Anerada Apartments Review

Overall Rating

Friendly staff (they had to be really)
Reasonable location for proximity to beach (not that great either) /supermarket/ restaurants/ bars
Adequate storage space
Clean sheets and towels every three days
Bins emptied daily
Safe in reception

Bugs
Inadequate air conditioning
Tired decor and furniture
Car boot style kitchen utensils
DNA building up in corners
Damp smell in kitchen
Lack of privacy in rooms
Record breaking joke of a pool

We have stayed in self catering accommodation on a number of Greek islands for the same cost and this was by far the worst. The apartments at Anerada are arranged in separate blocks. We stayed in a one bedroom apartment over looking the main road. The apartment was fitted out basically, in the living room furniture was tired and grubby with twenty years self catering experience under its belt. The kitchen had a curious damp smell, was again basically fitted with an odd collection of mismatched kitchen utensils made up of Greek hand-me-downs probably picked up from car boot sales. When I went to use one sauce pan the boiled water turned grey, only ever made sandwiches from then on. The bathroom was adequate except the sink taps only tricked out water. We grew to love our ants nest that had residence in the bathroom door frame, the trail of the little critters led into the bedroom, behind our sleeping heads, through a gap in the balcony doors and on down to the supermarket below. The bedroom consisted of tough twin beds (clean cotton sheets every three days) plenty of cupboard space and a small wall fitted air-con unit. Turned out that this air-con unit at £50.00 for two weeks was only adequate enough to cool the bedroom. Every few days the cleaner would chuck a hairy mop over the floors slowly building up the grime in the corners, our DNA must be all over Paphos by now. Friendly staff, so friendly they seemed to believe that they had access to your room at any time of the day. Even if the room was double locked with the key in it they could gain entry - fast. Imagine the scene - We hear a noise, I stand up and grab the cotton sheet around my waste, the bedroom door bursts open and there stands the cleaner with the maintenance guy behind her carrying a light bulb. - "Oh sorry, you sleeping" she says whist giving me the once over. I mean, what's one to do? General decor was dated with patchy areas of maintenance, laziness in the extreme. We discovered that some of the apartments in our block were let-out to permanent Greek residents, an indication of the way things are going. Outside in the grounds Anerada has the dubious honour of having the smallest, unkempt pool in Cyprus - "Yes, it's a record breaker". You to can add your name to ours at the bottom, no charge. Shack of a pool bar with a collection of tables & chairs and a sad looking pool table, I was always surprised to see people using this area - must be the bulldog sprit. Young Greek barman had a habit of saying "bar rumba" all the time and dancing the 'cha cha slide' to perfection. - 'turn around, now back two steps - everybody scream'. Overall the whole complex needs a revamp, a large cheque thrown at it. Surely an embarrassment to the tour company.