Turtle Bay Boutique Hotel

The hotel is really beautiful with a lot of attention to detail. Everybody was super friendly and helpful, rooms were really clean and spacious. The place is ideal for a romantic hideaway for a couple for 2 or 3 nights. If you are travelling alone, the place is very quiet and maybe a bit lonely. The whole area there is very quiet, only a handful of other hotels around. For the next town you need a TukTuk. But there are some tour organisors around and you can do a lot of day trips and the manager is really helpful in organizing it for you. They have a Spa with ayurvedic treatments and they offer Yoga classes. The restaurant there is ok but there are a few other restaurants in walking distance that offer more tasty local food. You just need to have a good excuse, they do like to let you go to have dinner somewhere else

we stayed in this very nice familiar hotel 5 days and enjoyed it very much! Especially the manager Sarath and Reji did everything to give us the feeling to feel like special guests. Many thanks, no question we would like to come back! Helga + Dirk

We watched the sunset on this bay. The turtles swim right next to you in the sea. The sea bed is a little rocky. Just be aware. We had the best day on this beach, plenty of little restaurants to eat and drink too. Check more on my Instagram @lovestotravelclub

It's the kind of place where you immediately feel at home, yet pampered. The hotel is set it a coconut grove just off the beach with the crashing waves providing the back drop. Early morning and evening you can stroll along the 7km beech, an exceptional experience to have such a beautiful place to yourself. Wonderful staff, great rooms and excellent food. In the evenings you could opt to dine in the garden by the pool, very romantic. An early morning boat trip around the Kalametiya Bird Sanctuary is a must.

Fabulous small hotel with lovely rooms, fantastic pool and gardens, and the best food we had in Sri Lanka! The beach was accessed directly from the hotel grounds and was miles of beautiful sand. About 15 mins from here we went on a serene and peaceful bird safari trip on Kalametiya lagoon. Slightly further away is Rekawa where you can watch the turtles coming to the beach at night. A great place to stay!

Wow, wow, wow! We have just spent a week at this fantastic small hotel and, if I could give it more than five green dots, I would. Firstly the location is absolutely stunning. Every morning I had to pinch myself to check I wasn’t dreaming as the view was perfect, a palm fringed, empty beach, white topped waves and the sun shining in the blue sky. If you want quiet serenity, then this is the place for you. It is a place for rest and relaxation, reading, swimming and eating delicious food. If you want something to do, there is a little harbour to walk to, a beautiful lagoon which forms a bird sanctuary to visit as the sun comes up, miles of almost empty beach to walk along and, if you ask, the chef will organise a cookery demonstration. The hotel can arrange excursions further afield for you, but they do not push, rather they wait for you to ask. I’ve mentioned the food which was scrumptious. Fresh seafood and fish are bought from the harbour each day and there are Sri Lankan and some western meals on the menu too. Breakfast is a buffet and I recommend asking the young chef to make you a fresh hopper which you can fill from a selection of Sri Lankan dishes. Best of all were the staff. They looked after us so well and really went out of their way to make our stay perfect. They gave us little gifts, cleaned our room twice a day and replaced the drinking water faster than we could drink it! I hope you can tell just how special this hotel is.