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Reviewed August 18, 2019

what a beautiful resort, the chalet was just so so well designed, extremely comfortable and of course service was excellent too.

Food was really good too. Buffet line was so long and so much of variety, Loved everything about the place

Date of stay: August 2019
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Thank ladyfair22
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sheahangregory, Manager at Occidental Paradise Dambulla, responded to this reviewResponded August 24, 2019

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Thank you for sharing your experience followed by your recent visit to the resort. We are happy to hear that you have enjoyed your brief stay with us and would love to have you back with us in the future.

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Reviewed August 17, 2019 via mobile

I have to tell that NOT everything about this hotel was bad, the pool area, rooms, environment, food were excellent. I would have given 5 stars if it weren’t for several bad experiences i had on my stay.

Firstly the reception,
They had done their job assigned all the rooms setup forms for us to sign as we were 22 people group. But the problem was that we had to carry our luggage entirely to the top and to the room and not a single person bothered to even asked to help out, we even had an injured girl who was limping and all of the people around reception was just looking at the girl trying to carry the bags with the limp down the stairs. Eventually we carried our bags and her bags as well. Also we didn’t get any welcome drinks or wet towels and we were pretty exhausted when we arrived after a climb to pidurangala rock. I was deeply disappointed as were the rest of the group.

Secondly maintenance,
This was the first time I got bumped to a suite when we reserved normal rooms. We were excited but it was a very short excitement because the outside jacuzzi was so dirty we didn’t even bother to get in. We complained about this and they cleaned it at night and we were thinking of trying it out in the morning. It was clean but when turned on the jacuzzi to fill the knob for hot water was broken (the entire suit have the blue labeled knobs for hot water and red ones for the cold which was hilarious) anyhow after the water was filled halfway for the whirlpool jets i turned it on while climbing inside the jacuzzi frogs came out of the jets instead. I almost died tripping trying to get out. Who cleans a jacuzzi without even trying out the jets 🤷🏻‍♂️.
Maintenance needs to step up their game, when we did complain at first about the condition of the jacuzzi the comment that came out was “we don’t get that much booking on the suites”. (Pictures attached)

So eventually if someone do pay for the suites they would be getting this frog infested jacuzzis with leaves to clean by ourselves and mis labeled plumbing.

Also the hotel needs to add some air balls and other floating foam toys as it was a pretty large pool and some games would have been fun. It became boring after a while.

Date of stay: August 2019
Trip type: Traveled with friends
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Reviewed August 17, 2019

Stayed hear for 3 nights, wonderful place, staff fantastic. Both Senarath and Kasun were very helpful, nothing too much trouble. Would stay again and recommend to anyone. Many thanks Phil and Sue White.

Date of stay: January 2019
Trip type: Traveled as a couple
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Reviewed August 13, 2019

Had a great stay in this beautiful hotel. Very scenic and closer to the nature. Hospitable staff, good food and very friendly service. Very spacious rooms and tastefully designed. Room boy Manjula kept the rooms well intact. A definite place to visit and indulge in hapiness.

Date of stay: August 2019
Trip type: Traveled with family
Thank Sanjeeva P
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sheahangregory, Manager at Occidental Paradise Dambulla, responded to this reviewResponded August 13, 2019

Dear Guest,

Thank you for your feedback given followed by your recent visit to the resort. We are indeed happy to hear to hear that you enjoyed your stay with us and thank you for the lovely kudos made on the service staff. We at Paradise would love to have you and your family back again with us in the future.

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Reviewed August 7, 2019 via mobile

This place was beautiful!
Wish we had a longer stay. The rooms aere beyond beautiful. It was a 2 storey room so you could put your kids to bed down and go up for a nice cup of tea!
Beautiful pool but not temperature controlled so it was windy and cold to use it. But we still did. Haha. Because we just had a day!
The breakfast spread was great, loved the fresh coconut water along with juices.
Very nice staff and overall an incredible property.

Date of stay: July 2019
Trip type: Traveled with family
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sheahangregory, Manager at Occidental Paradise Dambulla, responded to this reviewResponded August 7, 2019

Dear Guest,

Thank you for sharing your experience followed by your recent visit to the resort. We are indeed happy to hear that you have enjoyed your stay with us and thank you for recommending the property to the rest of the travel community on TripAdvisor.

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