Несостоявшийся отдых Failed vacation

Heritance Ahungalla is a creepy, dirty and inhospitable hole. After the tsunami, the hotel was not repaired, only slightly dried. They did not even bother to change the furniture, which had clearly been in ocean water. The rooms are very dirty, they are dirty with real, disgusting dirt - in the bathroom there are greasy prints of bare feet on the floor, suspicious white spots on the bedspread on the wrong side, the bed linen is damp, everything is in spools and everything is noticeably old. The curtains are torn, streaked, they hang not even on hooks, but on some kind of bent rusty pieces of iron.

The furniture is covered with mold, the pillows are dusty. The doors of the cabinet, in which the TV is usually placed in hotels, are broken out and simply thrust inside, everything that should be closed does not close. The bathroom is striking in its gloom and unsanitary conditions. The walls are concrete, dripping. The mirror is not wiped in principle (but why, as long as you can see at least something in it? ).

Well, footprints, of course, on the floor of someone's unknown feet. Add to this weak, dim lighting and you get a picture of some kind of prison washroom. In the shower, by the way, the same floor as in the entire bathroom, you have to wash in slippers, because there are also some worms with legs running around.

Take food with you from Russia, otherwise you will die of starvation. If you count on the fact that Sri Lanka is an ocean country, and you will gorge yourself on delicacies there, then I will disappoint you - the kitchen in the hotel is edible only for Americans, with their unassuming food. In Moscow, you will not be served such food even in a snack bar on the Cherkizovsky market. Shrimps in salad are rotten! It's even funny when they swim there two steps away in the ocean. So do not rely on the feast of the stomach - you will only eat to maintain life in the body.
Moreover, you will wait at least an hour for the ordered terrible food (and this is the most uncomplicated dish, such as overcooked pasta), and they will bring them to you already cooled down and dried up. And there are so old cola bottles there, they have such rusty caps that it seems that they also survived the tsunami (and what, everything can be). Do not expect to eat in restaurants outside the hotel, they are not there, there is nothing at all, not even sidewalks.

It is not customary to clean the pool, only to catch the leaves. If someone has ever seen a communal bath, he can easily imagine a dirty border at the water level. In addition, for some reason, the attendants bathe in the pool. Very democratic. Tell me, what is the pool for when the ocean is nearby? So you can’t swim in the ocean very much, you can only go up to your waist.

A separate issue is the hotel staff. Ransomware is terrible. Here you are sitting in a bar in the evening, so ten people will come up to you within fifteen minutes and ask if everything is ok.
And then they will all stand behind you and breathe down the back of your head. And this is not for the sake of caring, but so that you, trembling, give them money, then they will safely go to another table.


In general, we survived one night in this hell, and the next morning we began to try to leave this hospitable hotel. But it turned out to be not easy. As the period for which we booked covered Catholic Christmas and New Year, we were charged extra for both gala dinners. Well New Year, okay, everyone knows this condition. But what does it have to do with us, Russian people and Catholic Christmas? Let's then generally pay for all religious holidays, both Muslim and Jewish, and there are so many local Sri Lankan holidays! So, pay for everything? Moreover, this moment of demanding money for dinner characterizes the general behavior of the majority of the inhabitants of this country in relation to tourists.
We were not asked why we want to leave the next day, we were not offered another room, well, at least out of courtesy. We just left, left the room paid for another 13 days in advance, a few more days before Christmas, especially before NY, and the hotel managers still tried to snatch these unfortunate 240 dollars for two. They said that they would not let you out of the hotel - some kind of game! Moreover, to all our dissatisfaction, quite fair, the staff reacted in a strange way, namely with loud laughter. This, by the way, is also a national trait - the more you resent, the louder the laughter will be in your face. The main thing is to restrain yourself and not rush at anyone. And if they have such five-star hotels, then what kind of prisons! )))

My husband and I have traveled to many countries in Southeast Asia, all of these countries, as a rule, are poor. We are deliberately looking not for a polished Europe, but for a local flair.
But we still want to live in elementary cleanliness and comfort, we want to receive smiles and goodwill for our money, and not laughter in the face. And in all countries except Sri Lanka, we have always found it. We fell in love with this country in advance, but somehow it did not want to love us.


If it doesn’t matter to you what conditions you will live in, what to eat, if you are one of those travelers who are ready to walk the whole country with a backpack, go to Sri Lanka, this is a very beautiful country, there is something to see. Just do not settle in five-star hotels - they are not worth it and do not correspond to international classification. But if you are used to comfort, this country is not for you. And not only Heritance Ahungalla is so terrible - all the hotels there are like that. I speak from experience, until we were able to change tickets and fly away (which turned out to be not so easy, despite the fact that business class tickets of Qatar Airlines affected the features of the national service), we lived in different hotels.
For example, one of the hotels of the Taj chain, which are around the world, turned out to be something like an old Soviet hotel, with torn linen and towels.
In general, a pleasant stay!
If you have any questions, write to the mail: o-yuki@mail. ru - I will answer.