Great country, great hotel

Written: 4 april 2010
Travel time: 7 — 21 march 2010
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday; For recreation with friends, for young people
Your rating of this hotel:
7.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 9.0
Service: 10.0
Cleanliness: 8.0
Food: 10.0
Amenities: 10.0
We rested in this hotel with a company of 6 people for 2 weeks in March 2010. We searched for a long time, read reviews and chose this place (I was satisfied with the price and location), despite the negative about theft, but “maybe” outweighed. Not lost: now each room has an electronic safe and the headache about the safety of money and valuables has disappeared by itself. Upon arrival at the airport, we bought a local Sim-card "Dialogue" for 1100 rupees (1000 rupees already on the account) and called Moscow for 5 rubles / min. ( MTS-129 rubles / min. ) Money was changed there at the rate of $ 1 = 112 rupees, although on the beach you can change it at 115 rupees. The road to the hotel from the airport took about 3 hours.
I liked the hotel very much, although the furniture is not the “first freshness”, there is no TV (for the entire period they didn’t even remember it) and a refrigerator (with “all inclusive” it’s not needed). With all this, the linen is snow-white, changed once a week , towels every day. Contingent: 60% of Germans, 30% of Englishmen and the remaining 10% are Poles, Russians, Ukrainians, French, etc. Ages from 40 and above, although young people were present, but without a company there is no boring party. Meals (buffet) are varied and tasty, there are a lot of seasonal fruits for breakfast: papayas, pineapples, bananas, watermelons. With half board in the restaurant and beach bar, you can take tea all day, there are coolers on the floors and there are no problems with drinking water. Animation on the level, the guys work out their bread well, although no one will pull you off the sunbed, but if you are tired of lying in the sun, try yoga, water gymnastics. water polo, volleyball, darts, archery. In the evening there were good programs with disco.
Excursions. On the first day, you will be showered with a lot of offers on the beach from beachboys for various trips, mainly to Kandy, Sigiriya, Nuwaria for 2 days. Prices jump from $ 100 to $ 160. We met Harry at the reception and spent the whole vacation under him Decent, honest, punctual Sri Lankan, although his language of communication is German, English and “bad” Russian (we had knowledge of the language). We went with him for 2 days to Kandy-Sigiriya for $ 130 per person. They gave $ 200 immediately. For this “state”, he bought all entrance tickets, hotel accommodation with dinner and breakfast. Upon his return, they gave the rest of the money. On this trip, they visited: an elephant farm, a tea plantation with a visit to a tea factory (they bought tea there), botanical garden in Kandy, the Temple of the Tooth in Kandy, Sri Lankan dances in the evening and the rock fortress of Sigiriya. 2.5 hours). Cost $ 177 per course. Maybe a little expensive , but here the doctor at the first visit will tell you about all your sores and give recommendations. On the beach, massage is cheaper because of the quality and duration. twenty.

In general, there are a lot of impressions and only positive ones. I wanted to visit many places, but for the first visit to Sri Lanka it did not work out. We recommend visiting this hotel.
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