• traveled 15 years ago
Such a beautiful place in Sri Lanka and such a lame hotel.
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Such a beautiful place in Sri Lanka and such a lame hotel.
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• traveled 18 years ago
St. Andrew's - a hotel with the character of a plantation club
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St. Andrew's - a hotel with the character of a plantation club
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Although Sri Lanka is best known for its Buddhist antiquities and beaches, the image of the island would be incomplete without its highlands. So do not forget to include Nuwara Eliya in your itinerary - one of the best types of tea is collected there, the spirit of good old England is still alive there today, more precisely - the Highlands (as the hills of Scotland are figuratively called in Britain) and there you can feel like a planter for a day or two in one of the best - despite only 3 stars in the title! - and the oldest hotels of the island.
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Although Sri Lanka is best known for its Buddhist antiquities and beaches, the image of the island would be incomplete without its highlands. So do not forget to include Nuwara Eliya in your itinerary - one of the best types of tea is collected there, the spirit of good old England is still alive there today, more precisely - the Highlands (as the hills of Scotland are figuratively called in Britain) and there you can feel like a planter for a day or two in one of the best - despite only 3 stars in the title! - and the oldest hotels of the island. It's called St. Andrew's / St. Andrews is no coincidence - St. Andrew is considered the patron saint of Scotland and ...the founder of golf. I will not argue - I will only say that the golf club in Nuwara Eliya is luxurious, and the hotel is within easy reach.
And the hotel itself and its team are always glad to see guests, they remember their guests by name ...They pamper guests with strawberries and cream (well, why not the spirit of Wimbledon? ) or a cup of spiced tea with cardamom! ..
By the way, before the hotel was a plantation club, and now it is the pride of the JETWING hotel group, the so-called. Heritage Hotel (historic hotel). Absolutely in the spirit of the era of George IV!
The cuisine there is wonderful (milk, vegetables and herbs - from their own farm! ), the atmosphere is nice, there is a library, in the evenings in the living room there is a fire in the fireplace and tea ceremonies, in the bar there are wonderful cocktails, and in the billiard room on an old table rosewood, you can afford a game of snooker ...It's just a pity that our tourists stop by this friendly hotel for a short time: they spent the night - and down to the reserves of the south.
But those who decide to stay in St. Andrew's for a couple of days, rewarded: emerald tea slopes, morning mist, waterfalls and streams on the Horton Plateau, giant tree ferns in the gorges - like frames from a movie about the era of dinosaurs. They also give master classes on one of the oldest golf courses in Asia...
And the prices for pleasure are affordable even for modest managers, unlike similar courses in the Emirates or Morocco!
True, no matter how I aimed at the hole, everything was past ...But I saw how successful my “classmate” was in my studies - an economist named Koichi from Osaka, Japan ...These are sketches from the cool regions of tropical Sri Lanka!
And the hotel itself and its team are always glad to see guests, they remember their guests by name ...They pamper guests with strawberries and cream (well, why not the spirit of Wimbledon? ) or a cup of spiced tea with cardamom! ..
By the way, before the hotel was a plantation club, and now it is the pride of the JETWING hotel group, the so-called. Heritage Hotel (historic hotel). Absolutely in the spirit of the era of George IV!
The cuisine there is wonderful (milk, vegetables and herbs - from their own farm! ), the atmosphere is nice, there is a library, in the evenings in the living room there is a fire in the fireplace and tea ceremonies, in the bar there are wonderful cocktails, and in the billiard room on an old table rosewood, you can afford a game of snooker ...It's just a pity that our tourists stop by this friendly hotel for a short time: they spent the night - and down to the reserves of the south.
But those who decide to stay in St. Andrew's for a couple of days, rewarded: emerald tea slopes, morning mist, waterfalls and streams on the Horton Plateau, giant tree ferns in the gorges - like frames from a movie about the era of dinosaurs. They also give master classes on one of the oldest golf courses in Asia...
And the prices for pleasure are affordable even for modest managers, unlike similar courses in the Emirates or Morocco!
True, no matter how I aimed at the hole, everything was past ...But I saw how successful my “classmate” was in my studies - an economist named Koichi from Osaka, Japan ...These are sketches from the cool regions of tropical Sri Lanka!
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