Laughing Leopard Trinco

Waste

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The owner, the vibe, social nights and clean dorm rooms.

Nothing that I noticed

Großer Schlafsaal, Schließfächer im Zimmer (eigenes Schloss mitbringen), hilfsbereites und nettes Personal, bequeme Matratzen, schneller Strandzugang (3min zu Fuß)

AC nur von 7pm bis 9am (nachmittags heiß, nachts zu kalt, da nicht selber regulierbar)

На данный момент цена , чистота , отсутствие отдыхающих и соответственное отсутствие шума, тебя та гостеприимные собаки классные с характером.

В этой ценовой категории не может быть плохого, можно ещё и шторки добавить когда много народаии́

It´s a very good place to meet new people who are doing solo travelling. The staff are cool and they try their best to make the vibes. Free dinner it´s a good way to reunite all the people and interact with them.

It´s more like kind a party hostel if the people are willing to do so.

It’s very social, the staff is friendly. They serve meals every night and organize a lot of stuff to do.

The bathroom was very dirty, with brown smelly water coming out of the sink. I looked like it hadn’t been cleaned in ages. The front door wouldn’t lock properly. The airconditioning is turned off by staff during the day, so the heat in the room was crazy during the daytime. The airconditioning was leaking also, so all my stuff got wet. In the morning there was no running water, so the toilet didn’t even work.

Great location, 30 second walk to the beach. Rooms are fairly clean and comfortable. Staff are nice and it’s a very social hostel, lots of activities to do and free dinner every night is a plus. Perfect for a solo traveller.

The air con is only turned on from 7pm-9am so it can get very hot in the rooms during the day and there’s nowhere to cool off. The activities with the hostel are quite expensive, you can definitely get them cheaper somewhere else.

Good for meeting new people and close to the beach.

The Airconditioning was not working for 2 Nights and it was so hot at night. Everything is a bit dirty.

Really well organised with activities, free dinner every night is a great idea and the place feels very friendly

The beers need to be chilled for longer 😊

Perfect location, comfortable beds, quiet nights, AC working properly, huge lockers under the beds. Most importantly, the hospitality of staff , they also keeps the place suuuper clean, which is a very big asset for me personally! I look for no other place when I am back to the city and will undoubtedly recommend to others.

The Location, Service Crew, Common Area, Family Dinner

None at all

Great location and social atmosphere!

The only saving grace is the good vibe created by fellow travelers, the parties were fun and the people we met were great.

The AC was broken when we arrived — it took 2 out of our 3 nights to “fix” it, and even then the room was hotter than outside. The staff didn’t take the issue seriously and made jokes when we tried to explain the problem — maybe because they were visibly high at the time. Or even worse, didn’t find any issue here. The shower broke on the first day and wasn’t fixed for 24 hours. They told us we’d get a proper discount for all the inconvenience, but at checkout the discount was barely 25% (which turned out to just be their low-season rate). Worse, they tried to charge us for late checkout after they themselves told us to leave our bags in the room while we went diving. Reception wasn’t even open before 10am. We had to push hard just to get a 35% discount. Overall, the facilities strongly need a refurbishment, the staff are unprofessional and mostly interested in drinking with guests and flirting with tourists. But compared to hostels in similar countries (e.g. Masaya in Colombia), it’s three times the price for a third of the value. Would strongly not recommend. This place is a boulevard for the competition. Anyone opening a half-decent hostel nearby would crush it.

Very fun relaxed vibes with lots to do

Nothing - maybe the cold showers

Great location, lovely staff, beer pong at night which is lovely and fun- the beds could be updated

Really nice social vibe in the hostel thanks to the social area, free dinners and the guys running the place. Location is so close to the beach.

The staff is great and plenty of activities are organised. You are sure to socialise and meet some cool people. The dorms are reasonably clean. The location is absolutely perfect.

There is no option to rent bicycles or motorbikes. Also, the staff took away the AC remote control for whatever reason (energy saving?) which was inconvenient anytime one wants to change the temperature or simply put the AC on.

Such a cool place, in the perfect location. The sea is just around the corner! Rooms are super clean and comfortable and Jin takes very well care of everything and everyone. I really enjoyed my 3 days stay there and will definitely ome back. Highly recommended!

Rooms are big, with A/C and fan, bathroom is also big. It has lockers inside the room. Staff is nice, friendly and helpful. I stayed in low season so it was very quiet.

There’s no possibility of having breakfast there.

Nice location a few minutes from the beach

The place is dirty and it's super noisy. You have A/C but they don't allow you to have the remote control in the room. They regulate the temperature and leave. Indeed, the A/C is only open from 7pm to 9am. The rest of the day the room is super warm. Don't expect too much.

Nice dorms with AC and nice common area

Family dinner quite sad , just put some plates on the table and that's about it.

Great curry and rice evenings, super helpful at arranging transport and activities

Good place to meet people. Comfortable common area were you can order breakfast, family dinner and drinks. Family dinner was very good! Spacious private room with AC. They offer trips and activities. Staff very friendly.

Over all, there were some things that could be better maintained. Coffee machine was broken throughout our stay. While they promised to fix it, I don't really believe it was their priority. Same applied to the free bicycles. The activities are promoted heavily and the price/quality is not particularly great. But not particularly bad either, as this is the case in all of Trincomalee.

Clean beds and bathrooms. Very social hostel. Tasty and cheap family dinner.

The wet soggy cushions in the common area. Overpriced beers.

- Exceptional hospitality. Eranda, Hash and Vidush did their best to make my stay pleasent and memorable. - very cute dogs

So close to the beach, restaurants and yoga studio. Plenty to do during the day, the hostel has a few of activities written on the board that you can do around the area. In the afternoon/evening it becomes very social. Don’t miss out on the family dinner every night for 1000Rs, bloody delish and everyone gets into it. I made heaps of friends and felt at home. The owners are so awesome and will make sure you have a good time! The rooms are good! Spacious and comfortable, the AC is a life saver at night. If you go to bed early, you can’t hear people which is good! Perfect night sleep every night.

Nothing!

The people staying there were nice but apart from that nothing positive to say.

The staff really isn’t helping! So lazy and doesn’t want to help for anything (organising activities or get cash from an ATM, toilet paper and so on). They are just there not doing anything tbh..

Super good experience! Good people, good staf, good place near from everywhere and good plans!

Great hostel and staff

- offering activities and family dinners - social vibe - location is nice, just 3 min to the beach All in all good if you’re rather looking for a party hostel and are okay with less comfort I’d say

- the bathrooms were not really clean (couldn’t see yourself in the mirror) - had to ask for toilet paper pretty much everyday - A/C is only in from 7-7 (no one really wants to be up that early, someone just comes into the room and shuts it off (but in the staff room it’s on all the time)) - some of the staff was quite drunk and made some of us feel a little uncomfortable - beds not really comfortable - 2 big dogs are on the property that could be quite scary when entering the property.

Me and my friend had organised with the hostel to do their dolphin sunrise tour so we were told to wake up at 5:30 am and so the next day we woke up at 5:30 am and none of the staff were awake to take us. We went to bed early the night before in order to wake up early for the dolphin sunrise tour but we couldn’t go to sleep because there was so much noise in the common area caused by the staff who joined the guests who were partying outside.

Great location, clean rooms and good atmosphere! Just a short walk away from a popular beach spot with restaurants and bars, as well as diving school options.

Staff were extremely welcoming and friendly. There is a great social area and family dinners hosted each night for a reasonable price so a really good place to meet people. They offer a variety of tours also (albeit we didn't do any personally). The rooms are a good size so there is space to move around and sort out bags etc. Free water refill and space to dry towels/clothes etc.

AC was only on in the dorms from 7pm - 7am and the rooms got very hot during the day which made any napping during the day pretty grim - there was no control of the temperature of the AC during the time it was on so one evening it was on 20 degrees all night and everybody in the room got cold and had to put jumpers on etc but the next night it was on 24 and it was much better.

The location was excellent right beside the beach and Fernando’s beach bar. Lots of other travellers staying and it had a nice seating area outside. Microwave and clothes racks available.

WiFi was bad, AC was only on 7pm-7am so by 8am you were v hot in bed. Beds not comfortable, rooms not clean. Too expensive for what we were paying. Staff were very unfriendly and cringey and constantly drinking or smoking and relaxed almost to the extent of us nearly missing our transport waiting for our change. Not great

The hostel has a great social space for everyone to hangout. The dorms have aircon and are very clean. Plus the location is perfect and is two minutes away from the beach.

Nothing

Very good

All things were good

Great vibe and wonderful freindly staff. Great hostel with large dormitory rooms and fab air com and was spotless and well maintained. Cool garden chilling area and two minute walk from beach. Crocodile tour and sunset was awesome. Great value for money and highly recommend. Thanks to all the staff.

No faults

Such a lovely bunch of people running this place. I went out of season and they were busy preparing the place, so it's going to be extra special soon. They're opening a cafe and we did some paratha tasting and WOW are they good. Very close to the beach and a few nice restaurants.

Very nice place to socialize. good place for people who like partying and meeting new people. cool hosts, nice environment, clean and next to the beach

the property is well maintained and well-built but was compeltely empty.

wifi was too slow and unstable - was very frustrating. the owner was not very friendly.

Nice place, met cool people and super close to beach

the host was really nice and the rooms were comfortable and clean. unfortunately there were no other people because we have been there in the off season but I think with a bunch of people it's really funny

Cheap price with best location

Good value for money. Jay the host was fun and entertaining. We went out for drinks on the first night. Room was okay - air conditioning and fan worked well.

Lots of animals and bugs in the room due to shoddy construction work/tiles. Shower room was big but no hot water.

the host, the vibe, the place. the prices were really good for all activities. you don't have to search or ask anywhere else. just discuss with the host, he'll help you out

mosquitoes 🥲

amazing!!

Great vibes, amazing people, clean room and super common area! The food is the best! Missing it already!

Great location right by the beach with the most fun and helpful staff!

Quite modern and comfortable hostel (for Sri Lanka), comfy beds, good AC, drinking water available. Close to the main beach.

No mosquito nets. Poor and same breakfast every day, no tea or coffee. Poor cleaning (stayed for 4 nights, during this time no bath cleaning at all). Also there are volunteers in the hostel, who are supposed to help the guests. Some of them, though, were rly very rude and impolite (ex. Israeli girl). The hotel manager should maybe explain them how to work and communicate.

Great party hostel to meet fellow travellers

Suuper nice Hostel!

The location is great, super close to the beach and nice restaurants. Friendly staff and great place to meet other (solo) backpackers!

It wasn’t very clean.

Nice ensuite room. Location is very close to the beach. Drinking water fountain for refills. Nice common area outside and good to connect with other travelers. Staff is generally friendly and where open to a request for changing the booking. If socializing is your top goal in Trinco and you enjoy drinking in company a lot: good place for you. You will definitely find like-minded people here.

It's a party hostel (which is good if that is what you're looking for of course). It's commented on if you do not drink and staff was very intoxicated from noon on. Just be aware of that. All the rooms surround the common area, so it's very noisy. If you actually want some sleep and be rested for your day activities, too: do not recommend. Bathroom wasn't entirely cleaned (as anywhere in the country). Kitchen in dire need of a cleanup.

I had an amazing stay at Laughing Leopard in Trinco. I stayed a week- extending my stay twice! The staff is absolutely amazing and it’s clear that they genuinely care about the guests and the property. They go above and beyond to make sure everyone is cared for and happy, whether it’s arranging activities, tuk tuks, meals, etc. Okay wifi, good for Sri Lanka. Air con in the room from 8pm - 8am. Family dinner every night for 1000 lkr. Free breakfast which is amazing traditional Sri Lankan breakfast. 3 minute walk from the beach where there are bars/restaurants/cafes and many dive shops. Between the hammocks/central couch area and the organized activities happening every day, you’re guaranteed to have a fun, relaxing stay.

That I couldn’t stay longer

The hosts are incredible. Every employee there does such a fantastic job. It's run very smoothly with all needs of the guest being anticipated. The rooms are kept clean everyday, the daily group dinners are cheap and incredible, and also an amazing way to meet other guests. I am generally not one for hostels but the vibe here is incredible and the people you'll meet here will be lovely. A walk from the most popular beachfront bar/restaurant in upuvelli. If you're looking for a private room or a dorm you will not be disappointed.

The owner is a very nice guy and is great in creating a social vibe. Private rooms have an AC and are very big. They also have a Water refill station for free.

The whole Hostel does look messy. They should definitely improve the cleanliness, especially the kitchen.

Very social hostel, but you can also find your own space if you just have an evening where you want to be on your own. We were staying in a private room, which was very spacious and clean with a very good working AC. The family dinner was delicious and a very fair price. The staff is lovely!!

The breakfast could definitely be improved (a little bit more variety). It would also be nice if it could be a bit earlier (on the blackboard it was announced for 8 but it was almost never ready before 8:45).

The loveliest stay in the Laughing Leopard. I had a private room and it was perfect for what I needed, very close to anywhere I wished to visit within Trinco. The atmosphere of the hostel was perfect, always others around if you wished to socialise and the family dinners each night were a great chance to catch up with one another. Jay and Huzefa were brilliant hosts, so friendly and always willing to answer any questions/ give advice!

Best place in Trincomalee to chill and get to know people. 2 minutes walk to the beach and really friendly staff. 10000% recommend the stay in this hostel!

Staff is top

They are you just opening and working in many things to improve the place

We had an amazing stay here. The rooms are clean and comfortable and the vibe in the hostel is phenomenal. J and the staff are very friendly and you can always have a good laughter with them. They are offering a family dinner every evening which is very delicious and cheap. They also organized different tours for us for a fair price. We can only recommend staying here! Thanks for the amazing time, we will come back😊

Loved it here! Soon as I arrived I was taken in by the 2 owners there who were really nice and great fun! I was in a shared dorm which was very spacious and the beds were super confi. The bathroom was large and super clean. The family dinner is a must and I loved how we could all sit together around the huge communal table. Had great fun here and met really cool people.

Very nice and clean! Highly recommended

Everything you could want, lovely staff, comfy beds, good vibes and 2 minutes walk from the beach