Paphos Gardens Hotel & Apartments

We spent 2 weeks at Paphos Gardens at the beginning of October on a Jet 2 holiday. We'd first stayed there many, many years ago - before the hotel was built and when there were no buildings between the complex and the Cy Dive offices near the harbour. To say the place has changed is an understatement ! We were self catering this time with Jet 2 and the studio we had very clean, lots of fresh towels, bedding etc, everything worked (although the aircon wasn't very efficient) and we had all we needed to make snacks etc. The hotel does offer packages whereby you could pay extra for breakfasts, a drinks package or an 'all in' package but we didn't take up any of those. The only problem with our studio was that it was very, very hot. There was no overhang on the balcony and although the blackout curtain was OK, it couldn't simply couldn't keep the heat out. The complex was originally built by one of the Leptos Estates companies and I believe they are still one of the island's leading developers. It's a shame they can't use some of their construction expertise to insulate the apartment blocks etc. All 3 pools are very dangerous in that quite a lot of the small mosaic tiles on the bottom are missing - the edges left are very sharp and we saw one chap cut his foot on these. The pool water did look clean and whilst the cleaners spent a lot of time in the mornings brushing leaves etc away from sunbeds, I only saw 1 member of staff on 1 occasion adding something to the main pool water (possibly some chemicals?) Anyway, whatever it was, the water was very cloudy that day. There is green slime on the concrete supports near the steps on all 3 but it's probably due to the fact that these are areas are not tiled. Paphos Gardens is now marketed as a 'resort' complete with 'animation team', awful loud muzak playing in the pool area (although this year Wednesday was a day off for them, so a nice peaceful day for us) and pool games etc in the main pool. Sunbeds are densly crammed in so if you like being shoulder to shoulder with your fellow holidaymakers, you'll be OK Both pools allow inflatables and its a shame that anyone who likes to swim has to dodge large plastic yellow ducks, lilos, rings, something large and unidentified in the Oasis pool, along with a blow up plastic armchair (yes... really !) Would it be too much to ask that at least the Oasis pool could be designated as an inflatable-free zone to give we swimmers a change to do just that? Having said all this, Paphos Gardens is in ideal spot for catching the bus into town and getting out onto the coast road if you've hired a car. It's also just a short walk to municipal beach and the lovely paved coastal path.

Jet2 holidays took our money and totally ignored any issues we had with this place. We stayed in three separate rooms all of a basic standard and the first with no lights. Staff attitude was either very rude and aggressive or simply overworked and worn down No-one takes responsibility for the many many problems with this hotel which could actually be much better - perhaps with some actual customer care. Sadly, don’t go there it’s awful.