--spacious, really comfortable room
--room smells a bit musty, but it's not bothersome once you stay in the room
--hot shower with good water pressure
--nice ayurvedic treatment center
--the popular dinner option is a buffet
--easy to walk to Sigiriya rock from the hotel (15-20 minute walk)
--there is no wifi in the room
--staff at the reception desk were great
--some of the other staff didn't really seem to know what they were doing. I will give an example. This is a small thing, and it's not that important, but it struck me as so strange, that I wanted to share it. The pool has deck chairs, but they are not ready for guests to lie down on them, in the sense that they don't have pads/cushions on them. You have to ask the pool boy to bring one out for you (and when you leave the pool area, he will remove it). This already is strange. Why aren't the chairs already prepared for new guests? But what I found even stranger was that you really have to ask for one. It's not enough for you to make eye contact with, and say hello to, the pool boy while you are sitting on the chair. If you want a pad, you actually have to ask him. Maybe it doesn't go without saying that sitting on a deck chair without a pad is not particularly comfortable.