Reef Villa

It was the most beautiful experience to have stayed at the Reef Hotel & SPA . The location on the sea , the super chic architecture, the exquisite food, the kindest service and the most beautiful house pets Fred and Wilma. If you want to be uplifted and have a memory for life you need to stay at this hidden GEM 🙏🏼✨💫

We are coming to the end of five nights at this amazing hotel. We stayed in an ocean suite which was huge. The furnishings and decor are beautiful and it is very well maintained. Housekeeping does a wonderful job and very unobtrusive. The food and drinks on offer are varied and delicious. We have enjoyed traditional curries and many other Sri Lankan dishes at dinner and breakfast. The roti breakfast choice was so tasty and one I will try to create once back in the UK. We also enjoyed a lesson in how to prepare a tradition Sri Lankan chicken curry. The chef also made me a delicious cake as a surprise to celebrate my birthday. A huge thanks to all the Chefs and restaurant staff. The gardens and pool are beautiful and again very well maintained. Watching the wildlife has been entertaining too. We have also enjoyed a game or two of table tennis. Mallith runs the hotel superbly and nothing is too much trouble for him and his staff. Fred and Wilma are delightful, so lovely to have dogs around. It really has been a 5 star service throughout our stay and we hope to return one day.

This was our third visit to Sri Lanka and we think that Reef Villa must be the most stylish and tastefully decorated hotel on the island. We stayed in one of the large comfortable Ocean Suites and we very well looked after by all the staff. The menus offered lots of choice, the food was superbly cooked and presented and the friendly service second to none. The pool and large garden were a delight and enhanced by the antics of the resident Red-Wattled Lapwings and their chicks. We cannot imagine how anyone could describe this lovely hotel as anything other than perfect. We will return!

It’s a perfect place to take a rest, eat well and enjoy Waduwa beach. Garden with pool is huge and full of birds. Staff is amazing, very helpful and nice. Rooms are beautiful and very clean, with awesome bathrooms. Our room had also outdoor bath and shower. This place is magical! owner and staff takes care of every details.

This was our fourth visit to Sri Lanka and the sixth occasion that we have stayed at Reef Villa. Given the pandemic that has effected the world over the last two years, we were delighted to find that the owners had been able to retain the services of many of the established staff with the General Manager, Chef, Head waiter, Head of Housekeeping all being familiar faces and helped make our holiday very enjoyable. The Island generally was still taking precautions against the virus and the controls that the Hotel exercised made us feel very safe and enabled us to stay relaxed during our stay. All our requirements were attended to without any fuss, including the search for a battery charger, which we had inadvertently left at home! There is a wide selection of food available throughout the day which is all prepared and cooked fresh, making the most of the exceptional quality of produce available on the island. We spoke to the chef and he was able to prepare our food just as we requested. The service throughout our stay was exceptional, we are so pleased that we had decided to return and are already planning another trip to Sri Lanka in a couple of years time and undoubtedly we will return to the Reef. If you are seeking a relaxing location with excellent service and quality produce, we can throughly recommend a stay at the Reef. Considering the anxiety that has been experienced over the last two years, we had been concerned at how the pandemic might have effected Reef Villa, but we need not have worried. The quality remains and will improve further as the Island reopens. An excellent location and most enjoyable stay

Thank you for a beautiful stay in your hotel. Great food and very nice, friendly staff! The food was amazing, the chef really is great. Staff were friendly and attentive. Also Fred and Wilma the dogs were a bonus, it was nice to have them running around. Lukasz

What a magical place! If you are a lover of antiques this is the place to be! But...... If you are a lover of antiques, magic, ambience, service and a holiday to remember for ever, this is not a place to stay. Well, you may have better luck to tick these boxes but I did not! 1) I found the room that had not been cleaned to a standard of a 5* property let alone a 3*. Cobwebs, dust, insects (dead), ants in the rooms. These faux pas noted within 5 minutes of walking into the rooms. 2) The bathroom was stocked with half used set of shampoo/bath wash. This was evidently leftover from the previous occupants of the room. 3) No turn down service. Guests were expected to arrange and open mosquito nets and remove the numerous pillows adorning the bed, because housekeeping is not available after a certain hour. We arrived at 8pm because we drove from Colombo airport to Wadduwa having landed in the morning but decided to include a day trip to Negombo. Our late arrival was communicated in certain choice responses as an inconvenience. It was further mentioned that our annoyance at these remarks that we dont not have a sense of humour. 4) My wife has food intolerances that were communicated by the booking agent and we personally followed up and re-communicated the same to the kitchen staff at the Summer Breeze restaurant during our first night dinner, but during breakfast the next morning these instructions, whilst noted the night before, were not adhered to during breakfast. When this was pointed out this little mistake was denied even though it was physically evident on the plate of food. 5) These issues were communicated to the management and person(s) who know who they are but they were again in total denial until I decided enough is enough and I would rather check out and risk finding a lesser quality property for the rest of my stay. At this point it was agreed and an apology was offered this is not acceptable and that they had let us down regarding the cleanliness, dietary requirements and house keeping issues. But since it had to take my decision to cut short my stay to get the staff to realise they had let us down in the less than expected service, it was too late for my mind to be changed. I am sure if you decide to stay at this property after reading my experience, I think you will find that your stay has been magic, as it should be because my experience has made the management realise they need to up their game 100 fold. I am sure you can make your own mind up.

Amazing location, directly at the beach, very kind and caring staff, amazing food - specially recommend the fried shrimps with fries and the currys. You can play all sorts of games on the property. The rooms are huge, we loved the outdoor shower.

Dieses Hotel ist ein Stück Himmel auf Erden. Die Zimmer gross und wunderschön, alles top-sauber, das Essen ein Genuss, der Service bestens, der Strand wunderschön - wärmstens zu empfehlen. Es geht wirklich nicht besser.

Reef Villas is a perfect luxurious place to stay and while away the hours. Huge villas, excellent service and the best curries we have ever had.