In an ideal world...sri lanka or goa?

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If we had enough money (ie sell all our worldly goods/children etc) which would you choose? Anyone been to either?
Thanks

i've not been to sri lanka, so it would have to be Goa for me (went twice). you probably wouldn't need to sell all your worldly goods either - it is cheap to get to and stay there. plenty of kid friendly areas too.

Both, you could do a 2 centre holiday with a week in each.

Have been to India, though not Goa, people I know who've been loved it, likewise with Sri Lanka

Have been to Sri Lanka and would love to go again. Never Goa, but would love to. You lucky lucky thing. Go to Kandalama Hotel, it's the best hotel I've been to. If you like the idea of monkeys appearing on your balcony and spotting wild elephants etc

sri lanks. with or without dcs?

Yes thanks for that, with DCs...love the idea of a 2 centre hol...we can dream can't we?! May be niave here but is Sri Lanka safe for tourists? Love the elephant scenario, will google that hotel WowOoo.

Stay away from the Northern part and it's absolutely fine. you can get info from British Embassy website. (we went somewhere near ish to the North, was fine. But there has been trouble in past so safer to stay away altogether!
Ah, a holiday away somewhere warm.....

sri lanka- it's lovely. Friendly ad safe- if you stay away from north and pas through colubo quickly.
Galle Face Hotel too- old colonial heaven.

Not much support for Goa then? Will look at that hotel plumandolive, sounds lovely.

We only stayed one night quite a while ago at the galle face- it was memorable.
But i think it has changed and been quite upgraded since then, I just glimpsed the website!)
The hill towns- Kandy and Nuwara Eliya, Haputale,Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage,
the tea plantations and monumental buhddist statues, rock fortress and wall paintings at Sigiriya are worth seeing as well as the incredible coast.
Gosh- I feel so envious! Hope you do it- it's wonderful, and the people are amazing.

I got married in Sri Lanka and would love to go back but I would choose Goa as i've never been and theres only so many holidays in a lifetime.

The Mount Lavinia Hotel near Colombo is good and we married in The Triton which was superb.

Does anyone know of a good company who could organise a two centre holiday to goa and sri lanka???

First Choice do twin centre holidays, they did when we went to Mexico.

We went to Sri Lanka with Kuoni and I found this on their site:

www.kuoni.co.uk/multiple_destinations/indian_subcontinent/sri_lanka/cy10032009.html

Oooh thank you!

Will have a look now.

in an ideal world, Sri Lanka, however the world is not ideal and as such it is not the safest place in the world right now, so probably Goa.

Sri Lanka - it's my favourite country in the world. We started our honeymoon at the Mount Lavinia in Colombo too!

Couldn't recommend The Lighthouse in Galle more highly, but the Kandalama in Dambulla is nasty. Fabulous building and location, but full of Italian football hooligans on package holidays. We saw some really revolting behaviour.

I believe the current advice is to avoid the north of the country, and possibly Colombo as well.

I can't believe that they started fighting again after the tsunami. I mean, Jesus Christ, don't you have more important things to do in your country now?

Yes, I think if you stick to the south/hills you're ok, but best to check current advice.

Not sure if this is a bit too late but I can only recomment Sri Lanka, we go there frequently, even since you daughter was born. She's almost two and already been 4 times. Sri Lankans adore children and are super friendly.
Safety:
The south is very safe, like the other comments, I would not hang around colombo for too long and not recomment to go too far North.
Travel: you can book with a travel company they offer round trips but can(out of experience be very tight secduled)involve a lot of sitting in a bus.
Alternatively there are travel agents that specialising in putting a taylormade holiday together for you. or you can go adventure and oranize it youself.
hope this is helpful