Хорошо, но не без проблем. Романтика и красота! Okay, but not without problems. Romance and beauty!

Well, let me start off by saying that the ocean view from this hotel is amazing!! ! This is the main plus, and that is why we chose this hotel. The view is amazing from the pool, from the reception, and from the hotel room, if you are lucky with the room itself. Thinking through all the problems in advance, we grabbed "Stolichnaya" in the dutik and immediately seemed to have established relations with the staff and asked for a view of the ocean, the pool. Unfortunately, everything didn’t work out as quickly as we wanted - at first we had a room with the right view, but on the 1st floor (this was not an option at all, because behind the glass doors to the terrace people walked and ate, we hid under thick curtains, and what kind of view are we talking about then! ), then we got the second floor, where you could even see the ocean a little, but just a little bit, at an angle, so the window rested against the wall. We were embarrassed to ask for another room, but when the toilet began to smell wildly with sewage, it already became unbearable! . . no one argued with us, and we were promised another room - and only on the 4th day of our stay at the hotel we received what they wanted - a beautiful view, romance . . did not want to leave! But I want to note that we had to ask and wait for each room for quite a long time - we went 2-3 times a day to remind us that we needed another room. I don’t think they had them, it was clear that those rooms that we took were vacated just about.
In general, the rooms are so-so . . 3-ka! There are toothbrushes, soap, shampoo, balm, shower gel, body lotion, refrigerator, plasma, hair dryer, iron (bring). They carry luggage. The furniture is old, instead of a large 2-bed, 2 single beds can be combined - this is inconvenient. In one of the rooms, the bed was shabby so that, for example, the husband gets up from the bed on one side, and I bounce like on a swing, on the other, plus a wild creak. Curtains, bedspreads are also fufu . . but the most inconvenient thing is the lack of a shower screen in the bathroom. After taking a shower, the floor dries up only in the morning - I had to throw towels on the floor.
The territory of the hotel is well guarded, the guard is always visible. Removed, there are enough sunbeds, but there are no umbrellas. Just when we brought brand new beach towels.

Crazy waves caught us in the first days - I almost drowned, broke my chin and got a slight concussion. My husband called deeper into the ocean, where the waves are soft, but I didn’t have time to cross this border . . I remember how it dragged me to the depths and my hands went numb, I remember how I screamed in panic and called for help, but there was no one around except my husband - I pulled it out. Horror! Still, the hotel area and looking far enough from the water, there is no one on the beach, everyone is by the pool, so if you go swimming alone . . no one will hear you. Be careful and don't swim alone! The ocean is scary!
We only had breakfast. He's not bad on his own. A couple of times we dined at the hotel at "Grill Kitchen Evenings" - that was terrible! . . and expensive, and stone tender and non-cut meat, and evening sweets were quickly snapped up. There are many cafes on the coast in the neighborhood, where pleasant music and delicious food are prepared. The only miss that I will not forget is the healthy octopus in red sauce and scanty oysters . . apparently, normal oysters are not found in these places. And the octopus . . as I remember - I will shudder so much, it was even unpleasant to look at it! Be careful with the frills) We ate ice cream with fruit with pleasure - very tasty! And here, the local cuisine . . uh... where I just haven’t been, but I haven’t tried spicier food in my life! Moreover, what tourists bring from the local cuisine (I'm talking about curry mainly) is insipid food compared to the food they eat themselves. We somehow ran into such a place on an excursion . . it’s impossible to eat absolutely anything! . . don’t impose full plates on yourself without trying it !! ! This is from a person who likes spicy food! )
The staff is polite, smiling, beautiful, sweet! In general, well done - they try! They know English better than ours - it is their second official language in the country.
Sri Lanka is a country of dogs! ))) What does it have to do with the same breed! The feeling that the same dog walked with us throughout the vacation, sometimes doubled and tripled)))

About excursions a separate long conversation. But I'm short. We did not like the complex offers from the hotel because a lot of things are crammed into one excursion, mainly what we have already seen everywhere, for example, and waiting for everyone on the bus is not an option. The road to almost all excursions is very long. We went to the city of Galle only from the hotel - in general, not bad. But, in Kandy - to the Royal Botanical Garden, to the spice factory and the tea factory, we got through one pleasant young man who speaks excellent Russian, who has his own company not far from the hotel. We had a personal comfortable transfer with a driver, our own personal guide, we stopped where we wanted and when we wanted, we built and changed the route ourselves. It was fun and interesting. We paid a little more than if we had gone from the hotel in a big bus in a big crowd, and we saved half a day!
And in Sri Lanka it is quite expensive! More expensive than in Thailand, and even more so than in Vietnam. Keep this in mind.
In general, a good country, great vacation! But for some reason this is not the place to which you want to return again.