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Helga's Folly

3.0 star property
Discover a tranquil oasis with lush gardens, multiple dining options, and attentive staff who ensure every moment feels just right.

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Outdoor pool
Interior detail
Exterior detail
Interior detail
Bar (on property)

Reviews

6.4 out of 10
Good

Popular amenities

  • Airport transfer
  • Bar
  • Pool
  • Laundry facilities
  • 24/7 front desk
  • Air conditioning
Main amenities
  • Daily housekeeping
  • 4 restaurants and bar/lounge
  • Outdoor pool
  • Breakfast available
  • Room service
  • Airport shuttle
  • 24-hour front desk
  • Garden
  • Library
  • Front-desk safe
  • Laundry service
  • Self-serve laundry
Feel at home
  • Free cribs/infant beds
  • Private bathroom
  • Garden
  • Daily housekeeping
  • Laundry facilities
  • Bathtub or shower

Room options

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Highlights

Balcony
Air conditioning
Free cribs/infant beds
Ceiling fan
Private bathroom
Free bottled water
Desk
Daily housekeeping
  • Mountain view
  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 King Bed

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Highlights

Balcony
Air conditioning
Free cribs/infant beds
Ceiling fan
Private bathroom
Free bottled water
Desk
Daily housekeeping
  • Mountain view
  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 King Bed

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About the neighborhood

Map
70,Rajapihilla Mawatha, Kandy

What's nearby

  • Kandy Lake - 15 min walk
  • Temple of the Tooth - 4 min drive
  • Udawatta Kele Sanctuary - 4 min drive
  • National Hospital Kandy - 6 min drive
  • Royal Palace of Kandy - 7 min drive

Getting around

  • Bandaranaike Intl. Airport (CMB) - 171 min drive
  • Kandy Railway Station - 14 min drive
  • Airport shuttle (surcharge)

Restaurants

  • ‪Hideout Lounge - ‬13 min walk
  • ‪The Empire Café - ‬6 min drive
  • ‪Soul Food - ‬6 min drive
  • ‪Burger King - ‬6 min drive
  • ‪Senani Restaurant - ‬4 min drive

About this property

Helga's Folly

Helga's Folly offers a great location, putting you within a 15-minute walk of Kandy Lake. The outdoor pool is a great spot to take a dip, and guests can grab a bite to eat at Red Room, one of 4 restaurants, which serves international cuisine and is open for lunch and dinner. Other highlights at this Art Deco hotel include a bar/lounge and a garden.

Languages

English

At a glance

DONE

Hotel size

    • 15 rooms
    • Arranged over 2 floors
DONE

Arriving/Leaving

    • Check-in start time: 2 PM; Check-in end time: 8 PM
    • Minimum check-in age: 15
    • Check-out time is 11 AM
DONE

Special check-in instructions

    • Front desk staff will greet guests on arrival at the property
DONE

Required at check-in

    • Credit card, debit card, or cash deposit required for incidental charges
    • Government-issued photo ID may be required
    • Minimum check-in age is 15
DONE

Pets

    • No pets or service animals allowed
WIFI

Internet

    • Free WiFi in public areas
    • Free WiFi in rooms
LOCAL_PARKING

Parking

    • Free onsite self parking
DONE

Transfers

    • Airport shuttle*

Property amenities

Food and drink

  • Continental breakfast (surcharge) each morning 7 AM–10 AM
  • 4 restaurants
  • Bar/lounge
  • Room service (limited hours)

Services

  • 24-hour front desk
  • Concierge services
  • Tour/ticket assistance
  • Dry cleaning/laundry services
  • Luggage storage

Facilities

  • 1 building/tower
  • Built in 1965
  • Safe-deposit box at front desk
  • Garden
  • Picnic area
  • Library
  • An outdoor pool
  • Art Deco architecture

Room amenities

Home comfort

  • Air conditioning (climate-controlled)
  • Ceiling fan

Sleep well

  • Free crib/infant bed

What to enjoy

  • Balcony

Freshen up

  • Private bathroom
  • Bathtub or shower
  • Free toiletries

Stay connected

  • Desk
  • Free WiFi

Food and drink

  • Free bottled water

More

  • Daily housekeeping

Special features

Dining

Red Room - This restaurant specializes in international cuisine and serves lunch and dinner.
Green Room - This restaurant specializes in international cuisine and serves lunch and dinner.
Blue Room - This restaurant specializes in international cuisine and serves lunch and dinner.
Nut Cracker Suite - This restaurant specializes in international cuisine and serves lunch and dinner.

Fees & policies

Optional extras

  • Continental breakfast is offered for an extra charge of approximately USD 12 per person
  • Airport shuttle service is offered for an extra charge

Policies

This property accepts credit cards.

Also known as

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Frequently asked questions

Is there a pool at Helga's Folly?

Yes, there's an outdoor pool.

Are pets allowed at Helga's Folly?

Sorry, pets and service animals aren't allowed.

Is parking offered on site at Helga's Folly?

Yes, there's free self parking.

Is airport shuttle service offered by Helga's Folly?

Yes, an airport shuttle is available.

What are the check-in and check-out times at Helga's Folly?

Check-in start time: 2 PM; Check-in end time: 8 PM. Check-out time is 11 AM.

What is there to do at Helga's Folly and nearby?

Helga's Folly has an outdoor pool and a picnic area, as well as a garden.

Are there restaurants at or near Helga's Folly?

Yes, there are 4 onsite restaurants, featuring international cuisine.

Does Helga's Folly have any outdoor private spaces?

Yes, every room features a balcony.

What's the area around Helga's Folly like?

Helga's Folly is a short 15-minute walk from Kandy Lake and 18 minutes' walk from Malwathu Maha Viharaya.

Helga's Folly Reviews

Reviews

6.4

Good

5.2/10

Cleanliness

7.8/10

Staff & service

5.4/10

Property conditions & facilities

Reviews

10/10 Exceptional

Helga’s Folly is a revelry
Helga’s Folly is a dreamscape, unlike any other place I’ve been. Our stay here was one of the highlights of our trip to Sri Lanka. In addition to the incredible artwork and decorations that fill the mansion, the service is wonderful, Madame Helga is a graceful hostess, and the food is delicious. This is a hotel for artists, dreamers, novel readers, and monkey lovers. However, if your top priority is having all the comforts and luxuries of a modern upscale hotel, you should look elsewhere.
2-night romance trip
Verified Hotels.com guest review

6/10 Good

Sam, 2-night romance trip
Verified Hotels.com guest review

2/10 Poor

I wanted to love this place, but dirty sheets, dirt in the shower and cockroaches scuttling around ruined it for me. Not to mention atrocious conditions for my driver to stay in (3 to a room cots, exposed bathroom). Not cool. I get the whole “eccentric artist hotel” thing. I expected it to be a little tatty, but dirty? No thank you. This place needs the lights turned up and a massive scrubbing. Madame needs to quit coasting on her aristocratic family and connections and be a gracious hostess worthy of paying guests. Her manager turned up his nose at my complaints basically saying he doesn’t care about bad reviews and gave me a paltry 10% off my dinner. Not enough. Well here you go. Reader, you’ve been warned.
Girleen, 1-night trip
Verified Orbitz guest review

4/10 Fair

Dirty throughout. Must have been amazing 25 years
The hotel has been sadly neglected and whilst it's quirky to look at ... it's very dirty and very disappointing.
Jo, 3-night trip
Verified Expedia guest review

10/10 Exceptional

Helga's wonderland
Helga"s Folly is more than simply an hotel where one goes for rest and refreshment. Being there is like entering a dream - on arrival your surroundings appear both vaguely familiar and disconcertingly strange. Our room for example, contained a regular double bed which on closer inspection was dressed with silk sheets and the softest, most generous pillows that we had encountered on our travels. Colour was everywhere. The windows leading the balcony were covered with gorgeous butterflies and the pink ceiling was embellished with a white magnolia tree. Every journey from our room to other parts of the premises was an encounter with something wonderful. Our corridor contained many images of Alice in wonderland which seemed most apt to us. Helga and her team have created an alternative world that we can marvel at, explore and enjoy. We found the food delicious and the staff, especially manager Singa helpful and friendly and all times.
Yvonne, 3-night trip
Verified Expedia guest review

4/10 Fair

Living off past glories
A hotel that is living on its past glories - poor food, slow service, poor maintenance, needs updating. Many of Helga’s art and artworks are amazing but the hotel is doomed unless the many issues are sorted. Hopefully the new manager can turn things around.
MR, 2-night romance trip
Verified Hotels.com guest review

8/10 Very Good

Magical
One of the coolest hotels I have ever stayed in
Laurie, 2-night romance trip
Verified Hotels.com guest review

10/10 Exceptional

Magical artistic hide out
Helga‘s Folly is a magical place! Go see and experience this beautiful museum-ish diary of an flomboyant life.
Marius, 1-night romance trip
Verified Hotels.com guest review

2/10 Poor

bohemian mess.. dirty, smelly, neglected and sad
We booked but upon arrival found that the hotel did not meet even basic levels of hygiene. I have travelled in Asia and China all of my life and the condition of this hotel startled me. Neglected and dirty - bathrooms not clean and the bed sheets stained. Honestly, I could not stay in this hotel and left immediately to look for a different hotel. I know the hotel is meant to be eccentric and bohemian and charming - but there is no charm in dirty rooms.
2-night trip
Verified Expedia guest review

8/10 Very Good

Unique experience.
Unique experience. Staff friendly and welcoming.Food very good. Bats in sitting room, monkeys on roof and fireflies in garden. Unmissable.
Verified Hotels.com guest review

8/10 Very Good

Art Lovers Rejoice
Helga's Folly is an art gallery, a museum, a boutique hotel all rolled in to one. Very colorful, full of curios, photographs, artefacts, etc. An amazing place. But needs some maintenance or maybe it is intended to give the old antiquated look.
Verified Hotels.com guest review

8/10 Very Good

Piscine
La piscine n’était pas propre.
Alexandre, 1-night family trip
Verified Hotels.com guest review

2/10 Poor

Fast wie eine veraltete Ruine
Es fing damit an, dass unser einheimischer Fahrer die Hotelzufahrt nicht gefunden hat, da wir uns nicht vorstellen konnten über Schutthaufen einen ramponierten Weg fahren zu können. Der Empfang des 2. Managers war zutiefst unfreundlich und der Zustand des Hauses unzumutbar. Wir sind auf die interessanten Fotos bei der Buchung reingefallen. Das Essen konnte nur im Eingangsbereich beim Manager bestellt werden. Da das Hühnchen undefinierbar geschmeckt hat, haben wir es dem Manager auch persönlich präsentiert. Wir sind nach einer Nacht abgereist und halten diese Erfahrung bestimmt in Erinnerung.
O + J, 2-night trip
Verified Ebookers guest review

10/10 Exceptional

2-night romance trip
Verified Hotels.com guest review

4/10 Fair

leider konnte uns dieses vom design her einzigartige häuschen nicht überzeugen. es hat seine beste zeit schon gehabt. was echt schade ist, da die leute sehr nett und hilfsbereit sind. es ist nur oberflächlich sauber, essen war leider echt nicht genießbar, pool konnte man nicht schwimmen (laut personal wäre es möglich, aber das wasser bewegte sich gar nicht und war schon sehr trüb...) man braucht immer ein tuk tuk um vom hügel in die city zukommen.
Verified Hotels.com guest review

2/10 Poor

センスは嫌いじゃないけど残念すぎる
以前雑誌で見てずっと気になってました。 予想以上の奇抜なセンスにちょっと驚きましたが、これはこれでありだと思います。 ただ、まず部屋がかび臭い。バスルームには蟻の行列。バスタブが茶ばんでる。排水口にはゴキブリ。絶対お湯をはるなんてできない。 どんな安宿でもこんな汚いとこに泊まったことないです。 そこそこの金額払ってるのにこれはないと思います。 ただ、スタッフの方はフレンドリーな方が多かったです。
Verified Expedia guest review

4/10 Fair

ガイドブックで面白そうなホテルだと思って予約しましたが、まるでサイケでカオスなホーンテッドマンションという雰囲気で面白いというよりちょっと怖かったです。 全体的にメンテナンス状態が悪く、ベッドも歪んでいたり、シャワーもほとんどお湯が出ないなど、全く高級ホテルとは思えませんでしたが、なかなか他では味わえない雰囲気でスタッフも親切だったので、こういうアートが好きな人は一度泊まってみてもよいかもしれません。
Verified Hotels.com guest review

8/10 Very Good

Bra hotell vid stranden
Ett bra hotell precis på stranden. Tidvattnet gör dock att stranden försvinner delar av dagen. Poolen är väldigt fin och passade oss perfekt. Hotellet ligger i en lugn del av Hikkaduwa och på en lugn del av stranden, vi reste med en tvååring så det passade oss perfekt.
Verified Hotels.com guest review

10/10 Exceptional

En anderledes hoteloplevelse, men et "must do"
Hotellet er indrettet utrolig charmerende og en lille smule uhyggeligt... Det er meget anderledes, men absolut et besøg værd.
Verified Hotels.com guest review