Akti Beach Tourist Village

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This is our second visit to the Akti Beach in Paphos, and yes it is a bit out of the way and 'beach' in the title is a little misleading, but for the money, this hotel is a great stay in Cyprus. The rooms are spacious, clean and well equipped, sometimes it's a little pot luck with the balcony and view depending on what room you get. For Half Board, we still had a fridge, oven and cooking facilities which is great. The food is lovely and George in the main restaurant cannot do enough to make your dining experience a good one. The food is excellent, service attentive and friendly and drinks are not extortionate.
Going Half Board here is definitely good value for money, especially with Cyprus being expensive already before the introduction of the Euro which makes Self Catering a serious expense on top of your holiday. For instance, a tiny block of cheese is about 5 Euros!
It is on a bit of a slope and you have to be careful when trying to get to the bus stop which is at the top of the slope, but you can easily get into Paphos and elsewhere via a Taxi.
As well as an inside Swimming Pool and sauna etc, there are 2 x outdoor pools, both which are lovely and cleaned daily. Some of the sunbeds may need replacing here and there but hey !
All in all, fantastic value for money and a great place to stay.

This place doesnt warrant its 4* status...The rooms were clean & basic. Some staff polite not all, does depend on who u get. Chris was ok only if u havnt got a complaint. Supermarket extremely expensive, also didnt stock enough food to be self catering......Sewage smell outside appartments was bad. Not a place to go if u want to step outside the resort to eat at local taverners & resturants. You will need a car, to be self catering!!!!!!!!!!!! Taxi r expensive the bus stop is to far to walk with kids in heat... Coral Bay beach is ok but dirty wiv Fag butts & Rubbish.... Very English,.Highly recommended is The Wavedancer Firework night trip..worth every penny....George in main resturant was a very nice & kind host, he couldnt do enough 4 u... Alex was a good entertainer, not much 4 kids to do...... CAR CAR CAR thats all we can say.......Expensive.......

My first impression of atki beach was, It was out on a limb too far away from main resort to walk there, and if you tried to walk, there are no pavement to walk on.When we got off the transfer coach there was a strong smell of sewage on the site ( and remained all of the 2 weeks we were there).The reception staff were quite pleasant and helpful. The restaurant manager was very rude if you were not pretty or did not buy the over priced wine.There was a good selection of food in the restaurant. The cold food was cold but, the hot food was only lukewarm and after you put in on the cold plates then it was cold.The lay-out of the site was quite nice, they had tried to make it look like an Greek village.Apart from the ants in the room it was fairly clean with clean towels everyday.The mini-market on the site was not very well stocked and expensive. If you were to go self-catering you would have to go into the town because I did not see any fruit or veg on display.The bar and lounge were very nicely fitted out but the entertainment reminded my of the kind of thing you got years ago in the working mens clubs. Why when you go abroad do we not get some entertainment that is not english. Wil I go there again the answer is NO.

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We had 1 week at Akti Beach and we did not see any ants, or any insects, other than receiving a few mosquetos bites (which you can get anywhere abroad). Our accommodation was a studio, clean, spacious, the maid service was excellent, facilities excellent. The food in the restauant was good, various dishes, plenty of it. If you go hungry thats you own fault. Staff were helpful, kind and obliging. George was a first class head waiter. The only down side was it was a bit out of Paphas and the walk from the front was quite long, the "short cut" at the back is very acceptable and although a dirt track was no problem and took approx 4 mins to the bus stop. The music in the entertainment area was too loud, (no I am not a kill joy), but when you are not able to communicate with each other, I feel that is too loud. Karoko, was a wash out. The entertainment needs looking at. The DJ would insist on playing music over the background music, two tv's permantly on, all at the same time, too much. Bus fares are 1.50 E to go anywhere, good value. We took the Egypt trip, excellent, well worth it.

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Did my homework before I went!! Bit of a trek from Paphos, hired car at airport for 2 weeks, no probs.
Complex is neat, clean and tidy.No ants in our room, 326, small, cleaners were brill, mopped ever day etc.
SC so only had food at pool bar in the day, filling and OK.Pool very warm and large, Polo in afternoon very good. Right next to beech, went in sea every day snorkelling, Beer cheap upto midnight, 2.3 euros, 3 euro after.
Sheila on reception English, very helpful, fones in room cheaper than mobiles to fone home.
Chris the rep very helpful to us. Had a couple of major probs that he sorted out same day.
TV bit iffy, but hey who wants to watch Corrie on holiday?
Overall, been to worse places in Cyprus, paid £365 each for 2 weeks, flying with Monarch, so can't really grumble.
Yes would recommend, sterling v euro as the biggest problem!

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me and my wife had a very nice time in the akti village resort.we found the staff helpful and friendly.the food was great and activities very enjoyable .we would definatley be returning in the future.its a bit out of the way and taxis can mount up so we hired a beach buggy which was fun and quite cheap to run and theres lots for the kids to do

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we stayed at the akti beach for 2 weeks in aug 08,when we arrived we were met by a friendly receptionist who give us our keys plus welcome pack,she pointed to where our apartment was which was in an excellent place over looking the pool.Within 10 minutes we were presented with a bottle of champagne and flowers as we were getting married.The apartments were basic but clean,the maids came almost every day to clean and leave clean towels.The pool areas was excellent and clean,the shop on site was very expensive.The breakfast was buffet style which was"nt very nice,on the afternoon the pool bar opened serving burgers chips and sandwiches which was nice.evening meals was buffet style again which was different themes every night was"nt nice at all.entertainment on a night was ok including parrot show,magic show,bingo,karaoke,discos etc.The staff always looked miserable but it did"nt bother us.the location is the main problem with the akti its in the middle of nowhere,i spent about 300 euros on transport.its a 15 min walk to the bus stop(and it feels about 1 hour in that heat)then its about 15 min to coral bay on the bus,the other way takes you to tomb of the kings 5 min,harbour and bar street 15 min.taxi ride is about 14 euros to coral bay,10 euros to the harbour.We got married in the local town hall and had the reception down the harbour,we used the akti as our base to meet with the olympic reps who were very helpful.To sum it up then its a nice place to stay but in the middle of nowhere and if you want good food you will have to travel for it.

This was our first holiday to Cyprus. We finally got there (after a 7 hour delay) and reached the Akti Hotel.
My first impression was the seemingly charming reception, the floor was marbled, there were beautiful potted plants dotted about and the receptionist was friendly and keen to aid us to our rooms.
A security guard then appeared who’d obviously forgotten his manners and grumpily took our bags and proceeded to our rooms forgetting to welcome us and introduce himself.
He walked to the room which wasn’t far and placed our luggage down, we appreciated his hard work in the heat and thanked him. He left and we now became accustomed to our suites.
We were all quite surprised to be looking at a 4 star hotel, that’s laughable. It was at the most a 2 star. The furniture rang of cheapness and the general condition wasn’t as posh and luxurious as what you’d expect from a 4 star.
What we then did was check the place for any kind of insect as we all knew previously that Akti was notorious for its unwelcome wildlife -thanks to this website!
We saw nothing and slept. The following evening myself and brother decided to go into the pool. We hadn’t noticed the sign which told us not to swim after 7:00pm. I jumped in and hastily got right back out as the same security guard came over and gave us both a telling off. “You’re not allowed to swim after 7:00” he told us, in which we replied sorry, respectfully. This wasn’t good enough and he wanted our room numbers to check us up. My brother gave him what he thought was our room number but what turned out to be not. He came walking back to us a little frustrated. He wanted one of us to go and see the manager with him! I told him I’m not going to walk through the hotel in my soaked state to see a manager! He wasn’t pleased and argued with us for a good ten minutes while we were incessantly telling him that we didn’t realise the night time rules (which is just absurd). He was clearly a power head, the tough, macho guard. He bothered us a little more on our holiday, he’d often shine his tourch purposefully into our eyes whilst he inspected the area and we always caught him telling some other people off who protested they were just sitting by the pool! (This guy has to go.)
The insects we encountered in our apartments were huge cockroaches, hundreds of ants, praying mantis, large ants...
We got rid of whatever we saw with insecticide (anyone staying at Akti better have this stuff or it could prove to be a truly horrible time.)
The great thing about the Akti location is that it’s right next to Coral Bay, so a lot of the days we just snorkelled there, and it’s beautiful waters enabled us to see the fish we were swimming amongst. (A must if you’re staying at Akti)
So overall, the accommodation was below satisfactory; the staffs were generally friendly, just the guard that had no business to deal with us in the manner he did.

Just got back from a 2 week sentance at the AKTI. Where do I start. Booked through Thomas Cook so was a bit disappointed when I got through my tickets and found out I was going with Olympic.
On arrival I had no problems checking in very fast and in our room within 5 minutes. Think we got a free upgrade so cant be bad pool and sea view.
The room are very large, the main part of the room looked like it had just been reovated so was not bad how ever the bathroom was very tied chipped bath dirt and lime scale all over the tils not nice at all and certenally not 4*.
The pool areas are excellent and with the hotels location near the sea a gentle breeze makes all the difference.
Pool bar and the on site shop are very expensive but no more than any where else I have ever been and its to be expected that where hotels make there money not on the actual accom.
The maids cleaned our room every day except Wed and when I say cleaned I mean they changed the towels. This hotel does seem to have a very serious problem with hygeine. Our room was not once swept or moped and maids where next to useless.
onto Chris the rep totally agree with all the comments totally useless, olympic seriously need to look into his employment because he is absolutly useless, never makes any effort to get to know you never once asked if everything was ok or even say hi and just looked like it was the last place on earth he wanted to be(prob due to the location)
This hotel is in the middle of no where its funny because they sell it as Paphos but when you check out and you get your qurestionaire under the resort section its not even Paphos. Taxis are 10E or what ever the taxi drivers decide to charge you and the bus is E1.50.
As for Paphos excellent the food first class and so many places to go and see.
To sum up
I would only recommed satying here if you like being in the middle of no where and dont mind un cleaned rooms insects on your bed when you wake up and poor hotel food.
We went for 2 weeks and made the mistake of the first week still being in school holiday time, with kids running wild at all hours and parents to drunk to care at night it was not for me. If parents think its ok for there kids to have water fights outside your room at gone midnight then am sorry your a disgrace.
I really would say do not stay here as the location is so poor you dont get to see any of Cyprus cos its such an effort why go on a 4 hour flight to stay in the hotel all holiday if thats all you want go to Spain its much nearer.
We paid £317 for 2 weeks SC so suppose can we really complain? Hell yeah when I book a 4 star I atleast expect it to be clean which it is not. Its not much to ask is it.

My husband and I booked a late deal to the Akti Holiday Village, on a half board basis. We arrived at reception at midnight to confusion as only one member of staff was trying to deal with everyone at once. We eventually received our key and told to go left throught the door and follow numbers till we got to our room. If it was not for a member of staff who found us all wondering round narrow and poorly lit paths, who helped get us to our rooms, we would of been lost for ages. The room was very basic to say the least, and over run with ants. The next morning we found our way to breakfast which was very nice and the resturant staff lovely. The pool area and gardens are well kept and nice. Unless you want to pay the high prices on the complex you need to hire a car as it is a long way from Paphos or any other life. The Olympic rep Chris Evans not a very nice person at all, rude and uninterested in any problems you may have. The complex staff are not much better especially when you complain about the ants, apparently you have to put up with them, as I replied not when they are all over our bed. They eventually left us some spray. I must say though the resturant staff expecially George are lovely and the food is excellent. On our second day two families demanded to be moved to other accommodation, had we been there for 2 weeks we would of done the same.