Louis Althea Beach

Louis Althea Beach Hotel offers 4-star luxury in Eastern Cyprus and an affordable holiday for couples and families. With its easy beach access, beautiful views of the Mediterranean, and the extended warm weather of the Cypriot climate, Althea Beach is an excellent choice for an unforgettable family holiday.

The complex, built in traditional monastic style overlooking Pernera Beach just north of tourist center Protoras, has two full-sized freshwater swimming pools, a kids’ pool and playground as well as an indoor play area for kids, a bar, snack bar, two restaurants, mini disco, wheelchair friendly apartments, and other amenities you’d expect in a resort of this quality. Its grounds areσ beautifully sculpted with lawns, palms, and flowering semi tropical plants. There is a spa, and a fitness center.

Althea Beach Hotel is the recipient of Tripadvisor’s Traveler’s Choice Awardfor 2022 and numerous other awards and recognitions for its service, its care of the environment, and its family-friendliness.

Althea Beach Hotel is eight km from tourist center Ayia Napa, and about forty minutes from Larnaca International Airport. Its season runs from April to October with AC available throughout that period.

Guests frequently mention and praise the efficient friendliness and helpfulness of the staff, the spotless condition of the rooms and grounds, the quality and quantity of the food and willingness to accommodate particular diets such as vegan, the resort’s location, the beautiful beach and sea, the family-centered atmosphere, the comfortable beds, and the room fridge stocked with sandwiches and drinks.

Rooms

Standard room amenities include individually controlled air-conditioning/heating, satellite TV, telephone, safety deposit box, hair dryer, fully-equipped kitchenette with fridge-freezer, electric kettle, coffee machine, toaster, microwave and oven, free WIFI, and baby cots and highchairs (available upon request.

Studio

The Studio sleeps up to 3 people and weighs in at 32m². As with all other rooms the Studio comes with free SAT, WiFi, safe, balcony or terrace, and kitchenette.  All versions of the Studio are the same size.

One-Bedroom Suites

There are three categories: Poolside, Garden View, and Side Sea View. Size is 42m². Each suite has two twin beds, and two sofa beds. They sleep up to four.

Two-Bedroom Suite

Two-Bedroom Suite is 62m². It has two double beds or twin beds, and sleeps up to six.

Food and Drink

Lydia Restaurant is open for buffet breakfast, lunch and dinner. In addition to the meal options, there is a Pool Snack Bar with snacks a la carte, a Late Breakfast, and Lunch snacks. The Dionysos Main Bar serves both alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages.

Lydia Restaurant at Althea Beach

Wellness and Spa

Louis Althea Beach’s Aegeo Spa and Fitness Center offer sauna, spa treatments, and massage therapy and is by appointment. Guests are interviewed as to lifestyle choices, mood, and needs before a treatment is offered.

Treatments on offer include Blue Velvet, which leaves your skin supple, clean and soft, Aloe Shine, which makes abundant use of Cretan aloe vera to put the moisture and shine back into your face, and Flow and Glow, which reduces the tension and age lines in your face with gentle facial and neck massage which restores the face’s elasticity, stimulates the flow of the lymph glands, and removes toxins. Calm Sea is a back, neck and scalp massage, the Cretan Massage uses a Cretan olive oil base with raki and orange extracts, and Energy Boost is a full body deep massage to reduce muscle pain and stiffness and improve blood circulation. Manicure and pedicure treatments are also available.

The Fitness Center comes with an on-site trainer. The training room includes a treadmill, elliptical, free and machine weights.

Activities

Other activities include water aerobics, games, beach volleyball, and tennis. The beach is sandy, the waters are clear as glass, and sun beds, umbrellas, ad water sports available.

Fun for Kids

There is a kids’ pool and playground, daily activities and an English language kids’ club. A high percentage of family repeat visits year after year attest to the fun kids have at Althea Beach.

Fun for Kids

Louis Althea Beach is indeed a paradise for families, and a high level of repeater families is proof of this statement. Just looking at the establishment itself, the rooms, and the numerous facilities for families, makes the title “paradise” appear an understatement.

In the Area

Louis Althea Beach Hotel is sited on a rocky promontory in an area that has been designated s a 385 hectare National Forest, with a network of nature trails with strategically placed benches at points providing beautiful panoramic views from the sea cliffs overlooking the brilliantly clear waters of the southern Aegean. The Aphrodite Nature Trail follows the rim of the Cape Greco promontory. Sights along the way include whitewashed church of Agioi Anargyri with its light blue half-barrel roof surmounted by crosses at either end. Below the church at the foot of a cliff is a cave which waters are considered holy. The chapel is a favorite for weddings. Cape Greco is favoured by divers with visibilities up to 40 meters underwater and year-round warm water temperatures reaching a low of only 16 degrees C in winter.

Paralimni Lake has been designated a bird sanctuary and is part of the NATURA 200 nature network.

Protaras is a short bus trip down the coast and offers a busy, noisy nightlife with its strip of bars and restaurants. A number of day cruises are available, such as the Cyprus East Coast Lazy Day cruise with onboard lunch, and the Discover Scuba Diving cruise, and guided kayaking along east Cape Greco. Another favorite is the Troodos 4X4 Safari tour which spends 11 hours taking you through the mountains of central Cyprus and includes lunch. Also in or near Protaras is the Agioi Saranta Cave Church, the Ocean Aquarium, and horseback riding at the Moonshine Ranch.

Slightly further afield, Ayia Napa offers the Blue Lagoon Cruise, the Ghost Town Famagusta Mini Tour (this tour also leaves from Protoras), the Water World Themed Waterpark, the Ayia Napa Monastery, and the Ayia Napa Sculpture Park.