If the budget highlighted on vacation is not very large, it is quite possible to choose a wonderful island of Sri Lanka as a place to hold it. Here everything is relatively not expensive. If you compare with other resorts, then in Thailand, for example, the very accommodation on Phuket or Samui Islands and food will cost more than on Sri Lanka.
Perhaps it can only do the flight to the island. In Colombo, the capital of Sri Lanka, direct non-final flights are rare, so it is mainly necessary to get at ABU Dhabi airport. It is best to buy tickets directly from the airline, bypassing travel agencies. The earlier a ticket was purchased, the better. You can still save on the tickets of a certain tariff. The cheapest ticket is the one that cannot be returned or transferring the date. Of course, this is a big risk of buying a ticket in advance for half a year and not to have the ability to pass it, but if the task is to save money on vacation, then this option can also be considered.
Significantly saved, planning holidays yourself. Before your trip, I always carefully stitch all reviews about the country, hotels and beaches. Then, stopping the choice on something concrete, we begin to negotiate with the owners of hotels. Sri Lanka did justion. Tickets for the December flight were purchased in May. And the husband began to be convened with the owner of the hotel you like. They say Sri Lankans in English badly. Rather, they believe that they own the language perfectly, but it is very difficult to understand their emphasis. It is best to correspond with the hotel's management by mail. Then everything is most clear. Hotel Flower Garden has booked in June with a significant discount.
Booking a hotel stands at once to negotiate the transfer from the airport to the hotel. In most hotels Sri Lanka, this service is provided free of charge. They only need to communicate the flight number and time to send the driver. This is a very convenient service. Since, first, the tourist tired after the plane can immediately sit in the granted car and not think where his hotel is located and how to get to it. Secondly, the island is very large and if you do not agree on the transfer in advance, the trip to the taxi will be very expensive. If the hotel does not provide a free shuttle service, then you need to clarify whether they can pick you up for a fee. This in any case will cost cheaper than a taxi to the hotel.
There are also excursion stalls on Sri Lanka, where tourists are offered a variety of island tours, both for one day and long. In our experience I can say that it is not always necessary to use them, but it is not at all to resort to their services. All the same, they need to overpay. If you go to such common places like a turtle farm, Buddha statues, various temples or beaches, then you can get there on your own on Tuk Tuka or even on a flight bus that go around the island over the ring. If the distances are large, it makes sense to get on the bus. We really liked such economical movement. A bus ticket cheap, it is not possible, since the road is only one. You go to the ring, raise your hand, seeing the first bus, and go to the right place. Buses are mainly with air conditioning, there are no many people and very interesting to ride along with the locals. In the photo of Tuk Tuk and the route bus.
These are the Buddhist temples occur everywhere. They are all like each other, so inspect the couple will be quite enough.
If you go on excursions to the forest, to waterfalls or on safari, that is, deep into the island, then you can also do without a special excursion. Ask at the reception of your hotel, do they have a car for rent. It is advisable along with the driver, as the roads and movement on the island are just terrible. As a rule, renting on the day of the car owned by the hotel will cost two or three times cheaper than the order of the excursion.
That's what I would have recommended to save on Sri Lanka, so it's on a meal. The less the price specified in the menu, the worse the food is supplied. For two more than two weeks, we tried almost every evening to come to a new restaurant. Tasty and beautifully fed in the most expensive restaurants, which look decent and the price in the menu is appropriate. As soon as you go into a small cafe, you see stingy tables, dirty napkins and cocktails diluted with water. And in the cafes for the local, I would not advise at all. Sri Lankans are not very clean and the food here is fed in terrible unsanitary conditions. The islanders themselves eat incredibly releasing food, so the intestinal infections are not terrible. If you are a tourist and want to eat in a local cafe, and ask food without pepper, then I think it may not end.
So save and budget to spend your vacation is quite possible. Plan a trip yourself, buy tickets and book hotels in advance, do not go on excursions with the first tourist firm and in no case save food - get very interesting, not expensive and memorable rest.