Welcome to the world of the Grecian Bay Hotel! This luxury five star hotel is situated on the most beautiful sandy beach in Cyprus with breathtaking views to the crystal clear waters of the Mediterranean Sea. This complex offers a world of amenities together with exceptional service and friendly staff. Along with our 3 restaurants, coffee shop, bars, spa and wellness center. The Grecian Bay is renowned for its pleasant and welcoming atmosphere.We will ensure that your stay with us will be truly memorable. We look forward to welcoming you to our hotel soon!
Situated on the most beautiful sandy beach of Cyprus within 10 minutes walk to the center of Ayia Napa and 30 minutes drive from Larnaca Airport, the Grecian Bay Hotel is the best well-run hotel on the island of Cyprus. Its private beach is surely unique.
A prestigious hotel on a prime location is designed to offer the beauty of the outside environment whilst inside. A 542 - bed hotel with all rooms, studios, bungalows and suites enjoying sea, pool or garden view.
All rooms, studios, bungalows and suites are furnished to meet all expectations of all guests. All rooms have air-conditioning / heating, private WC, private balcony, bath / shower, satellite TV, hairdryer, direct dial telephone, private safe and bathrobes.
The restaurants and coffee shop are responsible for the hotel’s gastronomic scene. With expertly trained chefs, the international cuisine will surely compliment the elegance of the dining areas. During the summer months, enjoy different special theme nights which are offered around the pool with live music and dancing show.
Our Fisherman’s Hut Tavern will definitely be one of the highlights of your holiday. This open air tavern, situated on the beach will set the perfect atmosphere and you will enjoy the best fish specialties. Enjoy an exotic cocktail or a cold drink at our beach bar and enjoy the breathtaking viewto the Mediterranean sea only a few steps away from you.
The Grecian Bay Spa and Wellness Center is a dedication to the art of relaxation and escapism. Each exotic treatment is a chance to discover a faraway land or culture. In the process, you just might find your inner self! The workout gym, sauna, Jacuzzi, aerobics, tennis and squash courts, golf driving range are available and free of charge to all guests. Our Hair Studio will guarantee you a new look before you leave the hotel.
Our selected sandy beach, just a few steps away from the hotel, will provide the perfect atmosphere for your holiday. Water sports are available at the beach. Our beach bar is open daily offering refreshments and ice creams and our Grill bar is offering snacks.
For those wishing to explore the nature, a walk to the national park of the Cape Greco or to the harbor of Ayia Napa will offer you this pleasure. The Cape Greco may be reached with our shuttle service. Running daily, it is offered free of charge to hotel guests.
Children will find everything they need in their own play ground. During the summer months of July and August, our mini – club is open for children 4 – 12 years of age to enjoy the organized activities with our supervisors.
Several options are available, for the conference organizers who wish to combine business and pleasure. The Salaminian and Aegean Conference rooms, just to name a few, can host every special event.
The Grecian Bay Team will ensure wedding couples that their special day will be full of romantic memories. Planning your wedding? See our special weddings section for more information. We invite you to experience the world of the Grecian Bay Hotel.
On an island with an economy depending on tourism, there is nothing extraordinary about people going into this business. However,some cases stand out more than others and "The Grecian Hotel Enterprises" is one of these. It is a story of two consequent successes in the hotel industry, with a war and occupation in between.
The company is a family-run private business, with five hotels, three in the Ayia Napa region and two in Turkish occupied Famagusta, which used to be the island's main tourist resort until Turkey invaded the island in 1974. Its logo is "The Pathfinder", and when you read further down you'll realise why. The man behind this success story is Takis Kounnas, an enterprising Cypriot who was in the fruit exporting and shipping business until 1964, when, after a trip to Sweden, he realised this island has much to offer a tourist: sunshine nearly ten out of twelve months of the year, Grecian blue sea and fine sand. "I was on a business trip to Sweden when I saw dozens of people gathered outside the opera house looking up at the sky," says Mr. Kounnas. "When I asked the taxi driver what they were doing, I was taken aback with his reply: they are trying to soak up the sun, of course!" For any person coming from a Mediterranean island, this scene sounds extraordinary, if not funny, and when this person is also enterprising, he immediately knows how to turn the sun into money. "I knew then and there that the sun in Cyprus could be beneficial" says Mr. Kounnas, and time proved him right.
In 1965 he built his first hotel, the five star "Grecian", in Famagusta, which, had seen no tourist development until then. The long stretches of golden sand were undeveloped and the only hotels in the region were small businesses, which did not operate in the way we know hotels to operate today, nor were they built up to today's standards. "The Grecian was the first hotel in Famagusta area to be built on modem design” says Mr. Kounnas, and, as any person from the region will say, it was then considered to be built on the town's outskirts. As for its design, the hotel's architect, the late Neoptolemos Michaelides, was known all over Cyprus for his creativity and the fact that he wanted his buildings to blend in with their surrounding environment. The hotel's name came out of a conversation its owner had with a British journalist, who, in describing the colour of the Famagusta sea had said "this is real GRECIAN blue".
After the Grecian was built, other Cypriots followed suit, among them Mr. Kounnas who built the four stars "Troian", right next to his first hotel, in 1972. At the same time he also bought two plots of land in Ayia Napa "because it is in the south and has sunshine from early morning till sunset". He was planning on expanding his business to this region, but fate and politics played an ugly game on him. Only two years later, Turkey invaded Cyprus and Famagusta was occupied. So, the architectural drawing for the Ayia Napa hotel, that would have started to be built in November 1974, was put into a drawer and Mr. Kounnas, like 200 thousand other Cypriots, become a refugee and decided to leave for Greece with his family.
On his return to the island in 1976 and with the encouragement of the Cyprus Tourism Organization, that was then trying to re-establish Cyprus' tourism industry, Mr. Kounnas went on with his plans and the "Grecian Bay" opened in August 1978. The first guests at this five star hotel were 13 priests from Lebanon, who had come here for a seminar at Ayia Napa monastery. They must have definitely brought him luck, as his business began to flourish once again. What is amazing, though, is that "history repeats itself" even in the business field. When the "Grecian Bay" was built, Ayia Napa was nothing but a sleepy fishing village, where only the locals took advantage of its crystal clear sea and endless golden sand beaches and only some bungalows were available to visitors. In 1985 Mr. Kounnas built the four star "Grecian Sands" hotel, realizing that the hotel industry has to cater for a variety of clientele and not only people who wanted five star luxury. Six years later the five star "Grecian Park" was built in a unique setting, overlooking the Cavo Greco nature park and bay.
Despite the fact that the Grecian Hotel Enterprises now operates three hotels, it still remains a private, family run company. Where does its success lie? As the owners say, the most important factor is the personal and undivided attention they offer their customers, also reflected in the way they manage their hotels.
Spa The Grecian Bay Spa & Wellness Center is a dedication to the art of relaxation and escapism. Each exotic treatment is a chance to discover a faraway land or culture. In the process, you just might find your inner self.
Beautician Your skin should feel softer and your mind refreshed after a visit to our beautician. Our relaxing and sensual treatments enhance beauty and overall wellbeing. We promise to energize your body, onvigorate your senses, detoxify your system and calm your mind. In otherwords, revive and restore a sense of total physical and mental wellness.
Hair Studio The Grecian Bay Spa & Wellness Center offers an array of cutting-edge hair services that accommodate the slightest of changes to the process of finding the new you. Our highly qualified stylists are available for cuts, colors and highlights. Our salon uses only the finest hair care products.
Health Club The Health Club at the Grecian Bay Spa & Wellness Center offers diverse programmes of fitness, aerobics, health and weight management. Our fitness expert is available to create, for each and every guest, personal intergrated activity programmes which will lead to heightened aerobic fitness, improved core stability, muscle tone and accelerate fat burning.
All that you need for the most successful meeting is right here. Conference rooms with complete range of audiovisial equipment combined with the attentive service of our staff will ensure the success of your function. Some Groups that chose us: * Berger Paints * Gestetner. Lada. UK. * Beecham National Caravans * Shell Inter. Johnson & Johnson * Lions International * Organon, Deloitte Haskins & Sells * Black & Decker * Price Waterhouse Coopers * University of Cyprus
Cyprus, known as the Island of Love is the birthplace of Aphrodite, the Goddess of Love and Beauty. Ayia Napa is a peaceful village on the eastern cost of the island and only 50 km from Larnaca Airport. Minutes from a 16th century monastery, the picturesque fishing harbour and the shopping centre, the Grecian Bay Hotel proudly stands on one of the most prized sandy beaches of the island.
Friendly in welcome, trusting and trustworthy by nature. You'll wander through picturesque streets, take in colorful festivals and treat your palate to delicious local and international cuisine. You'll discover golden sandy beaches beside crystal clear turquoise waters. Enjoy sea sports. For a peaceful and tranquil experience, explore the untamed natural beauty of Cape Greco by hiking, biking or walking trough nature trails of wild flora and fauna. Shop in trendy boutiques and talk with the locals whose ancestry goes back to the ancient seafaring Greeks. Meet fishermen and farmers and never forget you are standing on land which bathes in 9.000 years of pride and history. Embrace Ayia Napa. It is a joyous celebration of life lived fully, simply and with passion.
One might choose horseback riding or perhaps bicycle riding on the bike path which leads you from the Grecian Park to the other side of thecape. Others might choose aquatic adventures such as scuba diving, snorkelling, windsurfing or just a lovely swim in the sea. Some might choose to just relax and perhaps catch some sneak glimpses of the rare species of birds nesting in and around the park if bird watching is your hobby. Perhaps, one might choose to sit on a park bench, to enjoy the overwhelming and breathtaking view. At the end of the cape sits a beautiful, small chapel which can be reached by a 45 minute walk from the hotel. Of course, some choose to jog through the many jogging routes available within the park as this is heaven if jogging is your sport. In the spring months Cape Greco blossoms with a profusion of flowers and flower picking is very popular in this area. Shopping is plentiful in both Ayia Napa and Protaras. Both resorts can be reached with an easy 5 minute drive. Public transport which runs by the hotel hourly will ensure that you can catch a full day in the great variety of shops found in either of the two resorts.
In the summer months, from March through November, over 600 restaurants, bars and night clubs operate throughout the evening offering something for everyone. Restaurants vary from small village taverns to elegant fine dining restaurants. The hotel boasts its own night club operating during high season catering to the hotel guests and special members.
Greco National Park Made up of approximately 385 hectares of land, Greco National Park not only offers breathtaking natural beauty but also is host to the ruins of the ancient temple of Aphrodite and the chapel of Aghii Anargyri. Both recreational and scientifically educational with dozens of rare species to see, Greco National Park is definitely worth a visit.
Cape Greco Cape Greco is another distinctive part of Ayia Napa which adds to the magnificence of the scenery. It's worth taking a morning or afternoon away from the beach to go for a walk around Cape Greco. Cycle, hike or walk along the trail that winds around juniper bushes and beautiful flora amidst miniature pine trees. Cut away into 10 meter sea-cliffs are caves which nature has adorned with palatial trimmings. Benches provide the opportunity to rest and gaze down into clear waters. For those more ambitious, there's a further 100 meters climb that leads to the central depression. Excavations in 1992 revealed evidence that this site was one of the earliest Neolithic settlements on the island.Aside from the imposing natural beauty of Cape Greco's mountain sea cliffs and winding paths, the indigenous flora of this area is equally impressive. Between Cape Greco and Grecian Sands Hotel stand sea palaces. Over thousands of years the sea has sculpted a stunning series of beach rocks to create mystical caves and archways. The reflected light, together with the crystal waters form a dreamy picture.
Ayia Napa Harbour The newly renovated fishing harbour is one of the three key landmarks of Ayia Napa which also includes the Monastery and Cape Greco. From the Grecian Bay Hotel it is a 10 minute walk along the sandy beach to the picturesque harbour where along the way several bars and restaurants offer refreshments of all kinds. Take a relaxing cruise around the Ayia Napa coastline to Cape Greco or to Larnaca and back. Enjoy the spectacular sights of this beautiful island along with colorful marine life as seen in glass bottom boats or night cruise boats.
Ayia Napa Monastery Ayia Napa Monastery is the medieval archaeological landmark of Ayia Napa. The Monastery was built around 1500 A.D. but inside the church lies a cave which suggests it may have been used as a place of worship during a much earlier period. The Monastery is dedicated to the Virgin Mary because according to a local legend, an original icon of the Virgin was discovered by a hunter in the cave. The monastery originated as a women's convent, converted to a monastery and then, in 1978, became an Ecumenical Conference Center to serve the work of Churches in Cyprus as well as the Middle East. The Ayia Napa Monastery is today the historical symbol of Ayia Napa, but there are also a number of small rural churches situated in unspoiled countryside which bear testimony to a lifestyle of times gone by, a life totally bound to agriculture.
Get acquainted with Cypriot tradition and visit the farmhouse in the Monastery Square, The Marine Life Museum and Makronissos Tombs. The village of Dherynia
The village of Dherynia has three interesting churches featuring excellent icons dating back to the 15th century. The view from the village includes the "ghost" city of Famagusta, now under occupation by the Turkish army.
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