Constantinos The Great Beach Hotel

We have stayed here 3 times now and each time it has been absolutely fantastic. The food is excellent. The staff are amazing, they can`t do enough for you. The Hotel is magnificent. Kept very clean and all the rooms and decor are to a very high standard. We will never go anywhere else. No hotel could ever top this. We are booking our wedding at this Hotel for 2013. Can`t wait. I know it will be the best day of my life thanks to the beautiful surroundings that we will be in.

We stayed at Constantinos The Great Beach Hotel at the end of July 2008, the hotel and location is very impressive.

We Travelled with Thomas Cook, and found the reps seemed only interested if you booked the trips, the whole rep service was very poor.

The rooms are clean and tidy, but we found them a little small as a family of 2 adults and 2 kids. We were prepared for this as we had read all the reviews, as we didn't spend that much time in the hotel it did not concern us that much.

Food was plentyful and always a lot of choice, even for fussy eaters.

Children's entertainment was great, my daughter had her birthday whilst we where there and they organised her a birthday party, They were fantastic with kids.

The hotel Management are fantastic, they organised our wedding reception for us, which was a dream come true.

The only negative for us was the aircon in the restaurant was a little poor, when you check out you cannot then use the all inclusive, if you have an evening flight and check out at 12 you cannot then eat or get drinks. So I'd delay checking out until the last minute.

Before we traveled to this hotel we read a lot of bad things about the hotel which put us off a bit but when we got there it was nothing like it was made out to be, I think the people who put this hotel down may be a bit stuck up, this hotel is good for families and lots of fun.

If I was you on a Sunday I'd try a do a day trip because the locals come there for the day and take up the whole of the beach and that they have the use of all the hotel pools.

When my self and wife and baby was checking in to Constantinos The Great Beach Hotel we were told they had no room and would we stay at there sister hotel and we would be up graded to A/I, I said NO and stood my ground till they found a room.

The baby cot that we paid extra £25 for was more like a play pen!

The air conditioning in the restaurant area was never on.

A building such as this hotel should be judged on the inside and NOT the out side.

This Hotel would struggle to make 3*** on the inside and should be down graded A.S.A.P.

Hell on Earth!

This hotel should be down-graded to at best 3 star.

If you want a holiday in the Middle of Blackpool then go here. Outside of our window was a 100 Foot fairground ride, below our window was a sceptic tank which was emptied every other day at 6.30 am. Opposite our window was another Hotel which had noisy music blaring away until after 1am every night.

The Hotel Air Conditioning is useless, if you are on the top floor prepare to scorch, warm air rises and because the floors do not have working Air Con it gets very Hot. The room Air Con does not cope with the heat which passes around the door frame.

The Room itself was clean and well furnished but very small, 3 people sharing without adequate storage space for clothes meant we lived out of our suitcases for 2 weeks. The beds were rock hard and had plastic sheets on which made you sweat and crackled every time you turned over.

The bathroom was ok but could do with refurbishment. The tiles were dirty and cracked. And all of the room doors slam shut, so if you want a bit of piece and quiet during the day, forget it. The maids slam every door all day long.

Breakfast was fine if you like a fry up every morning, you had to queue for at least 15 minutes for a pancake or omelette and the coffee was terrible. We took to making our own using instant coffee as the coffee machines where useless. 3 Toasters for 1000 people is definitely not enough.

The Grounds are too small and if you are lucky or early enough to get a sun bed expect to be surrounded by people who are not staying in the Hotel and using the sun beds free of charge. We also saw Bar Staff serving children with alcohol in exchange for a small fee. Most evenings we had to avoid drunken teenagers hanging around the outside bar.

The Pool is too small for the size of the hotel and it was very dirty, the drainage gulleys around the edge are all broken and there are holes you can trap your feet in. We even saw local teenagers using the pool jumping from the Bridge over the pool and one morning saw a staff member fetching broken wood and nails out of the pool.

The beach however is excellent and a great way to escape the noise from the Hotel.

The Hotel is not very clean and there was quite a lot of damage which was caused by some of the guests, like ripped wallpaper, damaged light switches, burnt seats and the Carpet in the Dining Room had lifted in several places causing people to trip and spill food.

The Evening meals where atrocious, the choice of food was very limited and not well thought out, and became very repetitive. We noticed that some of the meals resembled left over food from breakfast i.e. cold bacon salads, cold boiled egg salads, and cold sausage salads. And the desserts are left on a table for people to cough and sneeze over instead of being under cover and the Ice Cream is not changed daily and we saw kids dipping dirty fingers in and hair floating on top of the vanilla ice cream.

The waiting staff are obsessive at dinner with plates being removed whilst you are still eating your last mouthful, and we found we where being rushed to leave which makes sense when you have a full hotel with a very inadequate dining room.

The entertainment throughout the day is appalling and at night it was a joke.

Overall this Holiday has spoiled our love of Cyprus, and we would never venture to Protarus again. The description in the first choice brochure says "Enjoying an excellent beachside location, this hotel lies in the friendly resort of Protaras. There are a good range of facilities on site, making this attractive accommodation ideal for those looking for a relaxed, beach-based holiday"

This wasn't our experience; we have come back from this holiday exhausted from lack of sleep due to the noise and feel we need another break to get over this one. My advice is to stay away from here unless of course you like Blackpool in the Sun. If not take ear plugs and get drunk every night.

Blackpool with sunshine.

What a dump, Noise, Noise, Noise. Karaoke Bars on every corner, Football Hooligans roaming the streets, broken pavements, cars booming loud music all night long.

If Ayia Napa is worse god help us all.

I feel embarrassed to be English.

We had two weeks at the The great Beach Hotel in Constantinos, Protaras. It was our first trip to Cyprus. The staff are helpful and friendly, the cleanliness is mediocre and the bathrooms need upgrading urgently. The beach is fantastic, and one of the best I've ever been on. This really isn't a 5 star hotel, and the manager agrees! He says that it is the location that gives it its 5 star rating. Sorry, us Brits don't work on that way of thinking.