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Journey to the island of Tsilon from NEWS Travel, and as usual in a place with our friends Nadia and Vova (nadin65), so the review is a bit similar, with a change through Kharkiv-Sharjah-Colombo, Air Arabia Airbus A320. Comprehensive meals on board the aircraft are not provided in advance, the order of dishes takes place during the flight, they did not bother, they took food from home.
We rested at the Chaaya Tranz Hikkaduwa 4 * hotel from October 5 to October 14.2013, respectively, the tour from October 4 to October 15 - the first and last day is the road. The flight turned out to be very tiring, but the road from Colombo to Hikadduwa and the morning Sri Lanka with its wonderful nature brightened up the bus ride and tiredness vanished.
The time difference with Ukraine in October was 3.5 hours.
Wi-Fi - in the rooms and throughout the hotel for FREE! Reception code!! ! !
HIKKADUWA is a clean village with shops above the road and local residents and their houses deep in the jungle (before leaving, I read about dirt, lice and stench - NOT confirmed). Transport is a separate issue - extreme left-hand traffic and the driver on the right, until the last day it was not familiar. The road along the ocean, hotels on the shore and shops on both sides.
HOTEL one of the best on the coast of Hikkaduwa and I think the whole of Sri Lanka. With a fairly green area and not small for Lanka, 5 floors with 35 rooms each, a little more than 140 rooms in total.
Ground floor of the reception and a restaurant, cafe, recreation area. From the first to the fourth - rooms, The best in comfort-dryness rooms on the 3rd floor.
There are a lot of chipmunks, monitor lizards, iguanas on the territory;
At the reception, not a single word is understood in Russian. Only our cleaner knows a little Russian.
The hotel often cut out the lights for a few seconds.
Opposite the hotel there are many shops. There is a supermarket not far away from the Citrus Hotel, where we basically bought everything. There is also a liquor store, the prices are all fixed and already indicated on the product, with a check you can return an empty bottle, it costs 40 rupees. On the other side of the hotel, about a kilometer away, there is a fruit and vegetable market.
The hotel is surrounded by ocean on three sides. And all three sides are completely different. If you stand facing the ocean. Directly in front of the hotel is small and dead coral where large turtles swim. There is a big storm on the left side, there are hotels CITRUS HIKKADUWA 4 * and LANKA SUPERCORALS 2 * you can say there is no entrance to the sea, it’s still good that I convinced myself and my friends to choose Chaaya Tranz Hikkaduwa 4 *, otherwise everyone would have to swim would have once had to scratch on Chaaya beach.
The hotel often hosts conferences, weddings, presentations - we saw it all.
The NUMBER was given after 12.
00 on the third floor №325. All rooms with ocean view. Spacious room with everything you need in it. There is an additional sofa for relaxation with many pillows of different sizes. The same sofa is on the spacious balcony. There is a kettle-tea corner with replenishment of water, tea, coffee, cream and sugar. The air conditioner worked silently, a medium-sized safe with the ability to encode with a regular electronic code and a bank card or USB, a mini fridge (we immediately asked to remove the mini bar), a 32 * TV.
Two towels per person, hair dryer, shampoo, shower gel, soap, wipes, bathing cap. In the description of the hotel it was written toothbrushes and paste, as well as a shaving machine, we didn’t have this, we asked the cleaner, he brought us only brushes. There is also a mosquito fumigator in the room (with us, mosquitoes were not seen in the hotel).
They cleaned the room, changed towels and replenished bath accessories, water and tea in the morning and evening.
The dampness in the rooms is very high, so you can not turn off the air conditioner so that condensate does not flow along the walls and ceiling. We got used to the air conditioner on 24 during the day, and at night we turned it off, because it was cool to sleep, and we didn’t have drips from the walls.
MEAL was paid half board HB. The food is good, there was plenty to choose from, a lot of fruits (mango, pineapple, carom, watermelon, apples, bananas, tangerines and other exotic fruits), meat (chicken, pork, beef and lamb) and fish dishes (three types of fish, shrimp, squid), both spicy (in a dark bowl with tied ribbons on the lid) and slightly spicy in shiny stainless steel containers). From drinks - tea, coffee, coconut, pineapple, orange juice diluted with water, and 3 more types only for breakfast.
It is forbidden to take food out of the restaurant, this is monitored. Those who have all-inclusive meals are wearing bracelets, and then they can drink drinks during the day.
For dinner, dress code, in closed clothes.
Right in front of the hotel, 3 large turtles swim up, they are fed with algae and, of course, everyone is photographed. One of the turtles is the most contact, - she constantly goes to people even during a storm, the locals say that she is 83 years old.
There is a shower on the beach and near the pool, they gave out beach towels, they could be changed several times a day. Sunbeds are located in the green area of the hotel. We settled down on sun loungers under coconut palms and went to swim in the ocean, the distance is small and it is quite normal to walk 15 meters along the sand to the ocean.
There is a POOL for adults and children, we did not swim in it, we like the ocean more!
In the evening, there was little entertainment, karaoke (a set of Russian chanson) and pop music, the locals sang songs in Russian.
We went from Sambat (on the beach with hair tied in a ponytail, before the excursion he spoke, but on the excursion itself he was silent, and did not willingly answer questions, although other tourists were happy and he talked more with them) on an excursion to Kandy from 5 am to 10 pm - (pineapple plantation, spice garden, Temple of the Tooth, riding elephants, the Botanical Garden in Kandy and the PUSSELLAWA Tea Plantation with a tea factory (I strongly advise you to buy tea on the plantation and cheaper and better) near the hotel, more expensive, but also a good manufacturer "Mlesna ? ”, we refused to plant stones because we were already tired), we took from Amelie - she speaks Russian better (ask him at the Dolphin restaurant) an excursion to the Lagoon by boat - which we liked most, we saw a lot of monitor lizards, flying foxes, monkeys, mongooses , various birds, a crocodile, it also included the Turtle Farm, the Stone Factory, the Spice Garden.
100 $ = 1.900 rupees, you need a passport.
They changed it at the airport, it was possible not to change it there, there are many banks near the hotel with the same rate, and in Western Union the rate is almost the same 129 rupees and without a passport you can.
Shops and market purchases only for Rs! Only for excursions paid in dollars.
They took sunscreen with protection 30, and also took mosquito remedies - but they were not useful at the hotel, they are needed on excursions in the jungle.
And in conclusion, I really liked the Chaaya Tranz Hikkaduwa 4 * hotel, I advise you to relax in this hotel and if you have a choice between CITRUS HIKKADUWA 4 * and LANKA SUPERCORALS 2 *, do not regret it and add money to Chaaya, you will not regret it !!! ! !
When hanging from the hotel, luggage can be hung at the reception, in our case 20kg per person and up to 15kg hand luggage are allowed, read more on the website of your airline
Also, the transfer to the airport was poorly organized by the escort party, everyone was traveling on the bus with different departure times, from 3 to 5 hours.
There is a good dutik at Colombo Airport, who did not have time to buy Red Rum for a gift, it is cheaper there than in stores near hotels
Have a pleasant stay and good adventures in this wonderful country of Sri Lanka and the Chaaya Tranz Hikkaduwa 4 * hotel !! ! ! !
We rested at the Chaaya Tranz Hikkaduwa 4 * hotel from October 5 to October 14.2013, respectively, the tour from October 4 to October 15 - the first and last day is the road. The flight turned out to be very tiring, but the road from Colombo to Hikadduwa and the morning Sri Lanka with its wonderful nature brightened up the bus ride and tiredness vanished.
The time difference with Ukraine in October was 3.5 hours.
Wi-Fi - in the rooms and throughout the hotel for FREE! Reception code!! ! !
HIKKADUWA is a clean village with shops above the road and local residents and their houses deep in the jungle (before leaving, I read about dirt, lice and stench - NOT confirmed). Transport is a separate issue - extreme left-hand traffic and the driver on the right, until the last day it was not familiar. The road along the ocean, hotels on the shore and shops on both sides.
HOTEL one of the best on the coast of Hikkaduwa and I think the whole of Sri Lanka. With a fairly green area and not small for Lanka, 5 floors with 35 rooms each, a little more than 140 rooms in total.
Ground floor of the reception and a restaurant, cafe, recreation area. From the first to the fourth - rooms, The best in comfort-dryness rooms on the 3rd floor.
There are a lot of chipmunks, monitor lizards, iguanas on the territory;
At the reception, not a single word is understood in Russian. Only our cleaner knows a little Russian.
The hotel often cut out the lights for a few seconds.
Opposite the hotel there are many shops. There is a supermarket not far away from the Citrus Hotel, where we basically bought everything. There is also a liquor store, the prices are all fixed and already indicated on the product, with a check you can return an empty bottle, it costs 40 rupees. On the other side of the hotel, about a kilometer away, there is a fruit and vegetable market.
The hotel is surrounded by ocean on three sides. And all three sides are completely different. If you stand facing the ocean. Directly in front of the hotel is small and dead coral where large turtles swim. There is a big storm on the left side, there are hotels CITRUS HIKKADUWA 4 * and LANKA SUPERCORALS 2 * you can say there is no entrance to the sea, it’s still good that I convinced myself and my friends to choose Chaaya Tranz Hikkaduwa 4 *, otherwise everyone would have to swim would have once had to scratch on Chaaya beach.
The hotel often hosts conferences, weddings, presentations - we saw it all.
The NUMBER was given after 12.
00 on the third floor №325. All rooms with ocean view. Spacious room with everything you need in it. There is an additional sofa for relaxation with many pillows of different sizes. The same sofa is on the spacious balcony. There is a kettle-tea corner with replenishment of water, tea, coffee, cream and sugar. The air conditioner worked silently, a medium-sized safe with the ability to encode with a regular electronic code and a bank card or USB, a mini fridge (we immediately asked to remove the mini bar), a 32 * TV.
Two towels per person, hair dryer, shampoo, shower gel, soap, wipes, bathing cap. In the description of the hotel it was written toothbrushes and paste, as well as a shaving machine, we didn’t have this, we asked the cleaner, he brought us only brushes. There is also a mosquito fumigator in the room (with us, mosquitoes were not seen in the hotel).
They cleaned the room, changed towels and replenished bath accessories, water and tea in the morning and evening.
The dampness in the rooms is very high, so you can not turn off the air conditioner so that condensate does not flow along the walls and ceiling. We got used to the air conditioner on 24 during the day, and at night we turned it off, because it was cool to sleep, and we didn’t have drips from the walls.
MEAL was paid half board HB. The food is good, there was plenty to choose from, a lot of fruits (mango, pineapple, carom, watermelon, apples, bananas, tangerines and other exotic fruits), meat (chicken, pork, beef and lamb) and fish dishes (three types of fish, shrimp, squid), both spicy (in a dark bowl with tied ribbons on the lid) and slightly spicy in shiny stainless steel containers). From drinks - tea, coffee, coconut, pineapple, orange juice diluted with water, and 3 more types only for breakfast.
It is forbidden to take food out of the restaurant, this is monitored. Those who have all-inclusive meals are wearing bracelets, and then they can drink drinks during the day.
For dinner, dress code, in closed clothes.
Right in front of the hotel, 3 large turtles swim up, they are fed with algae and, of course, everyone is photographed. One of the turtles is the most contact, - she constantly goes to people even during a storm, the locals say that she is 83 years old.
There is a shower on the beach and near the pool, they gave out beach towels, they could be changed several times a day. Sunbeds are located in the green area of the hotel. We settled down on sun loungers under coconut palms and went to swim in the ocean, the distance is small and it is quite normal to walk 15 meters along the sand to the ocean.
There is a POOL for adults and children, we did not swim in it, we like the ocean more!
In the evening, there was little entertainment, karaoke (a set of Russian chanson) and pop music, the locals sang songs in Russian.
We went from Sambat (on the beach with hair tied in a ponytail, before the excursion he spoke, but on the excursion itself he was silent, and did not willingly answer questions, although other tourists were happy and he talked more with them) on an excursion to Kandy from 5 am to 10 pm - (pineapple plantation, spice garden, Temple of the Tooth, riding elephants, the Botanical Garden in Kandy and the PUSSELLAWA Tea Plantation with a tea factory (I strongly advise you to buy tea on the plantation and cheaper and better) near the hotel, more expensive, but also a good manufacturer "Mlesna ? ”, we refused to plant stones because we were already tired), we took from Amelie - she speaks Russian better (ask him at the Dolphin restaurant) an excursion to the Lagoon by boat - which we liked most, we saw a lot of monitor lizards, flying foxes, monkeys, mongooses , various birds, a crocodile, it also included the Turtle Farm, the Stone Factory, the Spice Garden.
100 $ = 1.900 rupees, you need a passport.
They changed it at the airport, it was possible not to change it there, there are many banks near the hotel with the same rate, and in Western Union the rate is almost the same 129 rupees and without a passport you can.
Shops and market purchases only for Rs! Only for excursions paid in dollars.
They took sunscreen with protection 30, and also took mosquito remedies - but they were not useful at the hotel, they are needed on excursions in the jungle.
And in conclusion, I really liked the Chaaya Tranz Hikkaduwa 4 * hotel, I advise you to relax in this hotel and if you have a choice between CITRUS HIKKADUWA 4 * and LANKA SUPERCORALS 2 *, do not regret it and add money to Chaaya, you will not regret it !!! ! !
When hanging from the hotel, luggage can be hung at the reception, in our case 20kg per person and up to 15kg hand luggage are allowed, read more on the website of your airline
Also, the transfer to the airport was poorly organized by the escort party, everyone was traveling on the bus with different departure times, from 3 to 5 hours.
There is a good dutik at Colombo Airport, who did not have time to buy Red Rum for a gift, it is cheaper there than in stores near hotels
Have a pleasant stay and good adventures in this wonderful country of Sri Lanka and the Chaaya Tranz Hikkaduwa 4 * hotel !! ! ! !
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