Name: Goldi Sands Hotel
Address: Ethukala, Negombo, Negombo, Negombo, Negombo, 11500, Sri Lanka
Rating: 8

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Excellent service from lakmini! Lots of cocktails and she was very prompt. We had a great night with the family. Would definitely recommend to anyone coming to Negombo, Sri Lanka. Great food and drinks too for both breakfast and dinner. Thanks lakmini

Restaurant

Excellent service and hospitality. Food was great and we will come again :) the hotel staff was very helpful from the onset of our trip and made it a memorable experience. Beautiful beach setting and highly recommend as a place for a day out for a large crowd !

Super experience

We had a pleasant experience at the Goldi Sands Hotel.
Very friendly staff and an amazing view of the beach and the sea. 
The room was very clean with an good Air conditioner. 
We did like the extensive western and local breakfast buffet. 
We do recommend this place.

My wife and myself travelled to srilanka after a visit to the Maldives. We spent 7 nights this hotel and I can honestly say it was really good. The food was second to none. All inclusive really means all inclusive. The guys serving could were so helpful. Brilliant staff.Everyone had happy smiles and went out of their way to help. The hotel is situated close to outside restaurants and shops so ple ty of things to do.

Looking forward to our next  holiday to Goldi Sands

We had an extremely pleasant experience at this hotel. The facilities are well managed, rooms are comfortable, and the food is really great! This is our second time staying at this hotel and we thoroughly enjoyed our stay. The staff goes above and beyond to support the visitors and it makes a difference. Special thank you to Mr. Pradeep Hewage for his kind hospitality.

Excellent Hotel and Amazing Staff

We had our conference group around more than 50 rooms we booked under Zillion travell . Wonderful service starting from reception and guest relations and restourant housekeeping all excellent service from management as well thank you and highly appreciated

Great service

A wonderful & peaceful hotel with amazing staff who makes you feel like home... I was on Half Board basis in a Deluxe room 439... The meals at the restaurant was tasty and a good variety of choice for everyone...
      The staff are always with a smile, that makes you stay memorable...  
      I will definitely come a gain to stay hear....

A memorable stay at Goldi Sands...

Our stay was excellent. We found the staff very.very helpfull ,it  was very enjoyable stay.,.  Everything is excellent and calm location and other every facilities, highly recommended to other travellers please do visit goldinsands and take their service , hope to visit back again

Wonderful stay

Everything very nive and very good helpfull staff ,nice hotel located in negombo. We enjoyed our stay lot ,thank you for your valuable service   will be back soon , nice front staff as well. Really enjoyed. Thanks onece again we had a wonderfull time

Nice

Our first trip to Sri Lanka is a 2-week all-inclusive package deal with TUI. We step out from the airport into the bewildering heat and humidity and are soon on our way to the Hotel Goldi Sands, around 20 mins drive. The welcome from the front desk is just as warm and within 10 minutes we are shown to our room. We get room 103 - the last one on the North end of the hotel. It's late but first impressions are that it's clean and spacious, if a little tired around the edges...which is exactly how we feel after a VERY long day flying, so it's off to bed without even unpacking.

The next morning allows us time to explore the room and hotel more thoroughly. If you've ever enjoyed a stay in a UK 3-star hotel then you won't find anything to complain about here. Being on the edge of the hotel means we get the largest balcony - a good 4m wide and around 8m long - which we soon discover gives us the sun earlier than all the rooms to the left of us. As for the room itself - well, it's pretty basic. The beds are firm (which I like) but always refreshed each day. The cupboards and drawers are from the 1980s but, again, enough for me and the ABSOLUTE MOUNTAIN OF CLOTHES my wife brought. The patio door makes a horrific squealing noise when you close it. The shower controls are incomprehensible. The TV remote and set-top box need a PhD in quantum physics to operate them. The electrical socket on my wife's side doesn't work unless the bedside lamp is turned on. There's a dial on my side that operates an unseen radio appearing to only receive signals from Mars. And the ceiling fan clatters rhythmically on all settings apart from "1". But it's our home and we soon grow to love returning to its air-conditioned bliss every night after sweaty trips out.

As for the rest of the hotel - it's very good overall. Set on a massive beach with fringes of palm trees, it's facing West so every night (weather permitting) we're treated to the most beautiful sunsets. All the local families come down each evening to watch the sun dip below the horizon, the local kids play football on the beach, and it's mostly wonderful. Yes, there are beach vendors trying to sell you stuff but that's part and parcel of a place like this. And while I understand Sri Lanka has much nicer beaches further South - if you've ever trudged around shoddy UK seaside towns (you know who you are), this part of the Negombo coastline will seem like heaven.

Back to the hotel bar and it's time for a few drinks. The local Lion beer is very quaffable and there's a number of decent cocktails available for all-inclusive (just avoid the Pina Colada, as it appears to be made from liquid chalk). The bar staff are brilliant - I never have to wait more than a minute or two to get a drink - and very friendly.

Then it's time for dinner. We're seated along the edge of restaurant nearest the lawn which we soon discover is the starting point for the local stray dogs and cats to beg for food. The dogs look at us imploringly with their...er...puppy-dog eyes. The cats yow plaintively. But we can't feed them. Oh, no - warning signs tell us it would be a bad idea. And it is. One unsuspecting German couple drop a small piece of chicken on the floor and all Hell breaks loose. Barking, fighting...it's literally a dog's dinner. We laugh and go back to our meal which is, frankly, delicious. Every night there's a themed buffet (Italian, Mexican, BBQ) in which the hotel chefs do a fantastic job cooking up some genuinely tasty stuff. And, every night, there's a section devoted entirely to Sri Lankan food. I'm a curry fan so this is a particular treat. In fact, I end up having curry for breakfast, lunch, and dinner for 2 weeks. And it's all really good quality. String hoppers, daal, curries in white, red, green, and black, kottu - it's all fabulous and worth trying if you're into spicy food. For the less adventurous, blander options are available. I should point out that some of the dishes are very rustic, so a fish curry will not just contain great chunks of fish, but also bones and scales and the rest. Hey, you're in Sri Lanka, not McDonalds. The restaurant staff are equally lovely, bringing us more drinks and giving us lessons on how to say 'don't feed the dogs' in Sinhala.

As we tuck into our okra coconut curry and sambal, the hotel 'entertainment' starts up. Tonight, it's a guy playing saxophone to backing tracks of Western rock songs. It's utterly hilarious as this local Sri Lankan tries to navigate the unfamiliar territory of Baker Street or Bryan Adams. Faltering phrases, bum notes - it's all here and I'm loving it for all the wrong reasons. A couple of evenings later and we have a trio of two guitarists and a singer. The singer looks either bored or terrified, and at least one of the guitarists hasn't tuned his instrument. It's chaotically beautiful.

We enjoy the hotel pools on several occasions and even have a dip in the sea which, although quite rough, we are amazed to find is as warm as bathwater. And we walk up and down the beach which is mostly devoid of plastic bottles, sweltering in the heat and trying to avoid the beach-sellers. We did venture outside the hotel - so if you want to read my reviews of the places we visited, check those out.

All in all, the Hotel Goldi Sands is a great hotel. The staff are very pleasant, the (Sri Lankan) food is superb, and the whole place is clean and quiet. Oh wait...did I say quiet? I forgot about the crows....

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