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Koggala Beach Hotel 3 * is located on the first line, in the village of Koggala (“kog” - island, “gall” - birds, as the local resident tried to explain to us) next to the lake of the same name, in the very south of the island. From Galle 13 km, to Matara (emphasis on the first "a") - 30 km. The hotel consists of one and two storey buildings. All rooms overlook the ocean (although the ocean itself is blocked by palm trees, but this does not matter, we only spent the night in the room : )). Rooms on the first floor have their own access to the beach, i. e. you can enter from the corridor side, and from the beach side. The corridor is open, with stairs to the ocean. Koggala Beach Hotel and Club Koggala Village are all one complex: two restaurants, two swimming pools. But for some reason people flocked to the Koggala Beach Hotel restaurant. It really was more comfortable there J
We were given a three-room suite on the second floor of the hotel. A huge living room, a huge bedroom with a double bed (not two beds pushed together), a room with wardrobes, a table and a mirror, a bathroom with a shower and a bathtub, and a balcony with chairs and a table. Two air conditioners and two ceiling fans. Windows to the floor. There are blinds on the windows.
The hotel restaurant has a buffet. Plenty of food for all tastes. Rice, vermicelli, potatoes, vegetables, meat, chicken, fish, salads, sauces, fruits, tea/coffee, cakes, jellies and puddings for dessert. There are peppery foods marked spicy or curry. We literally gorged ourselves on pineapples. Pineapples there are juicy, sweet, and are served both in salty dishes (chicken with pineapples), and in sweet ones (jelly or pineapple pie), and on their own.

The service staff is friendly and courteous. As the husband said, there is a huge cultural gap between a waiter with bare feet and a waiter with boots. Those. there is no schooling and the ability to be invisible. In my opinion, it's not scary. The bed linen was clean, the room was cleaned and towels changed every day, fresh napkins were laid out in the restaurant before each meal, dirty dishes were quickly removed from the tables.
If there is a desire to go somewhere, tuk-tukers are waiting at the exit of the hotel, ready to take you to the ends of the world. J Worth haggling. To Galle and back they asked for a thousand rupees (approximately $ 10), we bargained for 700 rupees, while a local resident volunteered to accompany us. For 700 rupees, we went to Galle, walked around the fort, stopped at a turtle farm (entrance - 400 rupees per person), visited a mini-factory and a woodcarving shop in the depths of the village, and visited Koggala Lake. Time is from lunch to dinner.
There are no centralized excursions in the hotel. And the host of Concord Exotic was not puzzled by this either. You can negotiate with the locals. In Koggala there is a local polyglot guy Manjula (Misha in Russian), who speaks English, German and Russian well, many people know him, including at the hotel reception. It organizes both individual and group excursions around the island. A two-day tour of Sigiriya-Dambulla-Kandy-Peradeniya-Nuwara Eliya with an overnight stay at a hotel in Kandy cost us $ 150 per person. 10 people were traveling in a minibus with air conditioning and tinted windows. The tour included riding an elephant, climbing Sigiriya, visiting the Cave Temple in Dambulla, the Temple of the Tooth Relic in Kandy, the Botanical Garden in Peradeniya, waterfalls, tea plantations and a tea factory in Nuwara Eliya. And we also stopped at interesting colorful places along the way.
Impressions from the island are positive. People are smiling and friendly. Good weather, a warm ocean, a lot of greenery around, everything is blooming and fragrant, chipmunks rush through the trees, you can meet a monitor lizard along the road, geckos and iguanas run, big bright butterflies flutter. Didn't want to leave. In Sri Lanka, I was COMFORTABLE.