too far, too high

Had a chance to visit a beach hotel in Trengganu, an East Coast State of West Malaysia. I was not in my own backyard, I was in a foreign land, at least the hotel guests were foreign but the hotel staff were my own people (did I say my own people?). No, not really all my own people, I saw a Japanese at the front desk and a white on a bicycle. Well at least I know that the hotel is of a high standard and of international class.

The location is beyond description, the sandy beach is beyond poetry and the ambient ........ yes ambient ........... quiet. And the price ........ well too far too high.