My wife and myself just returned from our honeymoon at the Thalassa hotel and we had the best experience ever. I have been travelling for many years around the world and this hotel had the best service I have ever encoutered. It made our stay and honeymoon a great experience.

Ronnie Jaegermann
Israel

We have just returned from a week spent at this lovely hotel. Everything about it was excellent and met or exceeded our expectations.

We arrived at about 10 pm. We were met on arrival with a welcome drink whilst we booked in, and were asked if we wished to eat in the restaurant as it shut at 10.30 pm but they would keep it open for us if we wished. As we were on half board we chose to eat there, and the staff were quite happy to accommodate us.

Our room was on the top floor. The hotel is on a small penisula and all rooms overlook the sea. Rooms are either sunrise - with the morning sun and a view over the pool and then the beach, or sunset with the afternoon sun and a view over tennis court /car park and then the beach - you can also see the sister hotel (the Coral Beach) from this side. We had a sunrise room. I think our view was a bit better but then it would have been nice to have the sun in the afternoon/evening. I would have been happy with either room.

We had a standard double room. It was a good size with a massive bed, two chairs and table, TV/DVD/CD player, tea and coffee making facilitiies, mini bar etc. The bathroom was marble with lovely Korres toiletries. We had a good balcony with teak chairs (with cushions) and a coffee table. Bathrobes were provided as well as slippers.

The room was serviced twice a day, morning and evening.

The meals were good. Continental breakfast could be served in your room at no extra cost, or you could have a cooked (mostly buffet ) breakfast in the Ambrosia restaurant. We chose to eat on the terrace every morning. Nothing was too much trouble - the staff anticipated your every need. You could serve yourself or they would fetch whatever you wanted for you. Scrambled eggs were available at the hot buffet, but if you wanted your eggs any other way (eg an omelette) you could order from the kitchen.

We also ate in the Ambrosia restaurant in the evening and again the food and service were excellent although the menu was a bit limited as I don't eat fish! But the kitchen were happy to serve me any of the meals without the fish - eg I had pasta with tomato and basil sauce with cheese instead of with fish.

There is a lovely pool outside with sunloungers and an attentive pool boy - as soon as he saw us appearing he would rush and get sunlounger cushions, towels etc and turn the loungers to face the sun for us. The weather was good by British standards but not by Cyprus standards so the loungers weren't set out all the time.

There is also an indoor pool with loungers, sauna, steam room, jacuzzi, and a small gym. We didn't sample the spa (too expensive) but it looked nice.

The hotel 'beach' is not suitable for swimming from - there are rocks - but walk another 100m and you come to public beaches with loungers, parasols, beach bars etc and activities like jet skis, banana boats, pedaloes etc.

The hotel is situated in a quieter area 20 km away from Paphos. There is another sister hotel next door (Coral Beach) which is large but still looked nice, and an apartment hotel a bit further along. There is a small supermarket, pub, ice cream parlour and spaghetti/pizzeria opposite the Coral Beach and the bus stop is also there. Coral Beach resort with more shops, clubs etc is 10-15 minutes walk away. It is much busier.

We caught the bus into Paphos a couple of times - the harbour area is nice but very touristy. The buses are every 15/20 minutes and it cost 1.40 euros one way. However the hotel was so lovely we spent most of our time there.

All in all a wonderful luxury five star hotel - we are already planning to go back there next year.

Fantastic luxury small hotel with excellent facilities and staff who could not be more attentive. Superb rooms, balconies & loungers the most comfortable ever! Dining experience a bit rich for every night so was glad we did B&B option. Surrounding area a bit too British with sports bars & english breakfasts on every corner so a car is needed to look for the " real Cyprus". If you work hard and want a real pampering break. Book this one.

wanted a week getaway with daughter, adults only and wanted spa. the hotel is lovely, pool wonderful and poolboy brilliant always helpful and looked after us well, towels changed twice daily if needed, pool waiters were great although couple day had different ones and had to keep going to bar for juices etc.... food ok not 5* and quite repetative, the fish restaurant isnt worth the money, infact the prices for drinks are way over the top, we had 2 bottles water daily and our bar bill was horrendous along with iced baileys coffee which was amazing!!!!! by pool. the room was a suite although was two rooms with doorway made through, 2 bathrooms, the towels were like sandpaper, we had pool view which was lovely, and the bar area at night was candlelite which was great and relaxing. a very chilled out place, the spa treatments were great we had whole package and loved it. I would go again but just watch bar tab!!!!!! I do feel rating should be changed to 4*.