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Wonderful holiday in Sri Lanka

Written: 25 march 2013
Travel time: 6 — 16 march 2013
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday; For business travel
Your rating of this hotel:
9.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 8.0
Service: 8.0
Cleanliness: 9.0
Food: 9.0
Amenities: 8.0
travel time from 06.03. 2013 to 16.03. 2013, took four days of excursions. We flew from Donetsk by FLAY DUBAI with a stopover in the Emirates. In general, the flight is well tolerated. Four hours to Dubai and four and a half to Colombo. The airport in Colombo is somewhat confusing, you need to include brains and intuition. The first impression, Lanka met with high humidity. Be sure to buy a phone card that costs $10 and you will have enough money on your account to talk to Ukraine for the entire trip, just buy a “dialogue”. We accidentally took the "mobile" nonsense. We met and the tour began. Very clean streets. The tour group consisted of us (four tourists, guide and driver). With a guide a little unlucky - knowledge of the Russian language leaves much to be desired. The first day of excursions is of course difficult immediately after the plane, but the next three days passed in the same breath. Overnight stays were in hotels not the best, but quite clean, you can sleep one night. Beauty everywhere is indescribable. The people do not live richly, but they don’t bother much about this. nature, animals. Very beautiful wedding ceremonies, had a chance to watch. It is especially worth stopping at people. I have never met so many good people at once in my life. Everyone is trying to help you in every little thing, up to peeling a pineapple. Everyone is smiling, very clean, they wash their hands more often than we - the Great Ukrainians - face. The guide, for example, came out to us every morning in new clean clothes. On the fifth day we got to our hotel, it was the Citrus Hotel in Hikkaduwa. The hotel is excellent, but only for a quiet quiet holiday, no animators, no entertainment, everything is very calm, even the music did not play during the day, and in the evening there was live music during dinner. The musicians somehow surprised us with their repertoire in one evening, they sang our hits in Russian - White Roses, for example. They settled without any bribes, immediately gave room 118, apologized for being on the first floor and promised to move tomorrow, but we refused. The view from the room to the lawn and the ocean is visible. All wooden furniture in good condition. The shower worked properly. The bed was changed every two days and again without any tips. Towels changed every day. The staff is pleasant, not intrusive, smiling and polite. Everyone wrote about mosquitoes, there were none at all, in Berdyansk on the spit, there are real mosquitoes there. We only had breakfast and dinner at the hotel. The cuisine is excellent, the food is very tasty and varied many times better than in Turkey. I think everyone will find something to their liking. Yes, only their pastries are not tasty here. Turkey is beyond competition. The most unpleasant moment in the hotel is the representative of the tour operator JoinUP, they call him Yuri. We never saw him at the hotel. So also information about leaving the hotel was pulled from him by phone. Although there was a desire to go on a short tour. But thanks to Yurik, the operator did not earn a small penny. Be ready and immediately complain about this Yurts. We dined in cafes where there is a sea. , and besides, almost everyone has free wi-fi. I liked one if you stand with your back to the hotel to the left about fifty meters called REFRECH there is a menu in Russian. The price of lunch is about 130 - 160 hryvnia for two. Lunch prices are ridiculous. In Crimea, spend more on chebureks. Opposite the hotel there is a large supermarket and a liquor store. . Alcohol by the way is not very bad, for example, try Calypso red rum and mango arak, local wine is not good, beer is even nothing. Ate where to go is a tuk tuk, there are drivers who speak a little Russian. The nearest major city of Galle is 18 kilometers away, and so the trip there and back, he is waiting for you there, costs 12 dollars, funny money, really. Here is the phone number of a local tuk tuker speaking a little Russian 0774304656 called Amila. There are many shops selling jewelry. There is something to tell here. Prices are reasonable, you can bargain willingly take dollars, although for all other purchases you'd better have rupees. By the way, the exchange of dollars for rupees takes place in the same shops at the same rate as at the airport, at the hotel, of course, the rate is underestimated. Bought earrings and a brooch. We developed a wonderful relationship with the guys from the same shop. Back to the hotel to the right is the very first jewelry store 70 meters from the hotel on the side of the hotel. They trade in silver products, but they will make whatever you want from gold in a day. They do not speak Russian, but you can talk and bargain with minimal knowledge of English. Here is their phone number 777393294 Kubra Gem Exports as it says on their business card. I did not have enough money for a brooch, so they persuaded me to take it home and send them money from home to their bank account. You can imagine it - I still have such credulity in my head. As a result, they gave the brooch dropping 35% of the cost. I had a bottle of vodka and treated them, they were satisfied, they asked for more. When you go, grab a bottle of vodka for them and say hello from the guys who bought a brooch for mom. The ocean is warm. There is a coral reef near the hotel, a wave to the left (they ride boards there), to the right 400 meters there is a very calm cove, you can swim perfectly, it is opposite the Chayatrans hotel. Also a good hotel, even better than ours, but also more expensive. You need to swim on the waves very carefully, they are strongly pulled into the ocean. We swam on corals - this is not Egypt. All corals are dead, there is nothing colorful and beautiful. If swimming on corals is only Egypt, there is no such beauty as in the Red Sea anywhere. The sun is hot, don't forget your sunscreen. I'll sum it up. The trip is excellent, relatively cheaper than Thailand, the sea of ​ ​ impressions. Hurry up to visit before the Russians and Ukrainians got there en masse, taught the gullible people the mind. Well, accordingly, the tour operators did not raise prices.
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аватар Taras.Kuziv
Taras.Kuziv

Thanks for your feedback, Zoya! I am very glad that you had a good rest. It's very good when there are positive tourists like you in the group :)
Sincerely, Taras Kuziv

Fri, 19 Jul 2013, 16:54
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