Anantamaa Hotel

Lovely clean big pool in well kept beautiful gardens.There was new chef and the food was exceptional. Both the delicious multiple Sri Lankan options and the seafood dinner. Really comfortable quiet room and most helpful, friendly staff. Thank you.

Every aspect of our stay exceeded our expectation .Great staff ! Most comfortable beds ever Amazing location it is near to the sea .The breakfast was delicious The rooms were spacious, clean and well-maintained.I was highly recommend this hotel.

Superb hotel with a staff willing to always help out. Rooms were nice and comfortable with great service by the staff. The pool was well located and was well maintained.All in all, a hotel which has the potential to be the leading place of accomadation,but badly let down by the choice of food. We really felt cheated and disappointed when they served just a watery vegetable soup with 4 bowls of salads of mediocre quality and 5 dishes as the mains, where 2 dishes were plain rice and fried rice-out of the 5 dishes.Desert was just ice cream and curd., this too on the 24th of December dinner when guests expected a better spread than this, on Christmas Eve. Even more, we had to stand near the buffet and wait till the dishes were refilled even though they had just 5-6 varieties to refill, but they ran out of food,half way through the evening. The next dinner was even worse with just 2 Salads and just ice cream as the desert. Obviously the management was aware of the situation but they kept passing the ball towards each other instead of making amends. So if you're planning to stay here, don't expect your moneys worth on meals. Better book on room only basis or B&B basis and eat else where.

Clean rooms , spacious and good . Gardens and pool in exceptional good condition. Overall great and relaxed place. Breakfast fruit pancakes eggs to order. Staff very friendly and cooperative. Beach close by , reachable via gate in garden.

Very, very bad hotel. Unfriendly staff (except the receptionist, they were nice). The water in the Pool was very dirty. The washrooms at the Pool were rally filty. There was even poop on the wall (for 3 days!!). Room wasnt cleaned even after asking 4 times (!!!) . De food was so poor. No choice, very less and bad taste. The only good thing was the shower. It was the best we had in Sri Lanka so far.

During the breakfast buffet a long queue forms for the omelet cooking station. A young employee of the hotel has the possibility of two burners, yet decides to use only one for cooking omelets. The other one fruitlessly heats up an empty pan with a bit of oil in it. The scene provides a nice metaphor for the lack of efficiency in Anantamaa Hotel. There seems to be enough employees to properly run the hotel, yet they fail to do so. The omelets are not anything special or tasty, yet they are the highlight of the breakfast buffet, which is very poorly set up. There is fruit but that comes with a sort of tweezers to put the tiny pieces of pineapple, papaya or watermelon on ones plate. It's no surprise queues are forming. The choice of coffee is Nescafe, which in itself is ghastly, but the hotel managed to find a batch of Nescafe that has outlived the sell by date by at least four months, just to give it that extra taste of poor quality. After the staff has helped to carry suitcases to the rooms (to receive a tip) the service is completely out of the window for the rest of the stay. The 'please clean the room' hangers seem to be there purely for decoration. The safe is very safe. It simply won't open at all. WiFi is like gods presence, we've been told it's there but we're still waiting for a proof of its existence. The front desk answers to every request or complaint with the response that action will be taken right away, after which it's like watching tumble**** in a western, nothing happens. Is there nothing good about Anantamaa Hotel? You would think so, but there is good news. You can leave the hotel. If you do there is a world of quality to discover. There are streets full of nice restaurants surrounding the hotel and the Indian Ocean is a fine alternative to the hotel pool that's seems to be filled with a mixture of chemicals to fight the murkiness of whatever has been left in the pool by previous bathers. And the rooms are ok. They seem quite new. That or the hotel staff simply could not be bothered to remove the stamps and labels of mirrors and glass panels. That could also be. 'Can't be bothered' is probably the hotels company motto. Except for when it comes to Google reviews, because they have obviously taken some time to buy a lot of fake positive reviews. I'm glad to provide a more truthfully depiction of the hotel in this review.

Personel is friendly but give a new meaning to lazy. Airco in room is nothing more then bad and sleeping in 30C is not possible. Cleaning of room just doen not exist. Location to the beach is good. Swimming pool smells but oherwise is nice

This hotel has great potential. It s not beachfront but a nice 100m walk to a great beach. Rooms are very basic but comfortable. They have only sheets to cover at night. No duvets. The biggest issue is food. They are cutting cost to an unbelievable and unbearable level. In other words you will get very low quality food that was so surprising to us. They promise you the world when you make the reservation but offer very low quality food that we were actually speechless. We had to basically force them to give us proper food even though we were booked on Full Board basis. That too they gave us so little we were starved.

We would like to thank all the hotel staff for their excellent welcome. We were able to spend two nights with them and everything was magnificent. Spacious room, great facilities and both dinner and breakfast varied and delicious. Thank you for hosting us during our holidays, we recommend it 100%.