The Best Hotels Near The Landmark Nicosia, Autograph Collection, by the Record
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Copper accents and Lefkara lace patterns woven into the textiles signal that this full-service Nicosia hotel took its renovation cues from Cypriot craft traditions rather than the international blandness that usually fills business hotels. Rooms are set up properly for work, suites get the panoramic views, and two restaurants cover Mediterranean-Cypriot and modern Japanese. The Old Town and government quarter are both a short walk out the front door.
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The building alone starts arguments: EKKY Studio's sharp contemporary block sits in deliberate contrast to Nicosia's old-city streetscape, and the monochrome interiors lean into the provocation with Bauhaus echoes, Art Deco hints, and bursts of pink and magenta. It's a boutique hotel with real muscle behind the looks, from digitally wired rooms to a spa stocked with Elemis. The ground-floor restaurant serves inventive pan-Mediterranean food with a Cypriot accent.
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A 19th-century villa in Nicosia's Old Town, still wearing its original frescoes and painted mosaics like it never considered redecorating. Rooms in this boutique hotel have whitewashed stone walls and some suites run to pistachio and periwinkle ceilings; private terraces look over terracotta rooftops. Breakfast runs to flaky filo pies and eggs scrambled with Haliji cheese, evenings tend to end under the olive tree with island wine.
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Thirty-one suites on a ten-acre wine estate in the Kyrenia Mountains, with views splitting between the Mediterranean, the vines, and the peaks depending on where you're standing. Vineyard tours and tastings are very much the point here, though the outdoor pool and small spa with its own indoor pool offer a reasonable alternative argument. The restaurant leans into upscale Mediterranean cooking with an Israeli accent, and the tapas bar occasionally adds live music to the vineyard panorama.
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The building was Pano Lefkara's central market before the Danish owners gutted it and turned it into a 15-room adults-only boutique hotel, and the resulting aesthetic, somewhere between Copenhagen restraint and Cypriot warmth, holds together better than it has any right to. Guests gather at the all-day bistro and the jazz lounge next door, or drift around the saltwater courtyard pool while the lace-making village does its thing just outside. The Michelin Guide awarded it one Key.
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A row of old townhouses stitched into a four-story hotel, with the original stone archways and vaulted ceilings left exactly where they were. Rooms come with rainfall showers, balconies, and vintage rotary phones for the aesthetically committed. The rooftop pool looks out over the Mediterranean and Finikoudes Beach is a short walk down the palm-lined promenade. The Church of St. Lazarus and the medieval castle are both nearby, for when the pool gets old.
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Four crumbling stone houses in a Troodos foothill village, rebuilt over years by an architect and his wife using local craftsmen, now form this traditional guesthouse of suites and standalone houses, some sleeping up to eight. Vaulted ceilings and open fireplaces sit alongside full kitchens and private courtyards. In winter, the AGRINO restaurant serves Cypriot food in a cosy living room; summer moves it to a rooftop terrace above the turquoise pool.