Friday, September 4, 2026

The Top 17 Hotels Near Apokryfo Traditional Guesthouse

  1. 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.


  2. Every room faces the sea at this sleek coastal resort on the shores of Limassol Bay, with balconies and terraces arranged so the Mediterranean is never out of sight. Marble, glass, and pale architectural lines run throughout, and the spa alone covers more than thirty thousand square feet, with saunas, ice rooms, and pools fed by Cypriot wellness traditions. Multiple restaurants pull in serious kitchen talent across seafood, Italian, and Japanese menus.


  3. The kids' club is built inside a castle, which tells you most of what you need to know about the scale of ambition here. Parklane is a sprawling luxury beach resort on Cyprus's south coast, with 222 rooms, suites, and private-pool villas spread across lushly gardened grounds. Multiple pools, a full spa, tennis courts, and direct beach access mean guests rarely feel compelled to leave, which is probably the point. Nammos and La Petite Maison handle dinner.


  4. Minthis sits in the hilly wine country outside Paphos, where the city stops pretending it's a beach resort and the landscape goes properly Mediterranean. Suites, villas, and residences come with serious outdoor space, from shaded terraces to private plunge-pool courtyards. The spa is the architectural showstopper, and the 18-hole golf course has a clubhouse to match the resort's polished, modern house style. Restaurants and bars run upscale Cypriot and Mediterranean, with a wine list that leans local.


  5. 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.


  6. A Michelin Key adults-only boutique hotel in Paphos, built on the bones of an old family lodging and quietly reimagined in tribute to the matriarch who ran it. Rooms go minimalist with warm wood tones, and some suites come with private pools. The in-house restaurant leans into Greek and island cooking, and the harbor is a short walk when you'd rather let someone else do the dishes.


  7. The lounge chairs at the Saffire Pool are built for two, and that detail more or less describes the whole hotel. Amavi is an adults-only resort on the Paphos seafront designed entirely around couples, from spa treatments booked in pairs at Evera Spa to cocktails at the swim-up bar mixed for sharing. All four restaurants are included on the half-board program. Rooms face the Mediterranean, with private balconies pointed squarely at the sunset.


  8. A black slate pool replacing a forgotten budget-era resort is the clearest signal of what Almyra is now: a sleek, family-welcoming hotel on the Paphos waterfront where whites and soft sky blues do the heavy lifting. Rooms run from garden-view to sea-facing terraces, and the poolside bar turns serious at night with a kitchen that owes a debt to Nobu. Cyprus surprises people here, which is half the appeal.


  9. A classic resort hotel on the south-west coast of Cyprus, the Annabelle sits along the seafront in Paphos at a moment when the town is stacking up glamorous competitors. Its rooms are generous by design, and many of the sea-facing ones come with a private pool or Jacuzzi on the terrace. Two main pools, four restaurants, four bars, and an on-site spa make it easy to never leave, which is probably the point.


  10. Solar-powered and sitting just outside Nicosia, this wellness retreat runs on local wood, stone, and a fairly sincere belief that you came here to slow down. Each suite is laid out differently, with hand-carved headboards and private verandas wrapped in herb gardens. The spa leans into sound therapy and thermal rituals, the restaurant pulls from its own gardens, and the team organizes cycling routes and cooking workshops for when stillness stops feeling productive.


  11. A 47-meter freshwater pool sits at the center of this resort on the Cypriot coast, with in-water loungers, cabanas, and enough space that the deck chair standoff never quite materializes. Rooms lean toward sea views and sensible storage, and the staff manage the cocktail-to-espresso spectrum without fuss. The old town of Paphos is close, the water is close, and the whole place has a quietly grown-up feel that keeps things social without getting loud.


  12. The cliffside resort is styled as a Byzantine village, all whitewashed villas and terracotta roofs stacked above the Mediterranean near the Akamas peninsula. Three pools, four restaurants, and a Roman-style spa offering thalassotherapy mean most guests quietly abandon any plan to leave the grounds. It handles children with a full program and somehow still never feels overrun. Aphrodite's legendary baths are nearby, should you feel compelled to go look at something other than the sea.


  13. 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.


  14. 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.


  15. 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.


  16. 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.


  17. 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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