La veranda Di Serena Lake

A small, family-run hotel with 6 rooms on three levels in a modern building directly overlying the sea. A friendly welcome from the owner with delicious fruit juices. Clean and comfortable rooms with air-conditioning and balconies directly over the waves. Standing on the balcony you can spot turtles swimming in the clear pools! Unawatana beach is adjacent to the hotel and there are plenty of restaurants - though the meal we had at the hotel, cooked by the owner's wife was great - aromatic, authentic Sri Lankan rice and curry, a wonderful variety of ingredients and flavours. This is not a fancy five star hotel but it does what it should, and very well. For us, watching turtles and eating home-cooked food made it superb.