Melheim Kandy Villas Hotel in Kandy

Our room was a long way from the main hub, up and down irregular steps, some 103 steps in total. Trying to find our way to the restaurant and watch our footing after dark was difficult. Even a member of staff had trouble helping us find the way. On entering the restaurant we were greeted with a blue haze of smoke as an indoor wok station had been set up for stirfry dishes of choice to be prepared on an individual basis. Although very tasty having to wait in line and suffer the smoke was unacceptable. A very surly man was in charge of the restaurant and we resented him telling us what we should or shouldn’t eat. He was so rude. Our room was lovely, enormous infact with a second bedroom but the view was poor and overlooked concrete and pipework rather than the lovely views from the main hub. The complex had been built into the rocks which meant we had a huge rock in our room. A bit bizzare but fun. The shower lacked any shelves and there was no door on the shower so the floor flooded. Overall we thought the complex was pretentious and many visitors would struggle with the location and number of steps to the room we had. Fortunately we are walkers and reasonably fit and agile. The lads who carried our suitcases to and from the room worked hard for their tips.