One of the tour hotels for Luxury Tours. I would not recommend this hotel for future trips. Hotel looks amazing on first entry, lovely lobby, very grand. It was raining heavily when we arrived and checkin was okay (group of 16). The first main issue is that the hotel is not conveniently located in my opinion (our tour skipped Galle and staying 1.5 hours away in Kalutura). I expect the price was a factor in that decision for our tour. Anyhow, once you get to the rooms and start to get in and look closely, you can see the age of the hotel and the musty smell in many areas, obviously more because of rain that night. We ended up googling and found the hotel was built in 1983 and apparently last renovated in 1999 (before the tsunami that actually when though hotel). I expect there was some repairs at that point in 2004 also, but otherwise it's really overdue for a refresh. They had to entire wings of this large hotel shut off and not sure they were planning on reopening, didn't look like any work was going on. Felt quite creepy in some areas when we walked around. The spa was badly signposted, feels like it may have moved locations, the jacuzzi for the spa clearly wasn't being used as looks abandoned. There were villas and a beach access door on one side of property that were all shut up or locked, the hotel next door appears to have closed down. Very gloomy and depressing, so don't recommend exploring. Rooms were okay size, bathrooms small and kinda gross, mold in the shower cubicle and screens not that nice. Well appointed amenities though, toothbrush and vanity kit etc. Door to bathroom had a glass window with a blind that had seen better days. When the sun was out the next day, was much nice one the wet smell had mostly gone. Pool area was nice. Great that it's next to beach expect you can't swim in it as apparently too rough and heaps drown there, no beach to walk along, so that sucks, just rocks. So basically trapped in the complex. Prices were insane for a Sri Lankan hotel for drinks! Cocktails were Australian prices, so didn't bother trying any. Buffet was okay, extensive food options, but not actually that good and mostly cold. I got excited for crab, but then they deepfried it and provided nothing to help get the crab out of the legs that were coated in batter, very strange. Almost too much staff, clearing plates away before you really had a chance to finish, and often getting in the way lol. Oh and the really annoying thing, I called to ask for some ice. They bought to the room, and then asked me to sign the BILL!!! For ice. It was only 240 rupees, but never in my life have I been charged for ice in a hotel. And then the day before we checked out, they rang at 12pm to ask to come and clear the bill since we were leaving next day, and my friend said we will come later. Then they called again at 230pm to ask when we were coming. I said really, can't we just pay when we check out like normal, and they said we really prefer
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