Отличный пляж, завтраки хорошие Great beach, good breakfast

We went at the end of April - beginning of May. We feel that April is a great time to visit this hotel. Although the beach fights told us that the season was already over. The air temperature during the day was stable around 30, comfortable. It is also very warm at night. Ocean - 29 degrees on sensations. There are not very many people. There were always enough places in the dining room and on the sunbeds.
They took only breakfasts, and dined at the Catalina Grill restaurant, near which there is a blue plane. If you leave the hotel on the highway, then you need to go 200 meters to the left and you will see this restaurant. We used to take one serving of rice for two, one salad and one serving of seafood and overeat. It took an average of $8. But not all restaurants in Sri Lanka have such large portions.


The beach at Long Beach is wonderful - no shells, no algae, no jellyfish, no fish, but only very fine, gentle sand. Therefore, when a powerful wave knocks you down and drags you along the sand, it does not hurt.
Be vigilant with "super waves" - waves that come every 1.5-2 minutes. They are noticeably more powerful than the others. I walked along the shore, wet my feet. Turned away from the ocean. And then - I was flooded to the waist with a "super-wave". I immediately took out an iPhone from the pocket of shorts - his screen was already showing green stripes. On the highway to the left of the hotel we found a modest service center, in which they untwisted and wiped our phone from salt. But it was too late, there was a strong oxidation. Then at home they took the iPhone to a couple more service centers, but no one could save the phone. Not even spare parts.
And one more thing - if you want to swim with an action camera, tie it to you, because the waves are really powerful. According to the stories of the scourge of battles, tourists very often drown their GoPros there and then there is no chance of finding them, since the current quickly drags everything into the ocean. Even if you have a special head mount for the camera, tie the camera to your arm as well, it won't hurt.
During our vacation on the beach of the hotel, vacationers saw cobras three times - sometimes large, sometimes small. As the locals advised us - if you do not touch the animals - they do not touch you. And as soon as you want to tease the animal, it will aggressively defend itself.

The hotel rooms are really tired. Check your pillows - look under the pillowcases - it's very likely that the pillow is all black from mold. We asked at the reception and they brought us new, clean pillows. Room cleaning is poor. When we checked in, there was an empty water bottle under the bed. We did not remove it from there for the sake of the experiment. As a result, after 2 weeks of staying at the hotel, the bottle remained in the same place))


With the beginning of May, it began to feel like the season was really ending. The ocean began to come closer to the hotel, in the water there were a lot of pieces of jellyfish that sting.
At this time, it was more comfortable to swim in the hotel pools, the water in which is very warm, like in a bath.

We rested for almost two weeks and during this time it rained 4-5 times. Almost always at night, so it didn't bother us. Only once got caught in the rain during the day while walking around Halle. We were pleasantly surprised to find that the rain brought us relief and joy, the heat temporarily subsided. The clothes dried quickly.

One morning we decided to take a walk along the hotel's beach. We left at 5:30 am. We were bitten by very small midges - black, with white wings. There were red spots on the bites. Later they began to itch a lot. We arrived at home, read it on the Internet - they write, it should pass in a couple of weeks. We wait. We advise you not to walk along the beach so early. Day and evening we were not bitten.

Large beautiful fish and medium sized turtles live in small pools near the reception.
Bargain with everyone, as many residents love to cheat, hoping that you won't notice underweight or that you've been miscalculated. Tuk tukers are overpriced, you always have to knock down.
Bargain with beach fights for excursions, because they save on you. We agreed that our two-day trip with a scourge would include visiting two places, the entrance to each of which cost 10 euros per person. During the trip, they were replaced by those places, the entrance to which cost 1 ye. The money, despite our demand, was not returned.
We agreed on a trip with one whip boy who speaks Russian well. And in the end, another one went with us, who practically did not understand either Russian or English. Of course, he could not tell us anything about the places visited.
During the tour, we were taken to a local cafe with suspiciously low prices. The smell in it was indistinguishable from the smell in the toilet.

In the end, we realized that the smell was coming from rice. In what water it was boiled, one can only guess. Scary. Do not eat for anything in such places. And before you take food, smell it. Wipe cutlery with paper towels!
The tour also included an elephant ride. In order to save money, all of us (6 people) were seated on one old, tortured elephant. The elephant walked about 50 meters and we all unanimously asked to be let down from the elephant, because it was a very pitiful sight. They don't have Greenpeace.
Our friends took excursions from Join Up. The cost of excursions is twice as high as that of scourge fights. But, what's funny, the guides are the same locals who do not know the language.

So, the results. Despite the minor shortcomings, of which there were many, we really enjoyed our stay. The island is truly heavenly, cosmic. Do not dwell on the negative, but enjoy to the maximum what Sri Lanka has to offer you.