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Reviews of Sigiri Liya Rest

65/A, Kayamwala, 21120 Sigiriya, Sri Lanka

#124 of 124 hotels in Sigiriya

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Review score

Based on 22 hotel reviews

8.8

Score breakdown

  • Cleanliness

    9.2

  • Comfort

    8.9

  • Location

    9.4

  • Facilities

    8.9

  • Staff

    9.2

  • Value for money

    9.2

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  • Reviewed: 17 February 2024

    10
    Excellent stay with great food and hosts
    • Leisure trip
    • Group
    • Deluxe Double Room
    • Stayed 4 nights
    • Submitted via mobile

    Nothing

    The property looked new in side high ceilings and the best hot shower in 2 months in srilanka great balcony were you can watch the animals The on site restaurant does the best food in srilanka and the best price the hosts were excellent and made our stay special would definitely return They even lent us a kettle every day

    Stayed in February 2024

  • Reviewed: 13 February 2024

    10
    Very charming
    • Leisure trip
    • Couple
    • Deluxe Double Room
    • Stayed 2 nights
    • Submitted via mobile

    Nothing to complain about!

    Very peaceful place in a green garden. Nice balcony, good room. Helpful and friendly staff. Very good restaurant, Chani is a great cook and keeps smiling even if there is a crowd! She always gave us some extras like a fruit juice. Nice breakfast too.

    Stayed in February 2024

  • Reviewed: 6 August 2023

    10
    Best option in Sigiriya.
    • Leisure trip
    • Group
    • Deluxe Single Room
    • Stayed 2 nights
    • Submitted via mobile

    Top hotel! Ultra clean, confortable and a/c and hot shower fully operative. Staff were taking care of our needs all the time. They helped us with the laundry and offered breakfast, lunch and dinner every day. Very quiet to rest at night. Would come back again without hesitation.

    Stayed in August 2023

  • Reviewed: 3 August 2023

    10
    Great food, Great location and wonderful people and to top it all off - the best rooms !
    • Leisure trip
    • Couple
    • Deluxe Double Room
    • Stayed 3 nights

    We liked everything.

    The best place we’ve stayed in Sri Lanka! We came for 3 nights and stayed for 4! This has been our favourite place to stay in Sri Lanka and we've been in the country for a month and we've been lots of places at the same room price budget. The room was so beautiful to walk in to. It was very spacious with high ceilings and very clean. The bed was large and really comfortable. The best bed we’ve had in Sri Lanka. Clean crisp sheets and bedding. It had air conditioning and a really good fan. We used the air conditioning in the day time, but at night the fan was enough. The room looks out onto a beautiful garden and is private and quiet. There is a balcony with chairs outside where you can relax. The accommodation is close to town, (easy walking distance into town and Lion Rock) There is a restaurant at the accommodation which we also highly recommend. It is rated in the top 3 restaurants for the district. The food was delicious! rated 4.9 on google for reason. Breakfast was great, lunches and dinners are next level. The owners provided transport to the beginning of the Pidurangala climb and to Kandy for a fair price in their neat little car. Also did us a deal to get to Kandy sharing with some other guests for a great price. The family were very kind and helpful. Very nice people to be around. We highly recommend this accommodation. To our hosts, we wish your family success and happiness. Thank you for making our visit so enjoyable. We loved staying with you.

    Stayed in July 2023

  • Reviewed: 2 August 2023

    10
    Exceptional
    • Leisure trip
    • Couple
    • Deluxe Double Room
    • Stayed 1 night
    • Submitted via mobile

    One of the best places we got to visit! The family that hosts us were so nice, and even helped us with the driving to kandy. The food in the restaurant is great and we chose to eat there almost every meal. The room is nice, good AC, clean and comfortable. Strongly recommended to come host at this place!

    Stayed in July 2023

  • Reviewed: 1 August 2023

    10
    Exceptional
    • Leisure trip
    • Couple
    • Deluxe Double Room
    • Stayed 2 nights
    • Submitted via mobile

    Environment & Rooms Build plan

    Facilities 100% superb, 100% satisfy, very clean, location is very good & near to Sigiriya & Pidurangala, We had a wonderful vacation @Liya

    Stayed in July 2023

  • Reviewed: 6 May 2023

    10
    Exceptional
    • Leisure trip
    • Solo traveller
    • Deluxe Double Room
    • Stayed 3 nights
    • Submitted via mobile

    The family that has this place are the nicest people I’ve met on my travels. They showed me around everywhere and even cared for me when I got sick! They also serve the best Sri Lankan food at their restaurant!! If you’re interested in learning more about Sigiriya and Sri Lanka this is the place for you!

    Stayed in May 2023

  • Reviewed: 4 March 2023

    10
    Exceptional
    • Leisure trip
    • Couple
    • Deluxe Double Room
    • Stayed 2 nights
    • Submitted via mobile

    The place is amazing and the owners we so helpful and friendly. Food was delicious at their own restaurant and have many verities to choose. Easy access to Sigiriya rock, pidurangala and Mapagala. Room and linen are clean, A/C was perfect. Superb place to enjoy the nature Strongly recommended.

    Stayed in March 2023

  • Reviewed: 11 December 2022

    10
    great budget stay close to the action with amazing views
    • Leisure trip
    • Couple
    • Deluxe Double Room
    • Stayed 1 night
    • Submitted via mobile

    great views and the staff were so lovely.

    Stayed in December 2022

  • Reviewed: 4 November 2022

    8.0
    Very good
    • Leisure trip
    • Couple
    • Deluxe Double Room
    • Stayed 2 nights
    • Submitted via mobile

    People is very welcoming and you get to wake up surrounded by monkeys, squirrels, lizards, all types of birds. It's really nice!

    Stayed in November 2022

  • Reviewed: 16 August 2022

    10
    100% worthy
    • Leisure trip
    • People with friends
    • Deluxe Double Room
    • Stayed 2 nights
    • Submitted via mobile

    everything was ok

    The owners were high hospitable, unhelpful and so kind. The woman was an amazing cook. One of the best accommodation to have a great wifi. the room so comfy and with your own terrace.

    Stayed in August 2022

  • Reviewed: 16 April 2022

    9.0
    Pure kindness
    • Leisure trip
    • People with friends
    • Deluxe Double Room
    • Stayed 1 night
    • Submitted via mobile

    Everything was just as we expected

    The kindness and the gentle way we were treated. The ultimate bed in sirigyia, very confortable. They also allowed us to see the them cooking us. Great time.

    Stayed in April 2022

  • Reviewed: 14 April 2022

    10
    Exceptional
    • Leisure trip
    • Couple
    • Deluxe Double Room
    • Stayed 1 night

    everything was perfect!

    Very cosy place to stay in a beautiful garden. Owners run a restaurant so you can have a delicious meals right away.

    Stayed in April 2022

  • Reviewed: 27 March 2022

    10
    Exceptional
    • Leisure trip
    • Group
    • Deluxe Double Room
    • Stayed 3 nights

    Sigiri Liya Rest is a wonderful place to stay when you want to explore Sigiriya. It is located in a quiet spot, surrounded by palm trees. It feels very peaceful, but you only need to walk a few steps to be on the main road. 5 minutes away there is good scooter and bike rental. Lion Rock is also in a walking distance. Rooms are clean, they have everything you may need, AC is working well. Our room also had very pleasant terrace where you can sit comfortably and enjoy the nature around. There’s a small restaurant and the food they prepare is very tasty. Breakfasts were absolutely delicious and portions so plentiful that we were full for many hours.  But what makes this place really stand out are its owners, whose kindness was incredible. They spent a lot of energy to make us feel comfortable and they were always around, ready to help with literally anything. Chathu arranged for us very nice safari in Hurulu Park, wonderful boat ride on a nearby lake in the evening (highly recommended!) and private transport to Negombo at a very reasonable price. We highly recommend this place, it was one of our favorites in Sri Lanka. The kind of place where you can feel the owners are putting their heart into it. Thank you!

    Stayed in March 2022

  • Reviewed: 15 March 2022

    10
    Come here, you won't regret it
    • Leisure trip
    • Solo traveller
    • Deluxe Double Room
    • Stayed 1 night
    • Submitted via mobile

    The location of the place is amazing, you can easily walk to Lion's Rock if you need some rest from tuk tuks. The room was fully equipped for my needs (ac, ventilator, hot water) and clean. They also run a small restaurant, food was delicious. 5/5

    Stayed in March 2022

  • Reviewed: 14 March 2022

    10
    Exceptional
    • Leisure trip
    • Solo traveller
    • Deluxe Double Room
    • Stayed 1 night
    • Submitted via mobile

    all good

    amazing room clean and a lot of space, clean linen, comphortable bed, ac. all good! super helpful manager Chatu. overall, amazing place where you can really chill and enjoy the nature. strongly recommend

    Stayed in March 2022

  • Reviewed: 1 March 2022

    10
    Excellent Jungle Retreat
    • Leisure trip
    • Solo traveller
    • Deluxe Double Room
    • Stayed 3 nights
    • Submitted via mobile

    One thing to know is the map location on booking.com is incorrect. It took a lot of walking to find it. In the end the address typed into google maps got me there. This needs fixing

    It's a jungle location just a few minutes from the village centre. The AC works (rare in SL) and you can sit on the balcony and enjoy the setting.

    Stayed in March 2022

  • Reviewed: 8 March 2024

    1.0
    Avoid this place
    • Leisure trip
    • Couple
    • Deluxe Double Room
    • Stayed 2 nights
    • Submitted via mobile

    First of all, upon our arrival owner took my passport and was “too busy to fill” customer book for 4 or 5 hours! Up until the evening when we asked him to return my passport for 5th time! This is really not normal and unprofessional, especially when you see that he is walking around, smoking cigarettes and chilling, talking to friends and other customers, didn’t seemed that “busy”. When we entered the room it was dirty!!! Floor full of sand, hair in bathroom and extremely dirty sheets and bed! It was super disgusting! And since we booked the room only for 2 nights we decided to ignore everything and went to sleep. We woke up in the middle of the night from horrible smell of smoke inside of our room! We taught that building was on fire! My husband jumped out of bed and went to check what it was. Somebody was burning rubbish right under our room and all smoke was inside of our room. The worst part was that there were no windows to the other side of the room so we couldn’t let any fresh air in! My husband went to the owner to ask him to do something about it and they didn’t even extinguish it completely, charcoal was still smoking! So we called our driver and left the property at 3AM in the morning!! I highly recommend avoiding this place. I think reviews are fake, because they didn’t seem hospitable or clean or caring about issues.

    There were only 2 good things. AC And comfortable bed that we didn’t even sleep in for full night!!

    Stayed in March 2024

  • Reviewed: 26 July 2023

    1.0
    At first it was good but we were so disappointed at the end from the behaviour.
    • Leisure trip
    • Couple
    • Deluxe Double Room
    • Stayed 2 nights
    • Submitted via mobile

    At the last day when we had to leave we saw that we lost our key. After looking we asked for a spare key to open the door but they said they don’t have because the last couple forget it too. They helped us and break the window little bit so we can open the window. After it we ask to pay about loosing the key and they said that a new cylinder cost 12,000 rupi and the other couple pay 5,000 (16 dollar) for loosing a key! They said we can pay how much we want but this is the price. We paid the same amount but after it we discover that duplicate a key cost just 1,000 rupi. We talked to them that they had 3 rooms and they could put us in different room till they duplicate the one key. They didn’t give us the 5,000 rupi back after we said we want to pay less. 5,000 rupi is the price for two night sleep there. Moreover, we had included breakfast, we ordered the meal in the first day and asked for an avocado toast after it we told them that it is include in the price we paid. They said that usually they don’t give a breakfast like this and just toast, butter and jam. We apologise and they said it is okay this morning… the next day we got the basic breakfast and when we came to pay they charge us on the avocado and the other staff we got. I would prefer to be told from the beginning that I need to pay more rather to discover it at the end after they said that everything was alright.

    Good rooms

    Stayed in July 2023

  • Reviewed: 8 March 2024

    10
    Exceptional
    • Leisure trip
    • Couple
    • Deluxe Double Room
    • Stayed 1 night
    • Submitted via mobile

    There are no comments available for this review

    Stayed in March 2024

  • Reviewed: 17 January 2022

    9.0
    Superb
    • Leisure trip
    • Group
    • Deluxe Family Room
    • Stayed 1 night
    • Submitted via mobile

    There are no comments available for this review

    Stayed in January 2022

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