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Advantages: Beatiful location
Disadvantages: Mosquitoes

...our days at the 5* Bentota Beach hotel using the pool & bar, for a small fee of £2 you can go to any hotel & use their facilities.This is a nice way of checking out the other hotels & generally being nosey.We fell in love with the place & decided then that if we went back we would stay at the hotel.One of the main things that had swung it for me was the resident elephant who was also part of the wedding ceremony. Sri Lanka or Ceylon as it was once ...
...Sri Lankan Airlines & the Bentota Beach hotel & also for Monarch ,who also fly there, & the details of room prices for 4* The Serendib hotel situated right next door to the grounds of the Bentota.The Serendib is much smaller but equally well equipped with as friendly staff as the Bentota. We put these details into our wedding invitations & didn’t really expect anyone to say yes.My dad said He was too old?(don’t ask) & my mum had already booked to ... Read review

Advantages: Service, cleanliness, rooms, pools
Disadvantages: none

We stayed at the Club Hotel dolphin from 11th April 2008 to 25th april 2008. A wonderful experience from the first to the last day. We traveled with First Choice, we didn't bother with the upgraded seats at £145 each and found the standard seats to be comfortable and roomy. A choice of 2 meals was served followed later on by a snack. For £5 each we upgraded the entertainment system to get more films and games which was good value for money. I would ...
...ensure that you get to sit beside each other as First Choice 'sit together' can mean one row in front of each other or across the aisle. The transfer from the airport to the hotel was smooth and took half an hour or so, check in was seamless with the cases brought to your room for you (a 100 rupee (50p) tip is appreciated but not compulsory. In fact a 100 rupees which is very little to us is a reasonable tip for the room boys every couple of days ... Read review

Advantages: “East is East and West is West….”
Disadvantages: “….And never the twain shall meet.” (Kipling)

Unlikely meetings seem to be something of a theme at Helga’s Folly. Apart from East and West, glancing through the Visitors’ Book I found: “Alice in Wonderland meets Ella Fitzgerald.” “Brideshead Revisited meets Priscilla Queen of the Desert? I feel like I’m in a Ken Russell film – about the life of Marlene Dietrich starring Marianne Faithful!” “An eccentric collision between Fawlty Towers and Absolutely Fabulous.” ☼ ♥ ♫ ? ♥ ...
...§ ♫ ♥ ω ♫ ♥ ? ♫ ♥ ☼ I was reading the Visitors’ Book as I took tea on the terrace. The sultry tones of Marlene Dietrich’s singing were indeed oozing out through the French windows from the salon behind me at that very moment. Before me, beyond the lush and fragrant gardens, the hillside fell away to reveal, a mile or so distant, the Temple of the Tooth perched beside the lake in the ancient city of ... Read review

Advantages: colonial splendour, a very welcome retreat from a dirty old town
Disadvantages: Don't be absurd!

...long stretch of greenery called Galle Face Green. This is where Colombans come to fly kites, play football, have picnics and promenade in their finery on a Satruday night, - there are also some great food stalls selling a large variety of spicy snacks (known as short-eats). For the equivalent of about 20p you can get ten big ' uns to munch on as you stroll around. After tea we decided to meander out onto the Green, our peaceful walk being interupted ...
...of rupees for a school for blind orphans. Fortunately i had read about this ruse in my handy "Lonely Planet" guide and knew it to be a common Colomban con, so I told the greedy grifter in no uncertain terms to "eh -pah" (figure it out for yourselves, I know you can).......ha! I knew those well learnt Sinhala phrases would come in handy one day! He made a sudden speedy exit in the direction of another western looking couple. "Good Grief" I exlaimed ... Read review

Advantages: Service is superb
Disadvantages: Location a bit remote

We stayed at the Dolphin from the 4th-18th July and booked through Eclipse Direct (this is First Choice's sister company, so basically everything Eg: the rep, flight etc was First choice. We had a great holiday and this hotel went way beyond our expectations. The atmosphere is friendly and the clientelle are young couples, honeymooners,wedding parties, families with children (although they may struggle getting toddlers to eat the food). Luckily ...
...room 84, a cottage room near to the beach front. The room was more than adequate, having a semi-open air bathroom (quite fun!) air conditioning, tea and coffee making facilities,water left by the "room boys" (as they called themselves) daily and a little terrace outside with a table and chairs. It was cleaned twice a day and flowers were frequently left on the beds. In the evening, they came to spray the room with mosquito repellant and were very ... Read review