Sanuthi Boat House

Not recommendable. It's like a coffee ride. We paid €20 per person, expecting to see animals and mangroves. In terms of animals, we only saw 3 monkeys, which can be seen on every roadside, a varan (which we discovered ourselves!) and a captured baby crocodile. No birds, no wild crocodiles, no kingfishers. You drive through mangroves for exactly 1 minute, about 5 minutes, otherwise we were just on the lagoon. We often pointed out to the driver that we wanted to drive through the mangroves, but he didn't understand us or didn't want to understand us. He only took us to individual stops where you had to buy extra things like King Coconut, baby crocodile 1000 rupees, fish tank for the feet 500 rupees, "cinnamon" island 600 rupees. Complete failure. We were very dissatisfied afterwards and cannot recommend it.

Hands off this safari

It's a huge disappointment. Probably the worst experience we had in 1 month in Sri Lanka.
You feel like you're on a coffee trip - with the cinnamon island and fish farm, of course, there's more money on top.
We specifically asked to skip the temple and see the mangroves longer, but no - we were shown 5 meters of mangroves from the inside for 2 minutes. Not more!
We didn't see any animals apart from a small baby crocodile, which was on a leash and which we also had to pay for!
The driver spoke no or very poor English.
Sanuthi Boats' boats were dirty and old.

And all for 20 USD (6500 RPS) per person.
Better compare on TripAdvisor and look for a good boat safari provider.

Excellent and reliable boat safari. Provided a good support throughout the journey. Highly recommended!

Had a great time the boat ride was awesome the boat man was kind enough to explain in detail with patience should mention the fish spa in the ride never to miss experience

The worst experience of the all trip. They ask us for 25 dollars per person saying it was a discount (being the originally price 30!). We accepted for 17 dollars per person but still taught it was too expensive. We did not see any animals, with the exception of 2 birds and 1 jelly fish. We almost did not see the islands. On cinamon island the woman made the explanation in 5 minutes, never smiling, and in the end ask us if we want to buy the products for 500.000,00 each! It is a boat ride, thats it.

Very disappointed by this so called "safari". It is a turist traps mych too expensive for what it offer. Most reasonably our money need to be shared with our driver.
The owner has explained many beauties that will be seen such as shrimp trap, animals etc.but nothing of that is true.
No explanations, I really felt cheated.
I don't advise at all.

Make sure to get a good staff to assist you on the tour, because the experience depends on his willingness

This place situated on Colombo Galle main road at balapitiya nears to madhu river. Cooperative staff and guide. Boat trip around 2 hours. Every place you can watch in this river islands they reach and describe the place and tell us what is impotence of this place. You can get fish massages at one of island in this river and one have temple and can worship and see the place and cinnamon huts also available in this river island. You can drink king coconut at mid of the river. Safe and enjoyable journey with these agents.

Very friendly drivers. Take us to whole the way. Really nice experience. Fish massage, cinnamon hut. Amazing experience. Better to have morning galle train from colombo fort to reach. Then that journey will also be amazing.

This is the place for your maadu safari.more reliable, value of your money, nice staff, confidence travel.

Really love this place n d fish spa o fish foot therophy was a wonderful experience dat ever had.we enjoyed it very much.d boat ride of Madugaga was another spectacular moment.

Bunch of swindlers. Not only was the river safari underwhelming they scammed us for money after the boat ride. When we refused to pay extra, they took away our car keys for extortion and refused to return them till we paid up. Ruined our vacation experience quite thoroughly. Please don't visit this place.

They are very polite & reasonably good boats. But, not that cheap place. Also nothing made us delighted, when it comes to the tour. Just a boat ride.