Cap St Georges Hotel & Resort
Aphrodite’s chilled
Chic Cypriot seaside
How to spend your day might just be the most arduous decision you have to make while residing at Cap St Georges Hotel & Resort. Stuff to do here runs the gamut from silent sea-view appreciation on your balcony to working out arms, legs and, well, everything else, with a session on the padel courts. If neither are quite your speed, fear not, there is a middle ground: vis-à-vis languidly stretching out an arm to take delivery of that third poolside cocktail, assuming the position for a massage in the spa, or opting to take the buggy ride to the beach rather than enduring the onerous three-minute walk there.
Facilities
Rooms
202, of which 39 are suites.
Checkout
Noon. Earliest check-in, 3pm.
More Details
Rates include an extensive buffet breakfast served daily from 7am–10.30am in Yeronisos restaurant.
Fitness Center
Free Internet Access
Laundry
Pet Friendly
Pool
On-Site Restaurant
Room Service
Spa
At the Hotel
Several swimming pools and secluded beaches bars and restaurants, a disco club, spa, hammam, gym, beauty salon, barbers, boutique shop, kids’ club, free WiFi. There's also tennis, basketball, volleyball and football courts, as well as an indoor games lounge, outdoor cinema and playground. In rooms: balcony or terrace with sea views, Nespresso coffee machine, tea-making facilities, minibar, free bottled water, 55” LCD TV, pillow menu, marble bathroom with freestanding bathtub, walk-in shower, twin sinks, bathrobes, slippers and Lalique toiletries.
Our Favourite Rooms
Panoramic windows with sea views flood all rooms in the resort with Cypriot sunshine, emphasising the gleaming marble floors and natural white oak panelling. Sure, you can get a terrace in any old room here, but if you want to feel like a Greek god or goddess, book one with a private pool, such as the Residence room or one-bed suite. Champagne tastes great at the Thalassa poolside bar but can’t beat a chilled glass (or two) served straight from the minibar and enjoyed in your own personal infinity pool overlooking the Med.
Poolside
Pull up a daybed, order a frozen mango daiquiri and gaze out across the Med from the terraces of the Olympic-sized Thalassa pool, open between 9am and 7.30pm in the warmer months. There’s an adjacent kids’ pool and a supervised splash pool for toddlers. The indoor spa pool operates from 8am to 8pm year-round.
Spa
Spread over 2,500 square metres (and then some), Cleopatra Spa has a whopping 12 treatment rooms. Treat yourself to a facial or go the whole hog with a comprehensive all-over pummelling, after which further downtime in the banya or aromatherapy room may be all you’re good for.
Packing Tips
Attention all shoe fetishists. Pack your funkiest footwear for stylish dinners and Jesus sandals for posing god-like among ancient Paphos ruins. You’ll also want flip-flops for pool days and sensible walking boots if you plan to go hiking in the Akamas National Park just up the road.
Also
The state-of-the-art gym is open around the clock and, in case you overwork those quads, you can avoid the three-minute post-workout stroll to the beach by making use of the free buggy service.
Children
Themed activities keep children aged 3–12 occupied at the Happy Seal Kidz Club, which runs daily from 9.30am–6pm. There's also a games room, table tennis tournaments and an outdoor cinema for kids; the Resident rooms with private pools are adults only.
Gallery
Food & Drink
Top Table
Surrounded by olive trees and affording widescreen views along the rugged coastline, the Kohili Restaurant terrace at sundown is a tough act to follow.
Dress Code
Billowy fashions that catch the Mediterranean breeze will do wonders to stave off the searing Cyprus sun. Bring cardigans and light sweaters for al fresco dining during the cooler months.
Hotel Restaurant
Produce from Perivoli, the resort’s extensive garden and orchard, provides a steady supply of organic fruit, veg and herbs to all of the resort’s restaurants. It shows, too, in the fresh flavours of the breakfast buffet at Yeronisos, where eye-catching mushroom-shaped pillars are unlikely to distract you from tables that groan with rainbows of fruit, great towers of breads, pastries and cakes, and deep wells of local jam and honey. Omelettes whipped up to your requirements at live cooking stations are made using eggs from the resort’s resident chickens.
Kohili is the place for lunch al fresco beneath the olive trees. Pair grilled sea bass and seasonal Mediterranean vegetables with a crisp Cyprus vino and sweeping coastal views.
Dinner presents a multitude of options. There’s Kohili for more Mediterranean classics, or you could go for crowd-pleasing Sapori, an authentic Italian-style trattoria (complete with rustic stone walls) serving truffle, pesto and rosemary infused pasta dishes, crispy anchovy-laden pizzas and belt-loosening desserts that are all-but-guaranteed to make this one a firm favourite if you’re here with young kids. And, if not, there’s always the Gelato ice-cream parlour...
Last but by no means least, Bonsai is an altogether more grown-up affair, where expert chopstick wielders are rewarded with authentic teppanyaki dishes and ocean-fresh sushi. Beware though: too many paired glasses of Japanese sake, wine and whisky and chopsticks are liable to become dropped sticks.
Hotel Bar
The cosmopolitan Chroma Lounge & Lobby Bar could pass for a luxury Las Vegas cocktail lounge… if it wasn’t for those wraparound sea views, that is. A gleaming black marble bar, huge chandelier and elevated grand piano set the scene for a classic whisky sour or vodka martini in this louche late-night lounge. For those who prefer their sundowners al fresco, the Thalassa bar by the pool is open until 7pm, while the Kohyli beach bar stays open later still in summer, with live DJs spinning the chill-out tunes until long after dark.
Last Orders
Dinner is served from 6pm until 10pm, and Chroma Lounge & Lobby Bar keeps the party going until 1am.
Room Service
Available 24/7.
Planes
Paphos Airport is 40 minutes from the resort; Larnaca is two hours away. Transfers are available on request.
Automobiles
You’ll want wheels if you plan to spend any time exploring the rest of the island. And, believe us, you do. A standard small car will do just fine if you’re mostly interested in the pleasures of Paphos but, if you plan to negotiate some of the more precipitous cliffside dirt tracks in Akamas National Park, you’ll need a four-wheel drive as well as nerves of steel. There’s free covered parking at the resort with a valet service that’s available 7am–11pm.
Worth Getting Out of Bed For
Coax yourself vertical from your king-size bed, beach cabana or massage table and allow your bleary eyes to take focus. You’ll soon discover there are plenty more activities – of both the gentle and energetic varieties – available in and around Cap St Georges Hotel & Resort.
Within the resort’s 111 acres, you can get involved in beach volleyball and table tennis tournaments, play padel and tennis, or shoot a few hoops on the full-size basketball court. Stroll the beachfront path or venture further afield on bike rides and guided horseback treks through the grounds.
Harvest olive crops with local farmers before discovering how velvety Cypriot oils are made and – crucially – ingesting far more of the stuff than you intended in an oil-tasting session. And, sure, you’ve tried rubbery ‘well done’ halloumi at an amateur cookout or two in your time, but have you ever had it grilled to crispy golden-brown perfection on the outside and marshmallow-squishy on the inside? This salty, umami Cypriot halloumi is the real deal, and you can get it fresh from the griddle at tasting sessions with local cheesemaking gurus. Third in Cyprus’s holy trinity of edible wonders is the island’s famously aromatic floral honey. Don a beekeeper’s suit on a honey-harvesting trip with local apiarists, before sampling the sweet stuff and, naturally, taking as much of all of the above home as you can cram into your suitcase.
There’s yet more fun to be had in the Akamas National Park, a vast wild peninsula full of rugged peaks, forested valleys and sandy bays. Take a guided tour to the protected loggerhead and green turtle hatcheries on remote Lara Bay, snorkel the gin-clear waters of the Blue Lagoon, or hike the Avakas Gorge Trail for otherworldly rock formations, tranquil trickling streams and drop-dead gorge-ous views.
Crowding around the harbour, where yachts bob gently in calm cerulean waters, the city of Paphos is chock-full of ancient Greek and Roman treasures. Don’t miss the Paphos Archaeological Park with its well-preserved amphitheatres, villas and columns. The mosaic depicting Theseus battling a minotaur is a highlight here. Climb up to the battlements of Paphos Castle for far-reaching harbour and sea views and look out for monuments both ancient and modern to Greek goddess Aphrodite, born from the sea on these very shores, so the story goes.
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