shabby, tired and not enough care - Review of Avanti Holiday Village, Paphos
unlike the avanti hotel, which has had millions spent on its renovation, the village is tired and unloved. Bathrooms are cruddy, dingy and shabby. Rooms are a good size but outdated, tired looking and feel unwelcoming. The pool area is beautiful but too many broken beds (actually, too many beds all together) and often covered in the detritis of the previous day's residents. The pool itself is so crowded you cant actually swim. Restaurant serves excellent food (breakfast and lunch) but is so woefully under staffed that service is fraught and staff look dejected and miserable. public facilities like loos are shabby and not cleaned regularly and the gym is a disgrace. The feeling is that the owners are cheap skates - they charge you to look your valuables away in teh room safe, they dont put a single hook on the door in the bathroom for towels, there are no hand towels or tissues in the rooms, not enough staff to make your visit welcoming and relaxed and general over crowding. spend...