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                <title>The Field View Inn, Bulatsinhala</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[In August 2006 I was traveling from Rakwana to Aluthgama when I realised that I wouldn’t make the coast by night fall. My friend Lahiru lives in the Bulatsinhala area and he introduced me to the Field View Inn. <br><br>The rooms at the Field View Inn are clean and comfortable, they have attached shower room, fan and mosquito net (which I didn’t need). <br>Good food and drink is available in the large bar-restaurant up to 11pm. We had an excellent dinner of fried rice, with several cool lagers served by the friendly but incessantly polite staff. Next morning coffee was brought to our room and we took a walk through the friendly little town of Bulatsinhala before breakfast. The final bill came as a pleasant surprise, I couldn’t really ask for more.<br><br>This is not a tourist area, I was the only foreigner staying at the hotel, the other customers in the bar were all Sinhalese. However the decor suggests it might occasionally be busy with local wedding parties so it might be as well to telephone ahead and reserve your room. Tel: 034-2283021]]></description>
                
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                <title>The Sampath Family: Sri Lanka Homestay</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Perfect for those frightened of other tourists, this is simply a room in a real Sri Lanka home which the family will let out to occasional paying guests and where you really are more a friend of the family than a customer. <br><br>There is only one room so you are guaranteed to have the place to yourselves, you will be the only western guests in the village and the only tourist for miles around. It is just so easy here, a chance to experience real Sri Lankan village life with little or no hassle.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Hotel Trans Asia</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[The rooms are like any large business hotel and air conditioned as standard which believe me is very necessary.  The pool area, drinks and snacks are wonderful and offer a really exclusive haven amongst the dusty commercial buildings of main drag Colombo.]]></description>
                
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