Хороший отель, в хорошем месте Good hotel in a good location

We got to that hotel, because. did not confirm the reservation for Citrus Hikkaduwa, which they never regretted. This is the second trip to Sri Lanka, there is something to compare) From the pros:
- Hotel: normal, clean, new rooms (in the reviews I met that the hotel is old, I don’t know, or the review was written by someone who had never been there, or after that everything was updated), regularly and well cleaned.
- Friendly staff, everyone is trying to help, any request or wish was resolved quickly, with a smile and without reminders). By the way, when buying a Sea vew through a tour operator, our neighbors lived in a room where the ocean was only visible if you climb out the window and look out from behind a huge cabinet right in front of the window), so it’s better to take regular rooms, and on the spot or negotiate with by someone. when you see the room, or even according to the rules, there is about + 10 dollars surcharge for sea vew, so at least you can see which room they will put you in.

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- Convenient location - I left the hotel and there are many shops, restaurants, cafes and anything for every taste nearby. Opposite a shop offering tours of Sri Lanka. (We found out there, went with a local, (Jivan, in our opinion Vanya). There are a lot of surf schools nearby. There are a couple of restaurants nearby, the hotel has free leaks, or in cafes nearby closer to the shore. to use it, they ordered fresh juices there mostly, but even with us, many simply used the sunbeds and no one even came up. Rather, to order something you need to call the waiter or stomp to the bar yourself.
- The food is good (but the second time they would not take dinner, because at the hotel dinner is $ per person, in neighboring restaurants for the same money and even less you can buy very well (a plate of seafood for two is $ 23, they serve departure almost from french fries and salads, rice with seafood about $ 7. , fresh juices $ 2.5-3. By the way, they drank awesome pineapple fresh juice in Moon Beam (5 minutes walk from the hotel, along the beach or along the road) on the ocean (one of those establishments . that we visited in Hikkaduwa, this is probably the most beautiful and well-groomed), they also took fish dishes there. For 5000 rupees - about 33 dollars there was a set: a huge plate of seafood, a side dish, and wine). all local cafes and restaurants - not at all). Everywhere +10% in the check for service. We also ate at the JHL restaurant (probably a couple of kilometers from the hotel, 5 minutes by tuk-tuk and about 1 dollar) - delicious and fresh seafood, large portions, friendly staff, right on the ocean). The hotel prices are average, a little more expensive than in restaurants in the area) By the way, in other hotels dinner is usually cheaper, then it turns out to be cheaper to eat at the hotel. We did not take lunch for the first or second time in Sri Lanka, as for me, it is needed only if you live in a hotel very far from civilization. Because firstly, you still want to try and eat seafood, fruits, and just instead of lunch or dinner, you can go to local establishments, buy fruits, order shrimp, etc. I don’t remember the names of the rest of the establishments, the roommates went to Top Secret, they liked it, the local guide advised Moom Light (my friends went, they liked it, but it’s not on the shore)
- Settling - long and problematic, and not only with us, but with almost everyone with whom they communicated. In our case, it was the fault of the tour operator, because. we arrived at night in the morning, and when buying a ticket they said that they would settle in immediately (early check-in), in practice this was not written in the voucher until everything was figured out, after an hour somewhere (at 4 o’clock in the morning and until morning) we were settled in dead number, in the morning without problems and surcharges moved to a normal one. For the rest, I don’t know if the tour operator or the hotel is to blame.

- The beach is clean, large, no reefs, no stones. There were waves, but there were much more swimmers here than in January in Koggall. It was not so drawn into the ocean, it happened that the scythe washed up, and in general it was possible to swim well. (By the way, we dined at a restaurant near Citrus Hikkaduwa, and noticed that people always go back and forth. Directly opposite the Citrus hotel there are stones. In order to swim, you need to walk, and very decently. Or to the left, for a long time, I don’t know, 300 meters exactly, along a rocky and then sandy shore, or to the right (on the Internet it says that there is a lagoon, I don’t know, maybe I didn’t see it, but immediately to the right behind the citrus there is another 1 hotel, and then the ocean with the beach along the road, if there is a lagoon further, then it’s decent to cut to it, it seems to me that it would be quite annoying, to walk so much to just swim, while living on the coast. Although the hotel itself is quite nice)
- There are no scourge fights at all on the beach (as in Koggala, they really don’t give passage there), we were looking for them ourselves to go on an excursion).
By the way, the hotel is small (a couple of years ago we were in Long Beach in Koggala + there are 2 more hotels of the same company nearby, the territory is much larger, you could find something to do on the territory of these 3 hotels, but there was nothing nearby in the area, so who what do you like more)
- Often in the reviews they wrote that the hotel often had weddings, yes, during the time that there were, there were 2 or 3 days of weddings. But they didn’t interfere at all, as a rule, preparations are visible in the morning or in the afternoon for an hour or two (guests come, the bride, the groom, on the contrary, it was even interesting to look at their traditions), again, this does not interfere with vacationers, this is at the entrance to the hotel and in the reception hall, then the celebration in the hall on the second floor with a separate entrance. No one is seen, no one is heard, there is nothing to interfere with.
In general, when we went there, we doubted and the first impression with the settlement was not very good. But having lived there for more than a week, we were satisfied with almost everything, and did not regret that we chose this particular hotel. We walked along the coast and traveled quite a lot, in Hikkaduwa this hotel is one of the best, in that part of Hikkaduwa it’s even definitely the best, the most decent in appearance so sure, after listening to the reviews of vacationers on the same days (we traveled by bus back and forth together) in other hotels , just confirmed it)