Louis Princess Beach Hotel

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My family and I returned home on Sunday 8th May 2005 from a two-week holiday at the Louis Princess Beach Hotel in Larnaca and I felt I had to express our opinion on the hotel.
We chose this hotel as I felt it offered great value for money and the pictures shown in the brochure made the hotel look beautiful. To be honest I was a bit nervous as I had made all the arrangements for me and my husband and both sets of parents and its always hard to find somewhere that will suit everyone.
My first impression when we arrived was that it did look lovely, we checked in at the reception quickly and efficiently and a porter helped us to our rooms with our baggage. We were thrilled to find that our 3 rooms were next to one another and we were situated in the ground floor bungalows facing the pool, to say the view was gorgeous was an understatement.
We then went for dinner (men have to wear long trousers in the dinning room in the evening) the buffet provided an excellent selection of salads and hot food and you could help yourself to whatever you wanted. The food continued like this for the rest of the holiday, with a different theme selected for each night. Meals throughout the day were provided either through the dinning room or at the snack bar by the beach; either way, there was something for everyone.
The staff in the hotel were so friendly and looked after your every need, no matter what you asked for they arranged it and it was no trouble. We all would return to this hotel again, in fact my mother and father in law are going back in October!
We just have a couple of points which we feel would make it even better, one being the lack of water sports. It’s quite common for an all-inclusive hotel to offer the likes of free pedaloes, kayaks etc, but they didn’t have anything like this provided by the hotel (however there is a place further along the beach where you can hire these things out for various charges.) The other suggestion would be to dump a few tons of sand on the beach as it is just pebbles so not easy to walk on into the sea. (There is a grassy area where the sunbeds are located by the water).
The setting around the pool has mimicked a beach and they have made a good job of it, to be honest I preferred to sit here than by the sea anyway as it was so relaxing and you could jump into the pool at anytime. (The pool also has a good size Jacuzzi and is very clean).
All in all (as you can tell from the length of this review) we loved the hotel and the staff and would have no hesitation in recommending it to our friends and family. In summary a first-class hotel and its nice to see that the pictures in the brochure are a very true representation of the real thing.