Really fed up after looking at the excessive prices and poor facilities offered by the Polonnaruwa Rest House (Government run), we despaired of finding a decent place to stay at affordable prices. This hotel is not in The Lonely Planet but should be. We followed TLP's guide to The Lake View Inn (really small, and TLP's review is probably accurate!), and, at the end of the road, bright, white, sparkly, and with tinted windows, is Siyanco.

It's so new it isn't yet on the Google Earth photos. You follow the signs to Archeological Museum. At the crossroads with the Buddha you head toward the museum and the enormous Polonnaruwa Tank, and take the first road on the left past the ATM. If you get to the Gajabba Hotel you've missed the road!

Now I don't get "Holiday Resort" as part of the title. Let's be fair, it's a good standard budget hotel with well above average facilities. As always the room rate is negotiable, but only down to 3,500 rupees for a triple... more