Holidays in Blue Water left a diverse impression

Written: 15 march 2014
Travel time: 5 — 14 march 2014
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday; For families with children; For recreation with friends, for young people
Your rating of this hotel:
7.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 7.0
Service: 7.0
Cleanliness: 6.0
Food: 7.0
Amenities: 4.0
I'll write everything in order until nothing is forgotten:
1) My husband and I flew by Emirates Airlines Kyiv-Dubai (Airbus A 330) average, though we were fed and there was something to do during the flight. Screens built into the chairs with a variety of games and a couple of films in Russian.
Upon arrival in Dubai, we had 2 hours of free time. We spent all this time looking for a transit transfer and a local Duty Free. First we went down by the elevator, then we took the subway and went through customs control.

The flight Dubai-Colombo passed in more comfortable conditions, we flew already on a Boeing, 3.5 hours of flight and we are already in the capital of Sri Lanka, in Colombo. We were met by a local man on a private transfer, which could not but please. Their roads are a different story, I have never seen anything like this, a whole bunch of people, who are on what: some on bicycles, others on mopeds, tuk-tuks, buses (doors in transport are constantly open, people hang on handrails, look out halfway out of the windows ), minibuses. 2 hours on the road, crossing the railroad !!!! ! she is there... and we are in hotels.
2) Like all of us, they met us (the boy is very good, I don’t remember his name, he knows enough Russian), treated him to juice with papaya and taken to the room. It was a room on the 3rd floor overlooking the ocean. In my opinion, 307. But there was a bathroom in not good condition and there was a kalyuzha in the refrigerator. We went down to the reception and asked him to change the room on the 1st floor. Everything was changed without any problems, settled in 107, everything is super.
3) We took all inclusive, breakfasts are monotonous, dinner already includes fish, shrimp, there were even crabs. Dinner is the same as lunch. From fruits: bananas, pineapples, papaya, watermelon, lime. There are a lot of flies in the canteen, it's true. The same story and on the street where there are tables.
The staff is very friendly, but there are those who do not hesitate to ask for a tip, for example, in order to drive a lizard out of the room that made its way through the balcony, the hotel employee asked for a couple of euros.
There are a lot of cocktails in the bar near the hotel, but they are not tasty, you can order cola, sprite, fanta, soda, they are not at all like ours, and the container in which they are produced is not the first freshness. I advise you to try the royal braid, exotic
4) Of the differences, this is water aerobics in the pool, I cheerfully advise 7 though all this takes place in the sun, where I personally got burned. Many weddings at the hotel, even got to the ceremony. Crows are a different story, they are everywhere, they drink water from the pool, swim, in short, those tourists. They don't pay attention to people.
5) The ocean is constantly stormy, you can’t swim calmly. But to trample on the waves and full panties squeak is YES. But fun)))

6) The excursion went from the host with the guide Ranjoy to Kandy, elephant nursery, spice garden meeting with the doctor-DIVORION, do not buy spices they are across the road from the hotel at half the price, bot garden, tea plantation, gemstone factory, Buddha temple. THIS IS AWESOME, I have never experienced anything like this. My husband and I were already terrified after 2 hours of driving to the first stop. From 05 am to 10 pm this is too much, I don’t know how you can admire everything when there is no comfort on the road, the bus stinks terribly of their perfume oils. I am not very picky, and the fact that I am only 27 years old, but even I could not stand it... In the end, when people asked to stop to buy fruit, our Ranjan fell asleep and we arrived without fruit....
In short, what can I say, in principle, the rest was a success, the sun, the ocean, Beloved, but the country is very poor, everyone wants to deceive you. I won't go to Sri Lanka again.
Translated automatically from Russian. View original