藍水酒店(The Blue Water)

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海沿いのホテルで、リゾート気分を楽しめるホテルでした！部屋も広く、食事も美味しかったです！ ただ、従業員の方が、日本人とわかるとチップを求めてくる場面が多かったのが残念でした。

good, nice, clean, polite worker, good experience for booking.

This hotel was pretty good in many areas, but let itself down in a couple of minor things. The tamarind juice and cold towels on arrival were certainly very welcome. The reception staff are all friendly and very helpful. A mistake was made with our room allocation, which the lovely Kushani soon recognised and then upgraded us as an apology - all dealt with very swiftly. So, our suite was lovely. Very spacious and tastefully decorated/furnished with beautiful views across the lawns to the sea. The beds were comfortable and we were delighted to be able to use Netflix & YouTube in our room. The pool was absolutely divine and the morning aqua sessions were very enjoyable. We found, on a half board tariff, that the food was inconsistent. Some days it would be very good and others not so much. Of course the Sri Lankan food is quite spicy, and there was a fair amount of choice if you didn’t want spicy food, so we definitely didn’t go hungry, but often we found the meat was very poor quality, gristly and chewy. We avoided meat for most of our trip. The evenings would always see a little entertainment taking place outside the dining area - always very pleasant music or singing. The spa was ok, not the best ever as it was a little on the expensive side, but the ladies in the spa were lovely and very skilled. Overall I think the hotel went above and beyond to attempt to make our stay an amazing one, if the food had been better I’d have awarded a higher rating. That, and the intimidating men, waiting at the beach gate/fence, trying to hard sell things (trips/souvenirs etc) to us - really the hotel should move them on.

We stayed 8 nights in this beautiful The Blue Water Wadduwa and celebrated New Year 2024 at the Gala Dinner. Gala dinner at the Hotel is good but let me tell you how it works: hotel team and waiters wait when you get drunk and then they will bring you incorrect bills for alcohol (more expensive) that you didn’t order and expect you to sign the bill without checking. If you sign the bill after your signature you have no chance to correct it after hotel team’s mistake. Politics of the hotel is: guest has the money anyways and pays for everything, even for mistake of waiter (hello dear Sandun). See photos how it looks like, you have to check team for every bill and be very persistent to correct the bill or to cancel things that you actually didn’t order. We stayed with breakfast and dinner included and paid for lunch and drinks. Thanks waiter Rameesh for good service. If you want to report problem to higher management of the Blue Water - be ready to meet toxic communication and disrespect in person. Higher manager let you know in disrespect way that if you are woman you have no voice to talk to this MR super important manager even if you paid money and he threatens you: behave good or I will bill you straight away without additional checking (we paid all bills in the end and nobody apologised, just argued with us). The Blue Water Hotel doesn’t have private beach so be ready for public beach with no lifeguard. We had emergency in the ocean and woman from our hotel was hit by the wave and had muscle shock. So we guarded her to hospital with hotel's representative and no one ever said thanks to us for help. Only thing management says to you: dont talk to local people on the beach, they are dangerous. But the irony of the story is opposite. You cry for help and the management don't care, they don't know first aid rules or CPR neither they have medical room within the hotel. They only follow burrecreacy and place rules of not swimming in the ocean, which is fair too. But local people are friendly and did a lot of good things for us, so they delivered fast pizza from Pizza Hut, because hotel was crowded due to new years holidays we waited 2 hour for our lunch or the locals told us more interesting things about Sri Lanka in comparison of "exursion guides" that provides The Blue Water - they hardly spoke english or russian at very expensive tours that we took from them (we booked private exursion for 6 people in minivan). Anyways main manager said he doesn’t care about reputation of the hotel in any community (I speak Russian and English) and it’s OK if I share my true review anywhere else. After all adventures there was flooding at hotel and our room (night before checking out) and in the morning they presistently asked 5 star review on Tripadvisor, even the room wasnt cleaned fast and we had to remind few times about it and they treated us as guests in very unwelcoming way. Which is sad because hotel is built by famous srilankian archritecturer Geof

Das Blue Water ist ein sehr schönes und architektonisch besonderes Hotel mit sehr nettem Personal. Insbesondere Sawinda ist ein sehr zuvorkommender Kellner. Allein der SPA-Bereich ist überteuert. Hierzu findet sich direkt gegenüber vom Hotel einmal über die Bahnschienen eine hervorragende Alternative. Über einem Souvenirladen, welcher von einer netten Frau namens Nila betrieben wird, hat deren Mann Mahinde einen ayuvedischen Massagesalon. Wir waren von Mahis Massagen zu einem mehr als günstigen Preis begeistert und haben dabei noch zwei sehr freundliche Menschen kennenlernen dürfen.

Ich kenne das Hotel schon über viele Jahre hinweg. Es ist jedesmal ein super schönes Erlebnis hier einkehren zu dürfen. Personal: 5* ++ ist an Freundlichkeit und Höflichkeit nicht zu übertreffen Zimmer: 5* Ich kenne mittlerweile einige unterschiedliche Zimmer, alle sind von sehr gutem Niveau Restaurants: 5* Über verschiedene Jahreszeiten und Jahre hat das Niveau niemals sich negativ entwickelt. Es wird immer weiter daran gearbeitet, das sehr gute und hohe Niveau zu verbessern A**osphäre: 5* plus Ich habe immer das Gefühl ich bin zu Hause, obwohl es nicht so ist. Danke an das Management für die tolle Zeit zusammen

Wir hatten April 2024 unseren Urlaub als Familie (2+2) im Blue Water. Unsere Kinder sind 12 + 16 und von daher war der Bespaßungsfaktor nicht mehr ganz so wichtig (außer WLAN), d.h. für kleine Kinder ist das Hotel nicht geeigent, da zu langweilig/ruhig. Die Zimmer sind schön und ALLE mit Meerblick, d.h man braucht Meerblick nicht extra buchen, denn alle Zimmer sind zur Meeresseite ausgerichtet. Bei dem Punkt kann man ziemlich Geld sparen... ;-) Wir hatten nur Frühstück gebucht, was für uns ausreichend war, da wir Abends nach draußen zum Essen gegangen sind. Ein paar Restaurants (Sanka Seafood, The Fishermans und Janirest) sind in Laufweite und akzeptabel. Unser Tourguide Siri war sehr angenehm, spricht ziemlich gut deutsch. Siri ist bei den "Kollegen" am Holzzaun des Hotels zum Meer stehen. Manchmal nervt es zwar, wenn die Kollegen am Zaun stehen und in die Hotelanlage reinschauen, weil sie etwas verkaufen wollen, aber dass muss man halt abkönnen, oder man legt sich außerhalb aus dem Sichtbereich in Pool-nähe. Ich glaube ich könnte noch viel mehr schreiben und berichten, denn die Eindrücke und Erlebnisse in diesem Land sind schon besonders. Viele Grüße und viel Spaß in Eurem Urlaub :-)