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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 hold 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.
Grecian Bay Hotel Kriou Nerou 32 P.O. Box 30006 Ayia Napa, Cyprus.
Tel: +357 23842000
Fax: +357 23721307 Website:
http://www.grecianbay.com grecian@grecian.com.cy. Situated directly on the beach, within 40 minutes drive from Larnaca
Airport and 10 minutes walk from the village of Ayia Napa. Breakdown by
room Category: 1 Bungalow
Suite /
2 Bedrooms. 3 Bungalow
Suites /
1 Bedroom. Weekly Special Evenings. Table d’hote 19.00 – 21.30. A la Carte 19.00 – 21.45. Fish
Restaurant 12.00 – 15.00.
Breakfast 07.00 – 20.00. All Day Light Dining. Main
Bar 10.30 – 01.00.
Health Club Bar 09.30 – 18.30. Beach
Bar 09.30 – 18.30.
Guest Room Information: Number of floors of main building: 4. Number of floors in West Wing: 5. Number of guest lifts to floors: 3.
Guest Room Facilities:
Air Conditioning /
Central Heating. Electric Current: 220V – 240V. Turning Down Service.
Direct Dial Telephone.
24-hour Room Service. Multilingual Personnel. Mail Parcel Service.
Newspaper Shop / Gifts.
Conference Banqueting
Center. Secretarial Services. Sports Leisure Facilities: Outdoor Children’s
Swimming Pools. Indoor
Swimming Pool. Grecian
Health Club: Fully equipped
Gym. 3 Floodlit
Tennis Courts.
Golf Driving Range 125m. Water sports at the beach (extra charge)
Planning your perfect day. With breathtaking views of the Mediterranean on one of the island's most privileged settings, the Grecian Bay Hotel will ensure that your special day will be full of romantic memories. Our wealth of experience will guarantee these memories will last a lifetime. The following gifts are included in your
wedding package: Complimentary
room upgrade (subject to availability). Choice of venue with our compliments. One bottle of local champagne at your
wedding reception. Rest assured that even before your arrival, The Management Team know much about your
wedding, therefore once at the hotel they will contact you in order to finalize the finishing touches. An appointment will be made whereby with their vast experience and in liaison with your
wedding coordinator, you can plan the
wedding best suits you. For those wishing to hold a religious ceremony, we are able to offer the use of our beautiful chapel situated on the grounds of our sister hotel, the Grecian Sands. The chapel is surrounded by picturesque
gardens and is the perfect venue for taking your marriage vows. Civil
weddings are conduced by a Marriage Officer appointed by the local town hall. The legal section of the ceremony takes approx 5 minutes, it is then followed by your exchange of vows and rings, once this is done you are declared husband and wife then go on to sign your certificate. Civil ceremonies can be held in any venue that has been licensed by the Mayor. At the Grecian Bay we have 2 civil
wedding venues. Let the
celebration compliment your newly proclaimed life together by allowing our expertise to cater to your important requirements. Here at the Grecian Bay we offer you the choice of reception areas to suit your every need: The heart of the Grecian Bay provides the perfect setting for your cutting of the cake ceremony and
drinks, having just returned to the Hotel. The Cork
Bar Terrace. Celebrate here with family and friends your cutting of the cake ceremony, using the superb scenery for photo opportunities and absorb the atmosphere. A beautifull modern day venue where you can dine, overlooking the main
pool area and the beautiful
garden surroundings. A luxury
air-conditioned venue for your
lunch or
dinner for
parties up to 35 persons. Fisherman's Hut Tavern. Hidden amongst the trees with stunning views of the Mediterranean, our fish tavern is the perfect setting for informal
barbeques of formal
wedding dinners. After your big day, enjoy your first morning as husband and wife with a romantic Champagne
Breakfast in the comfort and privacy of your
room. Our staff will ensure that your
breakfast is served at the pre-arranged time discussed with our
Wedding's Manager. Trusting us with your Dream!
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. 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. 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. 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. For more images of the
Spa Wellness
Center, please visit our
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.