Хороший отель, не хуже многих египетско-турецких пятерок Good hotel, no worse than many Egyptian-Turkish fives

I want to join the previous speakers, who described this hotel in sufficient detail and positively. Everything is so, and everything is really worthy. But I would like to dwell in more detail on the guys from the beach, who are an integral part of our vacation there. Near the hotel on the beach, Big Indigo and Lucky are constantly spinning. Quite adequate guys, whose services were used by the bulk of Russian-speaking tourists and everyone was happy. But we, having read positive reviews about a certain Chari, went in search of him. It is no longer located in the pier area, as was written in the previous review, but on the left side of the hotel, a little further, as the restaurants end (well, if he comes to you himself). At first glance, it gives the impression of a kind of dandelion boy, whom evil big uncles do not allow to go to "fish" places, but here it’s really bad, there are very few tourists, it’s quite a disaster. well, in addition to everything, a certain muddy story was attached (with a demonstration of a photo), about how a certain philanthropist and philanthropist, an acupuncturist from Russia, who was resting here, invited him to his place at his own expense and he lived with him for three months and studied acupuncture, (which as it turned out, nobody needs it here), etc. etc. so take pity and go somewhere with him. Well, we went with him to the city. I don’t want to say anything bad about the shops to which he brought us: decent tea, good souvenirs, excellent selection and quality of fruits. but I was surprised by something else: a tuk-tuk is designed for a driver and two passengers, and here there was a driver (his cousin? ) And he himself sat down to us for some reason third. as I later realized, apparently this Chari is not at all as simple as he wants to seem, perhaps he is even, like some kind of looking, luring and selling tourists his trips. At least the presence of a NokiaLumia smartphone speaks of his, to put it mildly, dubious plight, while everyone else has such ancient soap dishes that even pensioners do not keep here. and most likely, according to his status, he already, as they say in the bastard, steer a tuk-tuk, but the tourist needs to be put on the hook, so it turns out, the fourth passenger. although everyone usually travels in threes. well, in the course of this trip, we agreed to go to Galle Fort, a big and long trip with sightseeing along the way, corals, turtles, etc. etc. And all this for a fairly decent amount, although we managed to lose a little. and everything would be fine if on the day of the trip, he didn’t tell us that he had some kind of force majeure, and his next cousin, who also knows Russian very well, would go instead of him. Well, what can we do, let's go. this brother knew exactly three words in Russian: hello, bye, how are you. Accordingly, the trip, I repeat for a lot of money, was ruined. in my opinion, as I already wrote, this chari only lures Russian-speaking tourists on trips, and then sends anyone with them just to take money off.
so my advice to you is not looking for good from good. there are guys near the hotel, all of us, and then we went with them a couple of times and everything was clear, decent and without any divorce.
I am not advertising anyone here and I am not campaigning for anyone. I'm just writing the way it was. the choice is yours anyway. and the country is wonderful with good, pleasant people. I will gladly go back there again. and I hope my review will be useful to someone.