Pavlo Napa Beach Hotel

“CYPRUS IS SAFE!!!”

We are currently staying in the hotel, here for our usual ten day stay in May, we also come towards the end of the year too before the British winter sets in. We have stayed in all room types here over the years and all are lovely, if you fancy a treat book a suite with lovely views over the beach.… more

We are currently staying in the hotel, here for our usual ten day stay in May, we also come towards the end of the year too before the British winter sets in. We have stayed in all room types here over the years and all are lovely, if you fancy a treat book a suite with lovely views over the beach. The hotel is clean, well kept. Staff are friendly and food is great. Sometimes we eat out if we fancy a change of scene, or if we are out of the hotel. There is a snack menu between scheduled service times which can be useful if not in the hotel at meal times. We find the beds very comfortable and the rooms well appointed. Entertainment is low key, we like that as we also enjoy relaxing in the evening if we don’t fancy a raucous night. There are some daytime activities if you fancy it but usually we just relax our days away by the pool which have lovely comfy loungers (and plenty of them) Speaking of raucous nights/days, if it’s your thing try Castle Club on the strip or the foam party on Nissi beach down the road (short walk) we are in our 50s and always have a great time at those and never feel out of place :D We have been coming here as a couple for 15 years and our children now come with their children, it really feels like a home to us. We have never had a bad experience here, it’s a lovely family run, friendly place, on the beach, away from all the noise but within easy reach of everything if you want a faster pace. It really is a lovely location. Please, please come to Cyprus, the island IS safe, despite what the press might tell you.

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“Excellent holiday!”

Lovely hotel! Friendly staff, right from reception to the room cleaning staff. They are all genuinely happy people who go over and above. The hotel is lovely inside and clean . Rooms air conditioned and great mattresses. We went full board, and the food choice was different each day and very good. … more

Lovely hotel! Friendly staff, right from reception to the room cleaning staff. They are all genuinely happy people who go over and above. The hotel is lovely inside and clean . Rooms air conditioned and great mattresses. We went full board, and the food choice was different each day and very good. Plenty of it, and you could go up as many times as you wished as many people did. Tables cleared of plates, etc, all the time. Staff were so helpful and courteous. One downside that wasn't the hotels fault was the numerous young kids with no manners and how to act inside a restaurant! You have to blame the parents.Very nice pool area with good sunbeds and always available. Entertainment was basic at night and relaxing. Second time visiting and will not be our last.

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“Nice room, excellent pool, bad food and horrible drinks”

When our bus arrived, the reception was only staffed with one single non-enthusiastic guy. No "Welcome!", no smile just "Next please". One single person working the reception when a bus unloads new guests is not the most efficient check-in. The receptionist mapped out how to get to our room and why… more

When our bus arrived, the reception was only staffed with one single non-enthusiastic guy. No "Welcome!", no smile just "Next please". One single person working the reception when a bus unloads new guests is not the most efficient check-in. The receptionist mapped out how to get to our room and why he insisted that the best way was through the underground maze and not going in a straight line above ground is beyond me. Throughout our entire stay I don't think that any staff in the reception bothered to say good morning or even hello. The most I got was a lovely smile at one time. The room was clean. Really really clean. Like overwhelming smell of disinfection kind of clean. There was even a seal on the toilet that said "DISINFECTED" and that made me wonder what unspeakable horror had taken place in the bathroom. We opened the balcony door and ventilated for a while and got rid of the smell. The room was really nice. The only channel that worked on the tv was the hotels info channel but who watches tv on a vacation anyway? Could have used an iron and an ironingboard but other than that the room was really nice with a very nice balcony. The pool area was excellent. The pool/towel guy seemed to really like his job.He was friendly and positive towards all the guests and he treated the entire poolarea as if it was his baby. I really liked the sunbeds and the possibility to choose shade or sun. I liked the pool too. Even I, who thinks every body of water is too cold, could get in the pool with ease even though it’s not heated. There's also a very very nice beach just below the pool. People talk about Nissi beach and how fantastic it is. I'll take the beach at the hotel any day of the week. No crowd, no beachbums just people enjoying themselves. The pool bar is good as long as you stick with beer. Good beer, polite staff and absolutely undrinkable drinks. I tried the Gin fizz and I swear it tasted like kerosene. I simply could not drink it. We tried another the day after just to make sure that it wasn't a fluke but it was just as bad. This is by far the worst drinks I've ever had in any all inclusive-deal. Others tried them but I never saw anyone go back for seconds. It is also the first all inclusive-deal that I’ve ever come across that does not include a simple gin and tonic. We tried the Erato bar. The drinks here were drinkable albeit not good. They were extremely sweet, maybe to cover up the taste of kerosene? The dining room is nice and there’s a lovely terrace if you want to eat outside by the pool. Every drink (even juice) must be ordered from the staff. I recommend that you sit down and order drinks before going to get food. The guy who takes the drinks order is not the same guy who serves the drinks so they always mess up the drink orders. You can only order one drink per person at a time. If you want a refill, it'll take a while since you need to catch someones attention and they have to order the drink and another guy has to bring it to the table. The food is, well, very all-inclusive. No beef, plenty of bone dry chicken, there is always something that does not go with anything else and the redwine sauce doubled as gravy and boeuf bourguignon. Surprisingly little to choose from. Every night was a different theme night. but the food didn’t really differ that much. The fries were always good though and one evening we got wonderful, tender and juicy chicken skewers but they never made it back to the menu. You get one free lunch (why lunch?) in the pool bar but because of the quality of the food we never bothered with that. The snack bar is not really a snack bar. It is sitting down in the restaurant between meals and order from a snackmenu. We used the snack bar once on the day we were leaving. In hindsight I wish I would have used it more often. The food was pretty good. All in all, there's room for improvement in the food department and if the "local gin" was replaced with anything even resembling gin it would be a big improvement but other than that I really liked the hotel.

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