24/1 Nishshankamallapura,, 51000 Polonnaruwa, Sri Lanka
#29 of 70 hotels in Polonnaruwa
Guests' ChoiceBased on 51 hotel reviews
8.6Cleanliness
8.5
Comfort
8.8
Location
8.6
Facilities
8.5
Staff
9.3
Value for money
9.1
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Reviewed: July 4, 2025
Wesley
AustraliaLovely family, speaks amazing English, room is comfortable and has a nice sitting area at the front, very close to town by a short tuk tuk drive.
Stayed in June 2025
Reviewed: April 10, 2025
Indra
IrelandValue for money.near stayed one night...so happy enough.nice area to sit and relax outside. Possible to use kitchen.
Stayed in March 2025
Reviewed: April 9, 2025
Maciej
Saudi ArabiaGood pace to stay . It was my 2nd a in this place . Room was comfortable. Host was amazing It is a bit away from the main entrance to the historical site but with tuk tuk or scooter is not a problem
Stayed in April 2025
Reviewed: March 6, 2025
Marco
ItalyEverything was as per my expectations:)
The owner and his families have been so welcoming with us and Mr Gerard made our stay very special to me.
Stayed in March 2025
Reviewed: February 21, 2025
Kareno57
FranceThe room was perfect, AC if you wanted. I turned it off at night and the temperature was fine. Comfortable bed. Plenty of electrical points. Very quiet. The bathroom had hot water! Good pressure. A little individual shady terrace for relaxing. Fridge and electric jug available. Very good value. Only the father speaks English.
Stayed in February 2025
Reviewed: October 19, 2024
Thusitha
Sri LankaEverything was good
Stayed in October 2024
Reviewed: August 30, 2024
Varadarajan
Sri LankaNothing
Host was pleasent and accommodative.
Stayed in August 2024
Reviewed: August 24, 2024
Danush
Sri LankaNothing.
They hosted very well. Dinner is very good. The facilities are very high. I will book again next time.
Stayed in August 2024
Reviewed: August 19, 2024
Rajitha
Sri LankaIt was a very clean, calm and quite place. The facilities and the services they provided ware very good. The main opportunity is the location of the place was near to the visiting places. So highly recommended for all.
Stayed in August 2024
Reviewed: July 15, 2024
Alex
United KingdomIf picky there were a few plumbing bits that needed attention in the bathroom but it did not bother us.
Friendly Stay English family of five (18,16,14) took two rooms For two nights. Super friendly hosts , we were looked after very well and well fed with traditional local food too. Clean simple rooms.
Stayed in July 2024
Reviewed: June 11, 2024
Mahesh
Sri LankaVery friendly staff. Delicious foods. Highly recommend them.
Stayed in May 2024
Reviewed: April 17, 2024
Jagath
Sri LankaGood.. Recommended
Stayed in April 2024
Reviewed: January 15, 2024
Gaëtan
SwitzerlandWiFi didn’t work most of the time, a few stains on the bedsheets.. but not much to say, we had a good stay.
Very nice place and friendly family, very kind and available.
Stayed in January 2024
Reviewed: June 11, 2023
Explorer
Sri LankaEverything specially the friendly welcoming and value added services. They're really experience with travel and tourism industry. I'm never hesitate to recommended this to any travellers need something like home.
Everything perfect and fine there with very friendly people who owns this place . Providing an exceptional service with quality. Good environment convenient services. Good food , good sleep with calm and quiet surrounding.
Stayed in June 2023
Reviewed: February 10, 2023
Gurney
United KingdomThe owners are so so lovely and breakfast was good. The room was nice and spacious, there were hot showers(!) And the garden surrounding it is so pretty too! All in all, a very lovely stay
Stayed in February 2023
Reviewed: October 31, 2022
Dhanu
Sri LankaWell, It's worth for the price. clean and comfy beds. oh and they gave us a superb, tasty tea when we requested. both evening and morning. both owner and his wife are friendly. very close to polonnaruwa Gal wiharaya and all other places. walking distance. calm stay. air con was good. bathroom was with hot water facility. overall, our stay was good. recommending to others as well.
Stayed in October 2022
Reviewed: July 27, 2025
Angoda
Sri LankaCool place
Stayed in July 2025
Reviewed: May 3, 2025
John
AustraliaLots of insects in the room - cockroaches, mosquitoes and wasps. Poor ventilation, rooms has strong moth ball smell the whole time.
Warm welcome from hosts and very accomodating to our needs.
Stayed in April 2025
Reviewed: July 20, 2024
Palitha
CanadaBeddings were dirty No towels The bathrooms were full of frogs. When flush the toilets so many frogs were flushing Very dirty facility We rented the shared kitchen also dirty and frogs were in the sink. Not happy about the facility.
Price is reasonable Friendly
Stayed in July 2024
Reviewed: October 4, 2023
Priyantha
Sri LankaAC unit is is very noisy.
Having Cottage type of rooms are good for privacy. And also cottages are constructed without harm to the nature.
Stayed in September 2023
Reviewed: September 30, 2023
Dilsha
Sri LankaThere was a double room that was not clean. There was some cockroch in that double room
Family room wasn't bad. It was a clean room
Stayed in September 2023
Reviewed: August 21, 2023
Amber
New ZealandThe room was very comfortable but the bathroom had lots of frogs! I didn’t mind much, they didn’t come into the bedroom- but it might bother some people so FYI.
Good facilities relative to price. Comfy bed, good sized bedroom. Good aircon. Breakfast/dinner was lovely, reasonably priced. Great hosts, who went out of their way to accommodate us. Including organising a tuktuk from bus stop to property, and bicycles for us to do the ancient city. Also helped us find a bus to leave!
Stayed in August 2023
Reviewed: April 14, 2023
Julie
Denmarkthe room smelled mouldy and was humid as well. felt like that it had been closed for a while. could really use a deep cleaning and freshen up.
really sweet staff and nice location! we only stayed for one night.
Stayed in April 2023
Reviewed: April 8, 2023
R
IranSince the long duration between reserves, the insect problem will be overcomes if the room cleaning occurs just before arriving new guests not just after living the previous. when we arrived the windows was open and many insects was in the room. When we wanted leaving the room for a couple of hours, the owner asked us to turn the AC off, so in our return the room was so warm. In the room and bathroom was frogs, beetle and lizard. It was in old city and far from the city center.
The owner was very polite and friendly. He helped us in finding the bus from Trincomalee to Polonnaruwa and also arranged a tuktuk with a reasonable price from bus station to property and also for visiting attractions. We ordered launch which was very delicious and in a good price. He prepared food for two person but charged only for one. a small restaurant and a small supermarket were nearby.
Stayed in March 2023
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