Танджерин Бич Шри Ланка Tangerine Beach Sri Lanka

I rested with my son 19 years old from November 2 to November 15.2013 in this hotel for breakfast. Near the five-star hotel, one area, you can use the pool, free internet in the hotel lobby. In short, the difference in prices for that period was 17 thousand rubles. I practically did not see the difference, no, perhaps there is a difference - in the five-star staff, impudent on tips. For the rest period, 1 dollar was equal to 127 - 130 rupees. If in Tangerine for 100 rupees the staff was ready for your every desire, and in a five-star staff they were offended by a tip of 2 dollars. Breakfast is excellent, but for lovers of non-spicy food, the selection is not large. The first hotel in which a policewoman stands in front of the restaurant and the bags of visitors are taken away at the entrance. I went with a small handbag that fit half of the restaurant, there were no problems during the rest. Lunch is not worth taking, as there are a lot of cafes around, in which crabs are $ 8, and lobsters are $ 28. I can’t say anything about soups and salads, since they ate only king prawns for $ 22 and lobsters, they didn’t take crabs, since it is known that they have meat only in claws. The territory of Tangerine is not large and passes into the territory of the five-star Royal Hotel, by the way, weddings in national costumes with ritual dances are very often played there - an interesting sight, especially when the wedding ceremony goes to the beach and the solemn column of wedding guests is surrounded by people with cameras and cameras in swimsuits and swimming trunks. The hotel beach is fenced off from the sea beach with a small fence, near which each entrance to the beach is police. On the sea beach, the local fraternity invites you on excursions, sells beautiful shells (I bought three large shells for $ 15), they sell pareos and coconuts, which are cut in front of you and put up straws for a pleasure price of 100 rupees. You can buy a coconut near the pool, but it will already cost $ 3.5, it is served on a plate, the top and bottom of the coconut are cut off and put on the sides of the fruit, the coconut immediately turns into a pig's face without eyes. We arrived (there was an hour delay in Sri Lankan lines in Moscow) at 9.45, and breakfast in Tangerine from 7.30 to 9.30. In short, we were left without breakfast. Check-in at 13.00. It is clear that they want money. They say after an hour the rooms on the first floor will be released. I read on the Internet that it was damp there, so I began to say goodbye to the third floor. Manager John, perhaps the only European among the entire staff of the reception, says there are no places and they will only be on the first floor after an hour. After a 30-minute wait, they decided, God bless them with money, gave John $ 10 and within 10 minutes we were in a room on the second floor with our things. Then it turns out that they overpaid, it was enough to give five dollars. The room was lovely half view of the park-pool, half of the sea. By the way, both hotels are practically with Russian tourists, a small layer of British, Germans and Japanese. But the whole point is that not a single flight reception speaks Russian. So learn English. If the guide tells you that you can call him on a cell phone from the room for free, it is immediately specified at the flight reception with him, we were first billed for talking with the guide. What you drink and eat at the bar on the beach, it doesn’t matter during the day or in the evening to pay for any flight reception the next day, on the one hand it’s very convenient not to carry money to the beach, on the other hand, the bill does not always match. Therefore, while the figure is fresh in memory, do not postpone payment until the last day. By the way, the missed breakfast on the first day was returned to us in dry rations on the day of departure, do not forget to order it the evening before. The weather was very comfortable for me, almost every day there were clouds, so the sun did not scorch and I could lie on the beach all day long. When it was during the day the sun is already after 11 and before 16 it is very hot. It rained almost every night, so we slept well. Humidity is also on the second floor, but the advantage is not to iron things - hung it up and in the morning, as if stroked it. Outside the gates of Tangerine there are local Schumacher tuk tuks - for 200 rupees for any shopping, we first paid the guide 50 dollars. To be taken to shopping in Colombo - in vain. To Kalutara by tuk tuk 15 USD. The shopping was no better. The only mage. Who impressed with the prices is Nolimit. All the rest, such as Odel with the prices of Moscow supermarkets, Colombo stores are listed on the Internet, in which the prices will pleasantly surprise you - I live in Moscow and the Colombo prices did not surprise me. Returning to Tangerine, at the exit from the hotel there is a restaurant (cafe glory from the gate) of Natalie. They cook well, but prices are 200 rupees higher than further across the railway (5 min). Through glands. The road on the right is a cafe Delicacy, prices are cheaper than in the district, the Russians have occupied, there are practically no places. Serves the black boy Dima, his wife cooks. To take an assistant to the kitchen, a toad strangles him, so you need to wait an hour and a half for an order, and when there are a lot of people, it can take three hours. The Russians spoiled Dima, walks for a long time - does not take an order, then flies up to you and says: "let's talk faster. " I didn’t interrogate the lobster tongs, I decided with my teeth - the result is a broken tooth. If you exit the gates of the five-star Royal Hotel, immediately to the right is a cafe with a map of Sri Lanka painted on the wall. There the owner is a young guy Ara, his name is written to the left of the map. It's cheaper there than anywhere else. . By the way, you can arrange a trip by tuk tuk with him, his friend Tangaran (if I remember the name correctly) a boy of 20-23 years old very carefully drives, shows all the sights and organizes cheap shopping and finds a favorable exchange rate. He showed me a very cheap place where I bought blue and yellow topazes. why cheap, because behind the store, as my son said, I would like to have such a summer house, in which there is a mine in the backyard, from which you are mining minerals. In short, I drank four items in silver from them for $ 350. in Moscow, my friends went crazy from the size of the blue topaz. I took excursions from the Tour Operator Tez Tour. Expensive. But they are responsible for you. Then I ordered an individual excursion only to the temples of Sri Lanka and to Sigiriya (it took two days) an excursion for two with food and an overnight stay in a mountain hotel near the waterfall cost $ 250, the guide worked out this money with interest (name is Alexey, his number is +9.778501972- if you call from Russia) if you call from Sri Lanka 07.8501972. He speaks tolerably Russian, in the morning in the mountains he gave me a large bouquet of orchids and wished me good morning, not usually, but a fact. In short, I recommend the hotel, all the people I wrote about are worthy of attention. Sri Lanka is a country of one-time stay. Only for couples and mothers with children. There is no place for young people to hang out in the evenings, there is a TV set and the Internet in the hotel lobby.