Louis Ivi Mare

Good average hotel, but nothing special. There's no bidet and the room has a very strange design: the bathroom window opens into the bedrrom, so when one goes to the bathroom during the night, the other one immediately is waken up. Comfy beds. Lovely view to the sea. Professional management, however, the other staff (especially, in the restaurant) is not so qualified.

A brand new five-star hotel on the Paphos shoreline. Well located (even if no private directly accessible beach, but Paphos isn’t really famed for its beaches), pleasant interiors with nice touches of modernity and luxury, nice cafeteria with beautiful Mediterranean views, good restaurants including Akakiko and Elliniko (with 15% discount for guests) – but only open in the evening, very comfortable rooms and beds, good breakfast (although could be richer with more selection of cheeses, salmon etc), free 15 minute massage gifts for adults, very polite and helpful staff across the premises. The negatives for this beautiful new five-star hotel were sufficient for me to not give full marks. I would sincerely love to return here and I truly hope that management will give full attention to the little final touches gaps which I am pretty sure will be brought to attention by other guests too. 1. Spa setting of rather small proportions although nicely and peacefully laid out. What is glaringly missing is an indoor Jacuzzi available for all guests. I cannot imagine a five-star hotel not offering this facility. 2. I thought house-keeping was a little erratic. Every single day of our stay they would clean the room well after lunch time; the first day well after 3 pm (to be fair the hotel was fully packed, but this should have been planned for ahead of time), the cleaning was not spick-and -span (even if this was just letting unwashed a couple of wine glasses or a little more floor dust than I would have liked), and consumables (eg toiletries, bottle of water which was free of charge) were not replenished consistently 3. Toiletries were of rather low quality, some would simply refuse to be squeezed out of their tube, all were drenched in synthetic chemicals. 4. Parking is limited for the size of the hotel. Nevertheless, there is plenty of parking on an adjacent public/private(?) road but the adjacent hotel was closed for the winter period so not sure what happens in high season. 5. The shower tub jet-set is very welcome but the water proof safety door was not long enough in size, so water was splashing out all over the place and flooding the bathroom. Also, bathroom ventilation was not working, so got extremely humid. In conclusion, a hotel which can be truly five-star quality subject to a few final touches being refined.