Era Beach

This place is a really small hotel, perfect for when traveling in a group if you want to have more of like a holiday home feeling. The rooms are spacious and the bathroom in our room was truly impressive. However, the couch and blankets need some deep cleaning or replacement as there were big stains on them. The pool is mostly shallow expect for the part closest to reception. The beach unfortunately is not usable. You cannot go swimming there but instead need to walk 15 min to the right towards Turtle beach. A staff member showed us the way on the first morning. While that is a welcome trip to see the turtles, it further emphasized that this hotel is just not ideal for a beach vacation. Also beware of booking day trips here. They do not have any flyers or written materials. Instead a staff member will talk to you about trips such as safari and call his "friends". Prices are far too high and the entire thing felt super sketchy. Especially as the price suddenly dropped when we reserved with another company we found in our travel book. I would not recommend booking tours here, find some respectable offers elsewhere (travel books, TripAdvisor...). Food was good and plenty though.

We booked our Era beach for the Avurudu vacation with my family. We took 6 rooms for the 3 nights. The property is beautiful but there were a lot of shortcomings. First of all we was travelling with my new born. When we went into one of the sea view rooms, it looked like they hadn’t swept the floors, the couch looked like it needed a good sofa cleaning and the toilet had cob webs. When I informed them that they needed to clean the room properly only then they cleaned it. Second their food, we ordered the Sri Lankan breakfast on the first day. The food was good. On the second day we ordered the western breakfast, according to their FB pictures they have nice hash browns, eggs, bacon, lots of mushrooms. But we only got a few potato wedges, chicken ham piece, and 2 mushrooms. When I requested for bacon, they said they don’t have any. We also wanted to get pizza for dinner, they said their oven is broken and we should go to wijaya beach. It was quite annoying because I couldn’t travel much with my little one. Their dinner service got really late - 1.5 hours. When we made a complaint to them, their excuse was we usually don’t give this out to locals. We were like why did you even give this property to us then. Their excuse for everything was this. It’s such a shame because we usually aren’t too fussy. But I wouldn’t visit this villa again and wouldn’t recommend it to anyone. I only gave 2 stars because I loved the view and the property is nice provided it’s given a proper deep clean.

We went with friends,altogether we were 5 families with 11 children. The villa has 5 rooms and all are different categories but nicely arranged spacious rooms. The staff were very polite and fulfilled all our needs whether it’s a change of menu or the time of serving.They made all the possibilities to make our stay comfortable and enjoyable.