Αthena Royal Beach Hotel
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Constantinou Bros Athena Royal Beach Hotel is an adult-focused, four star, waterfront hotel in Kato Paphos. Places of archaeological interest, restaurants, bars and shops are located at a convenient short distance. A few metres away from the hotel entrance is a bus stop and taxis are always available. Parking in the hotel car park is free for guests.
The resort is situated 15km away from the Paphos airport and 140 km from Larnaca airport. Four excellent golf courses are within a short driving distance. All the rooms offer large balconies with majestic views of the sea or of the hotel’s extensive gardens.
Room facilities include air conditioning and heating, flat screen LCD satellite TV and radio, bathrobes and slippers, safety deposit boxes, fridge, hairdryer, ironing, espresso machine as well as tea and coffee making facilities.
The leisure facilities of this hotel comprise 3 freshwater swimming pools, indoor and outdoor Jacuzzis, a floodlit tennis court.
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Although one of the smaller hotels the welcome we received on checking in was very warm making our group feel very much at home.
We are staying on a half board basis and we really appreciate the extensive breakfast and dinner buffets. The food selection is excellent and the food is tasty, with a different daily theme.
The rooms are tastefully furnished, and we particularly enjoy having a sea view room, making the little extra cost well worth it.
Thanks again to the hotel management for another very happy holiday.
On arrival we were upgraded to a suite which was very well appointed , spacious and had a supremely comfortable bed.
The dining was excellent, fresh orange juice and freshly made omelettes for breakfast, with all the usual breakfast offerings available on the buffet.
The lunch and dinner buffets both offered a wide choice of dishes and the ingredients were of the highest quality. It would have been good to have some more fish and seafood .The food was well presented and always hot. The A la carte restaurant provided first class silver service and very well prepared dishes although the menu choice was a little limited.
The service in the bars was very attentive and once again offered a wide choice.
The crowning glory of this hotel however is its staff - it would be invidious to single out individuals as they were all professional, friendly and always smiling but we have to make an exception for Maria in the restaurant whose warm smile got every day off to a good start and for whom nothing was too much trouble- even when we wanted to have breakfast outside!
The hotel is in an excellent location with easy walking in both directions, we loved strolling along to the beautiful little blue and white chapel in one direction and Paphos harbour in the other.
A very well run hotel which delivers all that it promises and more- we can’t wait to go back!
We had the elite class junior suite with sea view. The rooms are huge... and bathroom too.., it compromised of a bath and large double shower!
As we had the elite class we had the meet and greet with champagne on arrival, a nice touch.
The junior suites has their own loft as they located on the top floor, which meant lifts were readily available.
It wasn’t sunbathing weather so we didn’t utilise the pools or beach cabanas - although one morning we did sit out along the beach front.
Hotel is lovely, clean and tidy, it’s quite dated internally, I usually like more of a contemporary feel and this was most certainly a more traditional interior. We were only on bed & breakfast basis, but breakfast choice and food was fantastic and very hot. Tea and coffee was served to us.
Entertainment was minimal, I expect this was due to time of year as it was out of season, this didn’t bother us anyway as we ventured out of an evening.
The seafront walk to the harbour is done 25 mins but is a nice walk, the buses run regularly outside of the hotel and we took a taxi a few times which didn’t cost too much.
We used the indoor pool which was nice, it was heated too which was a bonus!! I also had a lovely massage in the spa which I’d also recommend.
We did feel a little out of place age wise at the hotel, I’m mid 30’s and hubby mid 40’s, the age range was around 65+ but again this made no bearance on our break whatsoever.
All in all, would recommend and would happily stay again.
Unfortunately the weather was very cold, not the hotel’s fault but, after the first week, the hotel decided to serve lunch in the Olive Tree Restaurant by the pool. Staff wore jumpers and coats and the hotel supplied patio heaters whilst the guests sat huddled in towels and coats to eat their lunch. Lunch itself was a choice of salad (on a very cold day) or some hot food; some of which I did not expect to have in a 4* hotel………fish fingers and/or chicken nuggets!!!!! The food itself was cold by the time you got the plate to your table. Why oh why would you put guests outside to eat when it was so cold?
We also like to eat al la carte, which we found absolutely gorgeous, but it was the same menu for our 2 week stay, this grew very tiresome after the first week so we only ate in this restaurant twice each week; as previously mentioned by another reviewer, this restaurant lacked atmosphere which could be easily addressed and was linked to the main restaurant at the side so not secluded for a romantic meal.
The breakfasts were wonderful and the catering and waiting staff fantastic but the meals each evening were very repetitive and no sign of any shellfish at all and no variation on the desserts.
The lounge in the Dionysis Bar was lovely and clean but no windows or doors were left open slightly to support COVID rules and the air was over hot and lacked air circulation. The hotel is amazing with all the sanitising stations and hand gels etc to prevent covid but the Dionysis Bar was a breeding ground for covid as no one wore masks except staff (most of them not worn properly as they were not covering their nose) so many people were coughing and a few people were not well either.
We made friends with some other guests and they were as disappointed as we were that the hotel was trying hard but got a lot of basics wrong.
Please start looking at what the guest would want, ask them face to face and not what you think they want. You’re staff are your greatest asset and they are all amazing and happy to please you, talk to them about any comments raised and listen to what they say they are your link to the customers and can show you how you can improve.
Checkin was efficient and simple as we were the only couple arriving that afternoon and luggage was swiftly taken away to our room, great we thought getting off to a great start.
Room review:
We booked a partial sea view room and placed on the 1st floor and view was better than expected. However the room had disability aids and handles all over the bathroom, which were wasted on a fit couple in their 50s. A standard room would have suited us much better. Oddly designed was a square cut window with a privacy screen separating the bathroom from the bedroom area which we found later really irritating as turning on the bathroom light in the early hours lit up the whole room waking up the other one sleeping.
A couple of hours after arriving on returning to the room after an explore of the Hotel we found a maintenance man in our room, checking the lights he said, then left advising would come back later. Returning to the room again after evening meal it was evident maintenance had been back as they had left a fluorescent light tube bulb on our bed, which remained in our room throughout our stay, despite the cleaner visits everyday.
Food Review:
If you enjoy meat and two veg, this is the perfect Hotel. We found the evening meal menu very repetitive. Calvary, Grill and Chinese was on offer every night. The fresh salad bar was also poor and the majority of it could have come out of a tin or jar, for example Tuna chunks and tiny skinned pickled onions (every night) There wasn’t a fresh sliced onion to be found. Overall the evening meals lacked that holiday extravaganza experience. There was only one evening (our final) which served up a fresh salmon platter.
The breakfast menu though was much better and served everything you would expect, freshly made omelette, eggs, pancakes etc.
Hotel grounds and facilities review:
The grounds of the Hotel are impressive and it is right on the sea front with ample number of sun beds and parasols. Unfortunately I can’t review the daily activities as they were none and the poor bar area wasn’t open. The gym facilities I’m told by my fella had a good selection of gym equipment.
They did acknowledge us as repeat guests from a stay in one of their other CB Hotels with a 10% discount on drinks which was a bonus.
Overall I’d give the Hotel 4 stars for its impressive grounds but only 3 stars for its evening meal food menu, we were board of the same offerings by the end of the week and this let the Hotel down for us sadly and was not the extravaganza we were expecting.
Unfortunately our holiday was marred by continual storms with persistent rain and heavy winds, making it impossible to enjoy the beautiful pool, gardens, beach and costal pathway into Paphos Harbour, although had the weather of been good why would anyone want to lounge on a sunbed next to a building site.
Our stay was at Christmas and New Year, you could be forgiven to think that there was any hint of Christmas or associated Festivities often attributed to a major hotel, indeed it could of been any other time of the year.
Whilst the staff were very attentive and polite they all provided excellent service in the lobby bar and the restaurants.
With particular Big Thankyou to LUCIAN Who made our dining experience extra special and nothing was too much trouble. The food was very good and enjoyable, Eve and Salome were very attentive to our requirements
Overhaul the experience was very boring and lacked any real festive magic for ourselves, the hotel seemed to have lost any vision and inspiration. The festive music continually piped throughout the restaurants became monotonous and very repetitive, with no continuing Christmas theme. The bar and lounge area there was a total absence of any music,other than during the evening and resembled ‘God’s Waiting Room’.
New Year Eve was ‘lack lustre’ and totally unorganised, after Gala Meal everyone was invited into the Royal Ballroom to enjoy the Dj and associated Act, let me first say the Dj music was very poor and secondly the Act was pathetic, and resembled school aerobics, many guests in the room became vocal in their disappointment, shouted ‘rubbish’.
In order for us to further enjoy our stay we chose the hotel and were thrilled that it offered two ballrooms and associated dancing periods, but again the organisation was totally pathetic and was a contradiction and huge disappointment, it was a very much an after thought, by the hotel management.
In conclusion the magic of Christmas and New Year was lost.
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