Riff Hikkaduwa
Narigama, Hikkaduwa — 148.3 km from Bandaranaike (CMB), about 2 hr 19 min. Fixed fares from Rs 23,580, agreed before you fly.
About Riff Hikkaduwa
Riff Hikkaduwa is in Narigama, Hikkaduwa, about 2 hr 19 min by road from Bandaranaike International Airport. Booking and travel sites report 3 room types, including Junior Suite Ocean View and Design Suite Ocean View. Booking and travel sites report 3 restaurants and bars, including Culinary and True Blue. Check-in is reported as 14:00 and check-out as 12:00. Your driver meets you in arrivals and takes you to the door at a fixed price.
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
6.11976, 80.11574
பார்வையாளர் வழிகாட்டி: Riff Hikkaduwa
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- Junior Suite Ocean View
- Design Suite Ocean View
- Presidential Suite
- Culinary: European, Japanese and Asian dishes
- True Blue: European, Japanese and Asian dishes
- Poolside bar
- Outdoor pool
- Full-service spa
- Rooftop terrace
- Free WiFi
- Free parking
- Room service
- Complimentary continental breakfast
Near Riff Hikkaduwa
Places to visit close to the hotel. Drive time is by road, from the same pricing data as your quote.
Day trips from Riff Hikkaduwa
Further afield. Drive time is by road, from the same pricing data as your quote.
Riff Hikkaduwa sits on the edge of Narigama Beach, a stretch of Hikkaduwa's coastline well known among surfers for its beach-break waves and regularly counted among Sri Lanka's better surf spots. That location shapes the whole property: this is a hotel built with an eye toward the surf and beach culture of Narigama specifically, rather than a generic Hikkaduwa beach stay dropped onto whichever plot of sand was available.
The hotel is small and design-led, with just 25 rooms, giving it a boutique scale that's closer to a design hotel than a resort. Its architecture has been described as drawing on Bauhaus and Le Corbusier-influenced modernism, worked through with Sri Lankan tropical touches — whitewashed walls set against palm trees — and the interiors follow a Scandinavian-meets-Japanese, or Japandi, style that's distinct from the colonial or tropical-luxury look found at many of the area's older properties, giving Riff a noticeably different visual identity on a coastline still dominated by more traditional resort design.
The pool is positioned to look directly out over the sand, tying the hotel's design back to its beachfront setting rather than treating the pool as a separate, enclosed space tucked behind the rooms. Given Narigama's reputation with surfers, board rental is available right on the beach in front of the hotel, putting Riff Hikkaduwa among the more surf-orientated stays on this coast rather than a hotel that happens to be near a surf beach incidentally.
Dining runs across a small number of distinct venues rather than one large restaurant, including a Culinary restaurant serving local dinner and a separate venue, True Blue, offering Japanese food at lunch — an unusual and specific pairing that adds to the hotel's individual character rather than defaulting to a single all-purpose menu. A full-service spa rounds out the property for guests who want to balance time in the water with time being looked after.
At only 25 rooms, the hotel is small enough that its design identity carries through every part of the stay rather than being confined to a lobby or a single feature wall, and that scale keeps the pool deck, restaurants and beach frontage feeling uncrowded even when the hotel is fully booked. It is a markedly different proposition from the area's larger chain resorts, built instead around a specific stretch of sand and the culture that surrounds it.
Riff Hikkaduwa suits travellers drawn to Narigama's surf and its design-forward, boutique-scale character — a small, architecturally distinct hotel built around one of Hikkaduwa's best beach breaks — rather than a larger, more conventional resort.
Your transfer to Riff Hikkaduwa
Riff Hikkaduwa is south-east of the centre of Hikkaduwa, the point the quoted distance is measured to.
The nearest hotel on this site is Citrus Hikkaduwa in Hikkaduwa Beach, about 1.8 km away.
What it costs
| Vehicle | Seats | Typically | Prices from | Book |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Economy car | 3–4 | Alto, Aqua, Axio | Rs 23,580 | Book |
| Van, SUV and group | 4–50 | Every, Vezel, Toyota KDH, Coaster | Rs 31,260 | Book |
| Premium car | 3–4 | Camry | Rs 43,990 | 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 148.3 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 Riff Hikkaduwa?
From Rs 23,580 for the 148.3 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 Riff Hikkaduwa 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 Riff Hikkaduwa?
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 23,580 | Book |
| Economy / Medium Car | 3–4 | Rs 26,060 | Book |
| Sedan | 3–4 | Rs 28,370 | Book |
| Mini Van | 5–7 | Rs 31,260 | Book |
| SUV | 4–5 | Rs 31,840 | Book |
| Van | 8–14 | Rs 33,580 | Book |
| Luxury Car | 3–4 | Rs 43,990 | Book |
| Mini Bus | 15–30 | Rs 45,720 | Book |
| Bus | 30–50 | Rs 64,230 | 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 Riff Hikkaduwa 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 Hikkaduwa — 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 Hikkaduwa route — the drive itself, in detail.
- A driver for several days — the usual arrangement for anyone travelling beyond Hikkaduwa.
- The district map — where Hikkaduwa sits, and what is around it.