This boutique hotel is so unique! Each room have different decoration. we got a wonderful room with amazing beautiful design bed and view of the garden and pool. The pool is very big and its very nice u swimming around trees and flowers. The food iits so good, the flavor and the spices of sri lanka are very yummy, everyday is a different menu. The staff are very helpful and great service.
The location is great, easy to go to famous touristic places around Kandy.
You can't not miss this wonderful hotel.

Every room in The Kandy House is unique, its theme and decor being based on an indigenous Sri Lankan butterfly. The rooms don't have numbers, they are named after these butterflies.

Our room was lovely, at the back of the hotel, and decorated in that wonderful rich turquoise color that only Sri Lanka and India can do without it looking like something Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen came up with on a bad acid trip.

The nub was that as we walked through the central courtyard, we got a glimpse of some of the other rooms. The Black Maharaja with its octagonal bathtub and the upstairs rooms with their large balconies were just too much of a temptation to turn down. We asked to pay for an upgraded room and the hotel owner very happily took us around and showed us every room that was vacant. When we chose our new room, with a beautiful four-poster bed, an enormous claw foot bathtub and separate shower, a lovely living room opening on to a large balcony with marble topped tables and just a quick walk to the pool, our luggage was very quickly moved and we settled in for what was a magical stay.

The pool here is amazing - a slightly odd shape, but SO big and SO deep. The chef prepares a new menu everyday and we found the food to be flawless. The lush green lawns with their white outdoor furniture just screams for a gin and tonic before dinner and my only regret is not taking the opportunity to try and play croquet on the lovely lawns. There are a number of Sri Lankan board games located at tables in the central courtyard. I was sitting down by myself at what seemed to be a table for mini-billiards and one of the hotel staff happily came over and taught me how to play the game and then patiently played the game with me for the best part of an hour.

Sri Lanka's boutique hôtels are probably the best value in the world. Of them, The Kandy House is in a league of its own.

We had two nights at the Kandy House, and it was absolutely incredible.

We were welcomed into this opulent colonial home with a passion fruit cocktail, and immediately fell in love with the place. Most of the rooms are arranged around an open central courtyard, along colonnaded walkways. Downstairs is a bar area and an outside restaurant, again under a colonnaded terrace. The lighting is subtle, the decor tasteful - a blend of antiques and modern pieces - and the service impeccable. Gentle strains of music provided a relaxing backdrop.

Our room was beautiful. Not big, but beautiful. I think it was called the Cornelian. Lots of dark wood, a four-poster, big old wardrobe, and dark wood floorboards. The bathroom felt a bit Moroccan - tadelakt (polished plaster) in adobe colours, with two sinks and mirrors, a bath, and decent shower. We had our own terrace at the back.

Guests are provided with all manner of diversions, which is good when the weather is bad - drawing / painting kit, books, a lovely 'carob' table downstairs, magazines and so on. The pool is stunning - a huge kidney shape set in a lawn, overlooked by palm trees, with loungers and hammocks.

Dinner and cocktails on both nights were outstanding - top quality food, great service, and a lovely setting.

We had a massage on day 2 due to the weather, which was the only minor disappointment. The oldish chap who did it was very sweet, but the style of massage was a bit weird - a sort of random mix of light touches, strokes and rubs. It felt like the sort of massage you'd get from somebody self-taught. Personally, I could have done with a better, deeper tissue treatment. However...

Overall, an incredible place to stay worthy of its Mr and Mrs Smith recommendation. I wish we could have stayed longer, and I'd definitely go back. Highly recommended.

We have just had two beautiful nights in kandy house with our 12 year old and stayed in two interconnecting suites i think named black raja and monkey puzzle. Both suites were beautiful and large however it was the service and the actual hotel that made our stay so good. The photos on tripadvisor have not captured how pretty this small hotel is, the gardens and the stunning pool looking out to rice paddies. While some rooms may not be as nice as others I would still prefer to stay here than any where else in kandy. Thank you kandy house for taking such good care of us... The meals, cricket in your gardens, the care taken in preparing our room with candles etc. It rained for nearly our entire stay and kandy house was still magical.