Super hotel, everything is clean, very friendly staff, there is animation. The food is also delicious and varied. The hotel is very conveniently located:There is a supermarket across the street, a fruit market and a fish market nearby. But if you're too lazy to take a walk, you can take a tuk tuk. There are cafes for every taste and tour desks within walking distance. I recommend taking excursions from Ivan (to the left of the hotel across the street), he speaks excellent Russian and has well-organized excursions. Dollars can also be exchanged for rupees, the exchange rate is good, even better than at the airport. You can go shopping in Gala. We went by tuk tuk with Misha, he's standing at the hotel (his tuk tuk number is in the photo) . The youngest of all the tookers here, who hang out at the hotel and don't charge much. He took us there, waited, and brought us back. Oh, he also brought it to the port, and we went for a walk there. The city beach and the beach with turtles are also nearby.We really enjoyed our stay at the Citrus Hotel, if we return to Hikkaduwa, then only to this hotel.

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Андрей К

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We planned our vacation at Citrus Hikkaduwa in April 2025. We decided to go to Sri Lanka during the off-season: from September 7 to September 18. We bought tickets for three people through a travel agency - me, my wife and an 11-year-old child. It cost us 350 thousand rubles. Closer to our vacation, we decided to look at the weather forecast for Sri Lanka on Yandex and were very disappointed in our choice: yandex showed the weather in Sri Lanka as continuous rains with thunderstorms and no sunny days at all. I must say right away, when we arrived in Sri Lanka, we were greeted by hot sunny weather up to 30 degrees Celsius. It rained at night, the only day it rained, it was the day of our departure, a real tropical downpour, and even then it was short-lived.. so don't believe Yandex's forecasts! We were flying from Sheremetyevo. There and back, by Qatar Airways. We left without delay at the airport. There was a transfer in Doha, the capital of Qatar. There's a huge, beautiful airport with several floors and trains moving through the terminal and a beautiful park of live plants. Qatar time is the same as in Moscow, with one time zone. Note: it is very cold on Qatari planes and at Doha Airport, and the air conditioners are working hard. In Doha, it was 35 degrees outside. On airplanes, a Boeing 777, there are blankets, headphones and a pillow under the back on the seats. We were fed during the round trip. There are video screens on the chairs. There is not much choice of videos in Russian. The flight lasted 5 hours from Sheremetyevo to Doha and the same amount from Doha to Colombo. There is a free Wi-Fi in Doha. It seems to be the same at Colombo airport, but we did not understand how to use it - he required a passport number and password to log in, but we did not succeed. At Colombo Airport, you can exchange dollars for rupees. From Colombo Airport to the Citrus Hikkaduwa Hotel, a carrier texted us on WhatsApp and took us by car. It takes about 2 hours to get to the hotel, with a stop at the mall where you can drink coffee and go to the toilet. Toilet access is paid, 40 rupees per person. We tipped him 10 dollars. We arrived at the hotel for lunch and were checked in immediately without delay on the 3rd floor with a view of the ocean (sea view), the room door opens onto an open corridor with a fence and a view of the street. Upon check-in, we were immediately greeted by the tart smell of the Indian Ocean and the friendly staff. We were lucky, there was a young Sri Lankan Nada among the staff who spoke Russian and explained everything to us. The suitcases were brought to the room by the guy Salud. We gave them a thousand rubles each as a souvenir, 500 rupees each, and Alyonka's chocolate bar as a tip. The only unpleasant moment: there was one bed in the room, we asked for an extra one, but it was with an additional payment of 120 dollars. Although the hotel has plenty of rooms with 2 beds. The room is clean, with air conditioning, TV, lights, safe, kettle, refrigerator, and enough outlets. The door opens with an ordinary key. Not electronic. The bathroom has a bidet shower, a rain shower - 1 watering can and a hairdryer. The water has never been hot, barely warm at most. The ocean is noisy, but not very disturbing. Buses can be heard moving along the road and sometimes, once an hour, a train passes by on the railway. The rooms were cleaned every day without reminders. They were given 2 shampoos, water and toilet paper, sugar and coffee bags. There are 2 glasses on the table. We didn't see any mosquitoes, ants or cockroaches in the room. The climate is humid. The jacket left in the closet was moldy by the time we left. But the things left to dry on the balcony were drying out by morning, which we hadn't noticed in Thailand. Our breakfasts, lunches and dinners were included. There are very few guests with children in the hotel, only local couples. There were no Russians except us. Russians come to this hotel during the season. There were young Europeans in companies and elderly couples. The food is varied: soups, sago porridge, tuna fish (not always), chicken, pork and sometimes tough beef. Pasta and rice, baked and boiled potatoes. Cheese, chicken sausages and salads, yoghurts. All the food is spicy, for an amateur, mostly with curry. The fruits are watermelons, ripe and soft papaya and short bananas, sweet and sour, very tasty. Drinks: tea, coffee, milk always, juices for breakfast. There is a bar, the child took a sprite there and it's all inclusive, they didn't charge us extra for it. There were always delicious pastries for breakfast, pancakes, omelets with fillings in the form of tomatoes and something else, cakes and desserts for lunch and dinner. In addition to the standard buffet in the restaurant, the staff brings a menu with additional dishes and drinks, informing them that it is all inclusive and offering to sign for the selected dishes and drinks on the receipt. We thought that we were being bailed out and would be billed for all this upon leaving the hotel, but no, no one charged us any extra for this. There was no divorce, which is very nice. On Saturdays and Sundays, local families with children visit the hotel and the range of dishes in the restaurant is abundantly transformed, there was even ice cream and live music. Next to the hotel there is a 2-storey department store, a liquor store without bars where you can go inside and choose alcohol, exchangers and cafes. There are tuk tuks along the road. We didn't see anything particularly beautiful and authentic in the local shops, even the magnets weren't interesting, they were all wooden turtles. I advise you to be careful about the prices in local shops. We priced the adapter into an outlet, they told us the price of 4000-3850 rupees, which is about a thousand rubles, the same adapter in a department store cost 1,450 rupees, which is about 500 rubles, and in a department store in Halle the same adapter cost mere pennies: 300-200 rupees. The beach at the Citrus Hikkaduwa Hotel is dead coral with strong waves, no one swims there, crabs run on this beach, sea urchins, moray eels and reef sharks can be seen there. Everyone, including us, went swimming to Cape turtle at the Hikka Tranz hotel, where you can walk along the ocean shore, which is not very convenient because of the parapets and stones, or you can walk down the street, turn left from the hotel to the red sign of Pan Asia Bank. The waves there are smaller, the beach is sandy, and large sea turtles come every day, even out of season. Striped chipmunks are running, beautiful local birds are flying and black skinny crows are being shot by Hikka Tranz guards with slingshots. We didn't see how they shot them, but we saw these slingshots in their hands. Local dogs are lying on the beach, buried in holes. T-shirts and coconuts are sold on the beach - 300 rupees for 1 coconut. If you leave the hotel to the right, you can walk down the street to another sandy beach with strong waves, but no one was swimming there, and we didn't. On the day of departure, a monitor lizard came to our hotel, plopped into the pool and began to swim, the attendant took it out with a net, and then hit it with a stick... We took the tour from a Russian-speaking Sri Lankan Misha +7 477 906-24-88. The tour cost $ 40, there were three of us, and we handed Misha $ 120, considering that $40 was for each safari participant, but Misha took only $40, returned the rest, saying that we had overpaid! He didn't take advantage of our ignorance. The tour included a moonstone mine, a medicinal plant garden, a river safari through mangroves where we were allowed to hold a small crocodile, cinnamon production, a turtle farm where volunteer girls from Europe work, and a tsunami museum... This museum is an ordinary unfurnished house, where there are only walls with photographs of the devastation in 2005, when there was a tsunami, and it is maintained by a local resident who survived this cataclysm. We also visited the museum with dolls (the dolls are scary). Everywhere they expect you to buy something or tip them.. but unobtrusively. We also rode crazy bass number 388/1 to the cities of Ambalangoda (to the left of the hotel) and Galle (to the right of the hotel), there are bus stops along the road on both sides, you have to raise your hand with a thumb out and vote for the bus to stop. A one-way bus ticket for two cost 200 rupees, and we were even given a ticket. Buses have a conductor, surveillance cameras and a rope on the ceiling that you can pull and a bell will ring, a stop signal. We walked around Hikkaduwa and watched how ordinary people live, they live in poverty. The less well-off residents don't even have glass in their windows.. only the more affluent residents have glasses. There was no particular dirt on the streets. They didn't see any trash cans either. Locals burn garbage and leaves in their yards. Sometimes a garbage truck drives along the road and invites them to take over the garbage. We often heard the electronic melody "to Eliza" from the street, for a long time we could not understand what it was until we saw a tuk tuk delivering pastries to houses, and thus signaling its arrival. We went to a local temple where a monk took us and explained something in Sinhalese, there are statues of Buddha, Ganesha and beautiful frescoes in the temple, we left an offering to the Buddha in the form of money in rupees. We saw a public bathhouse on the street in a village where an elderly woman was rinsing right in a sari - an ordinary stone box like changing cabins on beaches with a deep pit with water in the center, we saw an animal like nutria, monitor lizards, and monkeys on palm trees and on wires.. monkeys are dark, with long tails and long hind legs, not at all like monkeys in Thailand. We flew out on the evening of September 17th, a Sri Lankan wrote to us on WhatsApp that he would be waiting for us at the hotel at 21.00 in his car. Smiling and friendly. Upon arrival at Colombo airport, we tipped him 1,000 rupees. No one kicked us out of the hotel at 12 p.m., check-out time, and we comfortably spent the rest of our vacation in our room before leaving the hotel in the evening.. although it is possible that this day was fully paid for by us. We were once at the Fortezza beach resort in Marmaris, Turkey, so by 11 a.m. on the day of departure, a Turkish cleaner came running to us and shouted finish, finish, get out. There was no such thing in Sri Lanka. We all really enjoyed our vacation! I will not polemicize on the topic of a 3, 4 or 5 star hotel. We were satisfied with everything! The staff was friendly, the locals were smiling, no one bothered us much, only sometimes the tuk tukers got bored. I highly recommend this hotel and this vacation location. We planned our vacation at Citrus Hikkaduwa in April 2025. We decided to go to Sri Lanka during the off-season: from September 7 to September 18. We bought tickets for three people through a travel agency - me, my wife and an 11-year-old child. It cost us 350 thousand rubles. Closer to our vacation, we decided to look at the weather forecast for Sri Lanka on Yandex and were very disappointed in our choice: yandex showed the weather in Sri Lanka as continuous rains with thunderstorms and no sunny days at all. I must say right away, when we arrived in Sri Lanka, we were greeted by hot sunny weather up to 30 degrees Celsius. It rained at night, the only day it rained, it was the day of our departure, a real tropical downpour, and even then it was short-lived.. so don't believe Yandex's forecasts! We were flying from Sheremetyevo. There and back, by Qatar Airways. We left without delay at the airport. There was a transfer in Doha, the capital of Qatar. There's a huge, beautiful airport with several floors and trains moving through the terminal and a beautiful park of live plants. Qatar time is the same as in Moscow, with one time zone. Note: it is very cold on Qatari planes and at Doha Airport, and the air conditioners are working hard. In Doha, it was 35 degrees outside. On airplanes, a Boeing 777, there are blankets, headphones and a pillow under the back on the seats. We were fed during the round trip. There are video screens on the chairs. There is not much choice of videos in Russian. The flight lasted 5 hours from Sheremetyevo to Doha and the same amount from Doha to Colombo. There is a free Wi-Fi in Doha. It seems to be the same at Colombo airport, but we did not understand how to use it - he required a passport number and password to log in, but we did not succeed. At Colombo Airport, you can exchange dollars for rupees. From Colombo Airport to the Citrus Hikkaduwa Hotel, a carrier texted us on WhatsApp and took us by car. It takes about 2 hours to get to the hotel, with a stop at the mall where you can drink coffee and go to the toilet. Toilet access is paid, 40 rupees per person. We tipped him 10 dollars. We arrived at the hotel for lunch and were checked in immediately without delay on the 3rd floor with a view of the ocean (sea view), the room door opens onto an open corridor with a fence and a view of the street. Upon check-in, we were immediately greeted by the tart smell of the Indian Ocean and the friendly staff. We were lucky, there was a young Sri Lankan Nada among the staff who spoke Russian and explained everything to us. The suitcases were brought to the room by the guy Salud. We gave them a thousand rubles each as a souvenir, 500 rupees each, and Alyonka's chocolate bar as a tip. The only unpleasant moment: there was one bed in the room, we asked for an extra one, but it was with an additional payment of 120 dollars. Although the hotel has plenty of rooms with 2 beds. The room is clean, with air conditioning, TV, lights, safe, kettle, refrigerator, and enough outlets. The door opens with an ordinary key. Not electronic. The bathroom has a bidet shower, a rain shower - 1 watering can and a hairdryer. The water has never been hot, barely warm at most. The ocean is noisy, but not very disturbing. Buses can be heard moving along the road and sometimes, once an hour, a train passes by on the railway. The rooms were cleaned every day without reminders. They were given 2 shampoos, water and toilet paper, sugar and coffee bags. There are 2 glasses on the table. We didn't see any mosquitoes, ants or cockroaches in the room. The climate is humid. The jacket left in the closet was moldy by the time we left. But the things left to dry on the balcony were drying out by morning, which we hadn't noticed in Thailand. Our breakfasts, lunches and dinners were included. There are very few guests with children in the hotel, only local couples. There were no Russians except us. Russians come to this hotel during the season. There were young Europeans in companies and elderly couples. The food is varied: soups, sago porridge, tuna fish (not always), chicken, pork and sometimes tough beef. Pasta and rice, baked and boiled potatoes. Cheese, chicken sausages and salads, yoghurts. All the food is spicy, for an amateur, mostly with curry. The fruits are watermelons, ripe and soft papaya and short bananas, sweet and sour, very tasty. Drinks: tea, coffee, milk always, juices for breakfast. There is a bar, the child took a sprite there and it's all inclusive, they didn't charge us extra for it. There were always delicious pastries for breakfast, pancakes, omelets with fillings in the form of tomatoes and something else, cakes and desserts for lunch and dinner. In addition to the standard buffet in the restaurant, the staff brings a menu with additional dishes and drinks, informing them that it is all inclusive and offering to sign for the selected dishes and drinks on the receipt. We thought that we were being bailed out and would be billed for all this upon leaving the hotel, but no, no one charged us any extra for this. There was no divorce, which is very nice. On Saturdays and Sundays, local families with children visit the hotel and the range of dishes in the restaurant is abundantly transformed, there was even ice cream and live music. Next to the hotel there is a 2-storey department store, a liquor store without bars where you can go inside and choose alcohol, exchangers and cafes. There are tuk tuks along the road. We didn't see anything particularly beautiful and authentic in the local shops, even the magnets weren't interesting, they were all wooden turtles. I advise you to be careful about the prices in local shops. We priced the adapter into an outlet, they told us the price of 4000-3850 rupees, which is about a thousand rubles, the same adapter in a department store cost 1,450 rupees, which is about 500 rubles, and in a department store in Halle the same adapter cost mere pennies: 300-200 rupees. The beach at the Citrus Hikkaduwa Hotel is dead coral with strong waves, no one swims there, crabs run on this beach, sea urchins, moray eels and reef sharks can be seen there. Everyone, including us, went swimming to Cape turtle at the Hikka Tranz hotel, where you can walk along the ocean shore, which is not very convenient because of the parapets and stones, or you can walk down the street, turn left from the hotel to the red sign of Pan Asia Bank. The waves there are smaller, the beach is sandy, and large sea turtles come every day, even out of season. Striped chipmunks are running, beautiful local birds are flying and black skinny crows are being shot by Hikka Tranz guards with slingshots. We didn't see how they shot them, but we saw these slingshots in their hands. Local dogs are lying on the beach, buried in holes. T-shirts and coconuts are sold on the beach - 300 rupees for 1 coconut. If you leave the hotel to the right, you can walk down the street to another sandy beach with strong waves, but no one was swimming there, and we didn't. On the day of departure, a monitor lizard came to our hotel, plopped into the pool and began to swim, the attendant took it out with a net, and then hit it with a stick... We took the tour from a Russian-speaking Sri Lankan Misha +7 477 906-24-88. The tour cost $ 40, there were three of us, and we handed Misha $ 120, considering that $40 was for each safari participant, but Misha took only $40, returned the rest, saying that we had overpaid! He didn't take advantage of our ignorance. The tour included a moonstone mine, a medicinal plant garden, a river safari through mangroves where we were allowed to hold a small crocodile, cinnamon production, a turtle farm where volunteer girls from Europe work, and a tsunami museum... This museum is an ordinary unfurnished house, where there are only walls with photographs of the devastation in 2005, when there was a tsunami, and it is maintained by a local resident who survived this cataclysm. We also visited the museum with dolls (the dolls are scary). Everywhere they expect you to buy something or tip them.. but unobtrusively. We also rode crazy bass number 388/1 to the cities of Ambalangoda (to the left of the hotel) and Galle (to the right of the hotel), there are bus stops along the road on both sides, you have to raise your hand with a thumb out and vote for the bus to stop. A one-way bus ticket for two cost 200 rupees, and we were even given a ticket. Buses have a conductor, surveillance cameras and a rope on the ceiling that you can pull and a bell will ring, a stop signal. We walked around Hikkaduwa and watched how ordinary people live, they live in poverty. The less well-off residents don't even have glass in their windows.. only the more affluent residents have glasses. There was no particular dirt on the streets. They didn't see any trash cans either. Locals burn garbage and leaves in their yards. Sometimes a garbage truck drives along the road and invites them to take over the garbage. We often heard the electronic melody "to Eliza" from the street, for a long time we could not understand what it was until we saw a tuk tuk delivering pastries to houses, and thus signaling its arrival. We went to a local temple where a monk took us and explained something in Sinhalese, there are statues of Buddha, Ganesha and beautiful frescoes in the temple, we left an offering to the Buddha in the form of money in rupees. We saw a public bathhouse on the street in a village where an elderly woman was rinsing right in a sari - an ordinary stone box like changing cabins on beaches with a deep pit with water in the center, we saw an animal like nutria, monitor lizards, and monkeys on palm trees and on wires.. monkeys are dark, with long tails and long hind legs, not at all like monkeys in Thailand. We flew out on the evening of September 17th, a Sri Lankan wrote to us on WhatsApp that he would be waiting for us at the hotel at 21.00 in his car. Smiling and friendly. Upon arrival at Colombo airport, we tipped him 1,000 rupees. No one kicked us out of the hotel at 12 p.m., check-out time, and we comfortably spent the rest of our vacation in our room before leaving the hotel in the evening.. although it is possible that this day was fully paid for by us. We were once at the Fortezza beach resort in Marmaris, Turkey, so by 11 a.m. on the day of departure, a Turkish cleaner came running to us and shouted finish, finish, get out. There was no such thing in Sri Lanka. We all really enjoyed our vacation! I will not polemicize on the topic of a 3, 4 or 5 star hotel. We were satisfied with everything! The staff was friendly, the locals were smiling, no one bothered us much, only sometimes the tuk tukers got bored. I highly recommend this hotel and this vacation location. Great

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Элис Мухаметянова

Level 4 Local Expert

It was the best vacation in Sri Lanka.‑Lanka! Citrus Hikkaduwa captivated at first sight: the cozy courtyard, the rustle of palm trees, the smell of the ocean. The room turned out to be spacious and fresh, and the bed was incredibly comfortable (we had the mattress replaced with a new one). Every morning started with an amazing breakfast and a view of the ocean. For such a price, it is beyond expectations!

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