Araliya Beach Resort & Spa Unawatuna

Sri Lanka , Galle
Unawatuna, Welledewala Road Yaddehimulla
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20 reviews shown

10/10

Exceptional

19 Jul 2025

Huda

Amazing beautiful gorgeous serene place! The best in the area!!!

Leisure Family

8/10

Excellent

10 Apr 2025

Melanie

Incredibly busy spot, busy beach, competitive to get lounge chairs, lots of people.
Rooms were nice, staff was very helpful.

8/10

Excellent

07 Jan 2025

Saman

Junior staff is mostly very young people and they needs training in customer service.

Leisure Family

8/10

Excellent

06 Nov 2024

Malin

It was a nice hotel. Nice pool facilities and clean . I had maybe higher expectations on the service level for a 5 star. But overall luxury

Friends_and_family Friends

6/10

Pleasant

11 Sep 2024

Prasanga

Food is not worth for the money

Leisure Family

10/10

Exceptional

01 Sep 2024

Akhila

2/10

Poor

29 Jun 2024

chaminda

Lots of loud tf free a q Russian music we don’t like

Family

10/10

Exceptional

25 Jun 2024

UMA

Everything was fine
The bathroom was smelling of damp

Leisure Family

10/10

Exceptional

05 Jun 2024

Duminda

The beach was amazing and the hotel, rooms, and pools were very clean. The staff was also very friendly. Overall, Araliya Beach Resort & Spa was amazing.

Leisure Family

10/10

Exceptional

01 May 2024

Miroslav

Great hotel

Leisure Family

4/10

Poor

14 Apr 2024

Matthew

Massive disappointment - stay elsewhere

Not 5 star. If you want an okay 4* then you might not be disappointed. We stayed for 5 nights and opted for breakfast only. The worst part was the attitude of the staff throughout the stay- Very rude, unfriendly and unhelpful, especially the travel expert who just sat on his phone and unless you were going to the airport just suggested you walked everywhere… he quoted 100US dollars for the journey to the airport which was obscene. We literally walked to BSL taxis (who we would thoroughly recommend) at the end of the drive and arranged a driver to take us to the airport for less than half the price.
The room was a good size and well cleaned by housekeeping who seemed to be the only staff who cared about their job. It was very noisy every morning so if you are hoping for a lie in do not stay here! Breakfast although included in price was chaotic and unpleasant as an experience and after trying it twice we just went else where and would advise to avoid. Overall we would thoroughly recommend Unawatuna as a place to visit but would strongly advise to stay elsewhere as this hotel was such a disappointment! We didn’t eat in the hotel for lunch or dinner as we were just desperate to escape each day and go somewhere else but heard from multiple other guests that the all inclusive options were awful similar to our experience of the breakfast.

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

12 Mar 2024

Megan

This was a beautiful resort - the rooms were spacious, impeccably clean and all the staff were friendly and hospitable. The breakfast buffet is yummy and so is the dinner buffet. I liked that there was a pool on the property but also the beach was easily accessible.

There was only one concern that came up - the first night I arrived to check in, all the rooms were full and I was unable to get my room on a higher floor as expected. Staff tried their best to be very accommodating and moved me as soon as possible, especially Kalum at the front desk - thank you for helping to sort this out and ensure I had a great stay in Unawatuna.

Leisure Self

10/10

Exceptional

11 Apr 2023

Gareth

Exceptional

We cannot rate the hotel and the staff highly enough. The front of house staff, the waiting staff the pool boys, the bar staff were all exceptional. They are all very friendly and extremely helpful.They really went out of their way to make us feel welcome, they can't do enough for you during your stay. We had an issue when we were there and Mr Adikari and Mr Rizan and their team bent over backwards to assist us. We really can't thank them and praise them enough for their efforts. Thank you. We will be back.

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

29 Sep 2022

Sundeep Reddy

Good resort

Araliya is the one of the best beach resort everything in all respects beautiful

Friends_and_family Family

10/10

Exceptional

30 Aug 2022

Supun

We had a good stay at araliya beach. Lots of foods with good variation and very friendly staff
Hope to stay again on my next visit of sri lanka

Leisure Family

10/10

Exceptional

08 May 2022

olivia

Very good

Business Family

8/10

Excellent

05 May 2022

PUSHPAVALY

Okay okay hotel ..

Partner

8/10

Excellent

24 Mar 2022

Aslam Ahmed

Great Stay

Had a Great experience at Araliya.
Location was excellent with beach at the resort as well amazing sea views. The hotel room is generously spacious which was a big plus especially for our crawling baby. Sashika and her housekeeping team which included Dasindu Sandaruwan were excellent in maintaining all our houskeeping promptly and efficiently throughout the stay. I think this department has improved significantly from what we read previously. The room service staff, Kumar and his team, were really great in catering for us throughout our 7day stay. Even tiptoed and whispered in the room whilst our baby was sleeping. Breakfeast was good but there are areas than can be improved for instance better food variety and perhaps a less cluttered area considering that 2 halls are available. Sometimes there were issues of miscommunication especially telephonically, english was not always clearly understood.The beach area at the resort is public and is quite narrow with boats parked there but no fault of the resorts. Overall, a pleaseant and joyful experience. Thank you.

Friends_and_family Family

2/10

Poor

27 Dec 2025

Patrick

Auf den ersten Blick ein Luxuriöses Hotel beim genaueren betrachten leider das komplette Gegenteil.
Das Hotel ist sehr in die Jahre gekommen, überall sind Schimmelflecken auf der Tapete zu finden bzw. ist diese an diversen Stellen bereits kaputt.
Der Fußboden ist abgenutzt und in den Ecken ist Schimmel zu finden.
Die Fenster am Gang wurden gefühlt seit monaten nicht mehr geputzt und auch die Abflüsse weißen Schimmelspuren auf.
Im Zimmer ist ein modriger Geruch wahrzunehmen der ohne einschalten der Klimaanlage auf das Maximum nicht aushaltbar ist.
Auch haben wir im Zimmer eine Kakerlake entdeckt.

Das Service ist einen 5 Sterne Hotel leider auch nicht würdig.
-gewisse Gäste werden bevorzugt
-Zimmer werden auch nicht gründlich gereinigt
-kein entgegnkommen bei kleinesten Bitten
- trotz Lebensmittelvergiftung (in einem andern Restaurant eingefangen) war es am Tag des Auschecken nicht möglich 2 stunden länger im Zimmer zu bleibn
-es konnte nichtmal Arzt und auch kein Taxi bestellt werden

Leisure Partner

10/10

Exceptional

15 Feb 2025

Krister

Resort

Jätte stor resort där nästan alla har all inclusive ett lyx ställe.
80-90 % ryssar

Friends_and_family Family