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Reviews of Villa Tea Fields

2.5 out of 5
Villa Tea Fields
13/111, Badulla Road, Magastota, Nuwara Eliya

Reviews

8.4

Very good

Rating 10 - Excellent. 22 out of 40 reviews" "
Rating 8 - Good. 8 out of 40 reviews" "
Rating 6 - Okay. 6 out of 40 reviews" "
Rating 4 - Poor. 3 out of 40 reviews" "
Rating 2 - Terrible. 1 out of 40 reviews" "

8.8/10

Cleanliness

9.4/10

Staff & service

7.8/10

Amenities

8.0/10

Property conditions & facilities

9.0/10

Eco-friendliness

Reviews

10/10 Excellent

Kaleel Rahman

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Nice
Stayed 2 nights in Feb 2024

10/10 Excellent

Leabank

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Beautiful stay, lovely staff. Highly recommend
Stayed as a family of four with two young children. The accommodation is really beautiful. And the location is stunning, amongst the tea plantations. A quick tuk tuk ride into lake Gregory. The staff and host are just lovely. So so helpful and make you feel like family. Delicious breakfast. Highly recommend!
Stayed 2 nights in Mar 2023

6/10 Okay

Mohamed Abdul Azeez

Hotel in Shaid Road very poor
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2023

10/10 Excellent

Craig

Liked: Cleanliness, room comfort
Great place
Super attentive host.. Free bikes and lovely ride around the lake.. Tonnes of food at breakfast.. Lovely comfortable bed..
Stayed 1 night in Dec 2021

10/10 Excellent

Sebastien

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Great all around!
This was a great experience! Beautiful little property located right in the tea fields. It makes you feel like you are back in time and live on a plantation! All of it a few kilometres from the town. This is more Bed & Breakfast type that hotel; where you can hear people move around in the building, alarm going off in an other room, or people talking even!!! Everyone has breakfast at the same table in the morning and discuss about their travel plans. The room was super well appointed and comfortable. No AC but it cools down so much at night at you don’t need it, we actually used the duvet!!!! The room was super clean! The breakfast was great! The staff was super nice. I would DEFINITELY stay there again. We were in the attic room; with low ceiling but so charming!!! Tip: Close your windows or you’ll have mosquitoes visiting at night!!!
Stayed 2 nights in Feb 2020

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Very nice authentic experience!
Great gem of a place. Service can’t be faulted. Arranged a car and tour for us at the going rate. Liked that they publish their prices, so no surprises. Worth using them for onward travel, hassle free. Particularly if you ask them for the driver Dissa. He is first class and the beat driver we had on our trip. They recommend going to the Summer Breeze Indian restaurant, Sure its good but after a fairly long walk in the dark, along the not particularly safe road, only to find we couldn’t get a beer with our curry! Not good. So if you want a beer with your food, get them to arrange transport to the Grand Indian/19th Hole pub. There you’ll get a good feed and a pint! That said real good place, go for the attic room if you can. (Its the family room) 5 stars - good place
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2020

4/10 Poor

Lulu

Travelled with partner
Disliked: Amenities
Property has potential to be lovely. However when the owner and their employees sit in the common area right outside your room door and talk loudly and help other guests for meals etc until after 10pm it doesn't cut it. So noisy. The next morning the temple has chanting over a tannoy starting at 6 am for an hour. This needs to be mentioned so you are aware you won't get much sleep. Most expensive accommodation we stayed in in SL and by far close to the worst. Chairs and table placed next to window which means you cannot get into bed unless you crawl over the bed. Ridiculous. Pictures are beautiful but property is not really that nice. Bathroom was very outdated and grubby. Subpar offering
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2019
Response from Owner on 21 Sept,2019
Dear Lulu, Thank you for your review and we are very sorry you felt that we did not live up to your expectations. As you can see vast majority of our guests like their stay and reading your review we kind of got the impression that you got the hotel misunderstood when booking. Just to be clear, we are not a regular hotel. We are a villa with 4 rooms. Unlike regular hotels with corridors for rooms, we are more like a house with 4 rooms, which most of our guests enjoy unlike a standard hotel. Yes during checkout time and during morning breakfast time, there may be some other guests but once again we rarely hear complains about this. However we have a massive common balcony where most of our guests spend their time right opposite the tea estate, we also offer free bicycles for guests to ride. Also as we are located right in the middle of a tea estate most guests either take a walk or visit the famous lake Gregory which is located about 300 meters from the villa. We find some of the details in your review about the room and bathroom are not accurate but we wish not to elaborate because these are never really issues we face from other guests. Overall we are very sorry that we did not live up to your expectations. Now that you know what we really represents, we would love to welcome you back again so that we can ensure that you will have the most amazing time. If you do, I will personally look into your stay to ensure that you will have a completely new experience with us. We are looking forward to welcome you once again.

10/10 Excellent

Zaakirah

Stayed 2 nights in Sep 2019

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Travelled with partner, Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Loved the uniqueness of the place and the fantastic service. Great gesture receiving a parting gift, thanks
Stayed 2 nights in Jul 2019

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, amenities, property conditions & facilities
ティーフィールド目の前の抜群のロケーション、清潔なバスルーム、おいしい朝食、すべて素晴らしかったです。 部屋にエアコンはありませんが寒ければヒーターをリクエストできます。 滞在中は好きなだけ紅茶もいただけます。 チェックアウト時にはギフトもいただきました。 本当に素晴らしい滞在でした。
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2019

10/10 Excellent

Akbar

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Very nice stay that served as our base to explore nuwara Eliya. The place seems like an English cottage get away. The served breakfast in the morning was wonderful. The rooms and bathroom was nice. The shared sitting room and terrace were like being at home. The property on a tea plantation and has a nice serene atmosphere. As a bonus you can get free tea field walks and a reds to complimentary bike. Oh and all the tea you can drink.
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2019

10/10 Excellent

Valerie

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Lovely place, great food
This is a lovely place. We had the room off the dining room which was fine. The best room is the attic room, but all of them are good. The staff are extremely helpful and friendly. The breakfast was great. We would definitely stay here again.
Stayed 3 nights in Dec 2018

10/10 Excellent

Kiran, Singapore

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
I really liked this property as it was really in the middle of a massive tea estate and yet very easily accessible to the main road. We drove and there was no problems in parking. Also, the host showed us around the tea fields (you can request) as well as parted with a nice going away tea gift from Nuwara Eliya. Overall the stay was excellent and I strongly recommend this accommodation to whoever stays in Nuwara Eliya.
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2018

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Amazing stay - friendly staff, great service and quiet location. Around 10 minutes walk to the nearest food place.
Stayed 2 nights in Jun 2018

8/10 Good

Scott, Hong Kong

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Great hosts and perfect for a short stay
Welcomed by a group of friendly hosts and offered tea. The downstairs room was pretty basic and you do get a little bit of noise from upstairs but no big issue for our short one night stay. If the attic or upstairs rooms are available I would have gone for one of them instead. The guys arranged a tuk-tuk for us so that we could go for dinner and they prepared a takeaway breakfast pack as we departed at 5am.
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2018

6/10 Okay

Angela, Australia

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, room comfort
Half way there!
Good choice to stop here for a night while driving through the highlands. Join the walk through the adjacent tea plantation, after a welcome cup of tea & biscuits! A well prepared breakfast is a great start to the day's drive. Staff are very helpful
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2017

6/10 Okay

AMY

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Staff were friendly and helpful. Bedroom was clean but not spacious. Bathroom was small and dimly lit. We could hear the noise made by the occupients from the room above us and we were woken up at 4 am when they got up to pack and leave.
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2017

10/10 Excellent

LESLEY

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Great location. superb staff, excellent breakfast. enjoyed the tour of the tea fields

6/10 Okay

alexandra

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Good place to spend a njght
The hotel was perfectly fine. The location is ok but we had to walk a long way in the dark to get dinner. The people working there are. Wet kind and helpful.

10/10 Excellent

Ann and Daryl, manchester uk

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
A bit of paradise in a fabulous setting
The staff couldn't have been more attentive, loved the free walking tour around the plantation Tea avavilbe at anytime - complementary and also free bikes had a lovely bike ride around the lake etc thanks for a fab stay

4/10 Poor

Callum, UK

Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Not as advertised and massively overpriced
First of all the staff who worked here were superb. Very friendly, helpful and polite at all times and they did everything they could to make our stay enjoyable. Unfortunately I would say this is one of the most over-priced hotels I have ever stayed in. We booked what was advertised as a 'superior villa' which turned out to be just a normal room (queen bed) with a fairly average shower room. When I tried to complain to the sales rep over the phone about the mis-advertising he claimed the only thing he could do was cancel the whole reservation (this was at 5:30pm in the evening after we had been driving for hours to get there). When I asked if we could just cancel the 2nd night so that we had time to book somewhere else, he refused. For the same price we stayed in some absolutely fantastic hotels elsewhere in Sri Lanka. The owners clearly spent money for a professional photographer which made the rooms look as good as they possibly good (look at my photos) - the reality was quite different. Clearly not much of the money goes into updating and renovating the place. Our 'view' of the tea fields was actually another building just next door (where there was also noisy building work going on while we stayed there). The location isn't ideal either - quite far out of town and from restaurants etc.
Noisy building work
Our 'superior villa' wet room
Only window in bathroom

8/10 Good

Mr Wogglesworth, Brisbane

Liked: Staff & service
Lovely homestay but not as pictured!
Enjoyed our stay here. The villa is a beautiful house in the middle of some very pretty tea fields just on the outskirts of the city. We walked home in the evening which is a bit of a trek but easy enough to do in the right shoes :) The photo shown on the advertisement of the bath was somewhere in the villa we weren't invited to view...but having said that we had a lovely ground floor room which was very pretty although the house has floorboards which means it has the potential to be noisy (it wasn't when we stayed though). The owner/manager is super lovely. Once of the lovely characters we met on our trip and we really enjoyed our short chats with him. Breakfast was great. Again, a set menu that just appears with no questions about what you would or wouldn't like (usually omelette, white bread toast, tea and coffee). Awesome dog that lives in the adjoining house and loves to cuddle your legs as you walk. Weird, but adorable and clean.

10/10 Excellent

David

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Especially the staff did an amazing job
Stayed 2 nights in Sep 2023

2/10 Terrible

Paula

Travelled with group
Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities
El acceso al alojamiento era muy complicado, la habitación estaba muy sucia al igual que el cuarto de baño y las fotos no tenían nada que ver con la realidad
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2022
Response from Manager on 25 Dec,2022
Estimado huésped, no sabemos por qué escribió una reseña cuando no se quedó en nuestra propiedad. Presentamos una queja a Expedia solicitando que eliminemos esto porque no te quedaste con nosotros. Su conductor nos informó que, a excepción de nuestro hotel, se había alojado en hoteles de 5 estrellas durante el resto de su estadía en Sri Lanka. Quizás haya reservado nuestro hotel por error pensando que somos un establecimiento formal, pero sería injusto juzgar nuestro hotel en función de un error que haya cometido. Quizás esté enojado porque no le reembolsamos su reserva. No podemos ofrecer cancelación gratuita en el último minuto. Solo para mayor claridad, somos un pequeño hotel de alojamiento y desayuno con solo 4 habitaciones situado en medio de una increíble plantación de té rodeada de paisajes y un personal maravilloso. Como puede ver en todas las demás reseñas, casi todos nuestros huéspedes están contentos con su estadía. Lamentamos mucho que haya malinterpretado nuestra propiedad, pero espero sinceramente que entienda que no podemos hacer reembolsos de última hora sin culpa nuestra.Dear Guest, we don’t know why you wrote a review when you did not stay at our property. We lodged a complain to Expedia asking to remove this as you did not stay with us. Your driver informed us that except for our hotel you had stayed in 5-star hotels during all the rest of your stay in Sri Lanka. Perhaps you had booked our hotel by mistake thinking we are a formal establishment, but it would be unfair to judge our hotel based on a mistake you had made. Perhaps you are angry that we did not refund your booking. We can’t offer free cancellation in the last minute. Just for clarity we are a small bed and breakfast hotel with just 4 rooms situated in the middle of an amazing tea estate surrounded by scenery and wonderful staff. As you can see from all other reviews almost all our guests are happy with their stay. We are very sorry you misunderstood our property, but I sincerely hope that you would understand that we can’t make last minute refunds for no fault of ours.

8/10 Good

Martin

Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Das Personal war freundlich und hat ein sehr gutes Frühstück zubereitet. Die "Verknüpfung" mit der Teeplantage wurde leider aufgehoben, so dass keine Führung und Teeprobe mehr angeboten werden konnte.
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2022

8/10 Good

Emma

Liked: Cleanliness, room comfort
Bo i villa i tefältet
Varning för det billigaste rummet som var uselt, kallt, fuktigt och stark lukt. Vi bytte till det dyrare rummet, dessa var extremt bra. Vi bytte eftersom boendet i sig var bra, boendet är trevligt mitt i te fälten, värdefullt att bli serverade en tekanna med ingefära kakor och kunna sitta sig på terrassen eller i trädgården.
Stayed 2 nights in Mar 2020

8/10 Good

Christer

Liked: Cleanliness, room comfort
Stayed 2 nights in Mar 2020

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Villa Tea Fields
Stayed 2 nights in Feb 2020

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Superbe acceuil et vue MAGIQUE nous avons adoré notre séjour
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2020

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
차밭에 둘러싸여 있어 정말 좋았습니다. 특히 일몰이 정말 장관이 었습니다. 시내와 좀 떨어져 있긴하지만 크게 불편한 점은 없었습니다.
Stayed 1 night in Dec 2019

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Stayed 1 night in Sep 2019

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Stayed 2 nights in Jul 2019

10/10 Excellent

Stephanie

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Cottage among tea fields
Very nice place, which seems to be an english cottage. Close to the lake, easy To go in town by tuk tuk or walking (around 2 or 3 kms through a wonderdul way). People were very kind, the room comfortable and cleaned, hot water in the bathroom and complimentary shampoo and soaps. Breakfast has been the best of our trip, we highly recommend this place which is really like the pictures ! Best of all:a gift when you leave the place !
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2019

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
雖然地點不太方便,但景色很好!職員都十分友善!
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2019

4/10 Poor

Alexandra , Landshut

Disliked: Property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Neben dem Tempel, feucht und abgelegen
Das Beste zu Beginn. Wir wurden freundlich empfangen, betreut und verabschiedet. Das Haus war nett im englischen Stil eingerichtet und wohnlich. Allerdings war die Zufahrt eine Schlaglochpiste und die Abfahrt war so steil, daß unser Fahrzeug erstmal aufgesessen ist. Unser Zimmer hatte ein Feuchtigkeitsproblem. Es roch muffig und für Bettwäsche fühlte sich klamm an. Das Fenster im Bad war zerbrochen und mit Paketband geklebt. Und dann der Clou - der Tempel in Hörweite. Abends eine Stunde Gebetssingen über den Lautsprecher und morgens um 6 Uhr wieder. Ein Traum
Stayed 1 night in Apr 2018

10/10 Excellent

Pernille

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Dejligt hotel et fantastisk sted
Dejligt at bo i midten af teplantagerne. Meget venligt personale. Dejlig morgenmad. Husk tøj til om aftenen - det bliver nemlig koldt!

10/10 Excellent

Miu Miu, Guangzhou

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Quiet and nice house
quiet and nice house,nice room.When we checked in,the town weather is rainy and very cold.Hotel staffs are friendly.We like the hotel everywhere.But I want to say,the room beds of roof is too low,made me hit my head twice.I like the hotel bathroom products.They smells good.And breakfast is good,good black tea,enough fruit.
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2017

8/10 Good

Marnel, Tokyo

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, room comfort
紅茶畑に囲まれて
紅茶畑に囲まれているというだけで選んでしまいましたが、スタッフの方は親切で朝ごはんも美味しかったです。ただ、大きいホテルのようにビュッフェとはいかず、シンプルにトーストとフルーツとオムレツでした。 一番安い部屋を予約しましたがそこそこ広く清潔で過ごしやすかったです。ただ、ホテル自体が一軒の木造?の家であり、部屋がロビーに隣接していたためロビーの音がよく聞こえました。気になる方は気になるかもしれません。 二階にはバルコニーがあり夕方と朝ゴロゴロするのがとても気持ちよかったです。
ホテルの周りの紅茶畑
バルコニー

6/10 Okay

Fabrice, Paris

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Hotel calme au milieu des théiers
Accueil très chaleureux comme une chambre d'hôte. Les repas sont préparés à l'extérieur et ne sont d'aucun intérêt. Bien être vigilant sur le type de chambre que l'on réserve car les photos peuvent prêter à confusion car il y a une grosse disparité entre les chambres. Nous avions une chambre au rez de chaussée (d'ailleurs on entend beaucoup le bruit de la salle de repas juste à côté) et la chambre en elle même était propre et correcte mais la salle de bain était moche et a refaire. Nous avons visité le reste des chambres et la grande chambre a une très jolie salle de bain avec vue sur les théiers mais celle que nous avons trouvé la plus jolie est celle sous le toit qui était mignonne et elle aussi avec une jolie salle de bain donnant sur la plantation de thé.

10/10 Excellent

Frédéric, France

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Jolie chambre
Très jolie chambre au milieu des champs de thé. Très grand lit et belle salle de bain. Personnel tres gentil et serviable. Possibilité de diner le soir sur commande a petit prix.