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Surf City
The ever-expanding Surfcity emporium now includes an internet cafe, coffee shop, restaurant tour company...
Unawatuna hotels and hostels
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Unawatuna Beach Resort
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Upul Restaurant And Rooms
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Manidi Villa
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Brinkhouse Guest House
Banana Garden
If you’re tall then it won’t have taken you long to realise that Sri Lankan beds aren’t built with you in mind.
Dream House
Set well back from the hustle of the beach, this is Unawatuna at its most chic. An exquisite Italian-owned house with four intimate and impeccable rooms that have been restored and decorated in a Rome-meets-the-tropics fusion.
Pipels House
This new place has vanilla-coloured white rooms with flashy photos on the walls and modern metal furnishings. The rooms all share a pretty mosaic-patterned bathroom, while the apartment has its own kitchenette, bathroom and living room.
Villa Hotel
A lovely waterfront hotel built in a traditional but very tall style. The twirling wooden window slats have an Arabic feel and the interior of the rooms are attired in Indian art and ancient furnishings, while the bathroom is utterly modern.
Nooit Gedacht
A wonderful sense of blissful calm befalls anyone lucky enough to cross the threshold into this atmospheric 1735 Dutch colonial mansion.
Secret Garden
Creak open the door and, like the name suggests, step into a hidden botanical wonderland full of crazy tropical flowers and mischievous monkeys.
Thaproban
A perfect example of the current fashion for Asian minimalism, this is a great-value and very stylish place to stay that offers a five-star experience for a midrange price tag.
Weliwatta Guesthouse
This century-old buttercup-yellow villa has a couple of spacious and tidy rooms with hot-water bathrooms. You’ll love relaxing in the luxuriant garden in a comfy chair with a cold drink and good book to hand. There’s also a reasonable restaurant.
Village Inn
An idyllic garden retreat that can’t be beaten on price and quality. The owners are real charmers and the rooms with bathrooms, all of which have a balcony or veranda, are as clean as a whistle. There’s also a dirt-cheap, but dirt-free restaurant.
Black Beauty Guest House
Located away from the beach, there is nothing remotely black about this guest house nor anything horsey, but there is plenty of beauty.
Amma’S Guesthouse
The basic concrete cubicles inside this rambling old house, with its equally rambling garden, might not look too pretty, but it’s cheap and just a few sandy paces from the beach.
Peacock Hotel
The number of bronzing backpackers lounging around here indicate that this is a popular choice – and with good reason.
Sun N Sea
The stylish Sun N Sea has 10 rooms in a simple building right above the water. The views across the bay are superb. Furnishings are in easy-on-the-eye beiges, while the furniture is easy-on-the-backside rattan.