Goldi Sands Hotel

The staff are very arrogant and non-professional. No breakfast even though booking voucher stating free breakfast included. They added extra charge for breakfast. Hotels.com booked through expedia, but the information is misleading. Very disappointed with the hotel and hotels.com.

Standard room was horrible (no balcony, no view, windows blinded, extremly loud) but the upgrade for 10-20$ is really worth it, we got a pool cabana with nice seating arwa outside. Breakfast is god with many choices

Great place with a great buffet. It's feels very much like a beach resort full of Europeans if your into that sort of thing.

Beautiful lobby and beach, but the room was a huge disappointment. Old and rundown and definitely not worth the price. We were also woken up at 7am by loud staff in the hallway. The only good thing about this hotel was the buffet breakfast. I would not stay here again. I don't like feeling ripped off

Friendly staff and good location.

Rooms were above average. Aircon leaked badly flooding the desk below. Inform the manager , no apologies given as if it was my fault. Staff can improve on pax relations and not discriminate. At the end of the day everybody pays for the room. Stay if you don't mind the basics of a room.

We decided to stay at the Goldi Sands the night before flying back home since its very close to the airport (20-30min by taxi). The staff was very friendly (if a bit slow at times), the beach is beautiful. We ate lunch and breakfast there, the buffet offers a good selection. On the down side we got one of the few rooms without view on the sea. Probably as a compensation for this we got a complementary bottle of wine delivered to the room in the evening which was actually very nice. Also we found the vendors in the beach area to be too pushy. They are not allowed to pass beyond a certain line, but were constantly calling over to us as we were trying to relax which actually made us move to the pool area eventually. Overall it's a beautiful place to stay but it's worth making sure you get the sea view!

Good room. Nice pool. Right on the beach. Reasonable breakfast. Staff not overly friendly but overall good experience. Would recommend

We travelled to Sri Lanka to visit Hikkaduwa for a week break and decided to stay in Negombo for a couple of days before our flight home. The hotel we stayed at was alright, although there was an issue with the breakfast as it wasnt included in our room rate, yet it said it was included on our booking form. So this caused some hassle. Other than that it is right on the beach, a nice pool and relatively nice rooms. However theres not too much going on in Negombo, so in hindsight would've stayed in Hikkaduwa.

All in all a thoroughly pleasant stay. The building could do with a little sprucing up, the odd paint job here and there. Brilliant location directly on the beach, with its private roped off bit so you don't get harassed by vendors all the time and set in lovely ground full of palm trees for a little shade. Rooms are basic but really comfortable with a chic colour scheme. Our wardrobe door didn't close but that didn't bother us. Staff are friendly and helpful. Only downside, we had a German tour group stay so if you want to get a sun lounger, you better get up at crack of dawn to 'reserve' one but this has nothing to do with the hotel.