I chose this hotel because it had high ratings on the Otpusk. com website. We were seated immediately upon arrival. The rooms are quite normal, not 5 * of course, but clean and without mold. We only bought breakfast. If you want to retire, you can go here because the Wadduwa region is a village by the village.
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I chose this hotel because it had high ratings on the Otpusk. com website. We were seated immediately upon arrival. The rooms are quite normal, not 5 * of course, but clean and without mold. We only bought breakfast. If you want to retire, you can go here because the Wadduwa region is a village by the village. There is no entertainment and movement there, but the locals offer their services on tuk tuks, take them to a "restaurant" for example. The beach is clean, but there is no lifeguard, no buoys. Just relax and enjoy. The minus of this hotel is the complete lack of entertainment, animation. It is better to go to the south, the very south.
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A wonderful two week holiday in Sri Lanka is over. But it was awesome. We chose this hotel after we were told everything about it at the travel agency. Everything here is at a good level. The staff is very helpful and friendly. From cleaning guys to managers. Everyone is willing to help and explain. Large, spacious room and crazy ocean view just shocked us! Beauty!!!! ! And be ready to meet new people.
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A wonderful two week holiday in Sri Lanka is over. But it was awesome. We chose this hotel after we were told everything about it at the travel agency. Everything here is at a good level. The staff is very helpful and friendly. From cleaning guys to managers. Everyone is willing to help and explain. Large, spacious room and crazy ocean view just shocked us! Beauty!!!! ! And be ready to meet new people. Chipmunks, monkeys, etc. . . They come to visit)))))) The hotel area is large. Nature and wildlife - stunned! Liked the ocean and the beach. Sloping entrance. Very comfortably. The waves don't bother me that much. This is a real relaxation and exotic in all its sense. We recommend to everyone. And would come back here for a couple of weeks. We say many thanks to the agency for the choice, the staff of Haridra Resort & Spa and the hospitable, exotic Sri Lanka!
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The rest was from 25.01 to 01.02. 2014.3 days ago returned from Sri Lanka. The hotel is above all praise! We saw a lot of things!! ! Immerse yourself in local color. No tour will show this! Thanks to our local guide, Tarindu visited a Sri Lankan wedding. Unforgettable impression! The bride is very beautiful in a saree!! ! We went with Tarindu on a two day tour of Kandy-Nuwara Eliya.
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The rest was from 25.01 to 01.02. 2014.3 days ago returned from Sri Lanka. The hotel is above all praise! We saw a lot of things!! ! Immerse yourself in local color. No tour will show this! Thanks to our local guide, Tarindu visited a Sri Lankan wedding. Unforgettable impression! The bride is very beautiful in a saree!! ! We went with Tarindu on a two day tour of Kandy-Nuwara Eliya. At the beginning of our excursion there was a small force majeure - our car broke down. Waited for a new car for 4 hours! But they flew by very quickly. We went for a walk around the local village. We visited a local resident on his rubber plantation, drank tea at his house, he gave us a tour of his house, showed us all the photos and how he lives. Then we visited the local rice fields. Tarindu taught us how to make ropes from coconuts. And the splendid end of waiting for our new car was a climb up the mountain to an abandoned temple in which for a very long time there was not a single visitor, except for the ministers. We were greeted very hospitably, fed some kind of local cakes, gave us tea. . And in general, all Sri Lankan residents are so smiling and friendly !! ! Thanks to Tarinda for not losing his head and giving us such a spontaneous excursion, which you will not get in the usual excursion program. Vacation was a success!! ! Yes, just in case, phone Tarindu 0094779650549
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Five people rested in two furry rooms, young and old, everyone liked it, although they had already traveled around the world, everyone was satisfied here. I recommend it to anyone who needs a relaxing holiday with Europeans mainly. The ocean is warm from January to May.
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Five people rested in two furry rooms, young and old, everyone liked it, although they had already traveled around the world, everyone was satisfied here. I recommend it to anyone who needs a relaxing holiday with Europeans mainly. The ocean is warm from January to May.
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The other day my wife and I returned from paradise. How I wish I could go back there again. The HARIDRA RESORT 4 * hotel can be safely called a paradise nest. The territory is clean and well-groomed, it was difficult to take your eyes off the local species, because the hotel is located right on the beach. Two restaurants, one bar, it was enough for me.
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The other day my wife and I returned from paradise. How I wish I could go back there again. The HARIDRA RESORT 4 * hotel can be safely called a paradise nest. The territory is clean and well-groomed, it was difficult to take your eyes off the local species, because the hotel is located right on the beach. Two restaurants, one bar, it was enough for me. The menu had a lot of seafood, fruits. Cocktails are excellent at the local bar. Of the minuses, one can name only paid room service, and paid Wi-Fi, but the cost is offset by the quality of services. My wife and I are delighted with our vacation, with renewed vigor returned to business.
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I will try to share my impressions of the stay. . . I was with my wife and two children (9 years old) for the New Year. First, about the hotel itself. All as in the photos). We took the Garden suite - two levels with a balcony on the first floor and a terrace and access from it to the lawn to the pool. In my opinion, this is the best accommodation option with two children, whom we settled on the ground floor, taking one extra bed for $ 15 / day, because for one of the children, according to the terms of the voucher, there was a so-called.
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I will try to share my impressions of the stay. . . I was with my wife and two children (9 years old) for the New Year. First, about the hotel itself. All as in the photos). We took the Garden suite - two levels with a balcony on the first floor and a terrace and access from it to the lawn to the pool. In my opinion, this is the best accommodation option with two children, whom we settled on the ground floor, taking one extra bed for $ 15 / day, because for one of the children, according to the terms of the voucher, there was a so-called. sharing (child shares a bed with parents). It was necessary to take sharing for two children and already at the hotel to take two beds for an additional fee - the savings would be about $ 300-400. The room itself is very spacious and comfortable. It can be seen that it is not new, but everything is functioning properly and it seems that this will be the case for the next ten years - everything is done very high quality and soundly. The layout itself allows you to achieve the feeling of a half-empty hotel, despite the fact that there was not a single free room. The people spread evenly throughout the territory (the staff will drag sun loungers to any place on the lawn or on the beach) and the people closest to you can be at a distance of 30-50 meters, which achieves the effect of almost complete privacy. The service is slow, but this is rather a feature of the temperament of the locals. They understand English well at the reception and a couple of senior waiters. The choice of food, as for me, is quite sufficient. Everything is very well prepared. On New Year's Eve they especially tried - the total length of the tables with the food offered was 150 meters. The cost of dishes on the menu is much higher than in restaurants in the city. Alcohol is also not cheap, but no one bothers you to buy, for example, a gin in a store and order only tonic and ice to your balcony, terrace or sun lounger. If you are a hookah lover (like me), then you will have to bring it with you, as well as tobacco, coal and accessories for lighting it. For the locals, it's exotic. When I first went to the reception with a request to light the coal - they fell into a stupor and called the hotel manager. Explaining to him that lighting coconut charcoal and transporting it in a specially designed small iron ladle to the smoking area on the terrace of the room would not be a violation of fire safety rules and drawing his attention to the fact that in our bathroom there are small drops on the floor very similar for dried blood and this is not a problem for us and we do not require a change of number - I got his permission for the daily ignition procedure. At the same time, I listened to his story that it was not blood, but furniture polish, which negligent staff spilled during cleaning, and since the floor is made of natural light stone, which is porous in its structure and absorbs liquids very strongly, there is no way to wipe off stains , and they simply did not have time to change the tiles. In turn, I tried to reassure him that I often smoke a hookah in my house and that my house has never burned down from this, I also tried to dispel his stereotype that hookah smoking and marijuana are somehow connected. In general, believing in mutual stories (or pretending to), we parted, being quite pleased with each other. The English manager is worthy of all praise - literary with a London accent. Regarding holidays with children. Upon arrival, I immediately asked at the reception that the security would rule out any possibility of exfiltration of children outside the hotel and their access to the beach without our accompaniment. It was done verbatim. The guard moved away from them only if we appeared in his field of vision. The picture is amusing - children swimming in the pool and a guard standing five meters from them, often wet to the waist from the spray they produce. There is no animation in the hotel, but for children it was not an inconvenience. Having cooperated with the Balts about their own age, they had a great time without animators. Of the available entertainment for children, there are: a swimming pool, an ocean, catching very agile crabs on the beach, food, soft drinks, feeding palm squirrels (fruits and rice), feeding crows (I haven’t seen such yet - they come very close and ask for food, it was experimentally it was determined that they most willingly eat scrambled eggs and chicken without spices, although they do not refuse bread and fruits), looking at geckos living on the balcony and terrace. In general, everything suited the children. Meals at the hotel are washed away to take breakfast and dinner, because it takes 7 minutes to go to the nearest restaurant by tuk-tuk (600 rupees, about $ 5). This cost includes waiting for the end of your meal and delivery back to the hotel). This service is provided by beach fights. Chief in their criminal community Madu. He is trying to learn Russian, and in a mixture of Russian and English, one can explain himself quite tolerably. We went on three trips with him. The first is a safari in Yalla. I'll tell you more. Yall is approximately 200 km from the hotel. We left at 3 am. At the reception, having learned that we needed to be woken up for an excursion, they offered to take breakfast with a dry ration, which we took advantage of. With Madu, we agreed on the cost of shipping the four of us to Yalla and back at $200. To my surprise, he went with us - honestly and conscientiously acting as a guide. We drove a new eight-seater Hiache. The minibus is new, absolutely clean and without any foreign smells (including from the driver), which favorably distinguished it from the cattle trucks kindly provided by the travel agency for transfer from the airport and back. When planning movements around the island, one must take into account that due to narrow, winding roads and their high congestion, the average speed at night and early in the morning will not exceed 60 km / h, and in the afternoon and evening 35-40 km / h. Additionally, we paid $50 to rent an antique open Len Rover with a local driver to move around the park and about $70 for entrance tickets for four. . Driving around the park in an open pickup truck on broken primers for four hours is quite tiring after the first two, and a ballistic mask and shemakh would be very useful - the dust from the car freely falls on all surfaces. If you are traveling with two or three people, it is better to rent a pickup truck with benches on the sides - a better view and more space. If there are more people, then take a pickup truck with valuable seats in the back - it will be more comfortable. For three hours of moving around the park, we saw many different animals, which had previously been seen only in zoos, after that we were frankly tired and decided to return to civilization. After lunch at a very good restaurant, which Madu recommended to us, we went back to the hotel on the way, stopping in Halle to see the Dutch fort. The tour turned out for the whole day - we returned to the hotel at 22-00, just in time for the end of dinner. Pretty boring, but definitely worth a look. . The next day we went to a Buddhist temple in Kandy (on the way we stopped at a tea factory (the initial prices for tea are quite high - bargain, the normal price is 1300-1500 rupees / kg of orange pekoe), a tea plantation, an elephant nursery, a spice plantation (the cost of oils is frankly high - buy at the pharmacy), pineapple plantation and somewhere else). The cost of this excursion was $100, of which $50 was paid by a young couple from Ukraine who were not embarrassed by the presence of children in the bus. About $20 more was paid for the children to ride on elephants in the nursery. We returned to the hotel around 22:00. The third excursion was bought for a river safari on the Bentota River (about 50 km from the hotel on a paid high-speed autobahn). The cost is $50 for two families, plus $70 per person and $35 per child for renting a boat for 2.5 hours. After pickup in Yalla, the boat seemed very comfortable). This tour is definitely worth buying - quickly and comfortably. On the way, we stopped at a turtle farm and a coastal fishing village to see how the locals fish (with a five-kilometer net, which is brought in boats into the sea in the morning and then using the entire able-bodied population of the village (50 people), they manually pull it ashore all day and in the evening, finally pulling it out , they also sell a catch on the beach (five tons visually. We stopped first in the morning, and then in the evening, on the way back - to see what we caught. This is a must see. There was no more time to go on excursions, unfortunately. Summarizing the above, I I came to the conclusion that you can and should buy excursions from locals, but you need to immediately find out how much additional costs will be for entrance tickets and transport rental directly at the place of the excursion in order to understand for yourself the final cost of the event. Also, ask what else you can see along the way , but at the same time it was possible to have time to return to the hotel before 22-30 (in order to have time to feed the children with dinner). ate with Madu, he never tried to deceive us in anything or show his displeasure or disagreement in anything. As well as we have never tried to cheat or deceive in any of the places that we visited with him. His attempt (in sophistication at the level of a pre-pubescent schoolboy) to earn extra money on us, which consisted in the fact that he asked to take him on a boat with him on a river safari for an additional $ 50 payment to the boatman, because he had never seen it - I I do not take into account. Painfully artless and naive it looked). In return, I promised him to give him a phone (black and white Nokia), which I used for local calls with a local SIM card when I left, because he broke his and constantly took calls from the driver, which he was absolutely sincerely happy about. The discount that I managed to bargain with him for the cost of the transfer to the place of the excursion, I left as a tip. Anyway, you need to bargain in Sri Lanka everywhere and with everyone. The exception is alcohol stores - there prices are fixed and written on bottles. But before you go shopping for tea and oils, go to the pharmacy and supermarket to get an idea of the real prices. . In general, I can recommend Mada as a guide from the best side. It can provide a more varied and better quality level of service than the host travel agency. He tried to fulfill any of our questions and any wishes (for your information, hard-working local peasants in remote mountainous areas grow coca, khat and hemp - suddenly this information will be useful to someone))). In many ways, his merit is that we had an unforgettable experience from our stay in Sri Lanka. I'll try to summarize. This is one of the best hotels I have ever been to. And it's not about the number of stars, the quality of room repair, food or service. On the second day of your stay, you begin to get the impression that you are living here, and not relaxing for money in good conditions. This, in my opinion, is the main advantage of this hotel. Definitely recommend to everyone for a relaxing family holiday.
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Chewed at this hotel after an intensive tour of the island as part of the tour "Sri Lanka to visit the elephants. " In addition to observing elephants and photo safari in three national parks of Sri Lanka (Minneriya, Uda Walawe, Yala), we were offered a rather intensive and interesting regional program: Sigiriya, Dambula, Kandy, Nuwara Eliya, Tissamaharama, Galle and a four-day vacation on the coast in hotel Haridra Resort & SPA (Wadduwa) before departure.
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Chewed at this hotel after an intensive tour of the island as part of the tour "Sri Lanka to visit the elephants. " In addition to observing elephants and photo safari in three national parks of Sri Lanka (Minneriya, Uda Walawe, Yala), we were offered a rather intensive and interesting regional program: Sigiriya, Dambula, Kandy, Nuwara Eliya, Tissamaharama, Galle and a four-day vacation on the coast in hotel Haridra Resort & SPA (Wadduwa) before departure. Haridra was the 7th hotel we stayed at so there was nothing to compare.
The rooms we had were two stories high with a huge bathroom and nothing extra. There is a terrace on the first floor and a balcony on the second. Good view of the ocean and coastal palm trees. Two air conditioners (on each floor) which, in my opinion, were a pleasant escape from the tropical heat and humidity. In the rooms of my colleagues on the balconies there were small jacuzzi pools, which we willingly used in the evenings with a glass of red Sri Lankan rum. Cleaning was done daily, the cleanliness of the room was maintained, but the towels were neatly hung after cleaning, but were not changed regularly. Breakfast is standard, dinner is tolerable, I wanted to try local cuisine, but the spiciness of the dishes is unbearable, despite the fact that most of the guests are Europeans and our Ukraine, Russia. A remark was made about this in the kitchen, but there was no great enthusiasm to reduce the amount of chili pepper in national dishes. So, it was not possible to taste Sri Lankan cuisine and understand how vegetable curry differs from fish curry. Yes, another secret for me. In the kitchen, apparently based on tradition, they cut chicken and pork with some kind of cleaver or hatchet, which makes the pieces small, and the bones are severely crushed, so you had to eat carefully, every now and then, spitting out small fragments of bones.
The staff is friendly, fluent in English and with their smiles brings a positive atmosphere to the hotel. The main advantage of the hotel is its quiet environment, a moderate number of guests, no crowds, no queues at the buffet.
The beach is clean and picturesque.
The main disadvantages of the hotel are problems with the Internet: the speed is low, it is not available in the rooms at all. Although you can connect your tablet to the TV in the room and watch whatever you want. The TV works intermittently, nothing Russian-speaking. In the evening the hotel is quiet but boring, there is no my favorite evening entertainment - a pool table. The lobby bar is expensive and therefore deserted.
Despite the shortcomings, the hotel coped with its task, provided the traveler with comfort, peace and relaxation. But you can entertain yourself outside the hotel - the island is simply “full” of beauties and wonders.
The rooms we had were two stories high with a huge bathroom and nothing extra. There is a terrace on the first floor and a balcony on the second. Good view of the ocean and coastal palm trees. Two air conditioners (on each floor) which, in my opinion, were a pleasant escape from the tropical heat and humidity. In the rooms of my colleagues on the balconies there were small jacuzzi pools, which we willingly used in the evenings with a glass of red Sri Lankan rum. Cleaning was done daily, the cleanliness of the room was maintained, but the towels were neatly hung after cleaning, but were not changed regularly. Breakfast is standard, dinner is tolerable, I wanted to try local cuisine, but the spiciness of the dishes is unbearable, despite the fact that most of the guests are Europeans and our Ukraine, Russia. A remark was made about this in the kitchen, but there was no great enthusiasm to reduce the amount of chili pepper in national dishes. So, it was not possible to taste Sri Lankan cuisine and understand how vegetable curry differs from fish curry. Yes, another secret for me. In the kitchen, apparently based on tradition, they cut chicken and pork with some kind of cleaver or hatchet, which makes the pieces small, and the bones are severely crushed, so you had to eat carefully, every now and then, spitting out small fragments of bones.
The staff is friendly, fluent in English and with their smiles brings a positive atmosphere to the hotel. The main advantage of the hotel is its quiet environment, a moderate number of guests, no crowds, no queues at the buffet.
The beach is clean and picturesque.
The main disadvantages of the hotel are problems with the Internet: the speed is low, it is not available in the rooms at all. Although you can connect your tablet to the TV in the room and watch whatever you want. The TV works intermittently, nothing Russian-speaking. In the evening the hotel is quiet but boring, there is no my favorite evening entertainment - a pool table. The lobby bar is expensive and therefore deserted.
Despite the shortcomings, the hotel coped with its task, provided the traveler with comfort, peace and relaxation. But you can entertain yourself outside the hotel - the island is simply “full” of beauties and wonders.
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Now that Sri Lanka tours are increasingly being offered bundled with budget accommodation in an attempt to lure in the “bargain price”, hotels like this resort oasis called “Haridra Resort & Spa by Jetwing” seem like the most pleasant surprise in a package tour. And even though this is a publicity stunt at the stage of introducing the hotel (the so-called 'preopening'), we liked it.
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Now that Sri Lanka tours are increasingly being offered bundled with budget accommodation in an attempt to lure in the “bargain price”, hotels like this resort oasis called “Haridra Resort & Spa by Jetwing” seem like the most pleasant surprise in a package tour.
And even though this is a publicity stunt at the stage of introducing the hotel (the so-called 'preopening'), we liked it. Since the hotel is quite new and little known among us, I will make a brief review of it.
About style/design.
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Simple pleasures in the spirit of elegant minimalism:
- elegant suites with huge windows and spacious balconies, with a tree in the hallway (living, freely growing in a giant glass cube),
- Absolutely fascinated by the size of the rooms and the ocean-facing baths.
Territory / space.
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- a linear and clearly planned compact area, as if open to the ocean.
The mirror of the long pool is cut into the lawn carefully "trimmed" by the gardener, and it is set off by the house-teremok of the Ayurveda center. The lobby illuminated by the sun and refreshed by the breeze seems to flow from the lawn under the roof of the hotel building - that's all the space. At the same time, it does not seem cramped or aesthetically cold, despite the long galleries and passages reduced to perspective rectangles...
It is easy to see in this apparent simplicity the exact calculation of the architect and landscape designer. Clarity and the play of light and shadow are in the best traditions of maestro Deffrey Bawa, the guru of Sri Lankan architecture of the 20th century and the founder of the tropical modernism style.
Catering / Hotel kitchen
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Quite definitely, without cunning, it can be called the author's. In each of the dishes one can feel the ability of the cook to combine tastes, emphasizing the merits of the components.
The classic recipes are played up by the chef, who is a connoisseur of the nuances of oriental spices and tropical fruits, so guests like a la carte food much more than a buffet, it looks quite harmonious for the average European, who fearfully expects a high degree of spiciness in everything, up to desserts.
What to take: breakfast or half board?
No noteworthy cafes/restaurants were found around the hotel, so half board is definitely preferable to breakfast only.
Things to do?
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Relax-relax, swim in the pool, go for massages and wraps in the Ayurveda center, jump on the waves in the ocean, walk along the endless beach, read books (take it with you or read online on the Internet (Wi Fi is free and “takes” even on sun loungers under the magras, at the very edge of the beach).
At the same time, no one is engaged in your entertainment as such - only you yourself.
Health / sports
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There is a fitness room with modern gadgets, but is it worth it to warm up if it is more pleasant to do it on a sandy beach and in warm waves rolling in shallow water?
I was pleasantly impressed by the team at the Ayurveda Center: conscientious therapists and an attentive doctor, without whom procedures are not prescribed. He will determine your "dosha" - and only after that he will set the task for his assistants: what oil to take, what type of massage to choose, in what order to compose a set of procedures.
Service / staff
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I was touched by the diligent guys who put things in order in the rooms cleanly and neatly, and even with intricate ornaments of flowers and petals. Tea, coffee, water replenished daily without reminders. But if something seems a little, call - they will inform.
Extremely attentive, but archi-slow staff in the restaurant. As if their task is to teach you to stretch the pleasure of eating for an hour and a half. But really, what's the rush?
Savor it - and find a separate pleasure in it!
A little discouraged were sleepy employees behind the reception desk, as if meditating on your question or request. However, if you do not raise your voice and be prepared for the South Asian slowness, then the issues were resolved quite effectively.
Non-staff, but also on the level - these are polite beach-boys who kindly organized a trip for us to the Sri Lankan outback: in one of the villages a religious festival was held in honor of the god Skanda. And the tour to the old Dutch fort Galle performed by them was at the level (fortunately, each participant of the tour had a detailed text / mini-guide with a route around the fort from the host operator).
P. S.
After a four-day stop at a new resort (west coast of the island) under the blessed sky of Sri Lanka, we put - together with my friend (a rather strict business lady) - this boutique hotel three pluses for peace and serenity with service at the highest level.
©tatiana grybova / lanka-lanochka – text, photo, 2013
And even though this is a publicity stunt at the stage of introducing the hotel (the so-called 'preopening'), we liked it. Since the hotel is quite new and little known among us, I will make a brief review of it.
About style/design.
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Simple pleasures in the spirit of elegant minimalism:
- elegant suites with huge windows and spacious balconies, with a tree in the hallway (living, freely growing in a giant glass cube),
- Absolutely fascinated by the size of the rooms and the ocean-facing baths.
Territory / space.
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- a linear and clearly planned compact area, as if open to the ocean.
The mirror of the long pool is cut into the lawn carefully "trimmed" by the gardener, and it is set off by the house-teremok of the Ayurveda center. The lobby illuminated by the sun and refreshed by the breeze seems to flow from the lawn under the roof of the hotel building - that's all the space. At the same time, it does not seem cramped or aesthetically cold, despite the long galleries and passages reduced to perspective rectangles...
It is easy to see in this apparent simplicity the exact calculation of the architect and landscape designer. Clarity and the play of light and shadow are in the best traditions of maestro Deffrey Bawa, the guru of Sri Lankan architecture of the 20th century and the founder of the tropical modernism style.
Catering / Hotel kitchen
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Quite definitely, without cunning, it can be called the author's. In each of the dishes one can feel the ability of the cook to combine tastes, emphasizing the merits of the components.
The classic recipes are played up by the chef, who is a connoisseur of the nuances of oriental spices and tropical fruits, so guests like a la carte food much more than a buffet, it looks quite harmonious for the average European, who fearfully expects a high degree of spiciness in everything, up to desserts.
What to take: breakfast or half board?
No noteworthy cafes/restaurants were found around the hotel, so half board is definitely preferable to breakfast only.
Things to do?
-------------
Relax-relax, swim in the pool, go for massages and wraps in the Ayurveda center, jump on the waves in the ocean, walk along the endless beach, read books (take it with you or read online on the Internet (Wi Fi is free and “takes” even on sun loungers under the magras, at the very edge of the beach).
At the same time, no one is engaged in your entertainment as such - only you yourself.
Health / sports
----------------
There is a fitness room with modern gadgets, but is it worth it to warm up if it is more pleasant to do it on a sandy beach and in warm waves rolling in shallow water?
I was pleasantly impressed by the team at the Ayurveda Center: conscientious therapists and an attentive doctor, without whom procedures are not prescribed. He will determine your "dosha" - and only after that he will set the task for his assistants: what oil to take, what type of massage to choose, in what order to compose a set of procedures.
Service / staff
----------------------
I was touched by the diligent guys who put things in order in the rooms cleanly and neatly, and even with intricate ornaments of flowers and petals. Tea, coffee, water replenished daily without reminders. But if something seems a little, call - they will inform.
Extremely attentive, but archi-slow staff in the restaurant. As if their task is to teach you to stretch the pleasure of eating for an hour and a half. But really, what's the rush?
Savor it - and find a separate pleasure in it!
A little discouraged were sleepy employees behind the reception desk, as if meditating on your question or request. However, if you do not raise your voice and be prepared for the South Asian slowness, then the issues were resolved quite effectively.
Non-staff, but also on the level - these are polite beach-boys who kindly organized a trip for us to the Sri Lankan outback: in one of the villages a religious festival was held in honor of the god Skanda. And the tour to the old Dutch fort Galle performed by them was at the level (fortunately, each participant of the tour had a detailed text / mini-guide with a route around the fort from the host operator).
P. S.
After a four-day stop at a new resort (west coast of the island) under the blessed sky of Sri Lanka, we put - together with my friend (a rather strict business lady) - this boutique hotel three pluses for peace and serenity with service at the highest level.
©tatiana grybova / lanka-lanochka – text, photo, 2013
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Good afternoon! Got on the Bingo system in this hotel. Very decent rooms, excellent food, attentive staff, good beach, good cuisine. Very nice people both hotel staff and local beach-boys. Excursions were taken only from locals, visited Kandy, Sigiriya, Gala. I really liked the country and the people! I recommend staying at this hotel, according to tourists, vacationers in Sri Lanka are not the first year - this is one of the best 4 * hotels.
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Good afternoon! Got on the Bingo system in this hotel. Very decent rooms, excellent food, attentive staff, good beach, good cuisine. Very nice people both hotel staff and local beach-boys. Excursions were taken only from locals, visited Kandy, Sigiriya, Gala. I really liked the country and the people! I recommend staying at this hotel, according to tourists, vacationers in Sri Lanka are not the first year - this is one of the best 4 * hotels.
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I liked everything very much, large two-story rooms, service, we also got bingo, for the money the hotel is just super. The hotel is not fenced from the beach, which is a significant plus, since in the ocean villa it is somehow not very good to look at the destroyed fence on the floor. Bed overlooking the ocean and pool, huge bathtub, a bunch of bottles of shampoos, oils, salts, etc.
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I liked everything very much, large two-story rooms, service, we also got bingo, for the money the hotel is just super. The hotel is not fenced from the beach, which is a significant plus, since in the ocean villa it is somehow not very good to look at the destroyed fence on the floor. Bed overlooking the ocean and pool, huge bathtub, a bunch of bottles of shampoos, oils, salts, etc. , kettle, refrigerator, LCD TV, free waffle in the lobby. . . Sri Lanka and the hotel are super, only the flight is very tiring
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