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Why is there an extra charge for the 6th floor? I think this is due to the fact that the entrance to the rooms of the sixth floor is from a CLOSED veranda, while on all other floors, the veranda is OPEN, i. e. count the entrance from the street, hence the dampness, noise, etc. extraneous sounds.
I don't think it's comfortable on the 1st floor, so you understand the lobby, i. e. the entrance to the hotel is at the level of the third floor, and the verandas (entrance) to the first and second floors are located at the level of the retaining wall, which is covered with moss and is always wet (see photo).
As for our room 634, as I already wrote, it is the most extreme, at the very exit of the veranda of the sixth floor (there is no door here and the veranda does not close, right behind the wall there is a street, on the opposite side of the hotel, next to the 601st room, the veranda closes on the door, and, accordingly, the entire floor on this side is dry), here is the answer, as on the same floor
it may be dry in some rooms, and damp in others, in addition, due to the fact that the hotel is located a little corner, our room was the closest to the ocean, the sound of the surf is very audible (I got used to it in two days). For example, in room 624, for all its shortcomings, there was no dampness, as well as noise from the ocean. In general, everything has its pros and cons...
What else about the hotel? CROWS. INSANE. We decided to have a bite to eat on the lawn behind the pool, first one flew in, then another one... After a couple of minutes we were in a ring of five or six birds, which gradually began to shrink... After chewing hastily, we decided to cover the rest of the food with plates and napkins, and go plunge into the ocean. We moved literally two meters away, the crows immediately attacked the table! I had to invite the waiter to take the food away ((
SPA - everything is very worthy. Prices range from Rs 4.500 for a facial massage to Rs 13.500 for a body treatment. On the beach, massages are offered for 500 rupees, so choose... I preferred the spa at the hotel, I refused Indian herbal wraps, because. I was warned that I would bake the skin, I chose coconut, a rather pleasant procedure... On the occasion of my birthday, they gave me a 15% discount.
The beach is impressive, of course. Very wide, almost deserted. Beach-boys attacked only on the first day (you can see the newcomers are immediately figured out), then they lost all interest in us and did not bother us at all. We walked along the beach in both directions from the hotel, Taj is really the best on the coast, there is also Saman Villas, but the price tag is one and a half times higher, but I don’t think that the quality of rest is better in the same proportion.
Excursions. Even at home, we decided that long-distance excursions were not for us, so we limited ourselves to visiting local attractions. Hikkaduwa - you can go snorkeling (fins rental + mask - 600 rupees / hour), feed the fish (take bread). Unawatuna - nothing remarkable, except for the turquoise ocean. Halle is a lighthouse, a Danish church more than 300 years old, a Muslim mosque, a cliff is quite picturesque, well, in general, there is nothing more to see there.
Surprised mango seller in Galle, to enhance the taste, sprinkled mango pieces with a mixture of peppers ! ! Well, I knew that they add pepper everywhere, but in order for fruit... They politely refused pepper, they bought mangoes)))
A mine for the extraction of moonstone... In our Donbass, they call it “kopanki”.
A trunk 15-20 meters deep was dug out by hand and the soil was lifted manually with a winch, sifted, and this stone was selected. When asked how much they get, the guide vaguely answered, depending on the output, they say, the owner decides... In my opinion, the owner not only does not pay them, but also does not always feed them.
The spice garden… Another scam for naive tourists… Here is mimosa, here is cinnamon, here is breadfruit, but all sorts of healing oils help against all diseases, buy it! Moreover, the “action” takes place in some bushes (thickets)... When you refuse to buy, they defiantly lose all interest in you.
The Bentota River... How big, so dirty... The banks are COMPLETELY littered with garbage that no one cleans up, and if you consider that there is NO sewerage in the houses (or rather huts) of the Sri Lankans, then... you understand....
In general, the country is POOR, of course, to be sure... One third of the people I saw walk JUST BAREFOOT, from clothes - a piece of fabric around the waist...
There are no open spaces familiar to our eyes, everything, every centimeter of land is occupied by dilapidated huts, occasionally there are two or three-story buildings, there are a lot of destroyed buildings after the 2004 tsunami, mold is everywhere, on all buildings...
Against this background, schoolchildren are pleasing to the eye, all in white uniforms, white socks, neat. At school, everyone learns English, without it you will not find a job later. Salaries of teachers (approx. 400 dollars) and doctors (approx. 1000 dollars) are high by local standards. The politicians also, whom our tuk-tuk CC called "mafia")).
There are beautiful, rich houses - this is how CC explained to us, the houses of foreigners (Germans, Swedes) who married local women. In general, someone in Sri Lanka lives well)))
Why is there an extra charge for the 6th floor? I think this is due to the fact that the entrance to the rooms of the sixth floor is from a CLOSED veranda, while on all other floors, the veranda is OPEN, i. e. count the entrance from the street, hence the dampness, noise, etc. extraneous sounds.
I don't think it's comfortable on the 1st floor, so you understand the lobby, i. e. the entrance to the hotel is at the level of the third floor, and the verandas (entrance) to the first and second floors are located at the level of the retaining wall, which is covered with moss and is always wet (see photo).
As for our room 634, as I already wrote, it is the most extreme, at the very exit of the veranda of the sixth floor (there is no door here and the veranda does not close, right behind the wall there is a street, on the opposite side of the hotel, next to the 601st room, the veranda closes on the door, and, accordingly, the entire floor on this side is dry), here is the answer, as on the same floor
it may be dry in some rooms, and damp in others, in addition, due to the fact that the hotel is located a little corner, our room was the closest to the ocean, the sound of the surf is very audible (I got used to it in two days). For example, in room 624, for all its shortcomings, there was no dampness, as well as noise from the ocean. In general, everything has its pros and cons...
What else about the hotel? CROWS. INSANE. We decided to have a bite to eat on the lawn behind the pool, first one flew in, then another one... After a couple of minutes we were in a ring of five or six birds, which gradually began to shrink... After chewing hastily, we decided to cover the rest of the food with plates and napkins, and go plunge into the ocean. We moved literally two meters away, the crows immediately attacked the table! I had to invite the waiter to take the food away ((
SPA - everything is very worthy. Prices range from Rs 4.500 for a facial massage to Rs 13.500 for a body treatment. On the beach, massages are offered for 500 rupees, so choose... I preferred the spa at the hotel, I refused Indian herbal wraps, because. I was warned that I would bake the skin, I chose coconut, a rather pleasant procedure... On the occasion of my birthday, they gave me a 15% discount.
The beach is impressive, of course. Very wide, almost deserted. Beach-boys attacked only on the first day (you can see the newcomers are immediately figured out), then they lost all interest in us and did not bother us at all. We walked along the beach in both directions from the hotel, Taj is really the best on the coast, there is also Saman Villas, but the price tag is one and a half times higher, but I don’t think that the quality of rest is better in the same proportion.
Excursions. Even at home, we decided that long-distance excursions were not for us, so we limited ourselves to visiting local attractions. Hikkaduwa - you can go snorkeling (fins rental + mask - 600 rupees / hour), feed the fish (take bread). Unawatuna - nothing remarkable, except for the turquoise ocean. Halle is a lighthouse, a Danish church more than 300 years old, a Muslim mosque, a cliff is quite picturesque, well, in general, there is nothing more to see there.
Surprised mango seller in Galle, to enhance the taste, sprinkled mango pieces with a mixture of peppers ! ! Well, I knew that they add pepper everywhere, but in order for fruit... They politely refused pepper, they bought mangoes)))
A mine for the extraction of moonstone... In our Donbass, they call it “kopanki”.
A trunk 15-20 meters deep was dug out by hand and the soil was lifted manually with a winch, sifted, and this stone was selected. When asked how much they get, the guide vaguely answered, depending on the output, they say, the owner decides... In my opinion, the owner not only does not pay them, but also does not always feed them.
The spice garden… Another scam for naive tourists… Here is mimosa, here is cinnamon, here is breadfruit, but all sorts of healing oils help against all diseases, buy it! Moreover, the “action” takes place in some bushes (thickets)... When you refuse to buy, they defiantly lose all interest in you.
The Bentota River... How big, so dirty... The banks are COMPLETELY littered with garbage that no one cleans up, and if you consider that there is NO sewerage in the houses (or rather huts) of the Sri Lankans, then... you understand....
In general, the country is POOR, of course, to be sure... One third of the people I saw walk JUST BAREFOOT, from clothes - a piece of fabric around the waist...
There are no open spaces familiar to our eyes, everything, every centimeter of land is occupied by dilapidated huts, occasionally there are two or three-story buildings, there are a lot of destroyed buildings after the 2004 tsunami, mold is everywhere, on all buildings...
Against this background, schoolchildren are pleasing to the eye, all in white uniforms, white socks, neat. At school, everyone learns English, without it you will not find a job later. Salaries of teachers (approx. 400 dollars) and doctors (approx. 1000 dollars) are high by local standards. The politicians also, whom our tuk-tuk CC called "mafia")).
There are beautiful, rich houses - this is how CC explained to us, the houses of foreigners (Germans, Swedes) who married local women. In general, someone in Sri Lanka lives well)))
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