Lanka Princess All Inclusive Hotel

Background to the review: Sri Lanka got its independence more or less same time as Singapore. Since then, nationalists came into power (and went), decided to get rid of the English language in favour of their Singalese language (Singapore embraced English because they knew how important a common business language is), a civil war came and thirty years later went, and well, Sri lanka is what we have today. A beautiful country, amazing people, horrendous diesel pollution and excellent food! Lanka Princess is an excellent Ayurvedic hotel specifically tailored to German speakers. This is an important point. While I was there, some of the hotel people kept talking to me in German. In Sri Lanka! Well, they try to make German speakers feel at home, and they do succeed. I am not a German speaker so it was a surprise for me. The hotel is a perfect Ayurvedic environment where a team of experts look after you and propose various treatments to help you get over whatever western medicine hasn't or didn't manage well. To this end, it does a very good job. There are two restaurants; the one on the left of the pool/pond, is for the Ayurvedic patients and the one on the right, is normal Sri Lankan food. They both offer excellent food. And as much as you want. And lots and lots of excellent fruit! Yummy! The rooms are big, comfortable (A/C included of course) and all of them look towards the pool. There is a garden area, a pool with a pool bar. Upon exiting the garden, the sea is right there for you to enjoy(if you can avoid the irritating beach boys that bug patrons every time they go to the beach). Pricing is appropriate for the type of luxury hotel, and depends on the time of the year. It is managed by people in Berlin, Germany. The only problems I have had were language specific; one day I requested a taxi for the next day at 8:30am, and although the lady at reception said "of course" and "yes", next morning there was no car and no one knew anything about it! By the time the taxi was arranged, I arrived late at my meeting. The following day, I requested something else and another lady at reception again said "of course" and "yes" but nothing arrived for me. The management needs to train its staff better not to say "yes" unless the staff understands fully what the client wants! This has to do with Sri Lanka and the English language and its past. Sri Lankans want to be helpful and say "yes" by default, even though they don't fully understand; they shouldn't. Apart from that issue, the stay was perfect.

One of the niceset places in the area. The food is delicious, the Ayurveda centre very clean and professional. The shady garden is perfect for a relaxing afternoon sipping tea on a comfortable sun bed. What I like most are the pleasant and hardworking staff members that are always very helpful and accommodating. Loved evening walks along the beach and sitting at one of the little bars whist watching the sun disappear in the Indian Ocean. Have an arrack and buy some freshly roasted Sri Lankan peanuts from the kind old man on the bike - a perfect apèro on the beach! The hotel infrastructure is a bit dated but well looked after and I am looking forward to staying here again this November!

Wir hatten 2 wundervolle Wochen inklusive Panchakarma Kur und fühlen uns wie neugeboren. Alle sind extrem freundlich, hilfsbereit und zuvorkommend, das Essen köstlich und das ganze Ambiente sehr authentisch. Absolut empfehlenswert!!