Himawari Hills Hotel and Hostel

View from hotel

Low room light

Acqua calda, struttura accogliente in generale.

Wifi inesistente. Cuscini con odore non identificato. Mancanza di riscaldamento visto le basse temperature.

Good

no such things

The host was very helpful with arranging Tuktuks and tours and there was hot water.

Maybe this was unique for our room (room 110), but it had a heavy smell of food as the kitchen ventilation must have had its outlet in our room. When we arrived we didn’t notice the smell, but later in the evening when we were going to bed the smell became more or less unbearable. Too tired to do anything about it at the time, we hoped it would pass during the night. In the morning it was better, so we didn’t think about it more during the day, but when we got back late in the evening again we figured out about the kitchen ventilators and since this was our final night we just didn’t have the energy to bother even though the smell was terribly strong. While the construction of the house wasn’t the host’s fault, we just couldn’t understand why they had given us that room with almost no windows (only by the floor and another very small one) and with the damn kitchen ventilators when the rest of the house seemed more or less empty. I’m glad we only stayed two nights, but that short time was enough to make all our clothes literally REEK of grease and curry, and only thinking of the smell in that room now makes my stomach turn. On top of that, one of our towels was dirty with large brown marks and smelled like men’s perfume even though they insisted on that it was clean. When we asked for a new towel they put the towel we asked to return back in the pile of “clean” towels. The room and the sheets in the bed didn’t feel crispy or clean either, but I guess that’s what you get for this fairly low price. The breakfast was decent, and because of the average nature of it, I guess you could say that it was expensive. They also have an extensive list of house rules which just felt a little weird, and having to pay to play pool (500 lkr per hour) when the hotel has a pool table also felt unnecessary. Also, perhaps like it is with many places in Nuwara Eliya, the house was really cold.