living hell

Written: 15 january 2013
Travel time: 2 — 12 january 2013
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday; For recreation with friends, for young people
Your rating of this hotel:
5.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 5.0
Service: 6.0
Cleanliness: 6.0
Food: 8.0
Amenities: 5.0
Don’t think that I’m spoiled, but I really want to tell you how it was... at first I took out my husband’s brain that I wanted to go to Lanka because of the massages and just the ocean with the hotel I didn’t think for a long time, since I was in bentota in May and everything was on the level. My husband thought and thought and made a New Year's gift, and here I was, all in anticipation of a chic vacation, relaxation and the ocean, counting down the days until the trip. Well, it's not a secret for anyone that the flydubay airline has the ability to delay flights for at least an hour, so without much upset, I went to the dutik to stock up on vacation wine since there is no wine there and it costs a lot in the hotel . . the flight went quite successfully, as usual, it shook a little over the ocean, and at 6 in the morning I was all happy waiting for the transfer in Lanka)))) With the transfer, again, we were lucky in the minibus for 3 hours, but for Lanka it’s too fast)))) upon arrival, they settled right away and even fed them at least for breakfast and was late, but just said that I hadn’t been with them for the first time.
And now, after the road, shower and breakfast, we ran to the ocean....it turned out to be not as warm as in May, you can say that it is much colder, but as I remembered that it was minus at home... I climbed to swim, there was no sun, as vacationers said for several days plus, very often for all 10 days of rest there were prolonged rains, but still people, including me, managed to get burned))
After the ocean, I decided to go to Laluna (a local Ayurvedic center) where they had a gorgeous massage in May. And here I was disappointed with the oil that they used to do before, they replaced it with something terribly smelly that you have to wash it off for a long time and wash your head like that several times to get rid of the smell and the massage consisted only in lightly rubbing this mixture, having concluded, she refused to massage the head, because in addition to the stink, they also pulled out a bunch of hair and asked for just a synchronous massage, but for men to do it, who would understand why they knead the body at least a little.

In general, the rest would have been a success... if it were not for one but... MOSKITUES. Since the weather was rainy and the hotel is located between the river and the ocean, they became more active, I thought that the smart one had scooped up a bunch of ointments, but believe me, the ointment helps once or twice, and then everything is useless. that one day at all lay in the room. Citronella oil also does not really save, I tried to smear aloe (natural, torn out opposite Ayurveda at the hotel), at least somehow relieves itching.
The living creatures at the hotel are still the same, but more snakes already impudently climb 2-meter pythons eh....fun))))
The kitchen is normal, you definitely won’t stay hungry, I didn’t try the drinks at the bar except for the cocktail, they were too cloying, but there were also normal ones. Of course, the tea is delicious, I brewed it with ginger and lime, the taste is unusual, well, I ate fruit, the paradox in the hotel constantly ate papaya, but it was not very sweet, and I bought it at the market and brought it home well, it’s just sugar delicious))) and it costs a penny only half a dollar for By the way, a kilo is delivered normally. Pineapples are also cool, yellow, fragrant, they are also carried in normal luggage, but I advise you to take mangoes in hand luggage, because in luggage it somehow suffocates and becomes tasteless
A separate topic is spices, I'm obsessed with them, so I scooped up cloves and coriander and cardamom and cinnamon and vanilla sticks, as well as vanilla nature powder, believe me, it all differs many times from our spices, but I advise you to buy in a regular supermarket in bentota from a few times cheaper there five times more than in spice gardens and somehow more beautifully packaged))) and in general, spice gardens are a complete scam for tourists aloe vera cream, which tourists row most of all in the store costs about 3 bucks in the same place about $ 30

You can walk around the city calmly on foot (although the locals are knitted in the hope that when they go to the store with you, they will get a kickback, so to speak, like he brought you there, so feel free to send them right away and go to supermarkets with a fixed price, by the way, there is still brown rice in everything $ 1 per kg of basmati is very cool. Well, you can immediately negotiate the price on a tuk-tuk, in general, a maximum of about $ 2, he should roll you around the shops and then take you back to the hotel. loaded to the full decided to take a tuk tuk asked to take us to another supermarket so he took us to a souvenir shop after my arrival took us where we needed to arrive at the hotel asked the bastard $ 10 my eyes popped out on my forehead after they sent me to the right place (there it is understand) apologized and asked for $ 5, they gave only $ 2.5 and said to go for good. Don’t think that I’m so angry, no, but they just try to rip off as much money from the tourist as one told me l, you are white, it means you are rich, and since you are rich, you simply have to share with them as the Buddha said. For $ 15 I went by tuk tuk to a neighboring town (about an hour drive) along the way the consequences of the tsunami are very clearly visible there was just the peak itself , has not yet been removed, even though seven years have passed. In Hikkaduwa, this is where I went chic snorkeling, the fish are in no way inferior to Egypt, although the corals are not colorful and huge turtles on which you can swim, diving was also the most positive moment of my trip))) I didn’t go anywhere else because I traveled all the excursions in May, half of which wasted money, nerves and time (((
Almost everyone who was gnawed by mosquitoes was waiting for their departure home, and now this happy day has come....you are going in the hope that in the evening you will find yourself at home, wash off and sleep well, but . . the glorious flydubay airline has prepared a surprise for you....departure from Colombo with a delay of 1.5 hours, but oh well, there is a massage room where you can hang out, by the way, the massage is at an excellent level and the prices are pleasing)))) which cannot be said about Ayurveda in bentota. In Dubai, the transfers are all registered for everyone, but it turned out that the plane had already left without us (all other flights to Samara, Donetsk, Ufa waited for their tourists), but alas, to Kyiv....And then the panic begins... what's next in a day only 2 flights to Kyiv, one flew away without us, and not everyone managed to exchange tickets for the second one, since there were few places to find an airline representative and it’s unrealistic to make claims again, not to anyone I was lucky to fly away on the same day....though from Kyiv by train I was naturally late, I had to buy another plane ticket to Lviv (there are still those wastes)))) so I ended up at home that evening, all bitten and swollen from long flights, but at home)))) they were completely spoiled to Lanka
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