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Anassa
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The view from the Anassa

Anassa is an extraordinary development which shows great imagination and style. It's built overlooking what is undoubtedly the finest and most unspoilt bay with the best beach in the Greek part of Cyprus.

It has been cleverly designed using vernacular architecture to look like a traditional Cypriot monastery with a cluster of villas nestling around it on the slopes that lead down to the shore. When we visited last October it was looking very new and shiny, a little cold and clinical perhaps, but by the time you read this things will have shaken out, the staff will have loosened up a bit, and the ambience will be just great.

Anassa

How do I know that this will be the case? Because the hotel is owned and operated by Thanos Hotels who run the wonderful Annabelle in Paphos, where the welcoming atmosphere is as warm as you could wish for, a rare commodity in an hotel of such luxury and class. We raved about the cooking at The Annabelle, particularly in the Deck Restaurant, where Australian Mark Patten is doing some of the best modern fusion cuisine we've found anywhere in the world.

There are several restaurants at Anassa, and we've heard that Mark has recently transferred from The Annabelle. We ate well enough at the Anassa last year, but the style was a little bit old fashioned hotel restaurant, though the quality was excellent. The whole thing was probably not helped by being the only diners in the large room plus the insistent playing of a pianist who improvised wallpaper musak nonstop - I was dying for a number you could actually recognise!

But the bedrooms are spectacular - beautifully furnished in a clever mixture of the old and the new. Balconies look out over the bay, or over hills and unspoiled forests. There is a very impressive terrace - the view from it is so breathtaking you can hardly bear to tear yourself away. The beach is quiet and deserted, apart from the odd jet-ski buzzing past occasionally (how I wish they'd ban the damn things!)

The view from Anassa

Some of the villas have their own private plunge pools, but the main pool itself is beautiful, and the complex at night with all the pools lit up is a sight to behold. Now that Patten is there in charge of the cooking, it must be paradise on earth! Anassa

Clifford Mould 1999

Anassa PO Box 66006 Polis CY-8830, Cyprus
Tel +(357) 6 888000 Fax: 322900
Email:anassa@thanos-hotels.com.cy

In the UK: Thanos Hotels UK, PO Box 3726
London N12 0PE
Tel: 020 8445 5111 Fax: 020 8445 5789

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