Club Villa
Bentota, Bentota — 108.8 km from Bandaranaike (CMB), about 2 hr 19 min. Fixed fares from Rs 19,800, agreed before you fly.
Getting there from the airport
Your driver meets you in arrivals and takes you to the door. One fixed price for the whole car, agreed before you fly, with free cancellation up to 24 hours before pickup.
Location
6.41410, 79.99906
Besucherinformationen: Club Villa
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- Standard Room: 7 rooms, garden views
- Deluxe Room: 7 rooms, first floor, private balcony, bay windows, mezzanine
- Club Suite: 1 suite
- Spa treatments (Ayurveda and international)
- Short walk to Bentota beach
- Excursions offered
- Pool
- Spa
- Dining venues
- Event and wedding spaces
- Gardens
Near Club Villa
Places to visit close to the hotel. Drive time is by road, from the same pricing data as your quote.
Day trips from Club Villa
Further afield. Drive time is by road, from the same pricing data as your quote.
Club Villa began life in 1976 as a private four-bedroom holiday house, designed by Geoffrey Bawa — the architect whose work around Bentota helped define Sri Lanka's tropical modernist style. It was later expanded into a small boutique hotel, and that residential origin is still the property's defining character: this is one of Bawa's more intimate, domestic-scale works, quite different from the larger resort hotels he designed nearby along the same coast, and it has kept that house-like feel rather than growing into a conventional resort with wings and a lobby.
Accommodation is limited to just 15 individually styled rooms, including the Club Suite, and each is furnished with colonial Dutch antiques and handwoven batik textiles rather than standardised hotel furniture — every room reads as its own space instead of a repeated template rolled out across a floor plan. Original artworks by two well-known Sri Lankan artists, Laki Senanayake and Barbara Sansoni, are displayed through the property, adding a further layer of local character beyond the architecture itself, and giving the public spaces something closer to a private art collection than a hotel corridor.
The grounds are built around a large tropical garden, with mature trees shading the pool and sun loungers set out on the grass beneath the palms rather than around a hard pool deck. Guests regularly note the garden's wildlife as part of the stay — fireflies in the evening, chipmunks moving through the grounds, and the occasional train passing on the coastal railway line that runs along the edge of the property, part of the everyday texture of staying here rather than a distraction from it.
The pool itself is modest in size, in keeping with the hotel's scale, but well kept and sized appropriately for a property with only 15 rooms rather than built for a resort crowd competing for loungers. The beach is a short walk away, reached by crossing the railway tracks that run along this stretch of Bentota, as at most hotels in the area, and staff are noted for the kind of attentive, personal service that comes more easily in a house of this size than in a large resort.
Club Villa suits travellers looking for a genuinely small, design-led stay with real architectural and artistic pedigree — an intimate garden property built around a piece of Bawa's own history — rather than the scale and facilities of a full resort.
Your transfer to Club Villa
The nearest hotel on this site is Taj Bentota Resort & Spa in Bentota Beach, a few minutes on foot.
What it costs
| Vehicle | Seats | Typically | Prices from | Book |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Economy car | 3–4 | Alto, Aqua, Axio | Rs 19,800 | Book |
| Van, SUV and group | 4–50 | Every, Vezel, Toyota KDH, Coaster | Rs 25,870 | Book |
| Premium car | 3–4 | Camry | Rs 35,210 | Book |
One price for the whole car, not per seat. Drivers and fleets set their own rates, so these are typical prices from our system, not a guarantee — your actual quote can differ. Quoted by the same engine that prices your booking, for the 108.8 km shown — your own quote reflects the exact address, the time of day and any waiting time. See all 9 vehicle classes ↓
Questions about this transfer
How much is a taxi from Colombo airport to Club Villa?
From Rs 19,800 for the 108.8 km, about 2 hr 19 min. That is a fixed price for the whole car, quoted before you book, not a meter reading.
How long does the transfer to Club Villa take?
About 2 hr 19 min in normal traffic. Arrivals at Bandaranaike are busiest in the early morning, when the long-haul flights land together.
Will the driver wait if my flight is late?
Yes. Give your flight number when you book and your driver has it. There is no automatic flight tracking yet, so if you are delayed, message your driver on the number in your confirmation. Extended waiting beyond the pickup window is chargeable on a point-to-point transfer, and the terms say by how much.
Can I book a return transfer from Club Villa?
Yes — the same journey in reverse, at the same fixed price, booked at the same time or later.
All vehicle classes and prices
| Vehicle | Seats | Prices from | Book |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mini / Small Car | 3–4 | Rs 19,800 | Book |
| Economy / Medium Car | 3–4 | Rs 22,050 | Book |
| Sedan | 3–4 | Rs 23,750 | Book |
| Mini Van | 5–7 | Rs 25,870 | Book |
| SUV | 4–5 | Rs 26,290 | Book |
| Van | 8–14 | Rs 27,570 | Book |
| Luxury Car | 3–4 | Rs 35,210 | Book |
| Mini Bus | 15–30 | Rs 36,480 | Book |
| Bus | 30–50 | Rs 50,060 | Book |
Every class, every price, none hidden. Each Book button opens the booking form for this transfer with that class chosen.
Book your transfer through us
- Fixed price in advance, for the whole car. No meter.
- Your driver's profile is shown before you book.
- Free cancellation up to 24 hours before pickup.
- Day trips from the hotel can be booked from the cards above.
How this transfer works
One fixed price for the whole car, not per seat. There is no meter, so the figure you are quoted is the figure the booking honours. Give your flight number when you book and your driver has it.
The return leg from Club Villa is the same journey booked the other way, at the same price, and can be arranged now or later in your stay. Departures want you at Bandaranaike three hours before a long-haul flight, so add the 2 hr 19 min back to that.
Before you book
- Taxis in Bentota — what the roads do at different times of day, and how being collected here works.
- Airport transfers — meeting your driver, luggage, child seats and how payment works.
- The airport to Bentota route — the drive itself, in detail.
- A driver for several days — the usual arrangement for anyone travelling beyond Bentota.
- The district map — where Bentota sits, and what is around it.