normal hotel for the price

Written: 20 october 2016
Travel time: 22 september — 6 october 2015
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For recreation with friends, for young people
Your rating of this hotel:
7.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 6.0
Service: 7.0
Cleanliness: 7.0
Food: 9.0
Amenities: 8.0
I was in this hotel a year ago. Everything is modest, simple. The rooms are simple and the furniture is old. Shower without tray. Tiles and drain hole on the floor. Took a shower in beach flip flops. What I liked - the hotel is built so that all rooms have an ocean view, and this covers all the shortcomings of the room. Coconut trees grew under the windows with coconuts hanging on them, on which chipmunks lived, i. e. palm squirrels)), which we fed with bananas and who ran to the main restaurant for a balcony for breakfast, where chefs and tourists fed them pancakes (baked on terrace of the restaurant) and fruit. Of the living creatures, sometimes we saw small lizards, there are also crows - they flew to the balcony and begged for treats when we ate fruit at lunch on the balcony. It's in the main building. Bungalow rooms are better. Cleaning - clean, but I can not say that the quality. They left the little boy a good tip every day, but the cleaning did not get any better.
Roomboys and waiters are mostly young boys who, while cleaning, turn on TV with a local music channel and sing and dance more than cleaning. We returned our little Binot a couple of times in a comic form to wipe the dust on the table and bedside tables and the mirror. Wiped. Wherever you poke your finger - there it starts to wipe in subsequent times, he himself wiped it without waiting until we poke a finger. Every day he laid fans on our beds, flowers from sheets, swans, dogs and cats from towels, wore flowers and put us more water and coffee in the room. There is a refrigerator in the room. The hotel area is not very large, but green + the ocean is a few meters away. Meals - it was varied for a triple and taking into account the cost, the only thing is that half of the dishes were local cuisine and spicy, but you can choose less spicy ones, although after a few days you get used to the spiciness and already go high.
I really liked the spicy mango sauce (it stands on a separate small table where spices and sauces are), very tasty with meat. fruit was in abundance, natural juices in the morning. For lunch we went to local fish restaurants (opposite the lagoon they cook better and the service is also better) or the locals invite you to fish, shrimp and whatever you want to visit - that is, they buy cheaper in the market, they cook at home. We went with a company of 6 people to the local guide so to visit, my mother cooked it, set the table with dishes that we didn’t order, but we also didn’t go empty-handed (we took a cake, chocolate bars for children, local rum and our dry sausage + each gave a thousand rupees = 7 dollars for lunch) - everything was very tasty. With the same guide, we went deep into the island in a minivan. I forgot the name of the guide, tiny, thin with red eyes, he speaks Russian.

In the nearby villages, in Unawatuna, Galle, Mataru rode an autorickshaw with Zudiya (always standing opposite the entrance to the hotel, a motorcycle with a lilac color in front) - decent compared to others, did not push us, even went to shops with us and advised that the best of local fruits and different products, they treated each other with something. They break prices all at the beginning, so do not agree to the first offer that comes across, there is a lot of competition and in order to get a tourist they bring down prices to each other))) They wrote the truth about Mahesh below - the largest marketer is an impudent liar)))). He gives a ride for a gift or for 20 rupees, where they take 100, so that later they can shove excursions in dollars twice as expensive even than that of a hotel guide, tryndit all the time over his head, tells how he was in Kyiv and cooperates with agencies - the main thing is to score and not to let a sleepy tourist who has just arrived and come to his senses.
Do not take anything from anyone immediately upon arrival, there is always an opportunity to find the best offer.
If you are not going to sit all the time in the hotel to sit, but to leave on your own and on excursions, the hotel will do. In the ratio of low price - quality is normal, and the food is also good). Although I chose more expensive and better, but my friend had a small budget, I had to come here . . However, nature, the ocean, seafood, attractions cover all the shortcomings of any hotel : )
What I didn’t like - very annoying as flies guides, auto rickshaws, they don’t even let you walk for pleasure, everyone needs to earn money. Staff - if you communicate pleasantly and with a smile, but at the same time you put a line - they don’t climb, they don’t dare. The only thing that cigarettes can beg for. The locals are very expensive and a rare muck.
They climb to those who give a reason or to the women who go after this and, of course, in the morning all the staff know, laugh, point their fingers and broadcast farther and farther to the rest of the hotel guests. It's disgusting, the feeling that I got to the Arabs. If you don't want to listen to local gossip - interrupt at the beginning of the broadcast, which I did.
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