Marlita Beach Hotel — Hotel in Paralimni

We booked through easyJet to stay at the marinate apartments for a week, all inclusive. Our room was comfortable and clean, although not the most modern. We also had a kitchen area and living space which we weren’t expecting. The room included a safe and complimentary cans of soft drink and water in the mini fridge. Our room had a great view over the pool and the sea behind it.||For location, Marlita is excellent. You are a stones throw from the beach and walking distance to central Protaras and the beautiful Saint Nicholas chapel. There are lots of nearby beach activities that you can pay for including water sports and boat trips - we took the €20 Coca Cola boat tour and swam in the blue lagoon/turtle bay which was excellent. There are plenty of supermarkets close to the hotel too, as well as bars and restaurants if you wanted a break from the all inclusive.||The all inclusive food was average. There was plenty of it, with a snack bar serving chips, pizza and chicken nuggets/fish fingers in between meals. Breakfast offered the usual hot food (eggs, bacon, mushrooms, beans) although the sausages were a bit strange (frankfurter style in water). They also had a man making fresh crepes and there was porridge, yoghurt, cereal and toast available too. There was always fruit and fresh melon, but some of the fruit wasn’t great quality. There are machines to make tea, coffee and also have fruit juice (not freshly squeezed).||Lunch/dinner served at the hotel was pretty similar. There was always a salad bar available with freshly prepared salads every day which always changed - a good variety of halloumi, feta, tuna based salads. Some of the hot food was a bit hit and miss for us in terms of quality. But they always usually had some sort of rice/potato dish, with various hot plates of meat or fish with sauce, as well as pasta with sauces. In the two evenings we dined onsite they had moussaka and lasagne which was nice. They did have puddings but we found them to be over sweet and not to our taste. ||By the pool they had a variety of cocktails on offer, which were ok but not always fit to the description (when listed made with orange juice they’d use Fanta from the tap). They also had wine, beer and soft drinks including Pepsi, Pepsi max, Fanta and 7up. Be warned - when ordering cocktails in the evening some of the barmen tended to make them extremely strong to the point where we found them undrinkable. They also had small ice creams available from behind the bar, just plain vanilla or banana flavour.||As well as the hotel restaurant they had four off site restaurants available for booking 1 time per week you are staying. They had a Mexican, Greek tavern, Italian and Chinese restaurant. You can book them using the machine at the reception. Make sure you do this early if you would like to go as bookings fill up quickly. The Greek and Italian were in the same place, and owned by an extremely rude and unfriendly owner. We ordered 1 wine and a bottle of water each, and when we wanted another drink he told us we had a 2 drink limit and we’d have to pay more. For the Greek meal you do not choose your meal, it is brought to you (a ‘mezze’ style arrangement of food including meat, dips and some chips). The Italian offered choice, but they brought us a pizza with the wrong toppings on it which we daren’t felt we could complain about. The Mexican and Chinese weren’t really restaurants - they were based in other Tsokkos hotels (the chain for Marlita). The Mexican had some limited choice, but again the Chinese they just brought everything out to us with no options. The food was again average, the Mexican probably our favourite. The reception advised we could book a taxi to go to the restaurants but we walked to them all - they were all in a similar area and about a 25 minute walk along the coast from the hotel. ||The pool facilities were good - they had aqua aerobics and darts games run by a hotel rep every day. There were plenty of sunbeds available when we visited but imagine it might be busier on peak. And the main pool itself was very big and spacious, always clean and well maintained. The music played by the pool was very irritating - it kept playing music on full blast and cutting the song off from playing halfway through the track to play something else. We won a darts game and a free prize of champagne, but when we went to the bar to collect our winnings we were rudely told ‘no champagne’ as they didn’t have any. The staff were a bit hit and miss, some friendlier and more helpful than others. There were evening shows but they were set behind the Marlita apartments as a part of the shared entertainment with the hotel next door. ||I would recommend for value for money and for location. The facilities and food/drink on offer were pretty standard, but we weren’t expecting 5*. We enjoyed our holiday and had a...

We stayed in the Marlita Beach Hotel on the 17th October until the 31st October. First of all this is not a hotel it is a basic apartment blocks. First impression of the place was ok then we went into our block which wasn’t very impressive or clean. Our room which was big was very very basic for the money which we paid. My 12 year old son had to sleep on a very small sofa whee the mattress was so thin you could feel every bit of wood under it . His blankets consisted of two sheets . The room was tidy but could have done with a really good clean. The cups and glasses In the cupboard where never cleaned from the people who used them before us. We requested fresh clean pillows as the ones we had where really marked we waited 3 days for them. The shelf in the cupboard couldn’t be used as it was broken . We asked for it to be fixed 3 times. We asked for a blanket for my son and we’re still waiting ?. We complained about out water being yellow and was told it was due to being the end of the season. The smell from our toilet was so so bad that we always had to leave the window opened full 24hours a day and keep the toilet door shut. When we spoke to reception about it they said someone would come but again still waiting . The all inclusive food for the first week was ok. They always eat out of plates cutlery and cups and when you asked you where either looked at as if you where dirt or shouted at to wait. The staff in the restaurant and snack bar where the most unhelpful nasty people I have every came across. With the exception to one or two of them. The restaurant manager was such a lovely lady and couldn’t do enough for us. But she is not listened to by the rest of the staff. She has to be standing over them before anything was done right. The second week of the holiday was so bad we had to eat out of the hotel. The food was sparse and no taste at all. Nothing for the kids to eat . They ran out of a lot of things of turned off machine and told us they are broken. I have complained to TC. Who took the complaint to the manager who just said sorry. That’s no where near good enough. This hotel is sold as a 4 star hotel but definitely no where near that at all. On several occasions we where left waiting at the bar as the manager would make the staff serve him and his friends before his guests. We had a party of 49 people and no one had a good word to say about the hotel. Defo not value for the money we all worked really hard for this holiday as it was for my sons wedding. Disappointed in an...

We recently stayed at the Marlita Hotel in Cyprus, booked through easyJet, and unfortunately, it did not live up to its advertised 4-star standard. In reality, I’d say it just about reaches a 3-star at best.||||Our first impressions weren’t great. We were dropped off at the back of the hotel, where the bus driver simply pointed us in the right direction without helping with luggage. We had to dig out our own cases by pulling out other people’s, which wasn’t the best start.||||Check-in was also underwhelming. The reception staff seemed disinterested, chatting amongst themselves while serving us. We weren’t given any real information about the hotel facilities. For example, we had access to the water park at the neighbouring hotel, but this wasn’t mentioned, and we only stumbled across the evening entertainment by chance when I overheard music one night.||||Our room was another disappointment. It was extremely dated and very basic—so much so that even my 7-year-old commented on it. The bathroom floor was filthy, and the shower curtain fell down repeatedly throughout our stay despite me reporting it. The curtains also had to be fixed as they came off the rail.||||The biggest let-down by far was the food. Despite being all-inclusive, we avoided dinner entirely after trying it once, sticking only to breakfasts and a handful of lunches. The quality was poor, and the restaurant was far too small for the number of guests. Instead of managing the space, staff allowed people to hover over tables waiting for others to finish, which was very uncomfortable.||||To add to the confusion, even at check-out the service was lacking. I asked reception whether our transfer would pick us up from the back (where we were dropped off) or from the front (where I had seen other guests being collected). The response was simply that they didn’t know—sometimes it’s the front, sometimes the back. In the end, my husband had to wait out the back while I waited at the front, just in case.||||That said, there were some positives. The hotel grounds themselves are actually quite nice, with a lovely pool and bar area. The location is also great—the beach is just across the road and it’s only a pleasant 20-minute stroll into the centre. With some investment, particularly in the rooms and dining facilities, this hotel could be much better.||||Overall, while the Marlita Hotel has potential thanks to its location and setting, the lack of service, outdated rooms, and poor dining experience mean I wouldn’t return or recommend it as a...