sasri2016 – Hotels in Sri Lanka

I stayed in various hotels during my trip, like most travellers in Sri Lanka do. Only rarely travellers just go to one or two sites in Sri Lanka, during their stay. If visit would be only for one week, then it might be ideal to just see two important and very different kind of sites.

List of hotels where I stayed:

• The Ocean Colombo (Colombo, 3)
• Riverside Cabanas (Mirissa, 5)
• River Front (Tissamaharama, 4)
• Vista Rooms Peacock Reach (Tissamaharama, 4)
• Jetwing Kaduruketha (Wellawaya, 4)
• Riverfront Hotel(?) (Badulla, 1)
• Wink Field (Nuwara Eliya, 2)
• Sunny Hills Residence (Kandy, 4)
• Hotel Sigiriya (Sigiriya, 5)
• Sea Zone Hotel (Nilaweli, 3)
• Amaranthe Bay (Uppuweli, 4)
• Supun Arcade Residence (Colombo, 4)

City and my personal rating (1 – 5) for hotel in parentheses, in above listing.

The hotel and location that I liked most, was Mirissa beach's Riverside Cabanas. It had great service and I loved Mirissa as a location. Hotel isn't actually 4 or 5 star hotel, but it has wildlife straight at the backyard, which compensated a lot for what was missing in the room's amnesties.

Second best hotel would be Hotel Sigiriya. It had all that I could have wanted, though dinner was too expensive. Location is fabulous, premises are good, service is great and I have to give extra bonus for Land monitors running in the hotel's grounds.

I could have spent a whole week in both of these hotels. It wouldn't be a problem at all. And basically either one of these could have been a winner. They are different kind, as Hotel Sigiriya is more expensive and splurge kind of a hotel, while Mirissa's Riverside Cabanas was cheaper, but did things very well, specially when comparing with price.