Best Pinnawala Hotels

The hotel is located on the territory of the elephant pet , convenient as elephants are leading to bath in 8.30 6 elephants. And in 10.00 a large group with kids. You can come to the main crowd of tourists to see and take pictures of elephants, and feed them. We arrived in the evening at 18.00. We settled , the only thing asked for a receipt for payment was not found at once, so changed the symk at the airport. But we settled and waited until we found the receipt. So it was all closed we went to dinner at the restaurant by the river. We took rice with pork and beef, rice is delicious, and meat is overfried and hard. We gave a price more at the cost of the dishes, but almost 1,000 rupees were not waiting. Hotel clean but tired, there was no shampoo , only soap. The teapot was. , as they took without breakfast drinking coffee in strip bags . (taken with them) Very good , friendly staff . Close the doors and windows, lie down and at 2400 start breaking into the balcony door, pulling the pen, then ran on the roof and started to pull the door in the pen. In the shadow near the door they realized that it was a monkey.. The hotel recommends. Although there is cheaper. It is more expensive by the river , in principle not necessarily, everything is available.

Had a great room with an incredible view. It could do with a deep clean for sure and some modernisation, but for what I paid I didn’t have high expectations, all that aside I was comfortable enough and slept well. The staff were very attentive and lovely. I stayed for 3 nights which was a bit too long, I would say 1 or 2 would be sufficient as not alot to do there. The view of the elephants was incredible and I didn’t see any mistreatment as mentioned in previous comments (definitely no chains, not under the water or above when I was there).

It's a very cozy banglow up the hills along the main road, convenient yet quite. the staff there is also welcoming to the guests. The restaurant manager who work in Heritance Kandalama before is so kind to refer us to his former friends in Kandalama when he knew our next destination is there. The hotel manager also gave us a tour about the hotel, telling interesting history and story of this facility, making this stay more delightful.