Queen's Hotel

Great location for the lake & right opposite the temple but probably on the busiest road in Kandy. If you do book a room with a lake view, then be prepared to be woken up by rush hour traffic with horns from 6am onwards & then lots of birds tweeting in the trees from dusk until late. Our room was a suite on the 3rd floor but directly above the entrance so there are probably quieter rooms located on the other side or inner part of the hotel, if you’re after a quieter stay & decent rest then make sure you request it there. The hotel itself is old fashioned in character but very classic in feel & I really loved the lovely old lift. We opted for breakfast & dinner included, most food was okish but fairly limited options available for veggies in the buffet so ended up eating the same things most days. The desserts looked amazing but then had no real taste & sometimes a bit of a strange consistency.

BEWARE of MR ROYC the DODGY TOUR OPERATOR who’s based in the hotel’s reception area BE VERY WARY of using him, he really ripped us off on train tickets, I mean really ripped us off, the 4 tickets he got us should have been just 1400.00 LKR but he had taken over 18,000 LKR off us for them!! We felt extremely let down & embarrassed that we hadn’t worked out just how inflated his prices were before getting them. It put a real downer on the start of our honeymoon, as we had trusted him & his services given that he is situated in the hotel. Sadly he cornered soon after we arrived, when tired & jet lagged, with a head not yet accustomed to exchange rates, plus he quoted in USD so then trying to work out 3 exchanges. Then before we could think of checking elsewhere, he pretends to be friendly & helpful but tells a complete pack of lies about needing to urgently book as it will be sold out & we stupidly paid him before we had the tickets in our hand, by which time conveniently we were leaving & had only then realised just how much he had overcharged us. Should of known not to trust this man, as we were meant to be transferred from the airport directly with him to the hotel however there was no one there to collect us when we landed, luckily the tourist assistance at the airport kindly resolved the matter for us & arranged another driver, although we still ended up paying MR ROYC directly for the transfer only for someone else to do it & I would guess that the actual driver probably only got a small cut of what we paid him. NOT TO BE TRUSTED!!