Palagama Beach

Best place and the staff were amazing. Foods are good but not the best. Suggest to have some beach guards to look after guest. Saw lots of Dolphins. Road to the resort should improve. Overall no issues. Wish you all the best. Will highly recommended. Thanks

We spent 3 nights in this paradise. The resort impressed us even before we arrived. We made our booking in Oct 2011 for our stay in Jan 2012, and the resort was kind and proactive enough to write to us about how visa requirements are revised for entering Sri Lanka in 2012. If not for their email, our entry into Sri Lanka at immigrations would have been slightly more troublesome. Palagama Beach is operated by a team of highly professional and well-trained staff, headed by a foreign team who spoke fluent English, French and German. The service was attentive, responsive, seamless but non-intrusive. We had 3 meals a day at the Palagama Beach property, and the quality of the food was well beyond expectations. We enjoyed young coconuts, freshly harvested from the indigenous coconut trees on the property. The resort's beach location means that there are no outside restaurants in its vicinity (except for restaurants at neighboring hotels/resorts), i.e. all resort customers are basically captive audience. Even then, the food -- both Western meals and Sri Lankan curries and seafood were available -- was excellent value-for-money. We went dolphin watching and saw ＞100 of them, with birds hovering over the water -- it was a picturesque and moving scene of nature. We went kayaking in choppy waters and found a young Sri Lankan staff member at the boathouse extremely helpful even though he could hardly communicate in English. We took morning and afternoon walks on the beach, observing local fishermen arranging their net after a trawl of shrimp and white fish, and local women taking goat to graze. I would definitely recommend this resort to all nature lovers, and would personally return here ourselves in our next trip to Sri Lanka.

We stayed 3 nights and were totally charmed by the time we left. There were a few problems with our beach cabana so we moved to a garden cabana which suited us better. Huge freshwater pool so bats were drinking from it. Best food we had on our whole trip cooked to order. Chef even BBQd a whole fish that our guide bought while we were on a lagoon trip. Denzil was always caring and chatty. Only small downside was lots of mosquitoes and critters but really didn't agfect our enjoyment

Very nice hotel with beautiful cabanas. Infinity pool with direct access to the beach. Great staff, very good food. Only the acces to the hotel is a bit strange. The hotel is a great if you want to stay at the hotel and enjoy the beach. However we didn’t have luck with the weather. During the night we had a major rainstorm, and we had some rain in the cabana. The next day, the staff did everything to fix the leak. Despite the bad weather, we had a great day. Dinner was very good local food. You see that COVID had a big influence on tourism in general in Sri Lanka. Two hotels near Palagama were closed/ abandoned. But the staff does everything to give their clients the stay/holiday the need/deserve.

We visited Palagama Beach in November 2022. We really enjoyed the peaceful stay. Beautiful sunsets, cabanas are truly authentic Sri Lankan. Our Cabana was right at the ocean had a great view, most of all you can hear the ocean at night and it was so peaceful. We did not get anyone trying to sell stuff at the beach pretty much had the pool and the beach to ourselves. The Staff is very helpful and kind, specially the manager Viraj. He was very attentive provided us with delicious meals. There's also Mini the dog who is very friendly and greet you as you come by.

We spent two nights here at the start of our holiday in Sri Lanka.In line with other hotels in the area, there was a shortage of guests and we were made to feel very welcome by the staff. Our Cabana was very charming, with the outdoor shower a real delight! The side door opened on to a terrace with two sun beds, a nice option to get out of the hot sun. There is a lovely swimming pool looking out across the Indian Ocean, the beach itself is clean, although when we were there the tide was quite high, so not a lot of sand, the the sea was lovely and warm! The menu was slightly limited but perfectly okay for our stay, and the food was excellent. A shout out to Leo the chef. We thoroughly enjoyed our stay and would highly recommend it.