Hotels near IMRAN’S BANANA GARDEN, Kegalle

We stayed at the hotel for 1 night. I didn't like the dinner. They don't know how to cook here. The fish was dry, the shrimp were burnt, and the shrimp cocktail had tails. There was a sauce on the menu for the fish, which was not brought. We asked for the sauce and it was the best thing we had at dinner. They don’t make alcoholic cocktails here, but they can pour strong alcohol from bottles into a glass. You can also dilute it with juice yourself. Why you can’t learn how to mix cocktails is a mystery. There was wine and beer here too, but the selection was small. The food problems didn't end there. At breakfast, the girl frying an omelet had her head in the clouds. The oil from the small frying pan was a second away from catching fire. She didn't hear my order at all. When she came to her senses, she poured the unbeaten eggs into the frying pan. It immediately became different from the scramble I asked for. I decided that the fried egg would be fine, and then she started piercing the yolk with a fork. I asked not to do this. Then the cook came up. I said it’s enough to mock the eggs, move them. While they were torturing the frying pan, the second yolk also spread. It seemed to me that these people saw the stove for the first time, and cooking was not their strong point. There is a kettle and refrigerator in the room. I liked the bathroom renovation. The air conditioner was not very cold. There was no internet on WiFi. It wasn't fixed until I went to the reception. There are no adapters in the sockets, so we had to charge everything in the morning when an employee came with a screwdriver and plugged our chargers. The main feature of the hotel was a balcony overlooking the river where the elephants bathe. This is the main advantage of the hotel, along with the swimming pool, from which you can watch the elephants and take photos. There is a spa near the hotel. Don't go there for anything. Nobody speaks English, although the price tag is touristy. They don't know how to do massage. I recommend the hotel if you find somewhere else to eat. We spent so long watching the elephants that we didn’t go to the elephant sanctuary itself.

Kangti is a mountain city, and the houses are basically built on the mountain. This hotel is actually like a resort, by the river, there are no attractions and no residents next to it. The river is flowing rapidly, the flowers are fragrant, and the sound is quite lively. At night, the hotel is dark and dark, and find a small supermarket to buy something at least three kilometers away. The accommodation building seems to be three or four floors. There is a small swimming pool in the garden. Sitting on the balcony, the eyes are full of green mountain and garden views. Come out early in the morning and take a mobile phone to take a photo of 20 different flowers! The fly in the ointment is that the facilities in the room are old.

Our room was a long way from the main hub, up and down irregular steps, some 103 steps in total. Trying to find our way to the restaurant and watch our footing after dark was difficult. Even a member of staff had trouble helping us find the way. On entering the restaurant we were greeted with a blue haze of smoke as an indoor wok station had been set up for stirfry dishes of choice to be prepared on an individual basis. Although very tasty having to wait in line and suffer the smoke was unacceptable. A very surly man was in charge of the restaurant and we resented him telling us what we should or shouldn’t eat. He was so rude. Our room was lovely, enormous infact with a second bedroom but the view was poor and overlooked concrete and pipework rather than the lovely views from the main hub. The complex had been built into the rocks which meant we had a huge rock in our room. A bit bizzare but fun. The shower lacked any shelves and there was no door on the shower so the floor flooded. Overall we thought the complex was pretentious and many visitors would struggle with the location and number of steps to the room we had. Fortunately we are walkers and reasonably fit and agile. The lads who carried our suitcases to and from the room worked hard for their tips.