Great holiday in Cyprus

Written: 6 august 2010
Travel time: 9 — 18 july 2010
Your rating of this hotel:
9.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 10.0
Service: 9.0
Cleanliness: 10.0
Food: 9.0
Amenities: 9.0
Vacationing with a friend.
About the hotel: Clean and tidy hotel with friendly staff. Many speak Russian, at least an elementary set of words. But still it is better to know English, it will be easier to communicate. Everyone is very friendly and nice) The room is neat, the furniture is quite new, the air conditioner works great! the view from the window to the neighboring hotel, on the left side you can see the street, on the right side the sea) In general, it’s normal, especially since we spent little time in the room.
The food is very tasty and quite varied. We took HB meals - breakfast and dinner.

Breakfast is almost always the same: scrambled eggs, scrambled eggs, bacon, hash browns, buns, a couple of types of sausage and cheese, baked and raw vegetables, tea, coffee, juices. We didn’t take lunch, as it’s very cheap to dine in the city (15-18 euros for two, 2 dishes + 2 alcoholic cocktails. Portions in Cyprus are usually large and therefore you can take 1 serving for two and ask for an extra plate, they are used to it). One of the main advantages of the hotel is the location. Hotel on the beach, but at the same time in the center of the village of Protaras. Therefore, there were no problems with lunch - you leave the hotel and there are a lot of cafes right there, for every taste (and there is also a McDuck, by the way). There are many open, but under awnings, in the shade and fans work, so it's cool. I liked the Friends bar, they showed the series "Friends" on TV, it was cool to watch it in the original, in English)
Dinners at the hotel are very tasty, every day something new, then Italian cuisine, then Greek, and so on. Several types of meat, at least one type of fish, several salads, and for garnish potatoes, pasta, always cooked in different ways. Everyone will find something to eat. Sweets and fruits are also present, 2-3 types of cake, ice cream, watermelons, melons, plums, apples. All drinks at dinner are paid, even water. But we usually drank wine or cocktails at dinner. By the way, from 20.00 to 24.00 there was a promotion at the hotel - all cocktails and other alcoholic drinks for 2 euros)) And in the city, alcohol prices are cheap compared to Moscow, in many cafes there are the same promotions. So I drank cocktails a year in advance! )))
There is practically no animation in the hotel, in the evenings at 9 o’clock the animator girls sometimes sang, sometimes danced, for about 40 minutes. But I personally didn’t need animation, after dinner we went for a walk around Protaras. There are a lot of people walking around, in many cafes there is live music or some humorists perform, of course, in English, but we know it in principle and we were interested. Also in the evening you can walk around souvenir shops, of which there are also a lot, or go to a show of dancing fountains. It costs 15.5 euros per person, goes every day from 21.00 to 22.00. In principle, it’s cool, you can spend an evening, we also have it in Moscow. Also in Protaras you can visit the Church of St. Elijah, it is not active, but beautiful, there is a tree of desires, you can attach a note. But even just walking down the street in the evening is cool. I saw only one discotheque there, but we are not club lovers, we didn’t specifically look for them, so maybe there were more.
The sea is just super class. Smooth entry, sandy beach. On weekdays, there are just a lot of empty places and there are few people, and on weekends Cypriots apparently came to rest, or maybe Europeans for the weekend, I still didn’t really understand. So on weekends there were more people, but a couple of free sunbeds could always be found. On the beach itself, sunbeds are paid, but hotel free sunbeds and umbrellas are on the lawn, which is right next to the beach. so you can sunbathe on them, still close to the sea. There is also entertainment on the beach, you can ride on tablets (10 euros), banana (8 euros), parasail (30 euros) - I recommend !!! , jet skis. And there was also a massage on the beach (a full body massage cost 34 euros). In general, the hotel left wonderful impressions, and from Cyprus too) I advise everyone))
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