Kaani Beach Hotel

Close to the beach

This hotel is very poorly run to begin with and there is no accountability for any of the inexperienced, ineffective and frankly lazy staff that work at the front desk. That's just the beginning of it. There is a boat you can get booze on at night and the music is so loud that you need not want to sleep before 1am or sleep late after 8am because of construction noise. I complained about this only to be shrugged at and ignored. It was clear nothing would be done about it. They either couldn't be bothered or didn't care. The result was the same. The rooms are run down, out of repair and the walls are thin. You can hear the other guests in their rooms and the doors are poorly fitted so light streams in and you easily hear others walking by at all hours. I also had to endure constant unwanted sexual attention and cat calls from Sakthivel, the 'Guest Relations' guy..... AND THEN further unwanted advances from one of the boat drivers on a day excursion. He actually touched me inappropriately and asked me bluntly to go have sex with him in my room. I refused. I told Sakthivel about it the next day, but once again nothing was done about it. He even tried to get me to go down to the beach alone with this man to see the plankton. I had to be blunt and refuse. It was at this point that things became clear to me. These guys are buddies and looking to help each other have a good time with single female guests. The boat driver kept coming around to the hotel to find me and I often had to stay in my room to avoid either cat calls from Sakthivel or more unwanted sexual advances from the boat driver. I was asked on more than one occasion to bring him to my room. I was also offered alcohol, which is banned on the island. These two guys could arrange whatever you wanted. I'm sure you'd have to pay for it in other ways as that was completely obvious. The food is absolutely terrible.