Azia, Chloraka's five-star for sunsets

Chloraka Avenue has its waterslide resorts, and it has one that goes its own way. Azia sells itself on calm, the natural materials in its rooms and a farm of its own that feeds the kitchens. Here’s its official listing, the facilities and the kind of traveller it suits. For the area as a whole, see Paphos hotels.

What the list records

On the official Paphos register for August it has five stars, 183 rooms and 366 beds on Chloraka Avenue. With a P against it, the rating stays provisional while the new hotel law is applied. It’s one of the twelve Paphos five-stars I bring together in luxury hotels in Cyprus.

Rooms and kitchen

The hotel says its rooms are built from natural materials, hemp, linen and local stone, in a simple contemporary design. For food there are six restaurants, a buffet and five à la carte, the Italian Cipro, Tree Deck for Cypriot meze, Oku for Asian cooking with a teppanyaki grill, Akamas Terrace for steak and seafood, and Coconut Terrace, a casual spot for ribs and wraps. There are seven places to drink, with bars, lounges, a snack bar and a stage area. The Morokambos farm, 530,000 square metres and 15,000 plants from citrus to avocados and mangoes, sends fresh produce every day.

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Adults on one side

Adults-only rooms give access to an infinity pool with hydro-massage, jet loungers and in-water seats, a lounge with afternoon tea and pre-dinner aperitifs, and reserved gardens. In the evening the Cava bar has adults-only live music from 21:00. Guests in those rooms, and in the Premium rooms, also get an extra continental breakfast in their lounge, a capsule coffee machine and local water, juice and beer topped up daily.

Children on the other

Families have a nursery from 6 months to two and a half years, a kids’ club up to 12 and a teens’ club for 12 to 18, with games consoles, table football and pool. Little ones have a baby pool beside the big lagoon pool, and under-12s pay half at the buffet and in the à la carte restaurants. The daytime programme runs from archery and aqua aerobics to water polo, tennis and volleyball, and some evenings there are free supervised nursery sessions, booked in advance.

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My take

I see it for couples after a quiet five-star with good food, and for families who don’t need a waterpark. If they do, right next door is the Leonardo Laura Beach hotel, and a little further south the King Evelthon hotel, whose waterpark costs guests nothing. Head north to Coral Bay and the Coral Beach hotel offers a sandy beach. The Azia sits between two worlds, with Kato Paphos to the south for dinner and, to the north, the road through Peyia to the Akamas peninsula.

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