Protaras City Center Vacations from $273

The Best Western Plus Larco Hotel is overrated. It's outside the city center (30 to 40 minutes on foot), the rooms are tiny and certainly not what you would expect of a hotel that is rated 4 stars, the breakfast is ordinary and repetitive. They also have a nickel and dime attitude that is deplorable. As an example, they give you one litre of water the first day that you arrive, but want you to pay for it starting on the second day. Considering the cost of the tiny hotel room, that's nothing short of deplorable. You're much better off at a property in the middle of town that charges quite a bit less and gives you a lot more.

For the price is an amazing hotel very close to the beach.

Prior to coming, I was concerned by some of the poor reviews. Having spent a week here I concur with some but not all. It is well situated in easy walking distance of nice beaches, bars and tourist shopping. As for the property I would rate it as 3 stars at a push. Yes it has facilities BUT quality of build and particularly maintenance/cleaning make it look tatty and as others have remarked, tired. Money spent in the right areas would easily improve it. My wife and I thought the food was decent and we always found something we liked but again some aspects are cheap, like chicken nuggets, fish fingers and battered fish which is for the kids, is of poor quality and practically in edible. Most of the staff are pleasant and I single out Saskia in the restaurant for being a great host and politely correcting and improving my Greek. Finally on a serious H&S note, the hotel safety and security is wanting. No proper fire doors and what they have are propped open and storing of fold up beds and old mattresses on fire escape stairways. As for security, in room safes are not bolted to anything so effectively useless and external fire doors are propped open as convenient entry points for the staff. Would we return, probably not.

Very expensive considering the standard of hotel.