Comfort Homestay

We were very warmly welcomed by the owner (Kushana) and his wife. The stay and the food were great! Kushana has been our guide throughout our stay at the Comfort Homestay. He showed us the most beautiful places in the area, gave good tips and knew a lot to tell. At the end of our stay he took us to the next destination. The price/quality ratio was very good!
We are very grateful to Kushana and his wife and will definitely book our stay at the Comfort Homestay again when we are in Sri Lanka again.

We were received very hospitably by the owner (Kushana) and his wife. The stay and the food were great! Kushana was our guide during our stay at the Comfort Homestay. He showed us the most beautiful places in the area, gave good tips and had a lot to say. At the end of our stay he took us to the next destination. The price/quality ratio was very good!
We are very grateful to Kushana and his wife and will definitely book our stay at the Comfort Homestay again when we are in Sri Lanka again.

It's such a nice place that we could visit. I suggest this place as a great tourist attractive place with a great service among the owners. You can move freely with the pleasant environment with such great values that we could gain around kandy city.

Run, run for your money! Don't rate a book by its cover.

First impression you're getting is wow - I've found an occasion! Price for stay is at very acceptaple for a clean room in a well kept house, ratings are very good. Owner is welcoming you with a drink and conversation in good english. He would tell you some usefull stuff about the city, attractions etc, stuff you already know so you can tell that it's true. This is the way to build your trust. Then owner starts making some propositions of tours he organizes, first in some unintrusive way, but with every minute situation changes for your disadvantage. In spite of that we decided to take ayurvedic massage this guy recommended. What could possibly go wrong if you stay and the guy's home? Answer is - EVERYTHING! We have benn taken by him to a place, that was basically a SCUM, lost 100$ for a service that was worth nothing - massage was unprofessional, in very unclean place. After this scum-service owner recommended us a restaurant where even local people left reviews that after their food you could get sick. All the trust was lost. Fortunetelly we spent there only one, very expensive night (in total). PS. I was awaken in the middle of a night by pack of COCKROACHes in size of my thumb running through a room.

Loved the attitude and spirit of the hosts. Very generous and understanding. Also wish I could have spent more time talking to the old wise couple.

Uns hat es super gut bei Kushana und seiner Familie gefallen. Alle waren sehr hilfsbereit und freundlich, auch der Grossvater, welcher immer gut für ein Schwätzchen zu haben war. Auch die Tagestouren waren super. Klar haben sie ihren Preis, man zahlt aber immer noch weniger als mit offiziellen organisationen und wir waren fast immer von früh morgends bis abends unterwegs.
Das kleine Apartment war hübsch und sauber, die Betten bequem.

Greedy scammers

There are a bunch of hidden costs that are way higher than the market price.

We tried to reason about the extra charges and just gave in and paid. We then went to the other homestay I had booked on the parallel road Kandy Hill Breeze on Mawilmada road and they also said they couldn’t accept us to stay.

Initially because they don’t take Sri Lankan guests, but we are an indian and an Australian. After speaking more we found out she was actually the sister of Kushal the owner of Comfort Guest House and it seems the whole family is in this business! He had already called her and told her not to let us stay. By this pointy friend was hot, exhausted and feeling terrible. She just started crying. I cannot believe he was so spiteful as to make sure we wouldn’t even get a room at the other place. We realized the reason they don’t want Sri Lankan tourists is because they would have something to say about the price for sure. It was all quite manipulative and sneaky.

He had even told us the rickshaw drivers are mafia so that we would only do tours with him. (Albeit paid ones that we at the time didn’t know would have a cost.) I don’t mind people making money. But at least be honest about it.

Final additions to this is that the house is full of ants. Don’t leave your fruit or any food on the counter for long it will get covered in ants.

I don’t recommend this place at all. Surely there are kinder more genuine people to stay with in Kandy.