The Most Luxurious Place Ever?
I am currently sitting in the “business centre” of the Club Hotel Dolphin in Sri Lanka. I am on my honeymoon as I mentioned in my previous post.
This place is without a doubt the most amazing place I have ever been. I thought I would quickly post this photo.
I will be able to post loads more when I get back.
Sri Lanka October 2006
We have always wanted to visit Sri Lanka (The Pearl of the Orient.) Before 1972 is was know as Ceylon. With it being our (Pearl) 30th wedding anniversary, where better to go than The Pearl of the Orient.
We booked our holiday with First Choice and up graded our flight to Star Class Premier we had never flown first class before it was worth the upgrade, with priority check in and boarding first. We boarded the plane and had strawberries and champagne, it was a comfortable flight.
We stayed at the Club Hotel Dolphin situated in Waikkal, a small fishing village, which has a beautiful palm fringed golden sandy beach, near Negombo on the Southwest coast of Sri Lanka. The Club Hotel Dolphin is 40 minutes drive from Katunayake Airport, the journey time that can easily be increased according to the chaotic traffic. The hotel’s location is quite remote, so there’s nowhere to go at night for evenings out apart from the restaurant over the road called canal garden. The evening entertainment in the hotel was different but entertaining, as the hotel animation team worked hard to put on shows at night although some of the humour was a little strange.
Our stay was for 2 weeks on an all inclusive basis, the hotel is extremely clean, all the staff, were very pleasant and helpful people, the hotel has 2 swimming pools the large pool is the largest swimming pool in Sri Lanka, with a bar and there’s a snack bar close by where there were burgers and chips, toasties and sandwiches, tea, coffee, and from 11am to 2pm afternoon tea/coffee and cake was served, the other pool is smaller, it’s known as the quite pool, here there is a small bar serving tea, coffee, beer and snacks, it’s also the location of the fine dinning restaurant.
The hotel has a large restaurant, which is very clean, there was always plenty of choice, something good on the menu, breakfast were very good with lots of choice, in the evenings dinner was usually a theme night i.e. Chinese, Mexican, international, barbeque, as well as lots of different curries rice’s, etc, and a good selection of sweets, including a delicious hot puddings. The waiters were always very helpful and attentive although a little too quick to take the plates so don’t put your cutlery down or they’ll take your plate
When we first arrived we got settled in our room and unpacked. Our room overlooked the big pool and beach with great views of the beach and Indian Ocean from the balcony, with the most spectacular sunsets; it was very clean and comfortable, with a TV with a few English Speaking channels, Inc, CNN or BBC World News. The hotel also has bungalows, but we were in the deluxe rooms in the main block.
Our room boy Salaman, was fantastic throughout our stay, he couldn’t do enough for us, he decorated our bed with fresh flowers each day. On the day we celebrated our 30th wedding anniversary he made an extra special effort embellishing our bed with colourful flowers and palm leaves he also wrote in flowers “Have A Happy Day” it looked absolutely fabulous, also he had put spays of flowers in the vases around the room. We didn’t want to go to bed and spoil all his hard work The night boys or as we called them the mozzie squad, came in to turn down the beds put the mozzie nets over, and sprayed for mozzies (fly repellent ) each night and they gave us flowers or left them on the bed if we weren’t there.
Dave N Julie
Comment by Dave N Julie — May 27, 2007 @ 1:17 am