They don't even know how to treat to the customer.and they expect from us to stay there like a monk

The property is in the perfect location if you want to explore Sigiriya. Everything is in 100 meter distance. The information Madhu, our host provided during the starting of the trip is well enough for anyone. You don't want to plan anything, just book River Retreat and Madhu will take care of everything. Great experience.

The property was clean and comfortable. The location is super nice and in walking distance to the rock

Monkeys 😁

Reasonable value for money

Toilet taps broken A/c not able to cool the room

It was a very pleasant experience stay at this guesthouse: the owner Madu was very nice and speaks a very good English, she explain everything when I arrived and I felt totally oriented. The room it's huge and very comfortable and very clean. The place itself it's very zen and quite and the location very convenient at walking distance to Sigiriya Rock. I highly recommended this place to everyone ❤️

I was on Sigiriya Street when a ride was going on and a poor elephant with chains with tourists on top of him suddenly got angry when someone pulled his tail and he turned into a car. What an atrocity people do to the poor animal, this is not his habitat and he feels sad far from his family and his place. But we tourists make this situation worse because we are riding them and we make it happen again. PLEASE IF YOU GO TO SIGIRIYA OR ANYWHERE ELSE, DO NOT RIDE AN ELEPHANT 🙏🙏🙏

Nothing.

While I was taking a shower I saw a frog. After paying the room fee, the host admitted that there's a frog who lives there and it's his house! Although it was mentioned in the room facilities, she didn't give us a new body soap, she suggested to use the dirty used body soap. We paid when we checked in the room for a one night stay (based on our reservation), but she cancelled this afternoon and claimed we didn't show up! She mentioned that she has been in the UK, and the quality is very important to her. None of her actions proved her imaginary standard. I really don't suggest staying there.

Absolutely Nothing.

I'll be dead honest right here, both the rooms and the host are despicable. We are Sri lankan locals who visited this place and the host shows absolutely zero respect for locals and right infront of our eyes the host (Madu) treated some foreigners as if they were her family. Highly egoistic and chatty person constantly defaming the Sri lankan local people of her own kind. Lets get to the rooms - the rooms have all types of insects in them, frogs, spiders, beetles, ants- you name it. The bathroom looks like it had been abandoned decades ago, the location is terrible, once you enter the alley way from the signboard which reads the resorts' name, you have to go in through a fricking maze before you can get to the spot and plus we came at night so it made it even worse because there was no light on our path and we had to use our own torch. once we came we asked for certain facilities like availability of Wi-Fi and A/C and she (host) replied in a really rude manner saying "you dont get those facilities for the price you have paid". We were so tired once we came and we were carrying like 7 luggages and instead of letting us into the rooms, she gave an entire lecture before letting us in. Then we asked for water because if there exists a hotel there has to be at least the most basic human requirement - WATER and as there were no bottles kept for us we asked the host and apparently the hosts' mom went out so she couldnt give us water as only her mom has the water supply. The biggest set back was extremely rude responses to simple questions. Also there are 2 dogs that are very uncomfortable who keep constantly coming to our pavement and trying to lick us. Again I just wanted to say that If you are reading this you might find good comments from foreigners thats because she treats them properly but not the locals. Please do not visit this hell hole and find yourself other good hotels. Thank you.

I had a wonderful stay in this peaceful & beautiful accomodation, lovely garden with lots of trees, ponds, birds, peacocks & monkeys sat next to a little river right in the middle of the forest. Rooms are large, clean, with all the necessary facilities - Solar powered hot water, fan, mosquito net, good wifi & Aircondition if you need it. Location is also very good - sat next to the main road but sat away so you don't hear any noice, walking distance to both rocks, shops restaurants, bars convieniantly very close by. Madu is an excellent host with fluent English who will give you great advice & tips to make your stay extra special, i did a great Elephant safari with her & she was our great guide with lot of knowledge. Overall it was a very memorable stay & i highly recommend this guesthouse for anyone who is visiting Sigiriya.