Hotel Dengan Spa di Eastern Province, Sri Lanka

The hotel environment and location are very good, but the service is not good, especially the restaurant staff are very unfriendly, the usher position is not good, discriminate against Chinese people. There were also some unpleasant things that happened during the meal, which affected our mood. We had a buffet dinner in the hotel. Before, the buffet dinner in Sri Lankan hotels was charged together with the room. Some restaurants also need to be charged separately a few days after the trip, but they will bring your bill in the middle of the meal and tell you. This restaurant is good, there are many service staff, no service, and they will not refill your water or anything. No one brought the bill in the middle and at the end of our meal. We thought it was charged for the room, so we left naturally. Then the waiter stopped us in a panic like chasing a thief, and shouted that we didn’t pay. It was very rude and impolite. No one wanted to deliberately not pay, but the behavior and expression were very discriminatory against Chinese people and it was very infuriating. Besides, the service staff will only push you to buy wine or drinks (Sri Lankan buffet does not provide drinks). We ordered lemonade, and they told me that it was not available. I said that mineral water would be fine, because I really didn't want to drink drinks, and then they told me that it was not available either (I clearly saw the waiter bring mineral water to a table of white people before, naked discrimination). Finally, I thought that the waiter might need to earn money, so I ordered three glasses of juice. But the process was very unpleasant. This is the only hotel we want to write a review for after staying in so many hotels, just because of these unpleasant experiences.

Personal ist extrem freundlich! Haben immer geholfen! Lage ist auch gut nur 5 min vom Strand weg!! Aber die Zimmer sind leider sehr veraltet und das Bad hat richtig nach Abfluss gestunken. Das Bett war auch unbequem. Und es gab keine Zimmer Reinigung während dem Aufenthalt. Wir würden das Hotel zwar nochmal buchen wegen der Lage und dem netten personal

Go to the front desk to check in, the manager directly upgraded our room, the service is very good, see you will be polite to say hello, during dinner, the waiter holding a large plate of seafood is selling, 12,000 rupees to 300 RMB, not expensive! Take a bath in the oversized bathtub, and the fatigue disappears instantly without a trace, highly recommended

This excellent hotel is really a resort. It is off the beaten path, but worth the extra travel time to get there. The staff are very friendly and the food at both restaurants is very good. There is easy access to the beach and it’s quiet. We were there for new years. I highly recommend it!

Great location just a short walk from the beach. Dennis was our host when we were there and he was absolutely fantastic, recommended good restaurants, helped organise transport, looked after us at breakfast and made you feel extremely welcome. Rooms are certainly ok for the price you’re paying but refurbishment is needed. Showers didn’t seem to have hot water, air conditioning was great though.

The hotel looks very primising in the pictures, beautiful setting and facilities. Unfortunately we were a bit disqppointed on the way it is managed. It looks like the place is abandoned relying on its own structure and pictures. Pros: - beautiful setting and location, in front of a beautiful beach. - rooms are well done, big bathrooms, nice outdoor area. - faclities have a beautiful decoration, the bar, the restaurant. Cons: - cleaning! The resort has a cleaning issue. To the point that we wrote ”clean me” with our fingers on the restaurant toilet mirror, and it was there during our entire stay. Nothing has regular cleaning, spots everywhere, toilets are terrible specialy the poil toilet (see pictures). - bar drinks are not good. We tried many drinks and juices in all the hotels we stayed in Sri Lanka, and this one we had to give up, drink after drink, juice after juice, were not good at all. Also the drink glasse come very very dirty. - bar is beautiful but never had any music during our stay. Its a silent empty place, no one uses it... and the bartender usualy is not there which makes it a ghost place. - service is welcoming but not prepared. For example before you reach the breakfast area upstairs they ask you: ”what do you want for breakfast? So i dont have to go upstairs to ask”, overall staff is tired, not motivated and have no training, they are as abandoned as the hotel. - spa was closed during our entire stay, because the lady had days off. So we booked a hotel with a Spa that did not exist...you have to be lucky not to book on her days off. - when at check-out i tried to tell them the place have lots of potential but they need to pay attention to this details they just replied: thank you for your stay, please make us a review on tripadvisor! So they just don't pay attention... which is sad to see. I wish they could change the management and have someone motivated and energic to transform the place into the best hotel in Sri Lanka, because they could be.