General: Cyprus > Reviews > Limassol-friendly place

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Advantages:	Central position on the island of Cyprus, loads of bars and places to eat, friendly people, not too far from the airport
Disadvantages:	Gets very crowded, beach not too brilliant

Recommend to potential buyers:

yes

Full review

My fiance and I went to Limassol for a fortnight this summer, and had the best holiday yet! We stayed in a bungalow studio at the Roussos Beach hotel, which was spacious, clean and overlooked the enormous and extremely warm pool (as do all the bungalows in the two storey-block). The restaurant at the hotel was outdoors, but covered with an ENORMOUS vine, from which massive bunches of grapes hung, turning from pale green to darker red whilst we were there. The food there wasn't great - I wouldn't recommend half board there, because there are so many restaurants to try in Limassol, from either la carte or the set price 'tourist' meals (as little as £5 for three courses) at one of the hundreds that line the Limassol Strip, through McDonalds (air conditioned you see - brilliant when it's 35 degrees or more outside!) to the latest Pizza Express on the island - which had only opened a week before we got there.
We enjoyed our stay in Limassol - but if we went back to Cyprus we would probably go in September or October rather than in July - they had a heatwave whilst we were there and it didn't get below 25 degrees at night! England was positively chilly when we returned!