We had a really great experience here. We are a young family, travelling with two young kids (8 and 5) and a baby. Staying in a beach chalet (on the ground floor was great), so close to the beach that it meant could also juggle a snoozing baby. I was slightly reticent that was going to be too resorty but actually was fine. We just booked the stay and had some ad hoc meals there. The location means you can just walk along to the beach at Uppuveli where there are various dive shops and nice places to eat. Also easy to get a Tuktuk to the temple etc in Trinco The pool is incredible and the sea so nice and warm and was pretty calm and good for kids to swim in. The life guarding was slightly over cautious with a red flag when there was an absolute max of 2 ft of wave. The place was incredibly well staffed and efficient. All the staff in person were great. Only negative is it took weeks and weeks to reply to my message on booking.com about adding in an extra bed/mattress to the room. Only replied the day before, after I’d messaged 4 separate times to try and get an answer. But v quick to rectify in person I’m really glad we stayed here and it was very relaxing.

Lovely staff at pool and in both restaurants. Excellent choice of Sri Lankan, Indian and Western food - superb quality. Amazing 30 metre pool. Lovely long beach for walks and great sea swimming. A local and international clientele. Great location - last property before the fishing village so felt very peaceful with huge clean beach front.

We don’t normally go for big hotels with buffet food but this was superb and didn’t feel like a big hotel despite having 80 rooms. Pool never busy. Often we were the only ones in it. Only negative were noisy crows 😂

The view of the.hotel was absolutely breathtaking. Beautiful beach view as well as the interior of the hotel. We booked the suite, which seems to be the best. Chef Sampath Bandaranayake was so professional and accomodating and he made special dishes for me as I was suffering gastritis. He even did low sugar dessert for my husband who is a diabetic. A wide spread was available for breakfast and dinner, including hoppers, string hoppers, dosa, pittu in both meals. Our driver who stayed at drivers' accomodation, said they too had buffet meals, which was very tasty. A trip well enjoyed.

The only negative feedback is about the hot water in the toilet. We had to wait for about half an hour to get hot water from the taps. A maintenance person came and kept all thw taps in the toilet open for nearly half an hour. He said the suite was the last room connected to the water line and it takes time for the hot water to come through the pipeline to the room!! What a waste of invaluable resources! And what a waste of time!

My partner and I stayed at Trinco Blu for a week in a beach chalet. The room was lovely and we loved stepping straight out onto the beach. You could not fault the location! You could walk straight along the beach to many restaurants and bars which started immediately next door to the hotel (including the popular fernandos beach bar which was no more than a 5 minute walk away), or you could go out the front where there were many restaurants on the road leading to the hotel. The room service was very good with nightly phone calls to check that the room was up to standard and to ask if there was anything we needed (including unlimited bottles of water for the room). When room cleans were requested they were done very promptly. Breakfast was also lovely with many choices.

The room had quite a few bugs in due to the large gaps under the doors. However, they did seem to settle down the longer we stayed in the room. Also service at the front desk could be quite slow however it is a busy hotel. That said we would definitely stay here again should we come back to Trincomalee.

Great location and our room was perfectly located with a back door straight on to the beech. The food was also great. We ate at the evening buffet and the breakfast buffet. Both were delicious with plenty of choice. I can particularly recommend the station making hoppers, paratha and puris. The manager Sithari Sandareka was especially helpful in getting our group of 6 settled in quickly even though two bus loads of other guests had just arrived at the same time. She was also great at getting our tired hungry kids settled in to the buffet while I finished checking in.

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We stayed 6 nights at Trinco Blu and had a great stay. Very good hotel for relaxing at the beach in Trincomalee. Very friendly, attentive and service-minded staff. Highly recommend this hotel! Beach chalet was very nice with direct access to the beach. Large room with all ammenities. Breakfast was good with lots of options. Did not have dinner at hotel but there are many great restaurants on the beach and nearby streets. Recommend Trinco Bay Diving Center 10 minutes down the beach for diving/snorkeling activities.

there was sometimes large groups of people outside our room and some type of early morning party right outside our room woke us up one day. The hotel should not allow this.

Trinco blu is a wonderful hotel, which is located in a quiet, peaceful place. The hotel monitors the cleanliness of the beach, the beach is cleaned every day! The entrance to the sea is very comfortable, smooth, there are no stones anywhere. The sea is always calm, without waves. The hotel staff deserves the highest praise: very caring, in a hurry to fulfill your every whim. Very sincere and friendly. The food is very tasty and varied, there are both local and European dishes. Breakfast includes a lot of fresh fruit. Get ready to put on a few kilos, everything is so delicious! ))) The room is very spacious and clean, the beds are very comfortable. There are all necessary bath amenities, including a bathrobe and slippers. The room has a spacious terrace where it is very pleasant to drink tea overlooking the sea and palm trees.

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This is my third trip to Trinco Blu, the first time in 1982 when it was a slightly different set up, then in 2014 and now this year. I love this space. The peaceful setting and yes I am fine with the crows! They were here before the holidaymakers. We had a beach chalet this year which I thoroughly enjoyed. Sitting on the balcony watching the sunrise was one of the highlights of my two weeks. The staff were so friendly and helpful. A special shout out to the pool guy and to the lady who makes very yummy hoppers each morning, to the chefs who prepared the meals and the restaurant manager who checked in with us each day. The pool was clean and a welcome treat in the heat. The sea was enjoyable to swim in. The beach was swept each morning and kept litter free as best as they could. Watching the fish being pulled in reminded me of the daily lives of the Sri Lankans. We tourists were lucky to see the real challenges of living here. Will return for sure.

Loved it all.

We loved so much about Trinco Blu. The room was a very comfortable size. There were TWO luggage stands - even 5 and 6 star hotels often have only one, which always baffles and annoys me. There were hooks on the bathroom door - again, shouldn't be noteworthy but 5 and 6 star hotels often have no where to hang your towels, clothes or robes. There was a simple ledge under the bathroom sink for your toiletries - again, many 5 and 6 star hotels have no where for your toiletries. The food selections were excellent. We are vegan and so much of Sri Lankan food is vegan and the hotel served a lot of it, so we were happy. And the food was delicious. All the staff were very courteous and helpful. They were always happy to help. I would stay here again and I would highly recommend it to anyone who visits Trincomalee. It's a very special part of the world and Trinco Blu made it even more special for us.

Some parts of the hotel need to be upgraded/maintained, e.g. the mirrors on the wall behind the reception desk. There was even one gap where the mirror is missing. Many, if not all, of the mirrors' edges were missing the reflecting part of the mirror. This kind of detail made me a bit sad for the property because otherwise, it was such a great place.

Located on a long stretch of beautiful beach at the Northern end of Trincomalee, beach chalet was right on the beach with sun loungers available. Breakfast was superb with something for everyone. Really friendly staff throughout which is quite unusual for a larger hotel. Clean, comfortable rooms.

We had a downstairs beach chalet, which was lovely but I think that I would have been quite disappointed if we were upstairs (I didn’t even realise that they were 2 story from the hotel’s website). Dogs and crows around beach / pool are mentioned in some reviews, in our experience there is a family of semi-stray dogs that seem to make the hotel their home but they are not a nuisance. As for the crows, they are a bit noisy at times but, short of Culling’s them, I’m not sure what the hotel could do about. Neither detracted from a lovely stay.