Hotel Elysium

We've been holidaying in Pahos for 17 years (usually twice a year) and about 8 years ago decided to use 5* for our visits. I can't believe we hadn't noticed the Elysium sooner (usually stay at the Ann******), this was our first stay at the Elysium (September) and it was an astonishingly pleasant experience. What made it exceptional for us.... ? 1) Genuinely friendly and helpful, happy smiling staff, and I mean everyone everywhere in the hotel.... whoever is responsible for team training you are doing a great job ! 2) Plenty of space everywhere, apparently the hotel was quite full when we were there but there was no sense of crowding. Very relaxed atmosphere, tasteful decoration and ornamentation to the wide variety of spaces to sit, take in the views, people watch whilst having a coffee or a cocktail etc. 3) the food was genuinely top quality both in variety, presentation, taste and the serving staff made it easy to get into conversation about anything without realising it. Table service was quietly efficient with empty plates being removed and drinks topped up with Ninja like moves, the table service team move around effortlessly non-stop but never seemed to be in anyones way. 4) we very much enjoyed sunbathing on the large open grassed area above the beach, the pool team were always one step ahead of us..... as we walked towards the area each morning they actually came to meet us / took our towels and asked where we would like to be, nothing too much trouble, precision positioning of the sun brolly, clean your glasses, cold face towels...... they deserve 5* 5) Most evenings after eating we would have a walk round the grounds then find ourselves sitting outside on the terrace to have a cocktail or a coffee (very good coffee on the terrace... I do like a good coffee) Occasional entertainment in the form of live music/singer was much appreciated and sat well with the terrace area as there was a choice of comfortable seating in areas of varying amounts of lighting so you could decide on quite dark to watch the stars or lighter if you wanted to read. 6) Our room was inland view on the 4th floor looking over towards the main road some distance away, we had the sun to wake up to each morning. The hotel is fortunate to be positioned next to a large area of archaeological interest, the benefit being there is very little background noise of any consequence. Plenty of space in the room, huge comfortable bed, English channels on the tv were poor (but isn't this the case everywhere in Cyprus... and we weren't there to be watching tv) 7) the relaxed ambience really worked wonders for us, we spoke with a few other fellow guests and it was reassuring to hear some having been to the Elysium once or twice a year for the last several years. It's now our place to be when visiting Cyprus, we've already booked for next year.

Lovely room, great facilities, staff excellent oshin Japanese restaurant good food well presented with a variety of Asian options. Shashimi excellent. Noisy wedding one night went on until 1am but guest relation apologised and offered complementary massage in Spa to compensate which was a nice touch. Overall excellent and would definitely recommend.

We have just returned from another lovely stay at the Elysium. The staff are always wonderful they treat you like family, in particular Marina, Nikos, Daniela and Alla. Everyone gets involved even the managers, (Andreas, Angelous and Luigi) sorry if I have misspelled your names, were helping out at mealtimes. The food was lovely, with lots of choice at breakfast and dinner. Our room was large comfortable and very clean, which overlooked the sea. Missing everyone already, but have already booked to return next year, can’t wait.