Wijaya Holiday resort - Kiriella.. Inside view

The Wijaya Holiday Resort is located at Kiriella, Rathnapura( one can easily find the location from the link given by Hasi) and the environment and the surroundings are superb and hard to believe that we are still in Rathnapura.. Hotel (more like a leisure Park actually) is built on a mountain so we can get a Nice Panoramic view once we stand there. This Hotel has three Artificial Swimming pools, and many natural ones too.

When it comes to the pros and cons of Wijaya Holiday resort, there are few things that will be crucial to be pointed out. There are Positive things as well as Negative things... First to the Positive side. The very first visit of us to this place happened on a day where it was filled with some school girls. A muslim girl's college had a day outing there. So the management had put up a buffet lunch which was awesome. We really had a great time there. The boat ride is 50 Rs for 15 minutes and it is a safe ride which is normally on the stream flows inside the hotel estate. The stream is not deep and they provide life jackets along with the dingy so there's no way one can get drowned in that!

There we can play many Games such as cricket, Volly ball, Badminton, Table tennis....etc. But if it is a crowded day there will be less chance of doing them due to the competition. There's a nice waterfall also in one corner of this hotel and we can jump in to the pond there and have a cool bath while the waterfall falls on to our head. The pond which is at the end of the waterfall is not that deep so not to be afraid of drowning. But I had a remarkable experience with a water snake which came and bumped in to my left hand. No harm was done he just went away!(pooor thing must have got frightened of me ;-) ) Same thing happened to me when I went back there on a different day(as in it appears again swimming along in that waterfall) so watch out for that thing when stepping in to the natural waterfall!!

Apart from that incident, the lunch and the day out package which was offered to us on that day was good. But the story turns the other side when it was not a crowded day! We went back there again on a weekday and it was only we were present there. So we were told that the day outing package could not be given and we have to pay separately for the expenditures we incur.. So we paid for the pool and for the lunch only. The lunch was not good as the former day, and the fried rice menu we ordered was not up to the standard compared to the previous buffet lunch as it had not properly prepared. It was a disappointment for us I must say to see the difference between a crowded day and a lonely day. Even though the lunch was bad and all, we enjoyed maximum freedom that day as we were the only ones present there...

We never tried out the adventure package which is also in the Wijaya holiday resort but as I understood Adventure sports are being guided by a professional instructor and all the necessary equipments and clothing which will be needed for that will be provided. So no worries if one needs to try out that also!

So altogether I must say that Wijaya Holiday resort is a nice place to visit and have a wonderful day out, departed from the day to day burdens. Only thing is that there are few issues to be corrected with regard to the maintenance of the place and to the service... If all those issues were addressed by the Management no need to say it will be a marvellous place for a nice

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