Club Villa
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See why so many travellers make Club Villa their hotel of choice when visiting Bentota. Providing an ideal mix of value, comfort and convenience, it offers a luxury setting with an array of amenities designed for travellers like you.
As your “home away from home,” the hotel rooms offer air conditioning and a minibar, and getting online is easy, with free wifi available.
Guests have access to a concierge and room service while staying at Club Villa. In addition, Club Villa offers a pool and a lounge, which will help make your Bentota trip additionally gratifying. And, as an added convenience, there is free parking available to guests.
While in Bentota be sure to experience local tapas favourites at The Loft.
At Club Villa, your comfort and satisfaction come first, and they look forward to welcoming you to Bentota.
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The garden is a delight, with beautiful trees - baringtonias and frangipani and of course the ubiquitous bougainvillea.
Service was outstanding and a swimming towel appeared on a sunbed (with a frangipani flower on it) every time we looked as though we might swim in the pool.
The whole place was spotlessly clean and had a calm, spoiling feel to it.
I would agree with one other comment that the dinner menu was a little limited, but for two nights this didn't matter at all. Breakfast was excellent and the dining room was open-sided onto the garden, so a wonderful place to sit and eat.
There is a railway at the end of the garden before you get to the beach, but that added to the fun and interest.
Thoroughly recommended
Sylvie and I would like to thank you for your excellent welcome both very professional and very friendly because know it, the villa club people will always do everything for your well being. We were picked up as soon as we arrived at the airport and those despite an early morning arrival then our room was ready from 8am.
Left in circuit at 4:00 a person brought us a breakfast basket, you want to rent a scooter no problem more the situation of the hotel offers many possibilities of escape whether by train, bus, taxi, tuk tuk or motorcycle.
Question meal we had breakfast and dinner at the hotel.
Breakfast: fruit, buffalo yogurt, omelette and bacon and many other choices.
Dinner: as you will see in photo we tested almost all the Sri Lankan specialties proposed and each time it was a treat.
The chef and his team are on top.
You want fresh fish a special request and Prasanna and her team will look for will satisfy you.
Simple pool but temperature and cleanliness at the top ditto for the very intimate garden not to mention the extremely pleasant olfactory atmosphere and soothing mixture of smell of gardenia and jasmine.
Room and interior of the hotel both simple and extremely elegant, colonial style and it is all the interest of the place the feeling of being at home in VIP++ mode and not in one of these factories to tourist sanitized and charming.
Beach: Direct access, wild and clean ideal for late afternoon walks and swimming in the rollers.
⚠️The train ⚠️ It is very little present, a few trains a day of a few seconds but absolutely does not disturb your tranquility because it is not a TGV and on the contrary it brings an entertaining and exotic note, a kind of attraction.
In conclusion these 7 days were wonderful and rich of beautiful meeting in a dream place.
We plan to come back longer with our three children and it will be at club Villa as one of our bases on the West side.
Bohoma istuh-ti all and take care of yourself.
Sylvie and Vincent CEFALU
Stay from 03/05 to 10/05 2024.
The house is, however, showing it’s age a little and this business is somewhat out of touch with what might be expected of a “boutique” hotel. The rooms are furnished with many of the original pieces but strange additions have been made, for example a fridge unit and towel stand that would be more at home in a safari lodge. The rooms have few sockets and charging even two phones required co-ordination and the hair dryer could not be plugged in anywhere near a mirror. We had expected modern hotel management to have environmental consciousness but no option was given to retain our bedding and towels and these were changed every day, even if towels were hung up carefully. In the dining room crude and very large mugs were balanced on saucers for our breakfast tea/coffee and the small fine china cups and saucers we might have expected in the dining room had made their way to our room for tea making. In addition it was disappointing that jam and marmalade comes in airline style small plastic containers. Unusually mosquito coils were not made available for our outside sitting area, an otherwise lovely place to sit before dinner and we were troubled by biting insects on this property.
This is a small hotel and conducive to a calm and quiet few days. However, non-residents appear to be welcome and larger parties would change the atmosphere if these coincided with your stay.
However unlike some other beachfront hotels there is no support for the beach, no seats or umbrellas, and swimming not advised due to the rip.
The building needs painting and the light fittings were all in need of a seasonal clean.
Our main disappointment though was the lack of any tour/ concierge service. When we asked about which were the best excursions, and if we could be assisted to travel to, for example, Brief Garden or Lunuganga, the response was “we don’t really do that”. As experienced travellers we were able to sort these things independently, but we expect a hotel of this calibre to provide more proactive support to their guests. Even asking if our departure transport was in hand would have been a service that would show an interest in guests requirements.
We were told that cocktails were a “hotel specialty”, but little information was provided, and drink staff seemed much more comfortable serving a gin and tonic or a Lion beer.
The breakfast was beautifully served and delicious. Dinner menu was somewhat limited, perhaps due to the small number of guests that were staying.
With a little extra focus this could be a perfect stay, but overall we were disappointed with what we had hoped would be a very special end to our wonderful Sri Lankan experience.
We would like to express particular appreciation for the gentleman who arranges the sun beds. He was so caring, efficient and always on hand. He did outstanding work. We loved him to bits.
The only word of caution I have is to recommend that travellers bring a supply oh good mosquito repellent. I recommend Club Villa highly. We always have the best time there. Every day is perfect.
The pool was very well kept and the garden is perfect! When a leaf falls from a tree there is somebody to pick it up. I would definitely return and will recommend to everyone I know
If you are a fan of Geoffrey Bawa, you will like this property.
His tropical rustic architectural style is one I adore. So, I loved the space. It was a peaceful and relaxing holiday.
Room no 15 was cozy and spacious with a lovely balcony and a big bathroom.
The suite was really nice too.
As for the negatives,
1. Needed improvement with the choice of dishes available in the buffet.
2. The floor of room no 15 has a moisture problem.
3. The bathroom of the suite is not soundproof, if you are on the upper floor
bathroom, you can hear everything.
4. If you are booking a triple room for older folk, please be mindful, the staircase to the attic (which is Bawa style) is quite narrow and without a railing.
While the food was tasty, the food options in the buffet were very poor. Especially in a country like Sri Lanka where buffets at hotels are quite grand, this was just rice and curry, basically the same food I would have had at home.
We requested a la carte for dinner on our final day, and it was really good. Since this is a small boutique property, I would think it's always better to offer a la carte for the guests.
It is worth noting the deluxe rooms are advertised as being larger than the standard room but in some of the rooms most of the extra space is on a mezzanine level up some steep stairs which has another bed. It was too steep for us to use for our cases & definitely could not be used for young children or elderly . We are in our early sixties & able bodied & found it quite inaccessible & quite frankly dangerous .
The gardens & pool area are the highlight of this hotel & are beautiful . The man who looked after the pool & sun-beds was a delight & made sure you had your sun-bed wherever you wanted it & even placed frangipane flowers on your sun-bed! The pool is in excellent condition & very well kept.
However, most of the hotel does need updating to bring it up to its former glory. The bar area was particularly uninviting with its dark decor & no proper bar as such . The dining room had no ambiance but food & drinks were good & reasonably priced.
During our 3 weeks in Sri Lanka, this was the only hotel which had drinking water in plastic bottles & shampoo etc was also in small non reusable plastic bottles. The management do need to review their environmental policy.
The hotel still has a lovely relaxed feel about it & the staff were lovely & helpful. As our flight left late at night, they allowed us to stay in our room for longer at no extra cost on our last day which we were very grateful . Our rooms was kept spotlessly clean.
Not sure I would stay again as the trains at the bottom of the garden do operate until about midnight & start again at 4am & did wake me . The trains are approx hourly & were a novelty at first but when it affected my sleep every night I wasn’t so keen. It is worth noting that all hotels nearby along the same beach back on to this railway line so this is not exclusive to Club Villa.
"You can walk to the beach from the garden, closest shack with beach beds are Wunderbar & Amal. Try local cuisine here."Read full review
"There is a train that goes by, which we found charming, but it was a bit loud. Downstairs rooms have a patio leading to the pool."Read full review
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