We were staying in Pafos and wanted to have a casino night so booked the Hilton Cyprus using HHonors points (bringing the price to £40 per room) so we could cross into Northern Cyprus.
Upon arriving the hotel looked very nice. Designer shops are present throughout the lower floor with designer goods displayed all the way down to the Foyer. Unusually this hotel has its reception on the 2nd floor so don't go looking on the ground floor thinking you missed it.
The reception staff were friendly and helpful and automatically upgraded us to executive rooms (as we were gold card holders). Upon entering the rooms, they were spacious and reasonably well decorated, however for a five star Hilton I did expected a higher standard of furnishing especially for an executive lounge. It seems this hilton just did the minimum it could to meet the 5 star criteria. To stress the rooms were not at all bad, just I had higher expectations from 5 star Hiltons due to staying in the Park Lane hilton.
Anyway during our stay we made use of the executive lounge which serves free alcoholic beverages until 8pm (the employee was kind enough to leave the food out a lil longer and give us a couple of bottles of wine as we arrived at 8pm unknowingly) - which was much appreciated.
Upon entering the bar area downstairs I asked to play the grand piano. I was advised that the one in the main sitting area was not for use, however another grand piano was available that I could play in the smaller bar. This of course pleased me greatly and I serenaded my friends for a few minutes on the piano before heading off to the casino.
In the morning we visited the spa facilities. The gym setup is kind of inconveniant with the pool being in a seperate area from the jacuzzi. sauna and steam room and also having two changing rooms. In the end I had to walk back and fore the reception area in my swimming trunks dripping of water so I could use the steam room after my swim.
The girls ordered room service and were happy with the food and the breakfast in the morning was of a very good standard, although some potato scones would have made it perfect.
All in all a pretty good stay and if this was a 4 star hotel it would have got full marks, only reason is that I expect the executive rooms of a 5 star hilton to be furnished to a higher standard. Also although good value for money when using my points, the right price of the executive room per night at short notice was 290 euros. I don't believe I would have been happy if I had paid that price.
Tip to all booking early in 2012. Hilton Cyprus is in the Hilton Point Stretcher Rewards, so you can get the room for next to nothing for only 17,500 hilton points.
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