Reviews of Hotel Paradiso, 4 stars

Big rooms with clean facilities.

The hotel felt more like a warehouse and wasn't very welcoming. You had to walk through a storage hallway that opened onto the kitchen area to get to the breakfast seating. The hotel was quite far up a narrow road and it was a bit of a trek from Unawatuna beach (particularly during rain showers). The pool was very shallow and wasn't very warm or clean. We wouldn't recommend this hotel.

Nice place to hang out at the pool, and enjoy the nature around you. The manager is super friendly and try’s to help where he can

Nice big room with nice view. Good breakfast

Holder for the shower was broken.

Great place, great people, tasty breakfast

Room at 0 level a little bit noisy in the morning (glass door)

The hotel is located in the jungle, between two beaches - Jungle Beach and Unawatuna. Friendly hosts, interesting green area. Swimming pool. Huge, well-stocked rooms, lots of towels. At our request, a transfer to the airport was arranged.

It is necessary to clean up the garbage daily.

- The room is self-contained and you have access to a kitchen, which is useful. - The bed was very clean and comfortable. - The kitchen staff were very kind and attentive. - Good location out of the centre (20 minute walk to the restaurants) and 10 minutes from the beaches. - Breakfast was delicious. - There is a pool but I did not use this.

- It felt like I was staying in someone’s house not a hotel. - No reception on arrival and there was no area that you could sit in other than the room itself. The kitchen area was used by the family and their guests and the lounge (which you have to go through to leave the rooms) had other people sleeping on the sofa or watching TV, which made me feel a bit out of place! - The chairs in the room are dirty and could do with a clean. - The rugs on the concrete floor are dangerous and should be glued down or removed. - Towels were not all clean but could be easily changed. - The bathroom floods as there is no quick drainage and it is a wet room. - The utensils and equipment in the kitchen (in the room) are old and dirty and there is no tea or coffee provided.

Excellent and helpful hotel owners, friendly staff. The environment is nicely arranged, good swimming pool, delicious breakfast. Relatively good Wi-Fi as in Sri Lanka. Hotel on a hill, suitable for those who like peace.

I very much enjoyed my stay. Ransi was the perfect host. Location is handy for jungle beach and Unawatuna ‘village’ where most of the restaurants and shops are. Room was spacious and clean and there was plenty of choice for breakfast. I loved the pool too!

The staff are vers helpfull. The pool is good. The room is extremly big.

Thank you Ransi & Philip, your home is a gem of a hotel that ticks all the right boxes. We had a truly relaxing and comfortable stay in your ground floor room with a garden view. A great size and comfortable bed, with an effective mosquito net. Powerful hot water shower and abundance of clean towels. The kitchen has ample amenities if needed. The kettle & fridge made it possible to make an early morning cuppa and afternoon coffee. The complimentray fresh water station, thats generally missing in hotels, was a huge bonus. The pool is the perfect temperature to cool off in and spotlessly clean. The staff are happy, laid back, and will do all they can for you if you ask. The location is a home from home to return to after day trips. Set in green surroundings, we watched monkeys in the trees at breakfast, met a peacock on the roof top while enjoying the sea view and your family of chickens and handsome dog, Tiny helped make us feel at home. One of the best srilanka restaurants, Grangers, is literally next door. Next door to Grangers is Aunty, disguised as a fruit seller, she's happy to organise transport and trips and even wash your colths!  The main beach and hub of restaurants is a nice downhill walk. In the opposite direction, Jungle beach a short but tricky walk. It's definitely worth it, if your lucky, you have your lunch stolen by monkeys and catch the most incredible sunsets. I hope we get the opportunity to stay with you again  or catch up over coffee in Kingston xx

Very Spacious and beautiful room with minimal kitchen in quiet area, not too far from town and the beaches.

I paid extra for a sea view room, and did not get one cause the trees were too high and there was no sea at all visible. When I told the hosts, they did not offer any discounts. Also be ready to pay for your stay cash only. Nice hosts, but not much availability if questions which is ok if you know and are ready to manage your trip details. There was no room cleaning in 5 days of stay, minor cleaning like emptying the trash and vacuuming the floor would have been nice at some point.

Good simple choices for breakfast. Lovely quiet location and a nice short stroll to the beach and restaurants. Staff and the owners Philip and Ransi are exceptionally friendly and helpful, they made us feel very welcome.

Everything was great.

Everything was great! The room was very spacious, new, clean and nice with a wonderful view. The location was excellent, among the jungle, and at the same time very close to the main street. And most importantly the hosts and the entire staff. We traveled with a 7-month-old baby, the hosts made sure that we lacked nothing. They showed us a lot of help and kindness. I definitely recommend! a wonderful place! The breakfasts were outstanding and large!

Nice big clean rooms. photos dont do justice. Great value. good breakfast.

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We had a spacious room with a comfortable bed and the aircon worked very well and the pool was very big and the breakfast there was a few options to pick from which were very nice.

The construction that was happening on the property, slight hill to get up to so would need a tuktuk back and felt like more of a guest house stay then hotel but still had a lovely stay.

Hotel Paradiso is run by a lovely couple, Ransi and Phillip. They were so kind and helpful throughout our stay - Ransi made us a delicious lunch one day, they were flexible with a later check out due to a late flight, they arranged us an airport transfer and so on! The room was a brilliant size and the bed was comfortable. The pool was great! The location is good, around 15 minutes walk to the beach/main strip. The breakfast was great, the best we've had whilst travelling Sri Lanka. Would absolutely recommend this place to anyone staying in Unawatuna!

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The hotel is very clean and in calm area. The host is amazing, very helpful and makes sure you will feel comfortable like home.

The hosts Phillip & Rancy are so welcoming. The rooms were lovely with air con and spacious. The pool was big and really nice. It was a short walk to the town centre, but I lovedn the beautiful surroundings of this hotel. Breakfast was tasty and all the staff couldn't do enough for you. If I return to sri lanka I will definitely come back to this place. Highly recommend, great value for money.

Couldn’t have wished for a better place to stay! The morning of checkin, my partner put his back out and was as bed-bound for almost a week while it healed. We ended up extending our stay to almost two weeks to allow him time to get better and we’re so thankful we were checking into such a lovely hotel when this happened! Our room (studio with terrace) was massive, the pictures don’t do it justice at all, beautiful big windows/doors with a lovely view of the garden letting in loads of light (but with big proper curtains for privacy if you want it) A comfy sofa and arm chair, dining table, kitchen with huge fridge and ample cooking facilities, lovely bathroom. The mattress was probably the best we’ve ever slept on in a hotel, so comfy, great pillows too. The AC was amazing and room very well insulated, we could turn the AC off all day while we were out and we’d come back to a room still cool. Plus the room was super clean and considering we were on the ground floor we were surprise we didn’t have any ants or bugs at all in the room. Lovely big pool that’s cleaned & maintained several times a week by a pool professional, big comfy, padded sun loungers. Tasty and varied breakfast menu - because we were there so long we tried everything on the menu and it’s all delicious and served fresh to order. Proper good French press coffee! Everyone who works there is happy and helpful and full of smiles and you can tell it’s a family run place. FREE water refills were a life saver! Two very cute cats owned by the family were also a joy to play with. Some might fear the location is a little out of town but it’s a short 10 minute walk down the hill and you’re at the beach or in town, and there are a number of restaurants just around the corner from the hotel anyway as well as a small local shop selling snacks and drinks for a very reasonable price. Also, there are loads of options on Uber eats that deliver to the hotel if you want a chilled night in.

If there was any suggestion I could make, the only small thing missing for us would be the ability to be able to buy drinks and snacks from the hotel in the day time after breakfast but water is free and always available and there is a restaurant and shop just around the corner from the hotel.

staff, rooms, pool, breakfast, everything was amazing, will be coming back for sure.

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