Nirovan - Gone to the Dogs
I have been to Nirovan about 5 or 6 times over the past few years during my visits to Colombo. Sad to say that the place has completely gone to the dogs. I got screwed over big time today and left never to return again!
I turned up at 5. 15 pm today and picked a girl out who was the best of the bunch - I'd give her a 4/10 at best. Then I went pay for my 'ticket' and they told me that "the price has just up 2 weeks ago". The reason for this was that things (bribes? ) had gone up a lot in Sri Lanka and they even blamed the Tamil Tigers for this situation! They were asking Rs. 1, 500/- and I don't think I have ever paid more than Rs. 1000/- there before. So I told them they were talking nonsense and the floor mamasang went off to discuss things with the big mamasan somewhere inside.
During my wait at the desk 2 or 3 Sri Lankan punters came in, paid no more that what looked like Rs. 700-800 each, grabbed a girl then went upstairs. After about 10 minutes the floor manasang came back and said the price was Rs. 1, 500/- and that was it - there had been a lot of cost increases etc. Etc. I knew this story was all bullshit but thought oh well, screw it, if this is the way they want to play it fine. So I paid up the Rs. 1, 500/- and went to find my girl. Next thing they tell me "Oh, your girl go with somone else - you take another girl". They sent me back into the 'goldfish bowl' where there were 4 pig-ugly fat girls sitting. I told them that this was totally unacceptable and that I wanted a full refund and was leaving immediately. At this point they proceeded to make me even more angry by screwing about and making stupid excuses and trying to stop / prevent me from leaving immediately with refund.
What a complete crock of crap this place has become. It seems to me that they don't want foreign customers there at all unless they can rip them off blindly.
I will never go to that place again after this dreadful experience. The place is run down, non-airconditioned, very basic and the girls are nothing to right home about.
Tomorrow I am going to register an official complaint with the tourist police about this place and it's policies. They display no prices and issue no official receipts so it seems that the whole thing is run on a very ad hoc basis. I hope that by bringing an official complaint, and hopefully a visit from the tourist police that they will be forced to smarten their act up!
I am very disappointed in this place IT IS OFF THE LIST and would warn other punters to beware of the scam that they are pulling on foreigners.
Disgusted Freddy