Misleading Advertising for Easter egg hunting 2025
We recently attended the Easter egg hunting event at Cyherbia after seeing a televised advertise on Sigma TV on Tuesday 22 April 2025.
On TV the owner personally welcomed families to participate in what seemed like a lovely day of activities. She described an event where each child would receive a basket to collect eggs hidden around the farm—and that the basket and eggs would be theirs to keep. It sounded charming and sincere, so we decided to make the trip from the Nicosia. A road trip that took over an hour to get there, through the village of Aygorou.
Unfortunately, the reality did not match the promises. The first surprise was the high ticket price: €10 per adult and €6 per child aged 5-12 (children under 4 were free). While we expected some cost, we were disappointed to learn that face painting and all other activities were to be paid extra.
The real letdown began with the egg hunt itself. There were not enough baskets available. We had to wait 20 minutes for one—and it was not the traditional Cypriot-style basket shown on TV by the owner. Instead, we were given a flimsy, made-in-China mini basket. As the event started, we discovered that the “eggs” were not even chocolate, but cheap foam ones. Even worse, we could clearly see staff openly scattering the eggs from plastic boxes into bushes—not exactly the magical, surprise-filled experience we envisioned.
We were further told that children shouldn't collect too many eggs, as they had to “leave some for others.” This completely went against the original concept presented by the owner. After deciding to stop the hunt due to the rising heat, we were shocked when the young lady at the kiosk took our child's basket and eggs away, handing over a single chocolate stick from Lidl, likely worth less than 50 cents. The look on our child’s face—and that of many other kids on place—was one of pure disappointment.
As someone from Northern Europe, where Easter egg hunting is a long-standing and authentic tradition, this experience felt hollow and commercialised.
The place itself is not bad, but this kind of places, need lots of care. Cyherbia part addressed to public is obviously missing some care to make it a nice place to visit, lots of lizards popping out from bushes, lots of dry plantation and weeds, not clean and hospitable kiosk, with unfriendly grey rocks for pavement and sunshades not screwed on ground to ensure safety.
No, we do not recommend and we...
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