Oscars Club

Cannot agree with the negative reviews of Oscars. Agreed the first impression in unfavourable, as the road to the hotel contains some unhappy looking blocks of flats. But the hotel itself we found to be clean, tidy, staffed attentively and excellent value.
The location is not on the 'best' side of Kyrenia, and you do have to walk a bit or hire a car (reasonable value) to get to the centre, but what is this about nowhere to eat? We found far more restaurants than we could fit into a fortnight and the vast majority were excellent. The food at Oscars was much better than expected too.
Can only sum it up by saying that we have already booked again for the summer.

You should hire a car if you stay here as the hotel is located in an unfinished surrounding area and is some distance from Girne centre.
Be sure to stay at the front of the hotel overlooking the sea as if you don’t you will be kept awake all night by car doors banging from people attending the attached Casino.
The staff are friendly but suggest you stay b&b as the dinner menu is somewhat limited.
Views from the front of the hotel include the new harbour, sea, swimming pools and attractive gardens.

The quote of the holiday is from another guest we met whilst struggling to be served at the hotel bar,” this was the first holiday he’d ever been on when a week would have been long enough”.
Oscar Resort is located to the east of Girne [Kyrenia] and is surrounded by low rise flats; those nearest to the hotel appear to best resemble something from the back streets of Beirut, being half completed and in a very poor state.
However we enjoyed an excellent twin room enjoying great views of the swimming pool, gardens and bay area. It was provided with a TV, Mini Bar and kettle and two cups and spoons, but nothing to make to drink in them! Mind you, in the later evenings we wouldn’t have needed a kettle as the mixer taps in the bathroom only provided scorching hot water, no cold; great for cleaning the teeth before retiring, another challenge were the gloomy and darkly lit hotel corridors are also partially carpeted, and these floor coverings also offer the unique feature of being worn at the edges, making tripping and falling much easier!
Girne has some potential to be a tourist town at some time in the distant future, but not yet. There are a number of restaurants and bars clustered around the harbour, but move away from that area and everything is non-tourist, or closed. A taxi from the hotel is 5 lira each way [approx £2.15] There is a lot of touting for food business in the evenings, and the level of persistence drives you crazy; these guys here keep on and on, and on!
Food choice appears to be based mainly on a range of two or the course set menus at around 22 lira [approx £9.50 pp], and wine is also surprisingly expensive with the local house wines at around 25 lira per bottle, if you want a modest imported Turkish wine you could be paying up to 45 lira. One other thing, there appears to either be piped music going between all the eating places or one compilation CD of Sinatra, Nat King Cole, and Gene Kelly that is shared. We heard the damned thing every were we ate!
If you don’t want to eat or drink in Oscars, once again you will be disappointed, as there are a very limited number of places nearby that you can go to on foot. There is a Kebab House on the main road, [again playing that damned compilation CD!], and what appears to be a very naff Chinese Restaurant.
Our recommendation? If you like Turkey or Greece, stay with it. If you like dust, dirt, cement mixers and expensive indifferent service, give N Cyprus & Oscars a try.

I wish I had found this site before going to the Oscar resort although the people working there were helpful and friendly the resort is in the middle of a building site.
We stayed in the studio pink app although we ask for a one bed they were not ready. Every day we were woken at 6.30/7am by a building site right next door even Sat and Sun we stayed a week but if it had been any longer I would have paid to move. You have to get a taxi every where because immediately you leave the hotel it is a slum area and if you do walk to the main harbour you have to cross 2 busy main roads.
Please don’t be put off Kyrenia but if you do go stay the other side of the harbour the biggest land mark is the Dome Hotel this area is more established and I saw no building work.