Chaarya Resort & Spa by Chandrika

It had a great gym and heated pool and although we didn’t use the spa as our stay was short it looked great. The staff were really friendly and helpful and the facilities in general were faultless. Although the buffet dinner offered a great variety of choice the quality wasn’t great, as with all buffets. We had lunch at the poolside Restauraunt and that food was lovely. Also the room service menu looked nice. The staff were really helpful and efficient and will help you to your room and answer any questions you have. The manager booked our safari for us and arranged us a takeaway breakfast as it was included in the room rate.

The hotel was set up for stop offs for big groups and so the tranquility of the pool and spa was somewhat compromised by the noise created by other guests and it meant that the communal areas and restauraunt became overran. Although this wasn’t the end of the world for us it may have had a larger impact if we had planned on spending more time lounging by the pool.

We've been to more than 10 hotels in Sri Lanka during our trip and it's clearly the best one, especially in such price range (the restaurant is expensive for Sri lankan prices but worth every cent of it. They also prepared us takeaway breakfast as we had to go to park at 5.30am). Perfect room - no single weakness spotted unlike it usually is in all other sri lankan hotels; very nice pool and gym; friendly personnel. We were really sad we only stayed one night.

We were woken up by some animal running on the roof all night, but the personnel offered to move us to another room straight away.

Very good room and cheap price.