Wellawaya · Uva Province · Sri Lanka

Twelve rooms above the paddy fields.

A small guest house on Ella Road, half an hour below the hill country and an hour from the edge of Yala. Breakfast on the balcony, dinner when you get back, and somebody who knows which road is washed out this week.

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Rooms
12
From
LKR 8,500
Check in
14:00
Check out
11:00

The rooms

Three kinds of room, and no lift.

Standard rooms on the first floor, deluxe on the second, family on the third. Every room has hot water and Wi-Fi that mostly works.

Six rooms · First floor

Standard Double

Double bed, ceiling fan, hot water. The room most of the guest house is.

Sleeps 2 · up to 3 with an extra bed

  • Ceiling fan
  • Hot water
  • Wi-Fi

LKR 8,500 per night, bed and breakfast

Four rooms · Second floor

Deluxe Double

Air conditioned, with a balcony over the paddy field. Worth the stairs in April.

Sleeps 2 · up to 3 with an extra bed

  • Air conditioning
  • Balcony
  • Hot water
  • Wi-Fi
  • In-room safe

LKR 12,500 per night, bed and breakfast

Two rooms · Third floor

Family Room

A double plus two singles. Sleeps four without anything being carried up the stairs.

Sleeps 4 · up to 6 sharing

  • Air conditioning
  • Ceiling fan
  • Hot water
  • Wi-Fi

LKR 16,500 per night, bed and breakfast

Rates are per room per night and exclude government taxes and the local authority levy. Room-only rates are LKR 1,500 lower; a non-refundable rate saves LKR 1,000 and is charged in full if you cancel. From 15 December to 15 March — the dry season here — high-season rates apply, and 31 December is priced separately.

The inn

A restaurant, a bar, and a hall that has seen a lot of weddings.

Breakfast is included on most rates and served from six, because the safari jeeps leave early. Lunch and dinner are cooked to order rather than kept warm — tell us in the morning and it will be ready when you are.

Restaurant

Rice and curry, and a short list of things that are not rice and curry. Vegetarian by default if you ask.

Bar

Cold beer, arrack, and a fridge that is only sometimes reliable at 3pm.

Banquet hall

For weddings, almsgivings and the occasional office party. Ask about taking the whole guest house.

In every room

  • Hot water
  • Wi-Fi
  • Ceiling fan
  • Fresh linen daily

In some

  • Air conditioning
  • Balcony
  • In-room safe

We can arrange

  • Yala safari
  • Tuk-tuk hire
  • Laundry
  • Airport transfer

Around Wellawaya

Between the hills and the plain.

Wellawaya sits where the road down from Ella flattens out. Most guests use it as the night between the hill country and the south coast, and then stay a second one.

Yala and Lunugamvehera

About an hour and a half to the Yala gate. We book the jeep and the driver knows to be back before the restaurant closes.

Ella and Little Adam's Peak

Half an hour up the road, and the Nine Arch Bridge twenty minutes past that. Go early — the road narrows and the buses do not.

Diyaluma Falls

The second highest waterfall in Sri Lanka, twenty minutes west. The upper pools are a climb and worth it in dry weather.

Buduruwagala

Seven rock-cut figures from the tenth century, ten minutes away and almost always empty.

Staying

The practical part.

Book direct and you deal with us rather than a call centre in another country. We hold a room for twenty-four hours while you decide.

Check in
From 14:00
Check out
By 11:00
Breakfast
Included on bed-and-breakfast rates, LKR 900 otherwise
Cancellation
Free until the day before arrival on refundable rates
Children
Welcome; extra beds and sharing rates available
High season
15 December – 15 March
Payment
Cash, card, or bank transfer in advance

Enquire

Tell us when, and how many.

There is no booking engine here on purpose. Send a message or call, and somebody who has actually seen the rooms will answer.

stay@littleroseinn.lk +94 55 227 4410
Little Rose Inn
142 Ella Road, Wellawaya
Uva Province, Sri Lanka