Name: Thaproban Pavilion Resort and Spa
Address: Unawatuna, Galle, Unawatuna, LK

10/10

Exceptional

19 Mar 2026

James

Lovely lazy time by poolside

Self

10/10

Exceptional

27 Feb 2026

Nicola

We had a wonderful time and the highlight of the stay was watching the sunset from the infinity pool. The rooms were spacious with a super comfy bed and pillows. The buffet breakfast and evening meal were plentiful and tasty. All the staff were friendly and helpful. The manager was always available and so kind. All the bar staff were delightful. Mahinda, Ashoka, Kaveesha, Sumithra, Jinuka. Thanks for a fabulous trip.

Partner

4/10

Poor

26 Jan 2026

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The towel had not been changed.
I requested a change but received no response.
I asked again and it was eventually changed.

There were numerous gaps around the balcony door, allowing mosquitoes to enter the room.
I requested mosquito repellent and received it, but it proved ineffective.
Even whilst sleeping, mosquitoes flew around my face, causing discomfort.
Access to the beach was poor.

Leisure Family

4/10

Poor

08 Aug 2025

rajan

The check-in for this property is very problematic. Note that their credit card reader doesn’t always work. And they are very lucky if you try to pay with cash about the condition of your bills. The slightest crease on a bill and they won’t take it. This makes paying for the property difficult and a completely unnecessary headache.

2/10

Poor

22 Feb 2024

Beth

Had to wait over an hour past posted check in time. Was told some story about the AC, but, seems it was housekeeping as the floors were wet when we finally checked in. Room was run down..biggest issue was that neither of the two showers drained properly. In fact, sewage came up and created an offensive odor. This was reported to the front desk and repairs were attempted, but not done properly. So, the room still smelled BAD. Also, the workman left a BIG mess. I had to go to the front desk to ask to have it cleaned. While the manager was interested in our stay, all he did was provide a late day fruit plate! No thanks. Avoid this place. It is over priced for what you get. One of my worst stays ever.

Leisure Partner

10/10

Exceptional

17 Dec 2022

Shalini

Had an amazing stay with super friendly staff who were really helpful with recommendations for things to do around Unawatuna and a very generous driver who was able to take us around Galle during our short stay here. The breakfast was delicious with a large variety of foods from authentic Sri Lankan cuisine to western dishes as well. 10/10 reccommend :)

Leisure Family

10/10

Exceptional

26 Oct 2022

Mart

Wonderful view on edge of ocean and jungle. Excellent staff

Leisure Friends

4/10

Poor

30 Dec 2021

Rebecca

Didn’t live up to expectations

Overall disappointing, I’d say this is more 2 star, 3 at a push! Room initially had a blocked toilet, no bath or hand towels in the bathroom, 3 hangers for 2 people, warm bar on roof top bar, room condition was pretty warn, needs a good refurb, felt a bit grubby compared to other hotels we stayed in during our trip to Sri Lanka. Manager was good and helped where we needed.

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

19 Apr 2020

Verified traveler

Probably the best hotel in unawatuna. 2 pools, one of them sea water pool was amazing. Views of ocean and waves crashing is break taking. Staff goes above and beyond to make sure your stay is enjoyable.

Leisure Family_with_children

6/10

Pleasant

30 Mar 2020

alan

Our stay was just as the coronavirus was breaking out. We had to return to the UK after 1 day at the hotel. I would like to praise Roshan and his team for the very efficient and friendly assistance and understanding of our specific situation during a very challenging time. We hope to return!!

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

06 Mar 2020

John

Found this resort after having to move out of a complete disaster (Jungle Village by Thawthisa), what a pleasant surprise! Has the combination of being at the end of Unawatuna Beach, so feels and looks like it is out on its own, but within easy walking distance of all the beach amenities. Room with a great sea & sunset view. Two beautiful pools & great breakfast, a lovely stay overall.

Leisure Partner

10/10

Exceptional

11 Feb 2020

Verified traveler

fantastic hotel, rooms spacious and everywhere is clean, breakfast is excellent

Leisure Partner

8/10

Excellent

01 Jan 2020

Devraj

Excellent stay

Hotel located at a very good location , however the road to the hotel is very narrow and a lot of traffic.
Our overall stay was excellent and the ocean front rooms were great .
Great food and overall experience .

Friends_and_family Family

10/10

Exceptional

18 Oct 2019

Verified traveler

Was great

Was great

Friends_and_family Friends

10/10

Exceptional

02 Sep 2019

Bob

Spectacular setting next to the sea. Very good food and service. Great pools and a very nice sports bar with an excellent pool table. Very gracious and helpful staff who went out of their way for us. Highly recommended!

Leisure Partner

8/10

Excellent

05 May 2019

Verified traveler

This is an excellent hotel on the water with 2 great pools. Staff and service is great

Leisure Partner

10/10

Exceptional

10 Mar 2019

Verified traveler

Nice property right by the beach in a secluded area.
Everything is pretty clean and we were attended to all the time.
The room was spacious and a baby cot was ready for us as per our request.
It's an excellent product and the rate, though a bit expensive for Sri Lanka's cost of life, is in line with the services and amenities. It's not a big hotel chain of course but the staff are friendly, courteous and genuinely happy. There are a few things to improve here and there but these are minor points. Highly recommandable.

8/10

Excellent

20 Feb 2019

Verified traveler

Next to the sea, which was lovely. Food & service excellent, walk into unawatuna was along a dark narrow road which was very busy with tuk tuks

Leisure Family_with_children

6/10

Pleasant

29 Dec 2018

S

Close to the beach and centre, nice pool.
Family room was a good arrangement with an upstairs area with separate bathrooms, just a shame the rooms smelt of sewage and the bathroom was unclean.

4/10

Poor

15 Dec 2018

Verified traveler

First of all, we booked because this was a deal room, it's not clear with your booking that deal rooms are actually inferior to the normal rooms not in deals. We didn't have a good view, neither did we have card or electronic access.

10/10

Exceptional

12 Dec 2018

Rebecca

Great hotel for families!

Really lovely hotel. Great service, every member of staff greets you as you pass and will try to do everything they can to make your stay even better. They are continuing to do improvements but you would not notice the people at work. Food is very good, slightly more expensive than the town prices but still very good. Very family friendly hotel, we would definitely recommend and we would stay here again. There one salt water pool and another chlorine pool, great views over the ocean, a sports bar and gym. Great value for money

Family

10/10

Exceptional

02 Dec 2018

Verified traveler

Would definitely go back

Very friendly and helpful staff made our stay all the more pleasurable at this hotel. Our stay was just before the season got going so it was fairly quiet but there was plenty to see and do in the area.

Friends

4/10

Poor

21 Nov 2018

Suminda

Property is not what is depicted in the pics. No Beach access. Breakfast was not good.

10/10

Exceptional

18 Nov 2018

Verified traveler

Beautiful resort

We had a great time staying at this resort. Overall we loved the spaciousness of the duplex room with two very big rooms, sitting areas and bathroom. The lobby of the hotel is beautiful and very stylish. The food at the restaurant was very good and breakfast was also good. Service could have been sometimes a bit faster and the hot water in our room didn’t work the first 2 days but they sorted it out straight away. The pool areas are very nice although one of them was closed for refurbishment and an event and the one with the eternity pool has limited number of sun lounger so and they are very close to the edge of the pool leaving very little space to walk through. The reception staff were very friendly and they let us check out a bit later for a small fee.Overall we had an amazing stay.

Friends

10/10

Exceptional

17 Nov 2018

Nigel

A great, traditional, hotel with a modern feel. The restaurant and pools were both first class and the staff made us feel so welcome. They were friendly and always had time for a chat/conversation. Not on the actual beach at Unawatuna but only a 10 minute walk from it.

10/10

Exceptional

05 Nov 2018

DWIGHT

Family get together

Beautiful hotel and friendly staff. Loved the location

Family

6/10

Pleasant

26 Oct 2018

Melissa

Beautiful hotel, but we checked out early...

The hotel is beautiful, there are two good pools, the breakfast buffet is terrific, and the staff is friendly. I was traveling as a solo parent with two young kids and chose this hotel to take advantage of the children’s club and beach access. The children’s club was not what I had in mind: it’s an unattended indoor play room, so I wasn’t able to leave my kids there for any period of time. The beach access is disappointing: there is no swimmable area, just some lounge chairs set up by the rocky shore. Since it’s not a smoke-free hotel, there were plenty of smokers around the pool and I found this obnoxious. The dinner doesn’t start until 7:30pm which is too late for my young kids. During our stay I asked about the turtle hatcheries and the woman who helped me suggested I set up a tour and also see the stilt fishing. It would be Rs5k for the tour for the 3 of us. In actuality, I was only paying for the driver (entry fees are extra), and he took us to the hatchery and was gone when we had finished! I couldn’t figure out where he went so I tried to get an Uber but then he came back—he had needed gas (I think?). Then he took us to the stilt fishing which was an extra Rs6k! I paid the driver Rs5k and the whole ordeal took 90 mins—I should have just hired my own Uber. At checkout the hotel didn’t let me leave because I was supposed to pay *them* the Rs5k and they had to sort it out with the driver. Overall, leave the kids at home or get a hotel on the beach, and book your own rides

Family

8/10

Excellent

16 Aug 2018

Verified traveler

Great hotel with large rooms

A very good hotel in a good location with large rooms, we stayed there for 4 nights with 2 kids and we loved everything about the hotel. If there is something that needs improvement it is the restaurant and the food as we felt it below par than the usual place

10/10

Exceptional

24 Jul 2018

BerkanKoçakgöl

Wonderfull hotel good staff hospitality management , we realy enjoyed I suggested my friend

10/10

Exceptional

02 Jul 2018

Verified traveler

Wonderful view of beach from pool, very friendly and helpful staff

10/10

Exceptional

28 Apr 2018

Kanav

My wife and I stayed a couple of nights at the end of April. We had a great time. The hotel is absolutely perfect. The pictures do justice to the hotel.. they were exactly as we had seen on the website. The staff is extremely helpful and friendly. A special mention goes out to Nipuna (Front desk Manager) - Anything we needed, be it information or help he was always ready with the answers. He even helped us out getting a booking in Hikkaduwa when the room was sold out on the website. I’d definitely recommend the place. It’s nice and quite at the end of the road. Just perfect for couples or families. Sit by the pool all day & enjoy some neat cocktails

Partner

8/10

Excellent

16 Apr 2018

Verified traveler

Nice friendly hotel!

Two bed superior room prefect for families, great choice of buffet breakfast. 2 swimming pools overlooking the Indian Ocean very clean , all staff are so friendly and nothing is too much trouble! The spa and Ayurveda massage is very good. We have just stayed for a two week holiday and would throughly recommend this hotel to our family and friends

10/10

Exceptional

07 Apr 2018

Verified traveler

Relaxing Holiday

Beautiful place and very good service. Beautiful pool facing beach Pleasant restaurant and good food .Breakfast perfect for every taste. Taxi Service is great professional drivers and quality service.

10/10

Exceptional

30 Mar 2018

Pete

Great location, fantastic service.

We really enjoyed our stay in Sri Lanka. The hotel is great and the staff are very friendly and attentive. Beautiful sunsets over the beach.

10/10

Exceptional

16 Mar 2018

TravelGoals

Compliments all the way!

My family and I have been travelling to Sri Lanka for 30 years. In this time we have enjoyed a wide range of accommodations - from budget through to 5 star luxury. And we have some favourites that never fail to please. This was our first visit to Thaproban Pavilion Resort and Spa, completely lived up to all the positive reviews that have come before us. So much, This hotel is now firmly on our priority list of places to stay on our future visits to Unawatuna. Most notable is the excellent service from all staff. Nothing is too much trouble. All meals in the Restaurant are excellent - breakfast particularly. Our room was comfortable and well appointed. The new pool area was a added bonus. A really great experience!!

2/10

Poor

07 Mar 2018

alex

No beach access and dirty rooms

Don’t be fooled by the polished pics, this place is not what it’s portrayed to be.
1) NO BEACH ACCESS, there is some beach chairs scattered on sand that they show in the pics, but this is no “private beach”... no access to the ocean.
2) the rooms are run down, with multi colored dirty sheets and the restrooms are full of broken tiles and seem to to held together with some kind of yellow slime.
3) there is a lot of staff, but they all just seem to stand around, and in the mornings they bang around and yell while they are “cleaning” rooms.
4)the rooms have no sound proofing, there is a wooden grate that is open to the hall, which obviously lets in all noise and well it also let’s it out ... we could hear eeevvverrything our neighbors were doing. They could hear me on the toilet too I’m sure.

Moral of the story here is save your money and stay somewhere else.

10/10

Exceptional

17 Feb 2018

liesa

An excellent hotel to relax, with tasty breakfast.

Beautiful hotel, very attentive staff. Decor outstanding downstairs. Room spacious and comfy with all amenities. Sea view relaxing. Loungers by pool comfy. Not able to swim in the sea as access rocky. 10 minute walk to a delightful beach, tasty restaurants with free loungers.

Partner

8/10

Excellent

23 Nov 2017

Verified traveler

.Beautiful hotel. Large rooms.

Excellent service - front desk uses your first name

10/10

Exceptional

20 Nov 2017

Camilla

Great hotel with fabulous staff

We loved the hotel. The staff were lovely and very attentive. The pool area is great and the room was clean and spacious.
My only complaint is that there was a bit of noice early in the mornings. No ones fault, just the layout of the hotel.

10/10

Exceptional

26 Aug 2017

Aaron

Location, staff and room

Location is awesome. A little bit further away from the main restaurants but it's no big deal. Staff were great and extremely welcoming and helpful. Beds are comfortable and aircon is good.
I will definitely be back again and highly recommend it.

8/10

Excellent

12 Jun 2017

Seet Loke

Highly recommended hotel in Galle

Good service and friendly staffs. Upgraded our room

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

14 Feb 2017

Seema

Great stay for families

This resort was excellent. We stayed in a two bedroom room with 4 adults and two kids aged 4 and 6. The staff were so friendly and great with the kids who were running around everywhere! Every night they prepared special meals for us as we are vegetarian and the chef asked us what we will like in a daily basis. The swimming pool area is great and relaxing...the drinks and cocktails were perfect! They also organised tours for us to suit our needs. I would recommend this to anyone! As this resort is next to a rocky area of the beach we could not swim in the beach but it was still walking distance to the resort. No complaints here...we had a wonderful time!

8/10

Excellent

17 Jul 2016

Verified traveler

Lovely hotel

Great hotel. Clean and very very friendly helpful,staff. When you stay here you have to remember this is Sri Lanka not New York....things go wrong and the weather has an adverse effect at times.

My only real negative would be that I wouldn't recommend for families with young children as the pool area isn't safe enough.

10/10

Exceptional

13 Mar 2026

Tone

This was a really beautiful place. I would like to come back another time.

10/10

Exceptional

19 Feb 2024

Stephane

Belles prestations ! rien a ajouter

Leisure Partner

10/10

Exceptional

11 Mar 2020

Sandra

Rekommenderas!

Vi reste med barn på 4 år. Mycket barnvänligt hotell, bra frukost och service rakt över. Nära till olika aktiviteter och restauranger.

Friends_and_family Family

10/10

Exceptional

20 Jan 2020

Verified traveler

Wifi at the room does not work. Rest is excellent.

Leisure Partner

8/10

Excellent

31 Dec 2019

Troels

Dejligt hotel - mørkt værelse

Fint hotel - der dog ikke lever helt op til 5 stjerner. Vi bookede en suite med to soveværelser, men ville gerne have været informerede om at der ikke var udsigt og stort set ingen vinduer. Rummet i sig selv var fint - stort i to etager med dejlige senge og fine møbler. Restauranten er ok og servicen er helt i top. Du kan ikke bade i havet foran pga. klipper, men hotellet tilbyder en gratis shuttle til stranden. De to pools er fine og baren på 3. sal har en fantastisk udsigt. Så alt i alt et fint ophold. Ville dog aldrig vælge det samme værelse igen - det bliver for indelukket.

Friends_and_family Family

8/10

Excellent

06 Mar 2019

Verified traveler

È sul mare. Non è possibile accedere alla spiaggia. C’è una navetta che porta in un altro posto. Scomodo.

Leisure

10/10

Exceptional

26 Feb 2019

Eline

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