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Goldi Sands Hotel

3.5 star property

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On the beach, sun-loungers, beach umbrellas, waterskiing
Deluxe Double Room - Sea View
Premium Studio Suite, Sea View | Living area
Outdoor pool, pool umbrellas, pool loungers
Premium Studio Suite, Sea View | View from room

Reviews

8.0 out of 10
Very good

Popular amenities

  • Hot tub
  • Bar
  • Spa
  • Pool
  • Breakfast available
  • Room service

Explore the area

Map
Ethukala, Negombo, 11500
  • Negombo Beach
    ‪2 min walk‬
  • Negombo Beach Park
    ‪11 min walk‬
  • Negombo Fish Market
    ‪8 min drive‬
  • Colombo (CMB-Bandaranaike Intl.)
    ‪26 min drive‬

Room options

View all photos for Standard Double or Twin Room Sea View with 15% Discount on SPA

Standard Double or Twin Room Sea View with 15% Discount on SPA | View from room

Standard Double or Twin Room Sea View with 15% Discount on SPA

  • 26 sq m
  • Sea view
  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 Large Twin Bed

View all photos for Premium Studio Suite, Sea View

Premium Studio Suite, Sea View | View from room

Premium Studio Suite, Sea View

  • 23 sq m
  • Sea view
  • Sleeps 3
  • 1 King Bed

View all photos for Economy Non Sea View Room with 15% Discount on SPA

In-room safe, desk, soundproofing, bed sheets

Economy Non Sea View Room with 15% Discount on SPA

  • 14 sq m
  • Sea view
  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 Twin Bed

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Deluxe Double Room - Sea View

Deluxe Double Room - Sea View

  • 26 sq m
  • Sea view
  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 Twin Bed

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About the area

Negombo

When you stay at Goldi Sands Hotel in Negombo, you'll be on the beach, just steps from Negombo Beach and 11 minutes by foot from Negombo Beach Park. .This beach hotel is 1.8 mi (2.9 km) from St Anthony's Church and 1.9 mi (3.1 km) from St. Sebastian's Church.

What's nearby

  • Negombo Beach - 2 min walk - 0.2 km
  • Negombo Beach Park - 11 min walk - 0.9 km
  • Negombo District General Hospital - 6 min drive - 4.0 km
  • St.Mary's Church - 7 min drive - 4.0 km
  • Negombo Fish Market - 8 min drive - 4.8 km

Getting around

  • Railway Station Negombo - 7 min drive
  • Bandaranaike Intl. Airport (CMB) - 26 min drive

Restaurants

  • ‪See Lounge - ‬14 min walk
  • ‪Rodeo Pub - ‬7 min walk
  • ‪Leonardo By Bella Vita - ‬13 min walk
  • ‪Lords Fine Restaurant, Art Gallery and Cocktail Bar - ‬5 min walk
  • ‪Prego Restaurant - ‬13 min walk

About this property

Goldi Sands Hotel

Hotel on the beach, with outdoor pool
Goldi Sands Hotel offers 71 air-conditioned accommodations with hair dryers and ceiling fans. Business-friendly amenities include desks, safes, and phones. Bathrooms include showers. Housekeeping is provided daily.
An outdoor pool and a hot tub are on site.

The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.

Guests can indulge in a pampering treatment at the hotel's full-service spa, Ayubowan. Services include massages. A variety of treatment therapies are provided, including Ayurvedic. There are hot springs/mineral springs on site.
Make yourself at home in one of the 71 air-conditioned rooms featuring refrigerators. Bathrooms have showers and hair dryers. Conveniences include phones, as well as safes and desks.
Relax at the full-service spa, where you can enjoy massages. You're sure to appreciate the recreational amenities, including an outdoor pool, a hot tub, and bicycles to rent. Additional features at this hotel include complimentary wireless internet access, concierge services, and free babysitting.
Enjoy a meal at the restaurant, or stay in and take advantage of the hotel's room service. Quench your thirst with your favorite drink at the bar/lounge. Full breakfasts are available daily for a fee.
Featured amenities include a business center, complimentary newspapers in the lobby, and dry cleaning/laundry services. Event facilities at this hotel consist of conference space and 2 meeting rooms. A roundtrip airport shuttle is provided for a surcharge (available 24 hours).
Full breakfasts are available for a surcharge and are served each morning.
Goldi Sands Hotel has a restaurant on site.
Room service is available.

Languages

English

Property amenities

Internet

  • Available in some public areas: Free WiFi

Parking and transport

  • 24-hour return airport shuttle on request for a surcharge

Food and drink

  • Daily full breakfast available for a fee: USD 7 for adults and USD 7 for children
  • A bar/lounge
  • A restaurant

Things to do

  • Arcade/game room
  • Beach volleyball
  • Bicycle rentals
  • Billiards/pool table
  • Full-service spa
  • Hot tub
  • Library
  • Outdoor pool
  • TV in common areas
  • Water skiing
  • Windsurfing

Family friendly

  • Arcade/game room
  • Free babysitting
  • In-room refrigerator
  • Laundry facilities
  • Outdoor pool
  • Soundproofed rooms

Conveniences

  • 24-hour front desk
  • Free newspapers in lobby
  • Gift shop/newsstand
  • Laundry facilities
  • Luggage storage
  • Safe at front desk

Guest services

  • Concierge services
  • Dry cleaning/laundry service
  • Housekeeping (daily)
  • Multilingual staff
  • Porter/bellhop
  • Tour and ticket assistance
  • Wedding services

Business services

  • 2 meeting rooms
  • Business centre
  • Computer station
  • Conference space

Outdoors

  • Barbecue grill
  • Beach loungers
  • Beach umbrellas
  • Garden
  • On the beach
  • Pool loungers
  • Pool umbrellas
  • Terrace

Full-service spa

  • Ayurvedic treatments
  • Hot/mineral springs
  • Massage

Accessibility

  • Lift

Room amenities

Bedroom

  • Bedsheets provided

Bathroom

  • Hair dryer
  • Private bathroom
  • Shower
  • Towels provided

Entertainment

  • 32-inch TV

Food and drink

  • Electric kettle
  • Refrigerator
  • Room service

More

  • Air conditioning
  • Ceiling fan
  • Desk
  • Phone
  • Safe
  • Soundproofed rooms

Policies

Check-in

Check-in time starts at noon
Minimum check-in age: 18

Check-out

Check-out before noon
Contactless check-out available

Special check-in instructions

This property offers transfers from the airport (surcharges may apply); guests must contact the property with arrival details before travel, using the contact information on the booking confirmation
Front desk staff will greet guests on arrival at the property
This property doesn't offer after-hours check-in

Access methods

Staffed front desk

Pets

Pets not allowed

Children and extra beds

Children are welcome
Cribs (infant beds) are not available

Payment types

Important information

Optional extras

  • Fee for full breakfast: approximately USD 7 for adults and USD 7 for children
  • Airport shuttle fee: USD 20 per vehicle (one-way)

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; cash is not accepted
Safety features at this property include a fire extinguisher, a smoke detector, and a security system

Property is also known as

Goldi
Goldi Sands
Goldi Sands Hotel
Goldi Sands Hotel Negombo
Goldi Sands Negombo
Hotel Goldi Sands
Goldi Sands Hotel Hotel
Goldi Sands Hotel Negombo
Goldi Sands Hotel Hotel Negombo

Goldi Sands Hotel Reviews

Reviews

8.0

Very good

Rating 10 - Excellent. 19 out of 83 reviews
Rating 8 - Good. 45 out of 83 reviews
Rating 6 - Okay. 16 out of 83 reviews
Rating 4 - Poor. 2 out of 83 reviews
Rating 2 - Terrible. 1 out of 83 reviews

8.0/10

Cleanliness

8.0/10

Staff & service

8.8/10

Amenities

7.4/10

Property conditions & facilities

8.0/10

Eco-friendliness

Reviews

8/10 Good

mark

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service

ok

getting a bit dated staff are excellent always helpful, beds are hard needed another blanket to sleep on, tiles around the pool are very slippery/dangerous overall a nice enough place to stay.
Stayed 2 nights in Mar 2024

10/10 Excellent

Doug

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
The property was a great place to start our Sri Lankan vacation
Stayed 2 nights in Jul 2023

6/10 Okay

Lisa

Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities
Misleading photos. Our room was a double, arrived to a twin. Dirty, dated facilities with a sewage smell in the bathroom. View from first floor room overlooks dirty rooftops. Restaurant ok but dirty old plastic wind shields line the edges. Beach full of ants and local pedlars continuously trying to sell, hotel do nothing to prevent this or move them on, unable to leave anything on the beach to go swimming for example because of this. Too few pool loungers for the number of staff and the usual towels on beds by 6am despite no one coming to use them until 10-11am and hotel do nothing to prevent and in fact put towels out for them. Very little in the local area to do. Hotel will try to rip you off for arranging taxis to the airport, wanted $30 for 25 minute trip, tuk tuk at the roadside took us for $4. Pool staff good and attentive. Would miss Negombo altogether on your itinerary.

10/10 Excellent

Deirdre

Stayed 1 night in Jun 2022

10/10 Excellent

Aisylu

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Courteous staff and high level welcome. Registration is fast. The room is all inclusive. cleanliness and tidiness. I will recommend.
Stayed 1 night in May 2022

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities
Stayed 6 nights in Jun 2019

6/10 Okay

Anna

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities, room comfort
The room was not as expected. To say the least
Stayed 1 night in Apr 2019

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

good hotel for a short stay

This was our first hotel on arriving in Sri Lanka for a 3 week tour. Rooms on ground floor overlooking the pool were ok but i don't think I'd want to satya in the main block of rooms given their location. No lifts. The room, as with most hotel rooms in Sri Lanka, was showing signs of being affected by the humidity and looked a bit worn and had a damp smell about them. Unfortunately there was a drain smell in the bathroom which although not really bad was a bit off putting. The buffet breakfast was good and we ate three times in the hotel dining room over our 5 night stay, the food was very very varied and good. There is direct access to the beach from the hotels and although there were lots of beach hawkers they did not encroach onto the hotel property. Unfortunately when we visited in Nov 2018 there was a lot of building work going on as they are extending the hotel and this was right next to our block. We were not told about this before we arrived. One day the building work went on for a full 24hr period, right through the night. When we complained the next day they said they had to work through the night as there was a load of concrete coming the next day and they had to have everything ready for it!!!! The staff were OK and surprising got more friendly the day before we left!
Stayed 5 nights in Nov 2018

8/10 Good

David J

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

A good value mid level choice in Negombo

Goldi Sands is a good to very good hotel on the beach in Negombo. Facilities are functional and clean. Staff are very helpful. It’s not a flashy place but then again it’s well priced. We stayed in one ground level room which was a bit dark and tired, and in a top story room (200 #s) that was brighter and had ocean views which we much preferred. Food was fair to good not great. Nice pool. Beach sellers and debris can be annoying enough to keep one off the beach. Negombo itself is unattractive but does have some shopping and some good food eg. Cilantro.
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2018

4/10 Poor

MrEee, West mids

Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities
The room was very poor and old after marls on the wall Bathroom was not the best .. the window over looked A loud of old drainage pipes , further to this the pool was next to a building site .. we was not informed about this work
Stayed 3 nights in Nov 2018

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 3 nights in Nov 2018

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Staff & service, room comfort
Food was excellent and cleanliness is poor. I had to chase three roaches one night and they kept coming.
Stayed 2 nights in Oct 2018

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Hotel location good . Breakfast good . Rooms good apart from showers poor as Luke warm to cold water . Contacted reception was told maintenance would come nobody came. I think it was a common thing to have cool water . If an unusual problem this would of been dealt with or alternative room offered but nothing . This spoilt our first experience of Sri Lanka as we had just arrived. So wouldn’t stay again.
Stayed 2 nights in Oct 2018

8/10 Good

kelly, Australia

Liked: Cleanliness, room comfort
Disliked: Staff & service
great location , direct beach access close to shops and restaurants , rooms over look beach and sunset pool is in need of repair, with broken tiles in and around it , the area is very slippery, we saw 2 people slip on the tiles around the pool in our 3 day stay ! staff need some customer service training
Stayed 2 nights in May 2018

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

8/10 Good

S, London

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Lovely hotel

Clean, pool and sea were beautifully warm. Food good. Sun beds with pattresses and clean towels available at all times (but it is low season).
Stayed 1 night in Apr 2018

8/10 Good

Muhammad, tokyo

Nice and clean place

Nice and clean place for stay love it I'll comeback again soon
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2018

6/10 Okay

Pradeepan

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Nice hotel and lovely staff our room wasn't great

Staff was great, lovely food, nice pool and beach. But our room wasn't the best for the price paid. A/C was not working and the sink was clogged. ( But we did not inform the hotel regarding these issues as we stayed only for a night). They kindly extended our checkout time by an hour.
Stayed 1 night in Dec 2017

6/10 Okay

dg, uk

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service

Nice hotel BUT

The hotel is well situated on the beach with a nice pool but spoilt by too many wedding parties taking over the facilities with the obvious noise issues. Food mediocre and often cold. Bathroom smelly..cold showers. No entertainment facilities at all.constant hawkers on the beach. No peaceful holiday.

10/10 Excellent

Jessica

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Staying at Goldi Sands

My sister and I enjoyed 2 stays over a 2-week period of a few days each. We found Goldi Sands to be a very friendly comfortable place with good food and lovely position. The staff were very helpful and pleasant. We should certainly stay again if we return to Negombo
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2017

8/10 Good

Aggie, Australia

Liked: Staff & service, room comfort
Disliked: Cleanliness

Beach view and good buffet

Overall a good short stay. Rooms are a small but comfortable. The bathrooms need a good clean or even tiles need to be replaced as they are mouldy on parts. It was nice having the balcony for a beach view but the crows were a nightmare. They do not stop crowing. Really annoying, you can't relax. This isn't the hotels fault, they are everywhere in Negambo. Buffet breakfast was nice and lots of choice. Very fresh. We also had the buffet Sri Lankan dinner here. It was YUM! Gotta say the food here is very good compared to other hotels we stayed in over the 23 days in Sri Lanka. Bar staff are not great. They can't make a cocktail on their life and assume they can keep the change as their tip. Other staff are friendly and welcoming. Communal areas are tired. The seating could do with re-upholstery as it is stained. With a little improvement the hotel could be great.
Stayed 2 nights in Jul 2017

8/10 Good

Michelle, Sydney

Liked: Staff & service

Great Location but very busy.

We have stayed in this hotel several times and it is in a great spot on the beach. We booked through a website this time as the hotel pricing was quite expensive & they could not match the price I had been given. The room was a bit disappointing as it was a fair distance from the lift & upstairs but overall the hotel is quite good due to the location & the breakfast is pretty good as well.
Stayed 2 nights in Jul 2017

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

First night

My room was really tiny and down a very long hallway. Other than that it was clean, service was great, and wifi was fabulous!
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2017

6/10 Okay

Judith

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Pleasant for the price.

Goldi Sands hotel is on a lovely beach, has a great pool, friendly staff and nice buffet. But when you book make sure you ask for a quiet room otherwise you could end up on one on a busy road which is awful.

8/10 Good

sam, england

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Lovely hotel great staff food was amazing and hot

The rooms are clean staff constantly cleaning wash rooms and area food amazing good value for money on the beach clientele mainly German and of an older age hence entertainment quite limited in the evening