Daffodil Restaurant & Holiday Resort

Nice little balcony to sit outside. Good location. Great restaurant below. Great tuna. Good value for money. Quite noisy being above restaurant and next to busy street.

Got a welcome drink when arrived, but other than that, no communication or chat with anyone. Very small room. Okay for a night, but better alternatives around the area.

Mooie kamer op een top locatie. Lekker centraal bij alle restaurants, massage strand, supermarkten en de bus. Het restaurant is echt super goed. Het personeel werkt zo ongelofelijk hard. Ze zien je echt. Ik had de eerste kamer naast het restaurant maar had er totaal geen last van.

The rooms are attached to a very popular restaurant which we ate at a few times during our stay. All the staff made you feel like a VIP and it was a lovely atmosphere with great britpop music always playing. The rooms are beautiful with a private balcony where you can spot monkeys. The rooms were quiet with a comfortable four poster bed. The location of this hotel could not have been better.

Nothing

Splitting my review here and attached proof in another review. Adding more photos to the same review. To begin with, this place charged us the highest currency conversion rate we experienced in Sri Lanka, even higher than several 4- and 5-star hotels. When questioned, they said it was “as per the bank,” but they clearly applied the selling rate instead of the buying rate, which makes no sense when paying a hotel bill. We arrived around 5 PM, and the manager was unavailable when I asked about the exchange rate. When she later explained, she showed the selling rate of a random bank, higher than airport rates and other hotels we stayed at. She also mistakenly swiped another guest’s bill of around USD 250 instead of our USD 83. Although it was reversed later, it was an avoidable error. The room was okay, but there were a lot of mosquitoes, no chairs inside the room, and the balcony was unusable due to mosquitoes. The floor mats were extremely slippery—we almost injured ourselves multiple times and had to remove them entirely. These mats clearly need to be replaced.

We opted for breakfast on only one day of our three-night stay, which was the right decision. The Lankan platter looked good but some dishes were not fresh, and better, cheaper food is available at Hela Bojun Hala nearby. Fresh milk was provided in the room, which was nice. However, while the manager helped with luggage during check-in, there was no assistance at check-out. Despite informing staff we’d leave in 15 minutes, we were made to wait for payment verification while our taxi waited outside in heavy cyclone rain. Overall, the stay was average, but the poor handling of payments, lack of transparency, and inconvenient service left a bad impression.