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Reviews of Livinginn Polonnaruwa

24/1 Nishshankamallapura,, 51000 Polonnaruwa, Sri Lanka

#29 of 70 hotels in Polonnaruwa

Guests' Choice

Review Score

Based on 51 hotel reviews

8.6

Score breakdown

  • Cleanliness

    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

    10
    Exceptional
    • Leisure trip
    • Couple
    • Deluxe Double Room
    • Stayed 1 night
    • Submitted from a mobile device

    Lovely 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

    9.0
    Value for money
    • Leisure trip
    • Couple
    • Deluxe Double Room
    • Stayed 1 night
    • Submitted from a mobile device

    Value 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

    9.0
    Good place to stay
    • Leisure trip
    • Couple
    • Deluxe Double Room
    • Stayed 2 nights
    • Submitted from a mobile device

    Good 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

    10
    Exceptional
    • Leisure trip
    • Couple
    • Deluxe Double Room
    • Stayed 1 night
    • Submitted from a mobile device

    Everything 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

    10
    Exceptional
    • Leisure trip
    • Solo traveler
    • Deluxe Double Room
    • Stayed 2 nights
    • Submitted from a mobile device

    The 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

    10
    We can recommend this place for others
    • Leisure trip
    • Couple
    • Deluxe Double Room
    • Stayed 1 night
    • Submitted from a mobile device

    Everything was good

    Stayed in October 2024

  • Reviewed: August 30, 2024

    10
    Exceptional
    • Leisure trip
    • Solo traveler
    • Deluxe Double Room
    • Stayed 1 night
    • Submitted from a mobile device

    Nothing

    Host was pleasent and accommodative.

    Stayed in August 2024

  • Reviewed: August 24, 2024

    10
    Exceptional
    • Leisure trip
    • Family with young children
    • Deluxe Family Room
    • Stayed 1 night

    Nothing.

    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

    10
    Exceptional
    • Leisure trip
    • Couple
    • Deluxe Double Room
    • Stayed 2 nights
    • Submitted from a mobile device

    It 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

    8.0
    Friendly simple comfortable stay with good home cooked food very close to Polonnaruwa ancient city
    • Leisure trip
    • Family with young children
    • Deluxe Double Room
    • Stayed 1 night

    If 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

    9.0
    Wonderful
    • Leisure trip
    • Family with young children
    • Deluxe Double Room
    • Stayed 1 night

    Very friendly staff. Delicious foods. Highly recommend them.

    Stayed in May 2024

  • Reviewed: April 17, 2024

    9.0
    Wonderful
    • Leisure trip
    • Family with young children
    • Deluxe Family Room
    • Stayed 1 night
    • Submitted from a mobile device

    Good.. Recommended

    Stayed in April 2024

  • Reviewed: January 15, 2024

    8.0
    Very Good
    • Leisure trip
    • Travelers with friends
    • Deluxe Double Room
    • Stayed 1 night
    • Submitted from a mobile device

    WiFi 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

    9.0
    Wonderful
    • Leisure trip
    • Family with young children
    • Deluxe Family Room
    • Stayed 3 nights
    • Submitted from a mobile device

    Everything 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

    9.0
    Wonderful
    • Leisure trip
    • Travelers with friends
    • Deluxe Family Room
    • Stayed 1 night
    • Submitted from a mobile device

    The 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

    9.0
    Good and worthy
    • Leisure trip
    • Family with young children
    • Deluxe Family Room
    • Stayed 1 night

    Well, 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

    1.0
    Unfriendly & Scary Experience – Avoid This Homestay!** We chose this homestay for our trip from Colombo to Polonn
    • Leisure trip
    • Couple
    • Deluxe Double Room
    • Stayed 1 night
    • Submitted from a mobile device

    Cool place

    Stayed in July 2025

  • Reviewed: May 3, 2025

    7.0
    Basic facilities
    • Leisure trip
    • Group
    • Deluxe Single Room
    • Stayed 1 night
    • Submitted from a mobile device

    Lots 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

    2.0
    Very Poor
    • Family with young children
    • Deluxe Double Room
    • Stayed 1 night
    • Submitted from a mobile device

    Beddings 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

    7.0
    Overall it is value for money.
    • Leisure trip
    • Family with young children
    • Deluxe Family Room
    • Stayed 1 night

    AC 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

    6.0
    Pleasant
    • Leisure trip
    • Couple
    • Deluxe Double Room
    • Stayed 1 night
    • Submitted from a mobile device

    There 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

    7.0
    A great place relative to the price!
    • Leisure trip
    • Couple
    • Deluxe Double Room
    • Stayed 1 night
    • Submitted from a mobile device

    The 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

    5.0
    could’ve been better
    • Leisure trip
    • Couple
    • Deluxe Double Room
    • Stayed 1 night
    • Submitted from a mobile device

    the 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

    7.0
    Good
    • Leisure trip
    • Couple
    • Deluxe Double Room
    • Stayed 1 night

    Since 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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