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Das Hotel liegt etwas abseits vom Städtchen, jedoch nahe am See. Ideal für Ruhesuchende. Eher kleines Zimmer ohne grossen Komfort, jedoch für eine Nacht ausreichend. Preis-/Leistung stimmt. WLAN-Verbindung im Zimmer nicht verhanden. Personal sehr freundlich und hilfsbereit. Wer mit dem Zug anreist, Taxi oder Tuctuc ausserhalb des Bahnhofareals wählen. Nicht mehr als 600 Rupien bis Nuwara Eliya bezahlen.

We checked in and checked right back out, like a revolving door. Literally the worst hotel we’ve seen in the whole of Sri Lanka. Check in was completely lacklustre, the foyer is just a depressing, featureless expense. We were just shown to room, given the keys and the door was slammed behind us. No explanation was given about the hotel at all. My boyfriend then tried to take a shower and there was no hot water, when I asked the hotel guy he just shrugged and said there was a power cut. Then I asked about the Wi-Fi and it turned out it didn’t work at all. The absolute biggest problem is that the ceiling of our room was very thin floorboards with gaps in them and NO SOUNDPROOFING AT ALL. They then checked in a group of five guys who looked like they were members of the Sri Lankan Olympic weightlifting team, and they were in the room above us. We could hear every single word, every single cough and each footstep was deafening. It was aggravating at three in the afternoon, I can’t even imagine how annoying it would be to stay in this hotel overnight. Fortunately, this is one of the few hotels that we hadn’t paid for in advance. So I told him that we would be checking out and he barely even tried to stop us, I get the impression it happens quite a lot. We then found a hotel round the corner on hotels.com which was actually slightly cheaper and was way way way nicer. This place is a rip off - avoid.