Enoch Guest House

Hosts Lal, Suba and their kids were amazing. They were able to give us delicious home cooked food in the regional style which was greatly appreciated. They were the warmest hosts imaginable and gave us all the local info. Food was excellent. Thank you for an amazing stay.

Air con would have made it perfect, but realise this is not possible right now.

This is a family run homestay style accommodation, on the first floor above the main accommodation and reached by a flight of outdoor stairs. It's a single room with an en-suite bathroom and a separate sitting area. The owners went over and above to make our stay comfortable and enjoyable. They arranged rental bicycles at our request and prepared home cooked delicious and authentic Sri Lankan breakfast and dinner for us. The place is on the outskirts of Mannar town away from road traffic and therefore very quiet. We have seen the locals using TukTuks and they are easy to get if required.

We can't think of anything.

A great place for a short or a longer stay. A room with your own separate small sitting-area with a sofa and a table.. Possible to bring and make your own te/coffee(water-kettle) and a zink to wash-up. Balcony. A great host-family!!

There is nothing to complain about. A great place to stay while exploring Mannar island.

This beautiful place has everything that you're looking for in a guesthouse. The room is spacious, it's private and is kept immaculate. But perhaps most important is the lovely family running it. They are warm-hearted, polite and caring people that make you feel at home right away. We originally booked for 1 night but decided to book an extra night (we would have loved to stay longer but unfortunately we visited everything Mannar had to offer). Definitely book a night or two with them when you're in the area or on your way to Jaffna. You won't regret it!

Everything was great

The family was very helpfull, kind and so nice. I booked the room for one night, but they where so great I stayed one more night. Location is at uptown, so you will need tuk tuk or scooter. Scooter you can rent from the owner. Good guest house for those, who need calm place.

They were very helpful and comfortable place.

We were as excited as nervous and certain when we eventually decided to go on a two-day trip to visit Taleimannar pier and the other attractions nearby for the first time in our lives. The train tickets having been booked, we started searching for a good place to stay on Booking.com. Among a few hotels and guest houses, we found Enoch Guest House in Mannar to be the best. When we rang him first, our host Lali (Lalindhran) answered all our questions in a clear and friendly tone and he’s been kind and hospitable to all three of us – myself and my colleagues, Jayashantha and Prabhath ever since. We caught the Taleimannar train in the afternoon of Friday, 17th of November 2023 from the Colombo-fort railway station and got down at Mannar around 11.15 that night. Upon Lali’s instructions, a tuk-tuk driver rode us to Enoch guest house which is some 2.5km away from the Mannar railway station. Lali greeted us warmly at the gate and we briefly exchanged pleasantries with him and his wife. Both of were friendly and pleasant and it didn’t take us long to realise that they were such a lovely bunch of people. Lali shepherded us into the upstairs room we had booked. It was such a nice and spacious place and so well-furnished and impeccably clean that it beat our highest expectations. Undoubtedly, it was totally worth what it’d cost us and we were truly delighted. The next morning, Lali arranged for us a tuk-tuk which took us to a bus-stop nearby where we caught a bus headed for Taleimannar pier and then we visited all the places just as we’d planned and Lali had told us. The impending rain kept us from visiting the Keeri beach, so we returned to the guest house around 2.30 pm. We had a great chat with Lali, his two lovely kids and his wife and he told us how he’d fled to India and lived for some five years in a refugee camp there during the early 1990s when the war raged in the Mannar island. For dinner that night, he served us poori, crispy and scrumptious, with a delectable po

The room was perfect comper to the money The family members are ❤️ 😍 Very clean and good vibes here 👌 ✨️ 🙌 ☺️