Era Beach

This place is a really small hotel, perfect for when traveling in a group if you want to have more of like a holiday home feeling. The rooms are spacious and the bathroom in our room was truly impressive. However, the couch and blankets need some deep cleaning or replacement as there were big stains on them. The pool is mostly shallow expect for the part closest to reception. The beach unfortunately is not usable. You cannot go swimming there but instead need to walk 15 min to the right towards Turtle beach. A staff member showed us the way on the first morning. While that is a welcome trip to see the turtles, it further emphasized that this hotel is just not ideal for a beach vacation. Also beware of booking day trips here. They do not have any flyers or written materials. Instead a staff member will talk to you about trips such as safari and call his "friends". Prices are far too high and the entire thing felt super sketchy. Especially as the price suddenly dropped when we reserved with another company we found in our travel book. I would not recommend booking tours here, find some respectable offers elsewhere (travel books, TripAdvisor...). Food was good and plenty though.

This hotel may not be for everyone but it certainly suited us. There are only 8 rooms so things are very quiet and relaxed. There are a number of staff around but due to the nature of the hotel they often need to be tracked down to order a drink etc. The hotel is located on the beach front but you cannot actually go in the sea here due to the rocks. However there is a lovely secluded beach a little further to the right (approx 15 min walk along the beach). Alternatively, you can jump in a tuk tuk outside the hotel for a short ride to a number of beaches close by. On our first night we were the only couple eating at the hotel restaurant and had a delicious meal cooked for us. The food was always lovely especially the fresh seafood. We had breakfast & dinner there for the 3 days we stayed. Sanjeewa was particularly welcoming. He was very chatty and attentive. He was also able to offer us advice on places to visit. He was certainly a highlight of our stay here.

We booked our Era beach for the Avurudu vacation with my family. We took 6 rooms for the 3 nights. The property is beautiful but there were a lot of shortcomings. First of all we was travelling with my new born. When we went into one of the sea view rooms, it looked like they hadn’t swept the floors, the couch looked like it needed a good sofa cleaning and the toilet had cob webs. When I informed them that they needed to clean the room properly only then they cleaned it. Second their food, we ordered the Sri Lankan breakfast on the first day. The food was good. On the second day we ordered the western breakfast, according to their FB pictures they have nice hash browns, eggs, bacon, lots of mushrooms. But we only got a few potato wedges, chicken ham piece, and 2 mushrooms. When I requested for bacon, they said they don’t have any. We also wanted to get pizza for dinner, they said their oven is broken and we should go to wijaya beach. It was quite annoying because I couldn’t travel much with my little one. Their dinner service got really late - 1.5 hours. When we made a complaint to them, their excuse was we usually don’t give this out to locals. We were like why did you even give this property to us then. Their excuse for everything was this. It’s such a shame because we usually aren’t too fussy. But I wouldn’t visit this villa again and wouldn’t recommend it to anyone. I only gave 2 stars because I loved the view and the property is nice provided it’s given a proper deep clean.

My wife and I came here to relax after our two week tour of Sri Lanka. We were the only couple here with all the staff on tap to provide for our every need. It is beautifully appointed, scrupulously clean and staffed by the most friendly and attentive staff. The food was particular good. The manager was also very obliging to any of our requests. As we had seen the area in our tour we spent the time walking the beach, swimming in the large pool and reading. Perfect for our finish to a holiday in Sri Lanka. ( I understand the hotel is fully booked out for the three months after Christmas.)

We went with friends,altogether we were 5 families with 11 children. The villa has 5 rooms and all are different categories but nicely arranged spacious rooms. The staff were very polite and fulfilled all our needs whether it’s a change of menu or the time of serving.They made all the possibilities to make our stay comfortable and enjoyable.

Such a wonderful experience.good example for hospitality of Sri Lanka.lovely relaxing place to spend the time with family and friends. Nice food and nice cocktails. Friendly staff .❤️Rilwan was really friendly from our arrived. Special thanks for Shantha and Nishantha.we will definitely come back on our next holiday in Sri Lanka. Please continuing doing good job and make proud our mother land.🇱🇰🇱🇰