Alexander The Great Beach Hotel

Hotel staff are at the top of their game - efficient, friendly, and clearly customer-focused. Our room was upgraded to a cabana, which provided a beautiful view and dedicated lounges. The room was well appointed, comfortable, and extremely clean. The pools are gorgeous, restaurants excellent, and amenities plentiful. I also appreciated their dedicated app for guest services such as housekeeping, ordering room service (directly to your lounge chair), and other items. Truly a four star experience.

Impeccably kept hotel which is a little aged around the edges - the staff efforts more than made up for little things with the hotel’s infrastructure which cannot be helped but you can see show it is aging a little. Nothing was too much for any staff member. They made the visit, as did the canny booking system for sun beds which was excellent.

Very good hotel! We stayed for 3 nights during our road trip in Cyprus and we weren’t disappointed. When you arrive (if you have your own car or rental car), be careful because the gate to the parking lot isn’t very clear and we were expecting a big sign with the name of the hotel but there isn’t one, so follow your GPS and drive slowly not to miss it. We would like to thank the receptionist and the staff at the buffet who let us have dinner on our arrival date, because dinner is open until 21:30 and we arrived at exactly that time due to a flight delay. The location is great. You have the inside and outside pools and a small but pleasant beach in front of the hotel, and you can walk along the coastline to the city centre or to other hotels. We went to the Archeological site on foot from the hotel and it’s a very easy and beautiful walk. Sparking of the outside pool, remember to first go to the kiosk (no one explained us this), because you just can’t take any sunbed that looks to be free upon arrival. There’s a booking system, which is ok in one way, as you can be sure to get your sunbed available, but at the same time you can’t easily switch places if you need for example to find shade elsewhere. We saw several sunbeds that looked free and we couldn’t use them. I would honestly change this system. Also, one thing to be aware, as it can be dangerous: the two running machines at the gym were malfunctioning. The buttons (only through a touchscreen) didn’t respond and I couldn’t slow down during my run. I tried to dry my fingers and the screen from the sweat, but it happened several times on both machines and I had to hit the emergency stop button which stops abruptly the machine. Maybe it was an isolated incident, because the following day I tried again and it worked fine, but something to be aware of and do the proper maintenance. Apart from these hiccups, everything was excellent.

Excellent location, very clean, staff friendly and attentive, excellent breakfast, speciality in-house Garibaldi restaurant is first class but hard to get into. (Half and full board clients can only go once a week). Spa good, indoor pool good. Excellent bus route with stops at the hotel (including public bus to the airport for 2 euros). Lovely coastal walkway to the harbour and beyond.

The highlight was the food. Buffet breakfast consisted of lots of healthy stuff - fruits, porridge, yoghurts, superb omelettes, varieties of breads or fried bacon, eggs, etc. Dinner was equally fantastic - so much variety and a different theme (Italian, French, Mexican) every evening. Our room overlooked the sea and we had fabulous sunsets every evening. An indoor and an outdoor pool, a gym, entertainment during the day and in the evening. The staff were all splendid - hard working and obviously well trained in making their guests feel welcome