Name: Nooit Gedacht Heritage Hotel-Original Dutch Govern
Address: 182 Matara Road, Unawatuna, 80600, LK

10/10

Exceptional

16 Nov 2021

Daria

Beautiful hotel located in a green garden with palms and leafy trees. Very quiet place, rooms are far from the road. The main noisemakers are chipmunks jumping on the roofs and munching on your fruits if you accidentally left it outside.
Once I had a dinner there and I enjoyed the food. The hotel staff is extremely polite and helpful. I didn’t expect my calls will be answered at 4am when I arrived. However the hotel manager Jude was waiting for me and escorted me to my room. He also helped me with my PCR to travel back to Dubai. Water Anuradhapura greeted us every morning for breakfast, and Sanjula was helpful not only with the meal choice, but also he helped me to decide which beach do I go first and how do I get there. Overall, very much recommended!

Self

10/10

Exceptional

09 Jan 2020

Verified traveler

A self-contained jungle paradise.

This is an amazingly atmospheric place, which feels like an oasis compared to the beachfront places with their noisy crowded streets. And the food is really excellent. A great value.

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

23 Mar 2019

alan

Excellent

Excellent peaceful hotel in great location. Friendly helpful staff, surrounded in wonderful grounds. The old Dutch feel is throughout the whole complex and adds to the ‘vintage’ atmosphere of the place . I would say this is the best hotel in the area , and very reasonably priced . In the older rooms , the bathrooms could do with upgrading though

Partner

8/10

Excellent

11 Mar 2019

Verified traveler

Lovely staff, beautiful historic building, garden and wildlife were fascinating, pool was a great facility, and easy walk and connections to town, beach and Galle.
A La Carte menu was rather limited, but I guess a lot of people go out to eat. Special set menu on our first night (of 3) was excellent, though.

Leisure Partner

10/10

Exceptional

25 Aug 2018

luke

Excellent stay from start to finish

We stayed here for a couple of nights near the end of August and initially our room had quite a bad damp smell. They offered us as change of room which was much fresher and couldn't do enough to assist us throughout our stay. It is in the most beautiful idyllic setting and the pool is awesome. Thoroughly recommend this stay and a massive thanks to all the friendly helpful staff. Luke and Hannah

8/10

Excellent

19 Mar 2018

Verified traveler

Beautiful old property former residence of Dutch

Beautiful property set in ground with wild life around, monitor lizard, monkeys, mongoose and different species of birds. 5 minute walk away from beach and restaurants.

4/10

Poor

02 Mar 2017

Verified traveler

CHOOSE YOUR ROOM CAREFULLY

The hotel staff were very friendly and the outside area (pools, sitting areas and tables) were also nice! We were initially in an older room and it was horrible due to the bugs. The bathroom had lots of openings which allowed 5 large cockroaches into our room, it was disgusting. The room had many holes so bugs easily got into our room, which made the stay uncomfortable. They moved us to another room the second night which was still one of the older rooms but was a bit better. Still many holes in the foundation which allowed for bugs. I would ONLY recommend staying in one of the newer rooms. Would NOT recommend staying in the older rooms, they look nothing like the pictures.

8/10

Excellent

13 Feb 2017

Annie

Very friendly hotel with excellent restaurant

It was a surprise to find that most of the other guests were Danish - there is a special arrangement with a Danish travel company. The location was good, very quiet at night but just a short walk from the beach. The swimming pool was great. The staff were extremely friendly and helpful. I ate dinner almost every evening because the food was excellent and there was a good variety.

10/10

Exceptional

01 Feb 2017

Verified traveler

Stay!

Very nice heritage hotel with a gorgeous garden and 2 swimming pools. Breakfast was outstanding. Peacefull and very nice place to relax with family.

Family

10/10

Exceptional

17 Jan 2017

Verified traveler

Beautiful greenery, very peaceful away from city noise. Service is old fashioned and won't take much for staff to receive more training and to exude warmth and friendliness.

8/10

Excellent

15 Nov 2016

Anu Prakash

Peaceful and Relaxing

Really amazing place. Peaceful and close to beach. Nice friendly staff. Would love to go back there again. Thank a lot for a lovely stay!

Family

8/10

Excellent

25 Oct 2016

philippe

Good hotel but ants in your room

This hotel as a decent location.. you will need a tuk tuk to get to the main city (around 10 mins). Hotel is old but clean... friendly staff and okay breakfast. Nice pool!

The only problem was ants... a lot of ants IN the room. They should really try and fix that.

8/10

Excellent

10 Oct 2016

Jacques

Lovely pool

We stayed here as a little treat during our travels. The room was lovely and clean, and the pool was great. Most of the staff were really friendly apart from the 2 ladies at reception who just seemed a bit miserable and busy playing on their phones. The breakfast was also really good.. lots of choice and with new things everyday.

Partner

4/10

Poor

25 Mar 2016

Verified traveler

Not very impressed

Although this hotel milks its \"heritage\" label to the hilt, the product does not convey such an impression. Lots of ants and other insects have easy access to the room and we had to throw out some food that was infested. The friendly staff do not have good English language skills and many of our food requests were incorrectly interpreted. Small touches, such as hand towels or face cloths need to be added.

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

19 Jan 2016

Verified traveler

Perfect stay. Lovely place

Conveniently located to reach Galle and beaches. Peaceful and beautiful heritage building. Right in the middle of a jungle are

8/10

Excellent

19 Oct 2024

Charlotte Elisabeth

I had a lovely stay; the location is super, the staff very friendly, good breakfast & lovely pool! The oasis of the garden offers a quiet break from the busy town & streets. Walking distance from the restaurants, beach, supermarket & shops. I would not hesitate to book again!

Leisure Self

6/10

Pleasant

07 Feb 2022

Camilla

Fint hotel til prisen

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

02 Apr 2019

Tove Lene

Natur og hotel i samhørighed

Et fantastisk beliggende lille hotel, men en have fuld af dyr, lige udenfor i haven, der var det, der var behov for ellers købte vi det i de små lokale butikker, ikke et luksus hotel, men lige et i vores smag, vi spise morgenmad på hotellet, og aftensmaden, blev indtaget i nogle af de mange restauranter der var i området.

Family

8/10

Excellent

25 Feb 2019

Verified traveler

Ok tre stjärnigt hotell

Helt ok hotell. Vi bodde i den äldre delen av hotellet. En del myror och insekter kom in i rummet,ok för oss. Men är man rädd för små kryp så boka de lite dyrare rummen på den nybyggda delen. Bra frukost. Vi är veganer och det fanns alltid något till oss. Tre sorters frukt varje dag.
Trädgården är fin men kunde vara mycket finare om den var lite bättre omhändertagen. Personalen hann inte städa undan alla löv som föll ned. Vi såg apor,ödlor och en fina fåglar i trädgården.
Nära till stranden. Ca 10 min promenad. Restaurangen hade fin mat,dock lite dyrare än andra restauranger i området.

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

24 Feb 2019

Linnéa

Underbart & charmigt hotell med ljuvlig trädgård

Vi hade 4 fantastiska dagar på detta hotell. Vi var så glada i hotellet så vi inte ens hängde på stranden en enda gång under dessa dagar. Poolen och trädgården var heeeelt fantastiska. Bland de finaste trädgårdarna jag sett! Poolen var lång och lugnt med människor.

Personalen var exceptionell, man kände sig verkligen som en del av en familj. De hade grym massage och ayurveda konsultation.

Vi bodde i det billigaste rummet som var något litet och sängen var lite hård men helhetsupplevelsen av hotellet vägde upp mot det.

Kan verkligen rekommendera detta hotell :)

Partner