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Helga's Folly

3.0 star property
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Outdoor pool
Lobby
Bar (on property)
Interior detail
Interior detail

Reviews

6.4 out of 10

Popular amenities

  • Bar
    Bar
  • Pool
    Pool
  • Breakfast available
    Breakfast available
  • Room service
    Room service
  • Laundry
    Laundry
  • 24/7 front desk
    24/7 front desk

Explore the area

Map
70,Rajapihilla Mawatha, Kandy
  • Kandy Lake
    15 min walk
  • Malwathu Maha Viharaya
    18 min walk
  • Kandyan Art Association & Cultural Centre
    4 min drive
  • Kandy (KDZ-Polgolla Reservoir)
    25 min drive

Room options

View all photos for Deluxe Double Room, 1 King Bed, Balcony, Mountain View

Deluxe Double Room, 1 King Bed, Balcony, Mountain View

Deluxe Double Room, 1 King Bed, Balcony, Mountain View

  • Mountain view
  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 King Bed

View all photos for Superior Double Room, 1 King Bed, Balcony, Mountain View

Desk, free cots/infant beds, free WiFi

Superior Double Room, 1 King Bed, Balcony, Mountain View

  • Mountain view
  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 King Bed

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About the area

Kandy

With a stay at Helga's Folly in Kandy, you'll be within a 5-minute drive of Kandy Lake and Lakeside Adventist Hospital. .This hotel is 1.2 mi (1.9 km) from Kandyan Art Association & Cultural Centre and 1.2 mi (2 km) from British Garrison Cemetery.

What's nearby

  • Kandy Lake - 15 min walk - 1.3 km
  • Temple of the Tooth - 4 min drive - 2.1 km
  • Wales Park - 5 min drive - 2.7 km
  • Royal Palace of Kandy - 6 min drive - 3.5 km
  • Kandy General Hospital - 6 min drive - 3.6 km

Getting around

  • Kandy Railway Station - 14 min drive
  • Bandaranaike Intl. Airport (CMB) - 171 min drive

Restaurants

  • ‪Hideout Lounge - ‬13 min walk
  • ‪The Empire Café - ‬6 min drive
  • ‪Soul Food - ‬6 min drive
  • ‪Burger King - ‬6 min drive
  • ‪Senani Restaurant - ‬4 min drive

About this property

Helga's Folly

Art Deco hotel with 4 restaurants and a 24-hour front desk
Helga's Folly offers 15 accommodations with complimentary bottled water and complimentary toiletries. Rooms open to balconies. This Kandy hotel provides complimentary wireless Internet access. Bathrooms include bathtubs or showers. Cribs/infant beds (complimentary) are also available. Housekeeping is provided daily.
Recreational amenities at the hotel include an outdoor pool.
Make yourself at home in one of the 15 guestrooms. Rooms have private balconies. Complimentary wireless internet access is available to keep you connected. Bathrooms have bathtubs or showers and complimentary toiletries.
Enjoy recreation amenities such as an outdoor pool or take in the view from a garden. This Art Deco hotel also features complimentary wireless internet access, concierge services, and a picnic area.
Enjoy international cuisine at Red Room, one of the hotel's 4 restaurants, or stay in and take advantage of the room service (during limited hours). Wrap up your day with a drink at the bar/lounge. Continental breakfasts are available daily from 7 AM to 10 AM for a fee.
Featured amenities include dry cleaning/laundry services, a 24-hour front desk, and luggage storage. Guests may use a roundtrip airport shuttle for a surcharge, and free self parking is available onsite.
Continental breakfasts are available for a surcharge and are served each morning between 7 AM and 10 AM.
Red Room - This restaurant specializes in international cuisine and serves lunch and dinner.
Green Room - This restaurant specializes in international cuisine and serves lunch and dinner.
Blue Room - This restaurant specializes in international cuisine and serves lunch and dinner.
Nut Cracker Suite - This restaurant specializes in international cuisine and serves lunch and dinner.
Room service (during limited hours) is available.

Languages

English

Property amenities

Internet

  • Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
  • Available in some public areas: Free WiFi

Parking and public transport

  • Free self-parking on site
  • Return airport shuttle (surcharge)

Food and drink

  • Continental breakfast available for a fee daily 7 AM–10 AM: USD 12 per person
  • 4 restaurants
  • 1 bar
  • Room service available

Restaurants on site

  • Red Room
  • Green Room
  • Blue Room
  • Nut Cracker Suite

Things to do

  • Outdoor pool

Family friendly

  • Free cots/infant beds
  • Laundry facilities
  • Outdoor pool

Conveniences

  • Front-desk safe
  • Library
  • Newspapers in reception

Guest services

  • 24-hour front desk
  • Concierge services
  • Daily housekeeping
  • Dry-cleaning service
  • Laundry facilities
  • Luggage storage
  • Tour/ticket assistance

Outdoors

  • Garden
  • Picnic area

Room amenities

Bedroom

  • Air conditioning (climate-controlled)
  • Ceiling fan
  • Free cots/infant beds

Bathroom

  • Bath or shower
  • Free toiletries
  • Private bathroom

Food and drink

  • Free bottled water

More

  • Desk

Policies

Check-in

Check-in start time: 2 PM; Check-in end time: 8 PM
Minimum check-in age: 15

Check-out

Check-out before 11 AM

Special check-in instructions

Front desk staff will greet guests on arrival

Access methods

Staffed front desk

Pets

No pets or service animals allowed

Children and extra beds

Children are welcome
Rollaway/extra beds are not available
Free cribs are available on request at the property

Payment types

Important information

Optional extras

  • Fee for continental breakfast: approximately USD 12 per person

The above list may not be comprehensive. Fees and deposits may not include tax and are subject to change.

You need to know

Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card, debit card, or cash deposit may be required at check-in for incidental charges
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges; special requests cannot be guaranteed
This property accepts credit cards

We should mention

No pets and no service animals are allowed at this property

Property is also known as

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Helga's Folly Reviews

Reviews

6.4
Rating 10 - Excellent. 5 out of 19 reviews" "
Rating 8 - Good. 5 out of 19 reviews" "
Rating 6 - Okay. 1 out of 19 reviews" "
Rating 4 - Poor. 4 out of 19 reviews" "
Rating 2 - Terrible. 4 out of 19 reviews" "

5.2/10

Cleanliness

7.8/10

Staff & service

5.4/10

Property conditions & facilities

Reviews

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Helga’s Folly is a revelry
Helga’s Folly is a dreamscape, unlike any other place I’ve been. Our stay here was one of the highlights of our trip to Sri Lanka. In addition to the incredible artwork and decorations that fill the mansion, the service is wonderful, Madame Helga is a graceful hostess, and the food is delicious. This is a hotel for artists, dreamers, novel readers, and monkey lovers. However, if your top priority is having all the comforts and luxuries of a modern upscale hotel, you should look elsewhere.
Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2018

6/10 Okay

Sam

Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 2 nights in Jul 2018

2/10 Terrible

Girleen, Portland, OR

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
I wanted to love this place, but dirty sheets, dirt in the shower and cockroaches scuttling around ruined it for me. Not to mention atrocious conditions for my driver to stay in (3 to a room cots, exposed bathroom). Not cool. I get the whole “eccentric artist hotel” thing. I expected it to be a little tatty, but dirty? No thank you. This place needs the lights turned up and a massive scrubbing. Madame needs to quit coasting on her aristocratic family and connections and be a gracious hostess worthy of paying guests. Her manager turned up his nose at my complaints basically saying he doesn’t care about bad reviews and gave me a paltry 10% off my dinner. Not enough. Well here you go. Reader, you’ve been warned.
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2018

4/10 Poor

Jo, UK

Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Dirty throughout. Must have been amazing 25 years
The hotel has been sadly neglected and whilst it's quirky to look at ... it's very dirty and very disappointing.
Stayed 3 nights in Mar 2018

10/10 Excellent

Yvonne, India

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Helga's wonderland
Helga"s Folly is more than simply an hotel where one goes for rest and refreshment. Being there is like entering a dream - on arrival your surroundings appear both vaguely familiar and disconcertingly strange. Our room for example, contained a regular double bed which on closer inspection was dressed with silk sheets and the softest, most generous pillows that we had encountered on our travels. Colour was everywhere. The windows leading the balcony were covered with gorgeous butterflies and the pink ceiling was embellished with a white magnolia tree. Every journey from our room to other parts of the premises was an encounter with something wonderful. Our corridor contained many images of Alice in wonderland which seemed most apt to us. Helga and her team have created an alternative world that we can marvel at, explore and enjoy. We found the food delicious and the staff, especially manager Singa helpful and friendly and all times.
Stayed 3 nights in Jan 2018

4/10 Poor

MR

Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities
Living off past glories
A hotel that is living on its past glories - poor food, slow service, poor maintenance, needs updating. Many of Helga’s art and artworks are amazing but the hotel is doomed unless the many issues are sorted. Hopefully the new manager can turn things around.
Stayed 2 nights in Jan 2018

8/10 Good

Laurie

Liked: Staff & service, room comfort
Magical
One of the coolest hotels I have ever stayed in
Stayed 2 nights in Jan 2018

10/10 Excellent

Marius

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Magical artistic hide out
Helga‘s Folly is a magical place! Go see and experience this beautiful museum-ish diary of an flomboyant life.
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2018

2/10 Terrible

Verified traveller

Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
bohemian mess.. dirty, smelly, neglected and sad
We booked but upon arrival found that the hotel did not meet even basic levels of hygiene. I have travelled in Asia and China all of my life and the condition of this hotel startled me. Neglected and dirty - bathrooms not clean and the bed sheets stained. Honestly, I could not stay in this hotel and left immediately to look for a different hotel. I know the hotel is meant to be eccentric and bohemian and charming - but there is no charm in dirty rooms.
Stayed 2 nights in Jan 2018

8/10 Good

Dennis, UK

Liked: Staff & service, room comfort
Unique experience.
Unique experience. Staff friendly and welcoming.Food very good. Bats in sitting room, monkeys on roof and fireflies in garden. Unmissable.

8/10 Good

Nehal Kishore, Mumbai

Liked: Staff & service
Art Lovers Rejoice
Helga's Folly is an art gallery, a museum, a boutique hotel all rolled in to one. Very colorful, full of curios, photographs, artefacts, etc. An amazing place. But needs some maintenance or maybe it is intended to give the old antiquated look.

8/10 Good

Alexandre

Liked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Piscine
La piscine n’était pas propre.
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2018

2/10 Terrible

O + J, Waldfeucht

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Fast wie eine veraltete Ruine
Es fing damit an, dass unser einheimischer Fahrer die Hotelzufahrt nicht gefunden hat, da wir uns nicht vorstellen konnten über Schutthaufen einen ramponierten Weg fahren zu können. Der Empfang des 2. Managers war zutiefst unfreundlich und der Zustand des Hauses unzumutbar. Wir sind auf die interessanten Fotos bei der Buchung reingefallen. Das Essen konnte nur im Eingangsbereich beim Manager bestellt werden. Da das Hühnchen undefinierbar geschmeckt hat, haben wir es dem Manager auch persönlich präsentiert. Wir sind nach einer Nacht abgereist und halten diese Erfahrung bestimmt in Erinnerung.
Stayed 2 nights in Feb 2018

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 2 nights in Jan 2018

4/10 Poor

Nadine

Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
leider konnte uns dieses vom design her einzigartige häuschen nicht überzeugen. es hat seine beste zeit schon gehabt. was echt schade ist, da die leute sehr nett und hilfsbereit sind. es ist nur oberflächlich sauber, essen war leider echt nicht genießbar, pool konnte man nicht schwimmen (laut personal wäre es möglich, aber das wasser bewegte sich gar nicht und war schon sehr trüb...) man braucht immer ein tuk tuk um vom hügel in die city zukommen.

2/10 Terrible

Verified traveller

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
センスは嫌いじゃないけど残念すぎる
以前雑誌で見てずっと気になってました。 予想以上の奇抜なセンスにちょっと驚きましたが、これはこれでありだと思います。 ただ、まず部屋がかび臭い。バスルームには蟻の行列。バスタブが茶ばんでる。排水口にはゴキブリ。絶対お湯をはるなんてできない。 どんな安宿でもこんな汚いとこに泊まったことないです。 そこそこの金額払ってるのにこれはないと思います。 ただ、スタッフの方はフレンドリーな方が多かったです。

4/10 Poor

Verified traveller

Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
ガイドブックで面白そうなホテルだと思って予約しましたが、まるでサイケでカオスなホーンテッドマンションという雰囲気で面白いというよりちょっと怖かったです。 全体的にメンテナンス状態が悪く、ベッドも歪んでいたり、シャワーもほとんどお湯が出ないなど、全く高級ホテルとは思えませんでしたが、なかなか他では味わえない雰囲気でスタッフも親切だったので、こういうアートが好きな人は一度泊まってみてもよいかもしれません。

8/10 Good

Niklas, Märsta

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Bra hotell vid stranden
Ett bra hotell precis på stranden. Tidvattnet gör dock att stranden försvinner delar av dagen. Poolen är väldigt fin och passade oss perfekt. Hotellet ligger i en lugn del av Hikkaduwa och på en lugn del av stranden, vi reste med en tvååring så det passade oss perfekt.

10/10 Excellent

Anne

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
En anderledes hoteloplevelse, men et "must do"
Hotellet er indrettet utrolig charmerende og en lille smule uhyggeligt... Det er meget anderledes, men absolut et besøg værd.