Kalu's Hideaway Udawalawe

We enjoyed our stay and think it’s a great hotel for the price. The staff were very helpful in general questions and organising the safari. The grounds and pool were nice to use after the safari.

Only thing to keep in mind is for any vegans food options were limited

An oasis with large airy rooms, delicious food and a beautiful pool overlooking the garden. They organised a morning safari for us at short notice for a much lower price (around 40 dollars for the jeep / guide) which was great

Kalu's was such an amazing Hotel to stay at, we did 3 nights to relax and also did an early morning Safari which I highly recommend getting up early for! The hotel organised this for us and the guide was brilliant, had some incredible intimate moments with some young elephants. I can't praise the management and staff enough.. The food was lovely! breakfast, lunch and dinner. As the hotel was quiet for a couple days we even requested a lake fish curry which they happily organised with the chef and got some local freshly made bread to go with it. It was amazing! The owner should be very proud of all his staff but a special mention to Mangala and Sadaruwan! They couldnt do enough for us and giving us great advice with eating the traditional Sri Lankan food how it should be eaten properly. We got 5 star treatment every minute we were there. We will definitely be back when we visit Sri Lanka again in 2026. Thank you for making the end of our holiday so special 😁

That we weren't staying longer!

Brilliant stay at Kula’s Hideaway, all of the staff were so helpful and accommodating for me and my family. Beautiful place with great amenities. Big thank you to Sanjeewa who was great throughout the stay and really couldn’t do enough for us, top man! Thanks again!

Apart from the mosquitos, but this is unavoidable!

Staff, service, food and facilities were all excellent.

Very relaxing and welcoming place.

Nothing that I can remember

The staff were incredible. We were grateful to have the pool as there wasn’t much to do in Udawalawe besides safari. We could relax by the pool during the day :)

It was a little bit expensive for off season but we still really enjoyed ourselves