We Normally do the planning part well before we go any outing, But this time it was upside down. Even though we have decided a few days back that we should go on a outing again, we were unable to find a good Location. We tried every option and every place we got to know but it was not a success. Mainly there were two reasons for this as I see... First it was a Thursday and normally that happens to be the Nakath day in our country so all those hotels with a Banquet hall was booked for some wedding. Even the small ones. Next thing was we all were in bit of a confusion as to what area we should visit.. Nevertheless we set on to go ahead to Rathnapura hoping we could find some place to crash in.
As we saw this sign board on the side of the road, near Rathnapura saying Centuria hotel, we made the instant decision of visiting the place, which was partially correct. It is on a small hill and we had to turn right from the main road and went ahead towards the hill. It was pleasing by the look of it and was well maintained. The whole hotel is a combination of antique and modern designs as the main reception area looks like an old mansion while the newly built luxury rooms are more modern type.
The magnificent thing was the swimming pool with an artificial waterfall at the back of the pool. When the waterfall was switched on it brings out a charming look to the hotel. The changing rooms are also very good and secured so there's nothing to fear.
After having the initial overlook of the hotel we decided to go for the pool directly as there was nothing else to do.. Before that I ordered six bottles of Sprites without any further thinking.... and this cost us more than 1500 Rs. No need to say it was a painful memory but we had to do that because we did not receive any welcome drink or anything. We were used to that pattern comparing to other places we visited but here there's nothing like that.
Anyhow, we then dived in to the pool and spent maximum time there as it was the only fun item available. The waterfall was a new item that we could really enjoy. It was about 2 in the evening when we get off from the pool and then we had the Lunch.
I mentioned above that we were partially correct in going in to this place. Here comes the partially incorrect side of our decision as the lunch was a very bad one. They said when we order one portion of a side dish would suffice three people. I don't know how they came in to that decision as one portion was insufficient for even one person. Food was delicious but the problem was it was not enough to see whether it was delicious. That made the whole place a useless one and we were utterly disappointed.
After looking at a lunch(Can't say we actually ate that tiny lunch) we took some snaps of it and returned back home quickly.... it was not actually a spend the day more likely a half spend the day....
