I had the most awesome time at BoBo's Bed & Breakfast and BoBo's Cinnamon Estate and I can wholeheartedly recommend it to everyone!
In December 2021 I spent three weeks at this beautiful place with these beautiful people and I couldn't have wished for a nicer atmosphere and holiday. Catrin and Bharatha are the most wonderful hosts, together with their team. Before I came to Sri Lanka, I was looking for a place to calm down, relax, let the stress of my work life and the pandemic go and reset my health. A friend of mine recommended BoBo's to me and after I checked out their website, I had a first online call with Catrin. She was very friendly and helpful from the start, asked me about all the things that I was looking for and only a few days later sent me an offer for my three weeks, that was just perfect and included everything that I had imagined. It was in my budget as well, so I decided to book it. That was one of the best decisions in the last few month. As the holiday turned out to be even better and more that I had imagined.
I was picked up at the airport and welcomed with nice messages and a call from my host. My room was just perfect, really comfortable, clean, modern, but still not liveless. I had booked an Ayurvedic holiday and was welcomed with a foot massage. I had my first meeting with an Ayurvedic doctor the first night I arrived, as well. So we could start with my treatment, after I had slept one night. From then on, I was served the most delicious food every day, got all the different, relaxing massages and treatments one could get, was introduced to yoga and meditation everyday again and again. I learned a lot about the country, about Ayurveda and about myself - all, while I still had time to just relax, read or hang with my hosts and other guests in the shop / living room. Doing the treatments at BoBo's „House of Harmony“ really is a great pleasure and makes you feel the harmony that is all around that place.
BoBo's is situated very close to the sea, and it was easy to walk or to cycle there with a bike. Sometimes Bharatha, the host, took me with him in his tuktuk, when he went around town or up to the Cinnamon fields, where they take care of a lot of wild dogs and feed them every day.
Staying at BoBo's felt like staying with a welcoming family for me, like I was on an exchange to Sri Lanka. It was just so nice how I felt included into their community, but also had time for myself. Everyone was always friendly and positive - which was a rare feeling after coming from Germany with mainly two years of fear all around me.
During the last week, I stayed at the Cinnamon Estate, which is even more modern, stylish and just an unbelievably relaxing place. It was even more beautiful and calming when it rained outside, as it felt like it was only me and the nature around. I was welcomed with a flower bath after one of my trips to Galle, that was also organised by Catrin and Bharatha.
I could go on recommending everything I did at BoBo's and with Catrin and Bharatha and their team, and I have been doing so since I came home to Germany. Even after I flew home, I keep all of them and all these experiences so close to my heart, that I hope to come back some day soon. And I am looking forward to what has developed and grown by then. As they have more plans for their places for the future that everyone should look out for.
So if I have to rank this place and holiday from 0 - 10, it would be a 100.
Just go there and see for yourself, how wonderful a holiday can be!
Luise Brinkmann, from Berlin, Germany, December 2021