Christofinia Hotel

Just got back from a week's HALF BOARD stay at the Christofinia. The hotel had reopened for the season a couple of days prior to our visit. Positives: clean room (cleaned everyday, bins emptied and a bottle of water left in room), modern bathroom and comfortable king size bed. Fold up bed set up for our daughter. I suffer with neck and back pain and the mattress and pillows were fine. Kettle and coffee machine provided with a few tea bags, sugar, coffee sachets/pods, sugar and a couple of small milks topped up everyday. Mini fridge fine for cans and small bottles. Communal areas/toilets were clean. Large (unheated) pool with plenty of sunbeds and a swim up bar. Adams beach is across the road and Nissi beach a 5 min walk. Negatives: Breakfast was OK with a choice of hot and cold food, but the evening meal was dreadful. Although they have themed nights, food is repetitive, dry and tasteless. Better to eat out at a local taverna or in Ayia Napa. You can have one glass of water each for free with your evening meal or pay for drinks. No day or night time entertainment in the hotel so you had to go out in the evening. Small kids were running round the dining room and buffet area while parents and staff didn't give a toss. Teens swaggering round fist bumping the management while swigging back all the free shots meant for the diners! Tips: the bakery a 5 min walk away is a must. They are open 24-hours and sell lovely freshly made sandwiches, pies, pastries, cakes, mini ice creams all reasonably priced. Wasn't impressed with hotel drinks so went across the road to Adams superstore for decent beer/cider/soft drinks and snacks for sitting around the pool. Dione restaurant across the road out the back gate is lovely and has a play area for little ones. Highly recommend Joker Square bar (a 20 min walk away) which is great and the food, cocktails and staff are excellent. They show whatever sport you want on multiple screens, and entertainment is on a couple of times a week. Nissi beach is lovely but loud and busy. The bar has a DJ pumping out tunes during the day and it's around 10 euros for a cocktail in a plastic cup or 17 euros served in a pineapple or coconut. Recommend going to Makronisos beach around a 15 min walk along the coast path towards the marina. Bus stop is a few mins walk away. 3.50 one way adult, 1.50 child into Ayia Napa. Taxi in the evening after midnight cost 12 euros, and that wasn't back to the hotel! All things considered, we would definitely stay in Nissi Bay again but not at this hotel, and would not recommend staying HB or AI. I would only rate the hotel a 3* at best in comparison to other Greek island 4* hotels I've stayed in. It's a shame as it could be a really nice hotel... the potential is there.

Not 4 star! We arrived to no entertainment, no kids club and no hot water or hot food! Very very poor hotel, needs some tlc! They even run out of alcohol, tv doesn’t work and showers were freezing! Will not be coming back! This hotel is more like a 2 star!

Currently staying at Christofinia, hotel itself is beautiful. Staff are very friendly and helpful. Only downfall is the food, it's ALWAYS cold. Breakfast, lunch & dinner = COLD. Hotel don't seem to appear to know what kind of food it is on certain nights, or what the food is. 'Rissotto' rice, was the same rice that had been out all week, they just changed the name. Same with carribean rice, they added kidney beans and tried to call it carribean. There was nothing carribean about the carribean night, same goes for the Greek night, Asian night and oriental night. Food is the biggest let down. They could have great food, but decided to serve it cold. Only hot thing was the soup as its in a pot plugged into the wall. Desserts was alright, pretty much serve the same desserts. Would recommend for hotel purposes, but not for food, so don't bother with all inclusive or if you do, just go for the all inclusive drinks.