Want to return!

Written: 21 may 2012
Travel time: 8 — 19 may 2012
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:
10.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 10.0
Service: 10.0
Cleanliness: 10.0
Food: 10.0
Amenities: 10.0
Just got back from vacation 2 days ago and want to go back. Liked everything.
They read about the Induruwa beach 3 * hotel at home. It came up that the hotel was on the ocean and instead of umbrellas near the sun loungers there were palm trees. During our stay, no one occupied the sun loungers in the morning. There was enough for everyone and everything. It seemed delicious. Every day the chefs came up with something, sometimes meat with different sauces, sometimes desserts are light and tasty. The staff is friendly. Every day they cleaned and laid out elephants, swans on the bed, and on the day of departure everything was decorated with flowers and herbs. View from the balcony was on the ocean and palm trees.
In the ocean, the waves raged under 3 m, but we still swam, dived. We went behind the rock to the right, you can swim there.
There were no mosquitoes and no rain either.

As for excursions, we read a lot about local scourge fights. We took them. The prices are unrealistic, you need to bargain, like everywhere else. We wanted to go with Jivan, but his prices turned out to be higher compared to others. restaurant Kunterbunt, to the left of the hotel, walk about 10 meters.
There is truth, one thing, BUT, all the locals take them to stores, where they unfasten the percentage of sales to tourists. We went with many and asked them to take them to places with local prices, they promised, but they took them where they needed. Divide the prices by 2 and bargain. everyone and no one runs after them. Always negotiate a price on the "shore". And is it really free.
The prices for the excursions we went on (maybe you can still knock down, but according to the results of a survey of other tourists from our hotel, we bargained well : ):
Galle+Hikkaduwa=$15 per person (three of us traveled)
Rafting = $ 35 per person (five of us traveled)
River safari on the Madu River = $ 5 per person (traveled together)
Beach fights say that to make it cheaper, you need to gather a group. It depends on the situation. The guys from the hotel gathered 6 people. They paid $ 15 per person for a river safari, the two of us were 5 each.
They did not drop the price for fruits. In principle, the prices suited us.
Coconut=25 rupees
Mango 1 kg = 300 rupees
Pineapple 1 piece = 50-100 rupees, 50 less, 100 more.
Avocado 1 piece=20 rupees
Passion fruit 1 kg = 600 rupees
Sausep 1 piece = 88 rupees
Bananas 1 kg small yellow = 130 rupees
They called home using the local SIM card "Dialogue". We bought it for $ 8, there were 850 rupees on the account. It was enough for 10 days, there was still some left.
Money was changed at the airport at the rate of 123.79. The rate at the hotel is lower, which is unprofitable.
They didn’t go to Kandy. less (tortoise farm, elephants, spice garden, waterfall and they said if they had known before they would not have gone to Kandy. No one saw a tooth in the Temple of the Tooth Relic, it is rarely shown.

We visited the turtle farm in Kosgod, rode an elephant in Bentota, there is also a spice garden, a little further there is a waterfall and crystal clear water in the lake, near a tea plantation, we stopped by a private garden where cinnamon, papaya, mango, sicep, barberry grow, lime, etc.
We were at a moonstone factory. I don’t know about authenticity, but you need to bargain well. A friend brought down the price from $ 200 to $ 120 for a ring, went to a store in Halle, decided to bargain for fun, they would have given for 80. Exactly the same ring and certificates give . Where it's cheaper, they say glass, I think it's a divorce : )
I gave the hotel 10 out of 10, for us it seemed great, like the ocean, the beach, palm trees and Sri Lanka as a whole : )
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