All,

We've just returned from Paphos after being married there. Our opinions are:

Resort - Average - not really much at the harbour. The towns quite dead but the tourist areas ok.

Prices - Most meals and drinks were at least UK prices

Food - Nearly everything was with chips and there was more English than Cypriot food. Similar to Rhodes. I thought the food was much much more better in Turkey whenI went last year. Our wedding buffet on the Natasha and then the Poseidon Taverna were great though. Avoid the Pelcian restaurant - overpriced and the worst Fish meze we've ever had.

Hotel - Athena Beach - great, good pools and food, no problems

Wedding - We had assistance from "The Bridal Consultant" and "Cyprus Dream Weddings" - both were excellent and can be recommended. We were married at St Georges Chapel in Paphos and the priest, the service, the building and surroundings were all very special. The crew on the Natasha weren't exactly customer focused and could be described as miserable at best.

Care hire - Note if you try to hire a car there, it has to be for at least three days.

Tourist attractions - Most places you visit don't have much information on what you're looking at so guidebooks are handy. If you go to the Trudos mountains I would recommend a 4x4 as many of the roads are wet dirt tracks and very uneven over long distance.

I hope this helps anyone else! Besides this our wedding was great and we'll never forget it

Regards
Rich

rm.tomlin@ntlworld.com

got any pictures!?

Welcome to Groovy!

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Love & hugs Taz x

Hi I have juust returned from Paphos, last week.
I was there for three weeks. I got married at Peyia, and we had our reception at our hotel, THE ALEXANDER THE GREAT BEACH HOTEL.

The wedding was ouside in the gardens at Peyia.Town Hall.
Beautiful location, up high in the hills.
We had Champagne and canapes on the terrace, before we had the main wedding meal.
The wedding was a sitdown BBQ buffet, outside over looking the sea, beach was 20 seconds away, again a perfect location.
We had a DJ playing great music for us, again outside.
Guest were dancing on the balcony it was a great atmosphere.
I would have had it any other way.
It was also my dads birthday, and the hotel made him a cake.


As for Paphos, I enjoyed it, the weather was lovely, not too hot for a wedding, late 70's -early 80's.
We had problems hiring a car, as my daughter gets travel sick we only wanted it for a day to see how she went. But we did find afew places who would do it for two days.
The worst food I had was at The Posedonas Tarverna, out of six of us eating five complained and left our food, and we all had different dishes. My dad had the fish which he said was ok.

Bar street was starting to get busy, we noticed a big difference in our last week.

And or course we visited the tree to tie a hankie on and make a wish, the tree has hundreds of hankies on from previous bride and groom, and others wanted to make a wish. There is a church down from it under ground, very old and spooky.
Candles burning all day and night.

I had the best time ever, great wedding, and lovely people.
Our hotel coulodn't do enough for us.

Karen