We spent 2 weeks in this nice place. The hotel is quite small with small houses with ground and 1st floor around a tropical jungle with animals and spa where you can take unforgettable massage. The rooms are spacious, with airconditioner and small fridge and a safe. The rooms are cleaned twice a day, and in the evening, a guy is coming to treat the room against insects. There are a lot of mosquitos, so I recommend you to take strong repelents for going outside (repelent with at least 50% of deet). The employees are so kind and helpfull that it could not be better. They are still smiling, never ask for any money even they would deserve. Because we could not decide whom to give some tip to express our big thanks, so we used a small box placed in the exchange office which is also the part of the hotel and is for everybody. The language is not a problem, they speak English very well. The hotel is guarded at all please where you can enter. It is not directly on the beach, I guess about 150m, you pass the garden of another hotel which is in the same area. The beach is cleaned every day, the sea is clean and because of Bentota river, not so strong, we were there every day. In the hotel, we took the demostration of preparation of Sri Lanka´s food organized by the chef, we enjoyed it a lot. What is sad that the hotel, together with other two – Riverina and Palm Beach, will be closed from May 2011 until December 2012 for reconstruction.
Close to hotel, there is a post where you can buy the stamps for postcards.
What to see near hotel – Beruwela village, abt 200 rupees with tuk tuk, a very small with few shops (we bought a good quality sarong there), Aluthgama, abt 100 rupees, also a small village with shops, supermarket and shop where to buy arak; the temple with the biggest sitting Budha in south Asia, really nice place. The price for tuk tuk, be sure that the first price when you ask will be 300 rupees at least, you have to negotiate before your trip and if you are still not satisfied with the price, go on foot and in few seconds, some tuk tuk will stop on the way and will give you the required price, and if not this one, the other one yes. If you have never been in Asia, donot worry to negotiate hardly, but nice of course, you will always succeed.
For the trips, we used a services of Luba Tour. Luba is a beach boy with net of cooperators. Even we did not know what we should have expected, finally, we made all our trips with Luba – boat trip in Bentota river, trip to the temple, to Galle for one day and two day´s trip to Kandy. The cars were always airconditioned and clean, Luba speaks English very well, the accomodation was comfortable. If you want to contact him, you can send en e-mail before your trip to lubatours@gmail.com or to ask anyone on the beach, Luba is wellknown or to call 0094 777 405152. About the price, they are in general less expensive like with the travel agency but negotiate, like everywhere in Sri Lanka.
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