Bentota hotel claiming the river mouth is 'closed for safety' without a pole — walk and look or believe the desk
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Rory MacLeod•164 rep8
Desk wants us on a paid pool day. Mouth looks ordinary from the room. I will not invent a closure. Monday.
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Walk and look. A desk 'closed' without a public pole is often a pool upsell. If the sea is actually ugly, sit. Bentota is not under a national shutdown. Flags and your eyes, not a brochure.
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Darshani Hettiarachchi•200 rep11
Mouth was choppy, we sat the pool anyway because of the kid. Fine. That was our choice, not a padlock.
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