Your rating of this hotel:
5.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms:
7.0
Service:
4.0
Cleanliness:
7.0
Food:
4.0
Amenities:
7.0
We chose based on the criteria: 1. a short transfer (we understood that after a tiring flight there would be no desire to go another 3.30 - 4 hours, while the transfer to the Villa took 1.30 hours); 2. convenient transport interchange (active rest was planned, with independent visits to other resorts and beaches, as well as many excursions); 3. large green territory; 4. price = quality ratio.
We arrived at the hotel around 6:00 am. We were seated right away, without waiting for the official check in time, WITHOUT ANY SUPPLEMENTS! ! !
Room in the main building, on the third floor, overlooking the ocean (by the way, the building is built in such a way that all rooms have a view of the ocean - more precisely, on its fragments, because due to the dense foliage of palm trees, the ocean is partially visible) .
The room is large and spacious. The room, in addition to furniture, has:
- refrigerator / minibar (free of charge, while tourists in villas had to pay extra 10 USD for using a refrigerator);
- ironing board + iron;
- kettle (tea, sugar, water bought on their own);
- LCD TV (no Russian-language channels);
- bath and cosmetic accessories (received three times for the entire period) + hair dryer.
Water 1.5 liters free of charge daily (but it was not enough for three because of the warm, humid climate, so I had to buy it).
Safe at reception, free of charge. But somehow we forgot to hide the laptop and went on a two-day excursion - no one stole anything.
Sockets with three holes. At the reception they give an adapter for a deposit of 200 rupees.
Cleaned daily, there were no complaints about cleaning.
But the towels were. Towels in the room and on the beach must be replaced in general, with new ones! ! ! We took our own after reading previous reviews.
Meals: the menu included: scrambled eggs / scrambled eggs, milk oatmeal, cereal + milk, rice, noodles, chicken curry, fish, curry, curry peas, tea / coffee, toast / buns / croissants without toppings, a couple of times there were corrugated waffles + jam or syrup, passion fruit / pineapple / watermelon / bananas / papaya, fresh juices (either watermelon and passion fruit, or orange and watermelon, or orange and ice coffee). As you can see, the menu is not varied, but I also didn’t want to spend time in the morning looking for breakfast.
Entertainment: there is no animation in the hotel (and how can you get good animation in Asia?! ), but the tourists entertained themselves with tennis, badminton, volleyball, cricket. There are two pools (the rest is decorative): one for water polo (which was always empty), and the second is divided into sections: regular, children's, jacuzzi. There was a disco on weekends, admission was free, cocktails 595 rupees. Wi-Fi free, at the reception.
Territory: big beautiful, BUT! ! !
, the chain-link mesh (by the way, all normal hotels enclose their territory from the side of the beach so that local "entrepreneurs" do not interfere with tourists) is really depressing and needs to be replaced.
We dined in a cafe at the Passat, through the railway. d road. Tasty and inexpensive. He also bought a two-day tour of Sigiriya-Dambula-Spice Garden (I don’t recommend anything about anything) - waterfalls - the royal botanical garden - the Temple of the Tooth of the Buddha - Kandy - an elephant nursery - a tea factory. The tour came out cheaper than the hotel guide for 100 USD. e.
Passat also drove free of charge on his tuk-tuk to Kalutara (he has a "promotion": "I have you yum-yum, I'll carry you on a tuk-tuk for free. " And in general, of all the Sri Lankans, the Passat gave the impression of a decent person, so to speak exception to the rule.
But "outside the fence" organizers of excursions disappointed.
Tip for tourists: clearly find out what will be included in the tour, whether the price will include visiting objects or, as it turns out later, you pay only for transport services. And it’s even better to scare (in my opinion, the Sri Lankans are a little insolent and deliberately deceive tourists) that if you are deceived, then you will not pay ...in general, some of the money was returned to us, but the sediment, as they say, remained.
On the last day of their stay, Monika was caught. Ride 1000 rupees, just a photo - 500. Of course, they photographed the child when he rode))
Tips for tourists: 1. Sunscreen with a very high protection factor (for 10 days we burned, peeled off and burned again, despite the fact that we were few on the beach, we moved more);
2. Mosquito repellent (one bottle lasted only 3 days);
3. Tea and spices are cheaper in the supermarket than on plantations.
I recommend the hotel, because
in its price segment, it fully complies with the price = quality criterion.
And I advise all "auditors" ala Olya Freimut to rest in Turyaa 4 * / 5 * and Citrus Waskaduwa 4 * / 5 * located in the same region. But the prices are different there.
We arrived at the hotel around 6:00 am. We were seated right away, without waiting for the official check in time, WITHOUT ANY SUPPLEMENTS! ! !
Room in the main building, on the third floor, overlooking the ocean (by the way, the building is built in such a way that all rooms have a view of the ocean - more precisely, on its fragments, because due to the dense foliage of palm trees, the ocean is partially visible) .
The room is large and spacious. The room, in addition to furniture, has:
- refrigerator / minibar (free of charge, while tourists in villas had to pay extra 10 USD for using a refrigerator);
- ironing board + iron;
- kettle (tea, sugar, water bought on their own);
- LCD TV (no Russian-language channels);
- bath and cosmetic accessories (received three times for the entire period) + hair dryer.
Water 1.5 liters free of charge daily (but it was not enough for three because of the warm, humid climate, so I had to buy it).
Safe at reception, free of charge. But somehow we forgot to hide the laptop and went on a two-day excursion - no one stole anything.
Sockets with three holes. At the reception they give an adapter for a deposit of 200 rupees.
Cleaned daily, there were no complaints about cleaning.
But the towels were. Towels in the room and on the beach must be replaced in general, with new ones! ! ! We took our own after reading previous reviews.
Meals: the menu included: scrambled eggs / scrambled eggs, milk oatmeal, cereal + milk, rice, noodles, chicken curry, fish, curry, curry peas, tea / coffee, toast / buns / croissants without toppings, a couple of times there were corrugated waffles + jam or syrup, passion fruit / pineapple / watermelon / bananas / papaya, fresh juices (either watermelon and passion fruit, or orange and watermelon, or orange and ice coffee). As you can see, the menu is not varied, but I also didn’t want to spend time in the morning looking for breakfast.
Entertainment: there is no animation in the hotel (and how can you get good animation in Asia?! ), but the tourists entertained themselves with tennis, badminton, volleyball, cricket. There are two pools (the rest is decorative): one for water polo (which was always empty), and the second is divided into sections: regular, children's, jacuzzi. There was a disco on weekends, admission was free, cocktails 595 rupees. Wi-Fi free, at the reception.
Territory: big beautiful, BUT! ! !
, the chain-link mesh (by the way, all normal hotels enclose their territory from the side of the beach so that local "entrepreneurs" do not interfere with tourists) is really depressing and needs to be replaced.
We dined in a cafe at the Passat, through the railway. d road. Tasty and inexpensive. He also bought a two-day tour of Sigiriya-Dambula-Spice Garden (I don’t recommend anything about anything) - waterfalls - the royal botanical garden - the Temple of the Tooth of the Buddha - Kandy - an elephant nursery - a tea factory. The tour came out cheaper than the hotel guide for 100 USD. e.
Passat also drove free of charge on his tuk-tuk to Kalutara (he has a "promotion": "I have you yum-yum, I'll carry you on a tuk-tuk for free. " And in general, of all the Sri Lankans, the Passat gave the impression of a decent person, so to speak exception to the rule.
But "outside the fence" organizers of excursions disappointed.
Tip for tourists: clearly find out what will be included in the tour, whether the price will include visiting objects or, as it turns out later, you pay only for transport services. And it’s even better to scare (in my opinion, the Sri Lankans are a little insolent and deliberately deceive tourists) that if you are deceived, then you will not pay ...in general, some of the money was returned to us, but the sediment, as they say, remained.
On the last day of their stay, Monika was caught. Ride 1000 rupees, just a photo - 500. Of course, they photographed the child when he rode))
Tips for tourists: 1. Sunscreen with a very high protection factor (for 10 days we burned, peeled off and burned again, despite the fact that we were few on the beach, we moved more);
2. Mosquito repellent (one bottle lasted only 3 days);
3. Tea and spices are cheaper in the supermarket than on plantations.
I recommend the hotel, because
in its price segment, it fully complies with the price = quality criterion.
And I advise all "auditors" ala Olya Freimut to rest in Turyaa 4 * / 5 * and Citrus Waskaduwa 4 * / 5 * located in the same region. But the prices are different there.
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