Birds Resort Hambantota

Very large,clean and tidy rooms. Friendly staff. Highly recommended for those who likes to spend the vacation on a quiet environment. But keeping the birds in a cage isn't a nice thing to see. Let them fly over the grounds. Must say the food is very delicious.

My husband and I were on a second honeymoon to Sri Lanka, eager to try out the South and what wildlife it had to offer. The Birds Resort seemed a perfect location from which to visit Bundala and Udawalawe National Parks. It's situated in the peaceful countryside with large and comfortable modern rooms fronting a lake. The adjacent Bird Park is an added attraction (free to hotel guests), but there was plenty of birdlife in the gardens. For me the main draw was the chance to feed their tame elephants every evening on the reception steps! The food in the restaurant is mainly geared up for Sri Lankan or other Asian guests, but they offered both Eastern and Western menus. Choice was limited and you had to order your dinner at breakfast due to low occupancy at the time of our visit. But we did experience one buffet which had plenty of choice of both kinds. The standard of both types of food was excellent. One snag we hit was that the hotel currently has no liquor licence, despite the fact that it has a large bar area, and indeed advertised sundowners on its own website. They could sell beer (and provide to the room mini bar). We brought in and consumed wine from outside, with their permission, to overcome this, but it was unexpected and hopefully only temporary. Special mention must go to the lovely reception and wait staff, the former being as helpful and informative as any I've ever come across (including picking up on the fact that we were celebrating our silver wedding anniversary); the latter being cheerful and super-efficient despite there being a bit of a language problem. We had a restful and very pleasant time here, getting away from it all and relaxing around the pool after our early morning starts. You would definitely need your own driver like us, or other transport, as it is quite isolated. Our travel agent took a bit of a risk in booking this for us as they had not used it before, and they weren't really geared up to accommodate our driver as in the other hotels we visited, but we think that if you want a relaxing and peaceful base without all the usual luxury trimmings, the room, pool and grounds are perfectly good enough. Pity about the alcohol licence though!

Bird Park Resort is indeed a place calm and quiet. Surroundings are quite breathtaking. The vehicle can be taken right next to your room which is great. I would definitely call this a kingdom of peacocks as well as you can see a plenty of them. We celebrated our son's 8th Birthday in this hotel and the support given by the staff is commendable. Special thanks to Piyumi, Dulanjali and Himashi for assisting us in everyway to make our stay a memorable one. The rates are quite reasonable and real value for money. Free access to bird park with no time restrictions is great. As a result, we were able to talk with the birds peacefully at times when there are not much guests. Thank you so much and we are looking forward for our next visit. Note : If you are planning to visit Ridiyagama Safari or Mirijjawila Botanical Gardens then it's recommended to be at those places around at least 7:30 AM in the morning especially during holiday seasons.

We visited there for a Lunch, Location is very nice , calm and peaceful. Staff is friendly and helping hands We there for a lunch, simply say for Sri Lankan menu. Quality was not there while quantity also not enough , but value is much expensive for the quality and the quantity. Since we were heading to Kataragama we used to ordered vegetarian food menu, but i was bit upset about the quality of it. so then I request to prepare what it could be, then staff understood the situation and reacted positively

Very nice facility with lot of greenary . Rooms were spacious and comfortable . Good aminities and providing tea coffee is really good . Pool and services are wonderful . Staff is very friedly and supportive . Not satisfied with dinner buffet . Not much of a variety in the main meal. Just basic i have ever seen for the money spent. Breakfast buffet is average . Breakfast is far more better than dinner . Overall the facility and property is great but not the food .

All staff was very kind and friendly. However, the budget cart service is not worthy when comparing to incurred cost that should improve in some key areas such as visting distance,waiting time to the birds park,presenting clear introduction about the birds...