We har booked three nights at this hotel but ended upp leaving after two nights - paying for the third night but not using it. So it was quite bad. The beds were hard as wood, the pillows like stones. The first thing we found when we arrived was a dead crockroach in the bathroom. At least it was dead. Something was unfortunatly living in the bed... not so obvious the first night but quite irritating the second night... So why two "stars" - well it was the cheapest we have stayed for in Sri Lanka, and sometimes you just get what you pay for. The staff was friendly och the view over the sea very lovely.

i would not recommend this hotel. When you arrive you instantly know it's old and did not go with it's time. The reception and lobby are big, but it has no ambience at all and the staff doesn't help making it (except maybe for 1 or 2).The hotel is actually quite big, but there are hardly any people staying for obvious reasons. Although it was also low season. They were refurbishing part of the hotel and I dont know if they just did room 24, but it looked fine. The bathroom was actually quite good, with good shower. Fan and airco also worked and I cannot say I have any real complaints about the room in itself. The ambience and decoration was ok too. I didnt feel uncomfortable.

The pool is small and the restaurant area so huge that it only empasizes how empty it is. The restaurant part and lobby look very shabby and bad taken care of. You dont feel like eating there and i wouldn't and didnt. The staff in general wasn't very helpful and when I checked out they even asked me to buy a lot from a lottery to help out charity. Which i thought unprofessional, because it came across like they wanted it for them and just wanted more money out of me. The toilets in the lobby where not what you'd expect in a hotel, leave alone one that costs 50 dollar a night. It was almost scary.

When I asked if I could have a room to sleep for just a few hours before my flight, they simply said it wasn't possible. Not for 10 dollars not for more, only 50 dollars. Too bad, because they could've used the money and had loaths of rooms available for sure. Instead I went to the friendly Sea garden Hotel and there it was no problem. I'd definitely recommend Sea Garden hotel, it's a big difference in quality, atmosphere and friendliness, but you pay less than halve! Don't stay at Topaz, it's simply not worth it.

It was the worsest place which I have ever visited. There was a lot of insects in the room that were eating the waredrop when we came in the room. Despite that we came at the hotel at 3 a.m. we decided to look for another hotel, since it was impossible and dangerous to stay in this hotel.

We are a young couple and cos we are in Maldives, we decided to spend two days in Sri Lanka for the week end. We booked the flight and we landed in Lanka without booking the hotel, sure to find something at our arrival.. looking back was a bad idea! In the airport we accepted the help of a director of a accommodation+transport agency who told us he will organize our stay in a nice hotel near the beach into a double deluxe room with ac, sea view and breakfast for 75$ + 30$ of roundtrip taxi. We werent sure to accept at the beginning and we have also being insulted from the other person in the agency in local language; at least we gave 110$ and the director kept 5$ as "his bill".. just to be clear, 5$ not make the difference, but it was fair to tell that the bill of agency was not included in the 105$ he said and not keeping 5$ cos he doesnt have a rest..
Well after 20min of taxi and mosquitos bites, we arrived at Topaz: from the outside we saw that wasnt a modern hotel, but we planned to stay one night so we checked in. The shock was when we saw the room: totally unclean, with toilet that not flush, trash on the dustbin, opened shampoo packed on the shower holder, no box or tent shower, the window was blocked and there was not the observer, floor uncleaned and walls ruined; the closet was full of dust with papers on the below, the mosquito tent was already broken as for the windows tents, the ac was over the bed and looses water over the pillows, towels broken and fan wing bended. When we went to the reception to ask to fix at least the toilet, they said nobody was available in the night. The hotel is in a good position in front of a Italian restaurant were we had a delicious dinner and lunch, but right after the breakfast we check out from the hotel.
I see that Topaz has different kind of room... but we get one of the worst and for 75$ we should get first of all what the agency told us, second something appropriate. Some reviews say is a nice place, well if you saw room 6 you will definitely change opinion!