I want to emphasize that my experience with Amal Villa Ayurvedic Center is quite limited. I only took eight procedures of steam bath with them in Dec 2017 - Jan 2018.
I was looking for a certain type and design of the steam bath chamber and I found it in Amal Villa. Most chambers in this area are net- or bars-patterned. The chamber in Amal has round holes. I think, it is important for those who know what steam bath is.
I was shown the hotel itself, the rooms, the inner garden. I liked the hotel. The rooms are new, modern, clean, pleasant. The shower/toilet rooms are new, modern, clean which is important for me. The garden is very pleasant. Everything is well-designed, well-decorated. This is a pleasant place, quiet and with fresh air despite proximity to the Colombo-Galle road. The garden is somewhat remote from the road. However, these are just surface quick impressions. I did not live in the hotel itself.
The Center is supervised, I far as I understand, by the guy named Hector. He is quite pushy just like any one working in the Ayurveda or tourism sector in Sri Lanka. But, in all other aspects, he seems to be a decent nice guy.
You are offered tea before and after the procedures. I have not seen many mosquitoes as other reviews depict it.
The steam bath procedure costs 2 700 rupees each (about US$17-18). It's 20 minutes long, but they always allowed me to stay for 30 minutes or as long as I could stand the heat of the chamber.
This is one of the best steam bathes I have ever tried. The impressions from this one procedure are quite good. Probably, I will come here in the future.
Caution: the elderly people and people with heart conditions should be probably careful about this steam bath procedure.