Firstly, we had booked and paid for 2 serviced apartments at Club St George Resort in Emba, Paphos and when we arrived at their reception after a late night flight, we were told that large sections of Club St George Resort were still under maintenance and we were “upgraded” to 2 rooms at their “sister resort” Panareti Coral Bay 10.8 km away.
When we arrived at Panareti after some searching to find the correct entrance, checked in and saw the rooms, we saw that we were duped and that this was clearly not an Upgrade, but in fact a severe Downgrade.
Panareti “Resort” is VERY tired and dilapidated and desperately needs a cash injection of a couple of million for a total renovation from the ground up.
Panareti cannot possibly still qualify for 4 stars - maybe it did 30 years ago when it was slightly newer ?
Several months after other guests’ reviews we found the exact same unprotected red electrical wiring still hanging out of junction boxes in several places in the passage leading to the rooms.
Also we experienced day and night the exact same issue as others with the sound of water and sewerage from the toilets above flowing through the pipes in the void of our room’s ceiling - unacceptable!
Food was adequate but nothing exceptional with more-or-less the same selection each morning at the breakfast buffet.
Although it is just over a 1 block walk past some villas under construction to the ocean, the shore is rocky here, and the closest sandy beach is about 15 minutes walk
