Negombo Guest House

... ocean - But it was full, so I packed up and moved across the road to the hotel I had originally booked - The Ocean view guest house.. Very pleasant, clean and cheap and run by a nice Sri Lankan guy called Mark. Sri Lanka is a cleaner, quiter and less ...

... were only here for two nights but one place did stand out and that was the Seajoy Restaurant which was across the road from our Guest House.  The second night we were there we had a Sri Lankan prawn curry and cuttlefish(calamari) at the Seajoy and it ...

... Sri Lankan music and a bus full of smiling locals. Caught a Tuk Tuk for the last section of the journey to the Guest House. Arrived 7.10pm  Beach Villa Guest House was a relaxing place on the beach front that played terrible English music. Although ...

Although most people don't have much of a good word for Negombo, it was a very good place to start our trip. We had a guest house near the beach, the owner also running a travel company.  The beach itself was clean and there are a few beach ...

... tres bien dormi, surement a cause des puces dans le lit car je me suis gratte toute la nuit. Pourtant c'est une super guest house. Paie ma note apres avoir mange mon dernier ptit dej srilankais, string hoppers avec pol sambol (bientot la recette sur le ...

... arrived late into Colombo but my driver, being used to the relaxed Asian time scale, was still waiting. We then drove to Negombo and to my guest house - The Icebear. The guest house is so beautiful. so much so that i extended my stay here by another day. ...

... of Sri Lanka, wove an always surprising magic of coordination or contrast.  We stayed at Marie Barbara Settupathy’s Guest House in Colombo because of it’s central location, near to Shammi’s workplace, the India Visa Application ...

... os copos de penalti. Passado uma meia hora, como o pano de, fundo uma telenovela-comédia que o principal trabalhador da guest house papa a uma velocidade estonteante, chega a futura principal personagem. Para uma grande noite. Hoje voa-se à vontade. A ...

... Graham. Next day, it is still mentally hot and so we decide to hang out around the pool in the small resort hotel next to our guest house. We had the pool to ourselves most of the time and watched a wedding taking place at the hotel. I was trying to be ...

... trees swaying in the breeze, everyone stopping for a chat! Very nice! Everywhere was pretty much booked out and we stayed in a 'midrange’ guest house on the beach. We had to dig down to the bottom of our bags to find our shorts again as it was so ...

... is for a room to be clean, cheap and have a decent fan to keep us cool. Though it is not always best to go to the first guest house you look at! But when you have been traveling all day you just want to get rid of your bags, shower and get some good ...

... decent job of making it taste good was Hot Rock.  We ended up going there so often over the last couple of days that this morning, as we walked out of our guest-house (just opposite), the owners gave us a little wave. And we waved back. ...

... train to Colombo, which would allow us to have a leisurely lunch before heading to the train station.  Christopher arrived at our guest house right on time at the agreed upon 11:00.  The three of us then walked over to the pizza restaurant that ...

... Friday so the decision was really hard for us to make. We walked around the beach a little more and then headed back to our guest house to shower and relax before heading back to the strip for dinner. Once we were back at the beach we ate some dinner ...

Not much to say except security getting into Colombo airport is bloody tight. The guy from our guest house drove us to the airport with his son, but as he had forgotten his license, wasn't allowed to pass the checkpoint, he had to get out and his son ...

... up to us with a piece of paper that said "Sage Aidekman". We were all very excited to have found each other and left for the guest house. Once we got there we realized it was smaller than we had been led to believe and much further from the beach and town ...

Zed and I have arrived in Sri Lanka and within minutes of booking into a guest house I hit the beach for the first time on my travels and fell asleep on the golden sands – Bliss! Sri Lanka has made a good recovery from the Tsunami and the war and is ...