First time in Sri Lanka

Written: 15 september 2013
Travel time: 8 — 15 september 2013
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday; For recreation with friends, for young people
Your rating of this hotel:
8.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 8.0
Service: 8.0
Cleanliness: 8.0
Food: 10.0
Amenities: 10.0
There are not the slightest complaints about the hotel itself - everything is very, very worthy. And accommodation and food - it's hard to find fault. The staff is helpful and responsive. (Points and photos - a little later).
But the dealers who are spinning around - greatly spoil the impression. For example, there is such a Tikka (Tikka). He has two restaurants - Relax and Oasis. It offers the usual set of excursions - Galle, Kandy, jeep safari, etc. Like everything else there - it only organizes a trip / tickets, and there are guides at the points of the program. We went with him to Kandy. The program was supposed to be the usual - pineapple plantations, elephant nursery (with riding for those who wish), tea factory, tea plantation, botanical garden and Buddha temple (from 5 am to 8 pm). But there were only elephants and a tea factory. And from the rest, they showed only three stunted pineapples in the backyard of a roadside eatery, a few bushes of tea on the side of the road, and that's it. No botanical garden, no temple, no normal plantations (although we passed by something very similar). For all this - $ 60 per person (for a group of 9 people) and returned 4 hours earlier. We ask why - he pokes at the sheet (which he did not initially show us), which lists only those items where they were - they say, this is exactly what you ordered. And it seems like there is another tour, twice as expensive, where all of the above is. If you refer to the experience of other vacationers who got all the points for $ 55 - "What guys? Who saw them? ". To prove something is impossible. While we agreed and drove - the courtesy itself, come to the beach-party. As questions arose, everything came out, a rare boor, let's go. It is doubly unpleasant that they applied at the prompt of those who had already used his services. And they, apparently, did not notice the catch. Those. we were not at all surprised that we were shaking in the car for 10 hours, and spent a maximum of an hour and a half outside the car. A crumpled trip, a minimum of impressions, an unpleasant aftertaste. Beware of dealing with this scoundrel.
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