TUI BLUE Pioneer Beach

After several weeks of travelling around Cyprus, my husband and I decided to treat ourselves to a final stop at the Pioneer Beach Hotel before heading back to the UK. We can honestly say that we left the best 'till last! The whole experience at this Tui Blue hotel delivered more than we had anticipated. The rooms were very comfortable and immaculately clean, the staff were only ever friendly and considerate and the food in the restaurants was absolutely jaw droppingly impressive, and tasted just as good as it looked. The location is perfect, set amongst beautiful trees and shrubs in well maintained gardens on the edge of the sea, with a protected swimming area and private pontoon for easy access. The hotel is approximately an hours walk along the beautiful coastline or a 1.50E bus ride into town, where there are many shops and bars. But we never really felt the need to visit bars etc in town, as the hotel offered everything we wanted and no expense seemed to be spared on behalf of the guests and no request overlooked in the pursuit of customer satisfaction. From the kind and friendly reception staff, to porters, shop staff, waiting staff, chefs, managers and spa staff; every person we spoke to had time to chat and share some of their personal stories and offer more friendship in the ever growing story and blossoming love affair we have with Cyprus.

Pioneer hotel was overall a good trip... Hospitality was lovely with a good variety of international meals for breakfast and lunch and dinner and drinks; english breakfast,crepes,pancakes,omelette,waffles,cheese,bread,chinese,roast chicken dinner, pizza, salad, fruit and yogurts etc. The staff are pleasent and attentive. We did arrive into cyprus with a forecast of bad weather so we decided to get advice from tui rep who recomended farmagusta day trip . What we didnt get told was this was a 6 hour coach trip and we felt professional advice could of helped us from making this choice .. did we want to travel for 6 hours? did you want to just see cyprus ruins etc? Did you know most of this day is on a coach travelling? perhaps suited for 50+ years above who enjoy the deep history and knowledge of culture but overall we were disapointed . The hotel had ball/dance nights and 70/80s tributes bands, again a good selection for the audience (50+) but not for couples likewise us ( 21- 30) The spa and sauna,steam and pool were pleasant and we enjoyed our massage . The beauty therapists were lovely and professional, overall a good experience well done!! :). Back to hospitality... Pioneer went out of their way to make the overall experience good they cleaned our room twice a day left us complimentry biscuits and cake which we felt was a nice touch. We attended the management champagne evening which happens every friday which would be a good experience to socialise with management and fellow guests. Would we go back? We didnt feel it was for our agegroup and a little outdated in the bars and restaurants but everything else modern eg reception,rooms,spa. Outside the hotel we had lovely meals at O'SHIN at elysium hotel ( worth a visit we will be stay at elysium if we return again) chloes chinese on the harbour and the curry house ... all great and o,neills irish bar for great cocktails and good atmosphere.