Almyra

My friends were visiting from the UK and staying here, so I arranged to go meet them for breakfast as a guest... and spend most of the day here. Reception was clean, bright and airy... Although having a running club bets breakfast in the lobby of the reception was not a good look when you walk in and a group of people dressed in sports gear and trainers talking loudly was very attractive. We got seated for breakfast quickly and efficiently. Breakfast was ok but not amazing, not a huge amount of choice compared to other five star hotels in the area. The poached eggs were cold, but still runny. The mushrooms were lovely. Bacon was over done... the salad and cheese area was not very full, and didn’t look very fresh, I don’t think enough choice in this area. The bill was brought over before I asked for it, which I thought was rude. The staff did not come to check of the food was ok, and no napkins were provided. The cutlery was taken away with my plate, but not replaced with cutlery. We then moved to the pool area. Where my friend had ordered a pot of tea with sugar ;around 10:30am), the waitress forgot to bring the sugar, and didn’t place the cookies down that was on the tray she was holding until my friend mentioned it. Although she was apologetic. It got too hot so I got up to put the parasol up, and not one member of staff (although there were a lot of them in clear view) came to put it up, so we did it ourselves. We had lunch around 12.30-1... I wasn’t ready to order just yet, so the waitress took my menu away and moved my cutlery and plate away, (again I feel this is rude, I could have changed my mind) which I did, so had to flag someone down to ask for a menu. I asked what kampyo was the waitress response ‘a vegetable’ I know that because it’s listed under the vegetable roll so I asked her to specify what type of vegetable, what colour, what vegetable family... her response was ‘I don’t know’ so I asked about ‘daikon’ again she didn’t know and said she’d bring me some to try, so I ordered it, but she never brought me some to try... she must have just forgot, not very good service at all. When the sushi was served, or was served away from me, rather than facing me, I turned it around to take the photo. this attention to detail was lacking very much with service. When we returned to the sunloungers around 2-2.40pm the teapot, empty tea cup, and milk jug with stale milk was still on the table and hadn’t been cleared away. Even when we ordered another bottle of water the staff still didn’t take it away, upon on ordering and bringing the bottle of water. The staff really do need more training to bring their service up to 5 star level. This is a genuine and honest review of Alymra hotel paphos, I don’t have the wrong business, the hotel are clearly unhappy with my review that they’ve flagged it as ‘not the correct business’ and had it removed.

My friends were visiting from the UK and staying here, so I arranged to go meet them for breakfast as a guest... and spend most of the day here. Reception was clean, bright and airy... Although having a running club bets breakfast in the lobby of the reception was not a good look when you walk in and a group of people dressed in sports gear and trainers talking loudly was very attractive. We got seated for breakfast quickly and efficiently. Breakfast was ok but not amazing, not a huge amount of choice compared to other five star hotels in the area. The poached eggs were cold, but still runny. The mushrooms were lovely. Bacon was over done... the salad and cheese area was not very full, and didn’t look very fresh, I don’t think enough choice in this area. The bill was brought over before I asked for it, which I thought was rude. The staff did not come to check of the food was ok, and no napkins were provided. The cutlery was taken away with my plate, but not replaced with cutlery. We then moved to the pool area. Where my friend had ordered a pot of tea with sugar ;around 10:30am), the waitress forgot to bring the sugar, and didn’t place the cookies down that was on the tray she was holding until my friend mentioned it. Although she was apologetic. It got too hot so I got up to put the parasol up, and not one member of staff (although there were a lot of them in clear view) came to put it up, so we did it ourselves. We had lunch around 12.30-1... I wasn’t ready to order just yet, so the waitress took my menu away and moved my cutlery and plate away, (again I feel this is rude, I could have changed my mind) which I did, so had to flag someone down to ask for a menu. I asked what kampyo was the waitress response ‘a vegetable’ I know that because it’s listed under the vegetable roll so I asked her to specify what type of vegetable, what colour, what vegetable family... her response was ‘I don’t know’ so I asked about ‘daikon’ again she didn’t know and said she’d bring me some to try, so I ordered it, but she never brought me some to try... she must have just forgot, not very good service at all. When the sushi was served, or was served away from me, rather than facing me, I turned it around to take the photo. this attention to detail was lacking very much with service. When we returned to the sun loungers after lunch around 2pm the teapot and empty cup and milk jug with remaining milk in it and leftover cookie was all still left out in the heat on the table, no one had the initiative to pick it up. Even when we ordered more water and the staff came to where we were to take the order and to bring the order, still didn’t notice the empty teapot. Overall not a great experience, although the view from lunch was beautiful, but this is also available from other hotels in Cyprus who offer fantastic service. I think your front of house really need to up the professionalism this is definitely not a five star service.

We attended paphos for a family wedding where most of the wedding party where staying here. The almyra is stunning very clean and very modern, the family gathered for drinks in the resption bar and nothing was to much trouble. The pool area is spotless with lifeguards on duty and three large pools, there where plentyful double sun beds with a drinks and food services.the pool area has panoramic views of the paphos coast which is stunning. Well worth a stay or visit for food and drinks if your in paphos.