Nice hotel with private beach

Written: 10 march 2012
Travel time: 1 — 13 may 2011
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday; For business travel; For families with children; For recreation with friends, for young people
Your rating of this hotel:
8.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 10.0
Service: 8.0
Cleanliness: 8.0
Food: 8.0
Amenities: 8.0
We rested from May 1 to May 13: me, husband, son 3 years old.
Advantages of the hotel:
Cozy, good service
Excellent, delicious food
Having its own playground and 2 playgrounds on the beach next to the hotel.
Good sandy beach. Bay. Full of sunbeds and umbrellas.
Attentive, helpful staff.
Good value for money.
Hotel cons:
View from the room of the second building on the neighboring hotel.
It takes 30-40 minutes to go to the center, to the port. Not 15! We spotted 100 times! But these are not the shortcomings of the hotel, just small disadvantages (maybe someone wants to live in the center, but this hotel is on the outskirts).
We rested from May 1 to May 13: me, husband, son 3 years old.
From St. Petersburg, it takes 4 hours to fly there. From there, 3.5 hours. (What does it mean that I flew to Cyprus 2 times and both times it turned out shorter, although the ticket says to fly back 5 hours. Very strange!

We drove from the airport for an hour and a half because our hotel was the last one. It was very tiring. It was not so far from the airport. Just when we were driving, our hotel was the last one and so we waited for everyone to be brought to their hotels. We were also taken first.
For us, for 2 adults and 1 child, the ticket cost 95.000 rubles with HB meals for 13 days-12 nights.
In the ratio-price-quality-I think this money justified itself.
So the vaunted Nissi beach didn’t surprise me and didn’t completely dump it with its beauty : ), but this is purely my opinion because I compare it with Egypt. Again, I liked the beach of the Greshen Bay and Greshen Sands hotels more. Our beach is no worse.
There are a lot of excursions, but I advise you to take them on the street. There are plenty of places for this, you will see for yourself.
A very fun excursion on donkeys. It costs 50 euros on the street. The guide is more expensive. Each donkey has its own name: Hitler, Lenin, Desdemona. Its own character. Ride donkeys, taste wine, have dinner, and then dance until you drop! everyone liked it very much.
We really liked the restaurant near Pavlo-Napa. It's called Wild West. If you stand with your back to the main entrance of Pavlo-Napa, then go left, about 5 minutes, towards Nissi. , inflatable trampoline, different pedal cars, bicycles, karting.
The food is very tasty. The prices are about the same everywhere. Ice cream 3 euros, Moussaka 9 euros, a glass of wine (huge) 4 euros. We took it. - very tasty. Then they brought a bill and a compliment to my husband brandy, me wine. It's nice. While we were eating, the child was running around the site. .
The hotel has WI-FI for a fee. 5 euros for 2 hours. We bought a package with a code, and then went out onto the balcony, and he caught the network and we had free Internet for 11 days and only in the last days it began to fail. We got a package with a code , sat for half an hour and turned it off. We were told that you would turn it off, the time remaining would not go anywhere. In fact, it turned out that something had gone wrong : ) My husband went and bought another 2 hours. were with the Internet, on the balcony. It doesn’t catch anywhere else. No WI-FI at the reception!

Even at the hotel, it costs 5 euros to rent an adapter for an outlet and 10 euros for a beach towel. When you leave, you give a receipt and return the money.
Beach towels are changed every day except Sunday. Keep that in mind!
Then we went near Nissi to the same restaurant, but when they found out that we only take wine, salad and fish, they lost interest in us, and the manager made a disgusting face. It was very unpleasant, especially when my husband was brought his salmon dish . It was clearly cut and smelled rotten!!! ! I also posted a photo.
It is not surprising that people did not speak very much about this place and there were no people here, and there were enough people in Wild West because the staff was very friendly.
We went to different restaurants and tried the "Meze" dish in a restaurant near the port. There is also a playground. They brought us 23 dishes! Various snacks, shrimps, octopuses, fish, squids. . Meze is served for at least 2 servings, but it is strange that in many restaurants they write the price of 20 euros, and in some at once - 40. Just a little confusion occurs.
Weather in May.
We personally VERY-VERY liked the weather. We don’t like the heat +45. It was +20, +23, +25, +26. The water in the sea was +21. and I feel comfortable only when the water is + 27. We liked the weather so much that we decided to make a tradition - to go every year to May in Cyprus.
Nature.
Mountains, the sea, lemon trees, with lemons, like a small melon (I didn’t know that such things exist). The lemons were fruitful, and the oranges were blooming.

We didn’t take excursions, we walked on our own. There are a lot of excursions, but we just came to breathe in the sea, unload our heads from work, take a walk along the embankment and you don’t really train with a small child. We went to the Ayia Napa Monastery ourselves. booklets in Russian, which tells about the history of the monastery of Ayia Napa. Now it’s clear why the old church is in a cave. It turns out a very, very long time ago, the dog of one hunter began to bark loudly, drawing his attention to the cave, he went down there and saw a luminous icon of the Virgin. They made a church and then a settlement - Ayia Napu - that is, a sacred forest. There are cafes, a playground nearby. Everything is very harmoniously combined, strange as it may seem.
The food at the hotel is beyond praise. We went here to go on a diet, eat seafood, vegetables, fruits, but as a result we decided not to deny ourselves the pleasure. The most interesting thing is that it’s completely incomprehensible how they managed to accommodate so much food in such a small area? One table with salads, where they were: sliced ​ ​ fresh cucumbers, tomatoes, red bell pepper salad, Iceberg lettuce, olives, olives, capers, various cheeses (and with mold too); on the other table, pasta. Oh! They deserve a separate description. This is not just pasta. They are with cream sauce with butter. Sometimes there were shrimp or broccoli. Insanely delicious! Stewed potatoes, french fries, rice, stewed vegetables: cauliflower, or broccoli, also in sauce, eggplant, zucchini in sauce.
Meat: chicken, turkey, beef, pork - every day. Lamb - several times a week.
Stewed or fried fish, grilled shrimp, breaded shrimp, shrimp in salads, boiled shrimp, large grilled crab sticks, breaded.
Not much for sweets, but very tasty - cupcakes, cakes, pizza. The husband ate too much (spitting on a diet) with dessert: a layer of biscuit, a layer of dark chocolate, a layer of whipped cream and a layer of ice cream.
Fruits: oranges, apples of 2 kinds, kiwi, bananas.
There was ice cream every day for dinner.
These were the dinners.

For breakfast, fried bacon, ready-made scrambled eggs (to the great joy of my child and me, there is no need to stand in line), fried eggs are also ready, potato pancakes, Viennese waffles (baked right there), Berliners (very tasty - in St. Petersburg I have them I can’t eat, it’s not tasty at all, I overate), puff envelopes with nuts, almonds, prunes, dried apricots, various breakfast cereals, hot and cold milk, tea bags of various types, coffee, fruits, yogurts are very thick and fatty ( not in packs), cheeses, 4-5 types of sausage, different types of cheeses, cucumbers, tomatoes, lettuce. Everything is fine. It’s only a pity that there was no my favorite rice milk porridge (as in Greshen Bay). Personally, we were very upset because we all love to eat porridge in the morning : )
There was oatmeal. Dry. Sometimes I poured hot milk over it, poured raisins into it and enjoyed it!
Our 3-year-old child ate an omelet, 2 slices of bacon, 5 slices of cucumber and 1 Viennese waffle with jam, drank milk. VERY convenient. ) For dinner, I ate fish, pasta with sauce, potatoes with stewed vegetables, any meat. French fries, hamburgers, pizza, we don’t give it to him. The food is all very tasty. a plate. They clean it very quickly.
Nightlife is in full swing. People sit in cafes, enjoy local wine (it costs from 1.7 euros in the store Corfur, Kokinas) In other stores from 2 euros. Very tasty! We didn't want to leave the child. a neighboring hotel. We lived in the 2nd building and we had a view of the neighboring hotel Anonymous, in the distance you could see the sea (if you look closely). We had 1 floor (in fact it is the second), and if there was a 4th, then the sea it would be better to see it. BUT! It is still visible, and the very name of the hotel made us very happy and it burned beautifully with blue light, so after dinner we put our son to bed at 21 o'clock and said to each other - "Well, let's go to Anonymous ? " "Let's go! " It's a strange thing, but on the balcony we caught WI-FI perfectly and we enjoyed the conversation, the beautiful view (because for us it was great red-because we turned this shortcoming into humor), my husband was surfing the Internet, talking on Skype, eating fruit and drinking a bottle of wine for two. Sometimes one bottle was enough for us for 2 evenings.
Shopping.
The city is full of shops. The prices are similar, but sometimes they differ greatly, so don’t buy right away - look again. I made notes on my mobile phone - wrote the name of the store and what I liked because they are all similar - then it’s not really possible to find the one you need.

I asked the Russian girl Irina at the reception where I could go. She said that there are large supermarkets: Orfanides, Kokinas, Korfur. They are located in Protaras or Paralimni. There is a bus schedule at the reception. There are 101 buses to Orfanides. There are 501 buses to Corfur and Kokinas. It goes 1 time per hour. The stop is not far from the hotel. (Ask, they will tell you where).
There are shops in the city where everything costs 5 euros: shorts, swimwear, jeans, T-shirts, various souvenirs, toys, panama hats, caps.
Everything is cheaper in stores than in St. Petersburg. I bought children's toys (we are fans of the cartoon "Cars" and I bought him a track, a lot of cars from "Cars", the Thomas railway, wagons and trains to it. We have it at 2 and at 3 times more expensive. Olive oil costs 1 liter 4 euros in Corfu.
I also bought pasta - "Cars" - in the form of Lightning McQueen and Mater - the price is 1.7 euros.
Orange juice "Cars" - 6 packages 3 euros.
Swimwear for 5 and 10 euros.
Shops on Wednesday work less - Wednesday is their day off, like Sunday. I took a photo of the work of the Kokinas store because I arrived there, but it does not work, it was very disappointing.
Sea beach.
The sea is right next to the hotel. Excellent beach. In no way inferior to Nissi on my account. The beach is large. On the left, yes. sandy!!! Because the stone strip is very small, everything else is sand. Sunbeds and umbrellas cost 2.5 euros.
We did not pay because the child is playing near the water itself and we watched him, so, like many tourists, we laid beach towels directly on the sand and sunbathed.
The territory is not large, but cozy. There are old photos on the site. Where the children's pool is, a jacuzzi zone has now been made and it is adjacent to the large pool, and the children's pool is separate.
There is a playground nearby. It has a soft surface, various plastic slides, swings, but all this is for very young children. Up to 5 years old maximum. It was convenient for us.
Description of cases.

The hotel has 2 buildings. One overlooks the sea, the other stands behind it. We lived in the 2nd. We liked it because it was very quiet, the child slept peacefully, although there was one big minus - under us came about 15 hours every day big cars and some kind of cans were loaded there. This created a lot of noise, but the child still slept very soundly, if not strange.
All the same, it was better for us because in the 1st building the child definitely can’t be laid down, if the windows overlook the sea and the neighboring hotel, music is constantly playing there.
The rooms are all carpeted. Everything is as usual: beds, armchairs, a table, a mirror, a free refrigerator, plasma TVs, bathrooms everywhere. There is a hair dryer.
We were cleaned well, but I really feel sorry for the work of cleaners (they have such a meager salary), so I asked to be cleaned 1 time in 3 days. I approached her and said that I didn’t need to clean today, just change towels and take out the garbage. I immediately gave her the garbage (in a tied bag), gave away the dirty towels and immediately took the clean ones away. they push the sheet and the bedspread under the mattress so hard that you tear off your hands until you pull it out of 3 beds).
In Cyprus, there is a big problem with fresh water and there is an announcement in the bathroom that if you can and you decide to use the towel again, hang it on the bath. If you want to change it, throw it on the floor. You wash there often, after the beach and at night, so the towels are clean so we didn't change every day. Let's hang them to dry. We saved Cyprus water!
Rooms.
Cozy. Medium size.
Service at the hotel.
The service is excellent. At the request to change the room, they immediately made a note in the journal and said that the rooms would be free in 2 days, then they would give us a choice. days to the nearby Akteya hotel, which is not bad at all because the hotel is beautiful, we walked there.
The hotel has a laundry. There are automatic machines. Laundry costs 3 euros.
Services for children.

There is a playground for children, the mini club was closed (they said that they still have a warehouse there. It’s strange, actually, because the season has already begun, but in Cyprus the season is considered from mid-June. Maybe later it will work. ) However, the girl from the kids club every day I worked with the children on the playground. There, under a canopy, there were tables and chairs and the children drew, sculpted, wove from beads, and in the evening they put all this at the reception at the information stand.
Animation for children started in different ways - the exact time was in the schedule at the stand. Or at 20-30 or at 21, or at 21-15.
The staff is helpful. Always ready to help. I was even very pleased that the guide always greeted us warmly, asked how we were resting, answered questions, although we did not buy a single excursion from her.
Animation is. In the afternoon aqua aerobics, in the evening show.
The hotel has an indoor, warm pool - free of charge. Sauna for a fee - 8 euros, jacuzzi 10 euros.
The gym is free. Very good. There are a lot of exercise machines and the same number as in the sports club, a lot.
Treatment.
Treatment here with local air. I have asthma and here it goes away immediately. That's why I come here in winter. It's very cheap and I really like it.
Liked the hotel, you can easily come again.
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