Coffee Bungalow Kandy

We had a wonderful short stay at the Coffee Bungalow Kandy. Bedrooms were fabulous and the views gorgeous. The food was excellent and cooked to order. The manager made sure everything ran smoothly, and waiter Adrian was wonderful We’ll be back

The view from this hotel is its crowning glory. A small boutique hotel with attentive staff. The complimentary high tea was really special, and the infinity pool a welcome treat after a long day touring the cultural sites of Kandy. The breakfast was lovely, the ambience at dinner wasn't for us but the food was tasty.

My wife and I stayed in this stunning, colonial plantation style bungalow, as our base for exploring Kandy. It is perched on the hillside overlooking Kandy, with sublime views across the valley and easy access to the city by car. Our room was very large, clean and well appointed, with a very comfortable bed. The staff were extremely attentive and hospitable and we were treated more like house guests than paying clients. We stayed on B&B basis, and our breakfast was excellent. One has the option of also having dinner, which we chose to do, having been shown the evening's menu, which is a set menu of 1 option for each of the 3 courses. A limited choice of cocktails, wine and beer is also offered. The food was good, but very pricy for what was being served. The 3 course meal was 40USD per person and a cocktail (using the local arrack liquor) was 12USD and a local beer 7USD. I don't think we realised how expensive this was until we looked back on what our dining costs had been in other lodgings. Our dinner and drinks here were over twice the cost of equivalent in all the other hotels and lodges we stayed in Sri Lanka, which had extensive menus offering a number of choices. So we would recommend this lodge highly for B&B, but suggest that guests consider going into Kandy for dinner, which would require a short taxi ride but offer much better choice and value for money

We left a piece of our hearts in Kandy, at the Coffee Bungalow to be precise. Although we stayed only for one night (too short!), we were pampered by the warmth of the owners Thusitha and Laleenie and their team. The arabica suite (each room is named after a coffee type) is as charming and unique as it can be a villa with a view on 3 Unesco heritage sites! By no means, the hosts offer an experience that you (surely we!) will remember forever! Giulia and Gabriele

Awful experience. It isn’t a hotel of any kind. You basically stay in a bedroom in the owners house. No phone, no room service, no tv, no minibar but an empty fridge. No restaurant, or cafe. Owners kept trying to make us and built us to eat there but there wasn’t a restaurant or menu of any kind and when they offered to cook us dinner we asked how much and they said $150 and didn’t evening say what we would get for that. When we said it’s ok thanks we are going to eat out they pressured us to say they had already made it. What I don’t know. In the morning they knocked on our door and said what time you coming to breakfast and what do you want? We had only just got up and didn’t know the timings for breakfast or what was in menu. There was no tea or coffee in the room. We had to go downstairs and pretty much beg for a coffee. The price we paid £400 is ridiculous for a room in a house. We paid it because we thought it would be special for Christmas. How wrong we were. Couldn’t wait to get out of the place and we were only guests there. Would never ever recommend this house, unless you like to feel uncomfortable.

We recently stayed at the Coffee Bungalow in Kandy, Sri Lanka. A very colonial experience in good condition. The service was good and swimming pool a delight. We had dinner there one night, food was fine. We asked for wine list and were offered a white Argentinian wine they had nothing else. A drinkable house wine. I had a can of Lion beer On check out we were outraged. The can on Lion was charged @ US$ 12 crazy. the wine a whopping US$ 75. A top quality bottle of wine in top hotel in Sri Lanka would be no more than US$ 50. This bottle should have been tops US$ 25. The beer US$ 4. Then the card payment machine would not work with 3 cards tried. We finished paying in US$ cash. No option. This hotel, is a rip off on extras. I would Not recommend staying there. It reflects very badly on Sri Lanka. Our private tour guide was also appalled. He would be taking it up with his company. We had pre paid the accommodation, clearly not the extras, which were not priced on any documents before our purchase. We bought in good faith. Caveat Emptor . Buyer Beware… perhaps our own fault for trusting.