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Pete & Maggie Cole from Pontypool travelled to Queens Bay Hotel with
Olympic
on a couples holiday.
There were 2 adults and 0 child(ren) in the party. The travel date was 02 2008 |
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| said: We've been to this hotel four times now, and our only negative comment is that the entertainment can be less than brilliant. Actually, the 6o's night was dreadful!
Bearing in mind that this is a three star hotel, you won't find better in Cyprus. The food is excellent at the evening buffet and there is a good choice. Breakfast is good, too, with fresh fruit salad and beautiful Greek yoghourt. Fried eggs not so good, though. The location will suit you if you don't care about a beach holiday. The grounds are lovely, the sea view enchanting and the poolside facilities good. At the time of our visit the majority of the clientelle was older, too, so not ideal for teenagers/young people. Kids seemed happy, though.
The place was spotless, staff anxious to be helpful, bar well stocked, showers dreadful.
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N Merrett from Nottingham travelled to Queens Bay Hotel with
Amathus
on a couples holiday.
There were 2 adults and 0 child(ren) in the party. The travel date was 05 2007 |
rated the Queens Bay Hotel as follows:| Cleanliness | | | Location | | | Staff |  | | Food | | |
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| said: Located between Coral Bay and Paphos. There is a bus service 5 min walk up a incline from the hotel so not very good if you have walking problems cost 1cp about £1.25 Taxi 6cp. Taxi transfer from the airport 30cp each way by far the best option is to hire a car 120 cp per week.
This hotel is 3 star but in a lot of ways better than some 4 star that we have stayed in. The decor is dated but kept very clean.
The food is good varied and always hot. The evening meal does not cater for young children not a chip or nugget in sight but for us it was ideal. I note from a previous report that they say the plates are small. If they had looked they would have noticed that the small plates are for salad and larger plates are kept in the plate warmer.
Half board guests may choose between breakfast and lunch or breakfast and evening meal. The evening meal is buffet and lunch waiter service. If you have the option take the all inclusive Cyprus is expensive and this hotel does not treat all inclusive guests any different unlike some hotels that we have stayed in.
Not much for children and teenagers to do but ideal for over 25 year olds. Evening entertainment is not very good.Monotone female vocalist twice a week singing the same songs both nights, she seemed as bored with them as we were by her. Parrot show, Poor standard Greek dancers, Bingo, Karaoke and quiz.
The TV in the room has BBC 1 and ITV 1. Cyprus is 2 hours in front of U.K so about 9.0pm most guests went off and watched soaps on TV then returned later for a late drink.
There is a good choice of drinks and they are not watered down.
If you want a beach holiday then this is the wrong hotel for you. Queens Bay has a small stretch of sand just big enough for two sunbeds. Coral bay is the nearest beach about 4 miles away.
The hotel grounds are superb with plenty of sunbeds to go around while we were there we did not see anyone reserving sunbeds there is just no need to.
The pool was icy cold but may be warmer later in the season.
The hotel staff are very friendly and give excellent service.
The hotel does not provide towels to use around the pool so you need to take your own,One slightly annoying thing is that there is no W.C on the reception level so you have to leave the bar area and go back to your room or downstairs if you need it.
We booked through sunmaster on the internet who placed us with Amathus and Thomas Cook for the flights which saved us about £500.We had a very enjoyable holiday and yes we would return to the same hotel.
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p.griffin from glasgow travelled to Queens Bay Hotel with
on our own
on a couples holiday.
There were 2 adults and 0 child(ren) in the party. The travel date was 09 2006 |
rated the Queens Bay Hotel as follows:| Cleanliness | | | Location |  | | Staff | | | Food | | |
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| said: As we were on a b/b basis we found the breakfast fried eggs to be of the rubber type also the sausages were straight from a cocktail stick!
The hotel itself is quite clean but lacks atmosphere, there seems to be quite a lot of elderly people staying at the hotel.
When we were there ,indeed it seemed the cast of the film "Cocoon" were shuffling about the swimming pool each day! Each morning when we woke up the English
seemed to cover all the sunbeds with towels despite the fact it was against the hotel policy!!
There were a crowd of cockney people in the reception area every night sitting in a circle which was quite sad!
The climax of their night was to murder "rockin all over the world" on the karaoke machine! Anyway they found great delight in telling other guests how many times they had been to the "Queens bay"!
The hotel staff were really good and the all round view was that it is a good place to visit but be up early for the sunbeds!!!
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K McDonald from Sheffield travelled to Queens Bay Hotel with
Thomson
on a couples holiday.
There were 2 adults and 0 child(ren) in the party. The travel date was 07 2006 |
rated the Queens Bay Hotel as follows:| Cleanliness | | | Location | | | Staff | | | Food |  | |
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| said: This is a 3 star "hotel", definitely not a 4/5 star like other reviews have said.
The reception / terrace areas are nice but the corridors and rooms are at best - from the 1980's. The above bath showers are non thermostatic therefore hot one minute and cold the next.
There are cabaret acts on (quiet) and bingo.
The food (self service) comes on mini plates, so if you're feeling that little bit more hungry, it's another trip to the buffet. (Although I suppose you could bring your own big plate, like Alan partridge...) The food's not bad, although it's virtually the same choice every night, quite bland, and English orientated, with no emphasis on local dishes at all, "chicken chasseur?" "Lasagne?" it would be nice to have seen stifado, gyro and meze etc at the buffet.
The (eastern European) staff are friendly enough, although it's not a place to sit at the bar. (Which a lot of people kind of like doing when they're on holiday!)
This is a "hotel" where you go if all you want to do is sit on the grass or by the pool all day, which brings me to my next point. You see the promotional pictures of the beach on the hotels website? - http://www.queensbay.com.cy/aerialsmall.jpg - well...? The sand's been airbrushed in! Either that or they were taken half a million years ago when there were no rocks there! The sand that is there is just about big enough for a couple of settees, so don't go here if you’re looking for a beach! There is a beach a bit of a walk down the coast but I don't think it's municipal, it's more like a bit of rubbish dump / waste ground. Coral bay, the nearest council run beach (5 min bus ride) is like a big ashtray, with damp infested sand, and two beach huts selling chips, coke and burgers, no local produce like you get in say, the Algarve, Portugal, where beach side shacks sell fresh sardines from the sea and wonderful barbecued chicken piri piri.
In fact we went to Kato Paphos one night looking for a nice restaurant... "Fish tavern" - the neon lights proclaimed, so we went in, only to find that 90 per cent of the menu was frozen! It was overlooking a harbour!
Most of the west side of the island desperately needs cleaning up, roadside litter prevails and untended fields just look like rubbish tips, the east side (Protaras, paralimni, Ayia Napa etc) seems to have a lot more money spent on it.
We did have a nice chilled out holiday and we did enjoy it, but if we go back to Cyprus it won’t be to Paphos.
So, if you're not that into food, and not too fond of beaches, maybe this is the right hotel for you...
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k barker from liversedge west yorkshire travelled to Queens Bay Hotel with
thomson
on a couples holiday.
There were 2 adults and 0 child(ren) in the party. The travel date was 07 2006 |
rated the Queens Bay Hotel as follows:| Cleanliness | | | Location | | | Staff | | | Food | | |
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| said: We have been for the last four years.
It is still as good. The food is very good, the hotel is cleaned allday
and the pool every day.
The staff are very friendly and cannot do enough for you.
The entertainment is not very good.
We shall be going again next year.
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John & Val Swift from Sheffield travelled to Queens Bay Hotel with
Own Booking
on a couples holiday.
There were 2 adults and 0 child(ren) in the party. The travel date was 05 2006 |
rated the Queens Bay Hotel as follows:| Cleanliness | | | Location | | | Staff | | | Food | | |
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| said: Visited the Queens Bay for the third time in May 2006, yes the showers do need sorting out but for a 3 star it takes some beating.
If you want 5 star you must pay for it, all in all a nice place to holiday.
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Allen family from Norfolk travelled to Queens Bay Hotel with
Thomson
on a family holiday.
There were 2 adults and 3 child(ren) in the party. The travel date was 05 2005 |
rated the Queens Bay Hotel as follows:| Cleanliness | | | Location | | | Staff | | | Food | | |
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| said: This hotel is so lovely, you are made to feel very welcome, even the children loved it.
The pool was very clean at all times of the day.
Breakfast was very good lots of choice.
Hotel was a fair way out of the main tourist area so a bus or taxi is a good idea and fairly cheap. Loads of places down in the harbour areas to eat and drink, Adelaida, Zaza were our all time favourites.
Rooms were cleaned every day without fail clean sheets and towels every day if needed,they even do room service all staff very nice.
Entertainment was rubbish.
Would go back to this hotel it's fab.
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