Blue Crane APTS 3 * (Cyprus, Limassol): rating, reviews, photo

The cozy three-star Blue Crane Hotel APTS is located fifty kilometers from Larnaca Airport, almost in the heart of Limassol. It is a six-story building near the beach (those wishing to bask on a gentle sand will need to overcome no more than one hundred and fifty meters).

Rooms

The hotel - only forty-nine rooms, divided into three types:

• Standard room - apartments with a balcony with a total area of twenty-five square meters. There are two single beds for guests. In addition to standard amenities such as bathroom, shower, toilet, hairdryer, satellite TV, electric kettle, iron, air conditioning, a living kitchenette, seating area and safe.
• One bedroom apartment - room with a balcony, twin beds and a sofa bed. On the total area of thirty-seven square meters, in addition to the aforementioned set of tourists' tourist attractions, there is a kitchen with a large dining table, a stove and a toaster. And also a cozy garden furniture on the balcony.
• Family Apartment - a room with a total area of thirty-seven square meters, designed for living two adults and two children. The sleeping place is furnished with one double bed, cots are provided additionally if necessary.

Food

Blue Crane Hotel APTS 3 * offers different types of food.

Room only - a system without food, suitable for tourists who prefer to learn the color of Cypriot cuisine in local restaurants. Tourists who choose such a system, it is worth looking into the restaurant located on the territory of the hotel, offering visitors a treat on the principle of "buffet", a very plentiful snack will cost about five to ten euros. For those who are not too lazy to leave the hotel and take a stroll through Limansolu, it is worth to look into the one located six hundred meters from the hotel PUESTA Oyster Bar & Grill - restaurant-bar with a view of the sea. Here visitors are offered:

• A mix of Eastern European cuisine, generously flavored with an abundance of seafood dishes.
• Bed breakfast - breakfast in the room. The set of dishes does not differ in abundance: the guests are offered an omelette with bacon or fried sausages, flakes and instant coffee.
• Half board, it's half board, - two meals a day: breakfast plus dinner. Breakfast will not differ from the proposed in the bed breakfast system, but the dinner is much more varied: meat, several kinds of fish, a couple of desserts to choose from and necessarily fresh fruit.

Another option is to cook by yourself, all conditions for this are created in the kitchenette in the room.

The services

The list of services that guests of Blue Crane Hotel APTS 3 * (Limassol) can use is quite wide for a three-star hotel. First of all, the hotel has its own medical office, which allows tourists to take advantage of medical help, without leaving the room. Wi-Fi is free, but only by the pool and in the lobby. If necessary, you can use the storage room and currency exchange.

Room service is a regular cleaning and change of bed linen and towels about once every three days. In addition, the wake up call service operates.

At the pool, you can use umbrellas and sun loungers for free.

Infrastructure

Within the hotel there is free parking, a laundry and dry cleaning service, a tour desk where you can book a guided tour accompanied by a Russian-speaking guide, a restaurant, a cafe and a pool bar. The pool at the Blue Crane Hotel APTS 3 * is available not only for adults, but also for children, for tourists from nine months to three years, in addition to water treatments and even tanning of this category of holidaymakers, there is a games room and specially equipped places in a local restaurant.

Lovers of active rest can rent a tennis court, it works both during the day and at night. Water skiing and water aerobics are also available for active tourists. Guests among all the positive moments also note that, without leaving the territory of the hotel, you can rent a car or a bicycle.

Blue Crane APTS 3 * (Limassol) also has a business center, which allows to hold business conferences.

Entertainment

Entertainment in the hotel is not so much, you can sunbathe, play billiards or beach volleyball, ride a "banana" or visit a cinema, this, perhaps, everything. But at the local tourist office, without leaving the hotel, tourists can buy tickets to almost any entertainment center in Limassol and visit it, avoiding the need to defend the queue for the ticket right on the spot, which is very convenient, especially for those who travel with children.

The convenient location of the hotel makes available a sufficient number of shops, souvenir shops and disco bars outside. One of the most popular places for tourists and locals is the Hamlet sports bar, located on the central city waterfront, less than a hundred meters from the Blue Crane APTS 3 *. This place will be interesting not only to fans who are able to watch the match comfortably with a mug of beer of local varieties (and not only local ones), but also for tourists who want to try local cuisine, which in variety offers the menu of the institution. Also, as the guests note in their positive responses, there are thematic parties in the sports bar with real musicians and colorful entertainment programs. And here you can arrange a personal party, for example, on the occasion of a birthday or any other reason. Staff will gladly help you with a choice of menus, selection of entertainment programs for guests and even the decoration of the hall.

Attractions near the hotel. Amathus

Two and a half kilometers from Blue Crane APTS 3 *, reviews of which we will consider below, is the ancient Amathus - a city-state, founded around 1100 BC and named after the mother of the founder - Amatea.

In the early stages of "life", Amathus was a prosperous city, rich in maritime trade with Greece and Lebanon. At the present time, thanks to the efforts of archaeologists, an acropolis with the ruins of the temple of the patroness of the city of Aphrodite, a port, a trading area and part of the city wall will appear before the eyes of tourists traveling along Amathus.

Four times a year in the acropolis of Amathus there are celebrations of the equinox, it happens on the twenty-first of March, the twenty-first and twenty-third of June and the twenty-second of September.

Agios Tihanos

Near the ruins of ancient Amathus is located much less ancient Agios Tihanos, once a small village, named after the bishop of Limassol - St. Tikhon, now a full resort town with sandy beaches, hotels and the most famous in Cyprus diving club.

One of the main attractions of the city is Agios Nikolaos - the church in the name of St. Nicholas, located in the oldest part of the village. It was built comparatively recently, in two thousand and seven, by the efforts of local fishermen and, in addition to direct destination, serves as a kind of beacon for those who stay from the sea. Here are stored icons, the writing of which dates back to the XIX century. Every Sunday in Agios Nikolaos, services are held in Russian.

Tourists who come to Agios Tihanos, also strive to visit the ruins of the church of St. Tikhon, which, according to legend, keep a healing power.

Reviews of tourists

Blue Crane Hotel APTS 3 * (Limassol) reviews are rather contradictory, as if it's about different hotels: some claim that this place is just perfect for a good budget vacation with the family, others say that they will never come back here again. The benefit of such units. In general, it turns out that Blue Crane APTS - a good budget hotel, not particularly touched by the modernization, but the price in it completely corresponds to the level of living.

Blue Crane Hotel APTS 3 * (Limassol) reviews are positive for the fact that it has a friendly and helpful staff. This tourists declare unanimously. Here we are always ready to meet halfway in solving any problems. The hotel is aimed at providing coziness and comfort for each of its guests. Cleaning in the rooms, according to the reviews of the vast majority of tourists, is timely and qualitatively. Change of towels and bed linen takes place without any reminders.

Rating

Blue Crane Hotel APTS 3 * reviews earned mostly positive. According to the general opinion of tourists, among the hotels of the "three stars" class, he deserved a firm four. Unanimously positive emotions are caused by the hotel staff (most of whom are fluent in Russian) and its location. The work of Wi-Fi and air-conditioning caused a lot of complaints from tourists, as well as monotonous breakfasts when choosing accommodation systems that include meals. Otherwise, vacationers speak of the Blue Crane Hotel APTS 3 * (Limassol) as a standard hotel of this category.