Larnaca

Hi there

About Larnaca and where to stay and what to do.

Hotels and hotel apartments are in abundance here too. Larnaca is an interesting town to wander around, and if you have a car well worth exploring the surrounding area, especially the villages of Kato Drys and Lefkara (where my family is from originally!!)

Accomodation is pitched at midrange/family options, but the one decent budget option is the hostel called HI Hostel. It is in an old hammam, which is a beatiful building eventhough crumbling around the edges. Expect normal hostel type dorms, shared kitchen and showers. Clean and friendly.

Mid-range: Flamingo Beach Hotel, +357 24828224 good facilities near the sea.
Hotel- E: claiming to be an eco-friendly place in a small viallge outside of Larnaca called Pervolia. You can get a room, studio or villa and it is 75 metres from the sea. E-mail address: hotelecyprus@llhotels.com and it opens in April of this year, so looks exciting!

Top-end: Golden Bay (www.lordos.com.cy.thegoldenbay). It is on the beach on the road to Dekelia. Has all the top end facilities you would expcet of a 5 star hotel.
Les Palmiers, +357 24627200, more modern place and smaller than the above.


Villas: Plenty of villas in the Larnaca area, mostly in the surrounding villages of Tochni and also near the coast of Governors Beach.
Abraham's House: on the beach, sleeps up to 6. To make enqueries, call Abraham on +35799433437 or +35724332813. If his villa is booke dup he can suggest others.

There are plenty of nice restaurants and bars along the promenade which at one end has the marina and at the other a restored fortress where plays and concerts are staged. There is also the old Turksih quarter which is interesting to potter around, with old mosques and town houses and sweet little coffee shops.