The picture "did not wait" ...

Written: 29 december 2017
Travel time: 11 — 21 december 2017
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday
Your rating of this hotel:
4.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 4.0
Service: 5.0
Cleanliness: 4.0
Food: 3.0
Amenities: 5.0
Hello to all tourists!
I arrived on December 22, barely gathered my thoughts... We took a "burning" ticket, but the price was not small compared to other hotels. This one was recommended to us, a solid 3 *, and reviews of the norms.
We flew to Colombo and it started... All the buses have parted - we are standing, waiting for someone with a missing suitcase. They didn't wait, they left after an hour. 172 km traveled 5 (!!!! ) hours! With two unnecessary stops, then we already guessed that the guide was deliberately playing for time. We were at the hotel at 2:30 pm instead of 12:30 pm. The girls at the reception with frightened eyes crowded, whispered, ran. And we are 20 people, there are children.

To all our questions and indignations, one answer is "one minute", then - frank irritation. In general, there was not a single ready-made room, although the check-in was at 14-00! Our guide named Sarat, a local, could not do anything and just ran away! In general, we did not wait, we changed into impudent clothes and went for a swim. We got our room at 5:30 pm. And so the second episode began. . .
I walked in and almost fell over. The furniture is old, battered, shabby, there are no bedside tables, no drawers for small things, in the bathroom there is a shower behind a dirty oilcloth, there is no table under the sink, no toothpaste, no toothpaste. There is nowhere to put the brush. For towels 2 hooks. Kind of essno on the road, where around the clock buzz and smoke! Street dust and noise freely enter the room through the cracks, because window frames do not match the window opening by two fingers wide! The closet has 3 shelves, 2 wire hangers, a round table, 2 wicker chairs. ALL !! ! And this is a number for three! To top it off, when the friend sat on the bed, she collapsed! It turns out that unplaned, dirty boards were simply laid on the bed frame... Another nuance: ventilation in the bathroom occurs through a window on which a grid is stretched at a level of 1.8 m, overlooking the common corridor! In general, everyone who passes at a certain moment along the corridor is aware of your intimate affairs, and the toilet, by the way, did not flush at all. Communism, blah! We fought for an hour - there are no numbers! They also giggle, parasites!
After spending a crazy night, we waited for a meeting with the guide and told him everything we think... You see, these girls from the reception were offended by US (and not WE by them) and gave such a number in retaliation. Allegedly "standard room" and suggests this SHED !!!
To the credit of the guide, he still forced us to change the room. We drove to the first floor in the side building. Earth and sky. But the mood and idea of ​ ​ the hotel was ruined forever. Further, throughout the entire shift, we simply did not notice these girls at the reception and resolved all domestic issues through the senior administrator. Normal man.
When we left the hotel, we were not given a questionnaire with a review about the hotel, although everyone filled it out. Cats smell whose meat they ate...

About the hotel. Territory untidy, all around clayey brown earth, dirty paths, the restaurant fed well, but monotonous. Of the fruits, only watermelon, papaya, 2 times they gave pineapple. There was no seafood at all, only fish in batter or fried, dry. There were no napkins, there were some rags on the tables, crumpled, it seems second-hand, the tablecloths were also stale. Young boys cleaned the rooms, tea, sugar, coffee, cream, soap were given without problems, but there were no bath towels! Knocked out with difficulty through the admin. Shampoo, balm are not provided, it's good that they took it with them. Wi-fi only at the reception is disgusting, brake, constantly breaks down.
There are no animators, in the evening there is some music and songs at dinner.
There is no beach either, a small puddle, fish, hedgehogs, we saw a terrible fish - a stone. Around the corals, slippers are a must!
We went to the beach through the hotel to the right. The path along the shore through the corals, so we walked along the street. Big turtles came every day. Cuties!
Opposite the hotel there is a 2-storey and inexpensive supermarket. There is also a cafe right opposite the entrance to the hotel, there are gorgeous big shrimp. The market is far away, the fruits were taken there. The shops are full.
We went on an excursion with a guide Sarat. Along the way, he carries on the left, because. does not give a receipt for payment, for the entrance to the parks, the museum, as well as the restaurant, they paid extra themselves. The tour was rich: the Sri Lankan village, the elephant nursery, the botanical garden, we stopped at tea plantations (1200 m above the ocean), at the tea factory, at the workshop for making paper from elephant like... , visited the Ayurvedic garden with a pharmacy, the temple of the tooth of the Buddha and etc. . . total 35 S+ tickets + lunch. It was possible, of course, to see the waterfall and climb the mountain, but I didn’t want to lose another 2-3 days out of 11. So from 3:30 p. m. in the morning until 23-00 h. went.
Despite all the shortcomings, they still rested, sunbathed, ate, drank. Country for 1-2 trips. If we are going to come again, we will choose the hotel meticulously. Photos of the hotel almost always do not correspond to reality.
But I do not advise you to go to "Lanka syper coral" !! !
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