Bird House Unawatuna

Great location about 200m from the beach, in a relatively quiet location. We had a very spacious family room on the ground floor.

We had a family room on the ground floor. The ground floor rooms have connecting doors to the owners’ living and working area, which makes the rooms very noisy. The plumbing results in you being able to hear every detail of what’s happening in the bathrooms of the rooms above. Also, when people upstairs flushed their loos, our loo overflowed (although that is presumably fixable). We stayed on New Year’s Eve, and were ready for celebrations to go on late into the night. We weren’t prepared for the owner’s max volume karaoke to start at midnight merely a few metres from our room. We had planned on staying for two nights, but decided to check out after one. The worst aspect of this stay was the owner becoming extremely aggressive when we told him we weren’t prepared to pay the full amount. His behaviour left our children very upset. This family room is very poor value compared to many other options within 100m.

There was no hot water and we were given no drinking water (manager said "sorry I am all out"), so we wanted to move out after 1 night, but we had booked for 4-nights through Bookings.com. The owner wanted the full sum for 4-nights. He didn't take card, only cash. So I had to pay 4-nights even though the room was not as advertised (no hot water, no drinking water) - it was not Deluxe. It is a place for Backpacking couples on a budget. That would suit many people but we were expecting a Deluxe room with things like hot water, drinking water...which are basics, not Deluxe.