We are really pleased that we chose a driver on our 11 days trip around Sri Lanka. It was really easy. We were picked up at the airport and after that, we just had to say where and when we wanted to go, and the driver would take us there. On the way he told us about Sri Lanka, what to see and lots about the culture. We never felt forced to do or see anything, it was just suggestions. Our driver would recommend places to stay if we didn’t know where to stay. We pretty much planed the trip on the way (may sometimes our driver was a little bit worried, that we couldn´t make up our mind, but he got used to it…). Even when we changed our mind after half an hour and wanted to check out and leave for the next city, while our driver thought we were staying and had left his laundry, he was just laughing and picked up the laundry some days later on our way back :-)
We would recommend our driver Kushantha. His English was fine, he was friendly and very easy going.
The spice gardens is a big turist trap, but just tell the driver to go somewhere else :-)