a young family. Only the Saturday night.

This hotel is in a prime location with amazing friendly staff. You are greeted with a freshly prepared cold juice in their beautiful reception over looking the beach. The restaurant on site has a fantastic variety of option's, with delicious refreshing cocktails to enjoy, all on the beach. The room had a beautiful balcony overlooking the water through the tree's. It's the perfect spot for couple's looking for a bit of night-life on a Saturday night, as the hotel has parties on a Saturday night, and if your a family, , Sunday through Friday is best. Overall a really fantastic stay!

Stayed in July 2025

Location, rooms, beach, gazebo

Great property, some part having upgrades done so not fully occupied. Location in the beach, rooms great size had all essentials items, breakfast was good and staff

Stayed in March 2025

Area heavily caters for Russian tourism. 'Walk in' guests can make it busy

Hotel directly on beach with friendly and helpfull staff. Currently only 4 rooms available as new block being built. (Opening end 2025 apparently) Very comfortable rooms with nice balcony and great shower

Stayed in February 2025

The room was fantastic They missed making up our room one night only

Location on beachfront great

Stayed in February 2025

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Super location, large rooms

Stayed in January 2025

Near is building . Rooms not fresh .

Stuff is very good . Near beach and all what you what . Very tasty breakfast 🍳

Stayed in November 2024

Nothing to mention as such. More vegan options would be great though. Whilst they do vegan dishes for you on request, would be great to have a few more.

This hotel I am told is 1 of the first hotels on the beautiful Unawatuna beach. Its at the end of the road so you pass a lot cute little shops selling all sorts of locally made things and food. The entrance to the hotel has a nice welcoming feel and VERY CLEAN! As you walk in the beach is visible, so you know you have come to the right place. The rooms are beautiful, large beds, great AC and LOVE the balcony area. It really is nice to sit here and sip on a drink and enjoy some down time. The beds are super comfortable too. Highly recommend the Sri Lankan breakfast!!!

Stayed in September 2024

Important to note the late night loud party on a Saturday night. We weren’t so keen on the bacon and sausage breakfast but the staff were very keen to provide us with another option.

Fabulous location right on the beach. The guy on the door was outstanding.

Stayed in September 2024

They had a very loud party at the hotel on Saturday eve which we couldn’t sleep until 4am.

We have had a great experience at Kingfisher. The Staff was very helpful and kind. The bedroom was very clean with a comfortable bed and a lovely view to the sea. Food was great too. Seafront great location

Stayed in August 2024

Breakfast that staff should inform the guest up on arrival that if need local should order in advance

Location

Stayed in August 2024

The shower sink was not cleaned properly causing the shower to flood. The breakfast options were a bit limited. There is quite some reconstruction work going on around the hotel causing noise, but this is ofcourse out of the hotels’ control.

We had a great time here. The staff was kind and helpful: one evening there was a party at the hotel and we could not sleep. They quickly came up with a solution. The location is convenient and the hotel and room are beautiful.

Stayed in August 2024

We had a great stay at Kingfisher. Great location, comfortable rooms, very clean, tasty food and delicious cocktails. The staff is very friendly and looked after us well. We will definitely come back!

Stayed in July 2024

Well located. Clean and spacious rooms. Very friendly staff always willing to assist

Stayed in April 2024

Not too quiet place

Great location, nice beach, clean room

Stayed in January 2024

had to request hand soap and toilet rolls

location direct access to beach. Breakfast and evening meal very good

Stayed in February 2024

We had an amazing room with a great sea view (room No 1), smelt gorgeous & had a birthday card waiting for me, lovely touch. Great location on the beach, the best breakfast we had in Sri Lanka & the hotel food was great. Attentive staff who were friendly & accommodating, they couldn't do enough for you. All in all we had an amazing stay at Kingfisher.

Stayed in February 2024

the breakfast is a little basic - omelette or some sort of waffle. there are juices and good coffees, but its a little underwhelming. regarding the menu, as i said the squid was great, but the grilled tuna (and there's a lot of tuna in Unawatuna) dish at around 3500 SL rupees is not up to snuff compared to other places. the same goes for some other items that should be classic staples in the beach so choose wisely. the wifi is not good. you will have some in your room, and maybe some downstairs but the connectivity is not good. the week end (saturday night) dj parties are very loud even from the second floor until 3am as the hotel tries to lure partygoers strolling on the beach to come to the place for drinks. the parking - i came by motorcycle - consists of 2.5 spots in front of the hotel. thats really limited especially as its not possible to leave the bike or the car for that matter in the street there. Finally, when i was there there were major construction works going on in the next door building - which i surmised is the extension of the place being built. its noisy and not postcard perfect. but okay, its not that visible from the beach.

the beach location is excellent. the room i had is spacious and the bed is really comfortable. the television has international channels (which is not common in Sri Lanka) which - when it pours - is a good plan B to stay in. the shower (pressure, quality of material and temperature) was really good. some items on the menu for dinner downstairs are outstanding - some others (see in my critique) less so. In particular, i recommend trying the grilles calamari with aubergine fries and vegetables.. delicious. the staff are really nice guys (not one lady around though ?!). Finally, the beach area of the hotel is really quite decent. its location is really excellent and that was my reason for booking the room in the first place. its still quite expensive though...

Stayed in November 2023

Great hotel right on the beach and next to some lovely resturants. Rooms were clean as the picutures and staff was friendly and helped arrange an Uber which is difficult in the area.

Stayed in November 2023

Staff could be more customer oriented.

Room with seaview. High room standard.

Stayed in September 2023

We stayed 3 nights in this lovely hotel. Our room had a huge balcony with great views of the beach and sea. . Staff very friendly and provided great service throughout our stay. Lovely cooked breakfast which we chose English and it came freshly cooked. We ate at the restaurant on our first night and again the food was delicious and plentiful. We highly recommend this hotel.

Stayed in September 2023

Party noice during weekend. Though little Kingfisher can do about that.

Wonderfull location next to the beach. Personell works as a perfect team. Everyone does everything. Absolutely service oriented.

Stayed in August 2023

close to beach

Stayed in December 2022

Unfortunately it was the weekend and very noisy party going on Friday night from nearby !!! Saturday night the party was at Kingfisher hotel.itself !!!!

Brilliant comfortable cement bed and lovely room with balcony. The restaurant was amazing sea food platter , ocupus and Thai curry very good.

Stayed in November 2022

I was disappointed with how management/owners completely let the place go. Where do I start? Dirty sheets with holes in them, no House keeping, no bed cover, mold on the bathroom wall, some lights not working, mini bar not working, electric kettle is burned black on the inside, water pressure is weak, water temprature is only one, beach chairs and bed cushions dirty, and worst of all, bed bugs! Hope owners realise competition in the area is rising and step up!

Great location, right at the beach, friendly and respectful staff, good AC, good Wifi, good resturant food.

Stayed in June 2025