Mandali Hotel in Protaras

The hotel is clean, rooms aren't massive but they are clean as well. The pool is small, far too small for big inflatables and ball games. Some so called adults acted worse than children. If you have a late flight don't stay here, I don't think they have even heard of a late checkout room.

Location is excellent. If you dont want the busy ***** on an evening, walk left or the right on beach decking for a few quieter restaurants. Small pool. Too many sunbeds, many are broken. Sun is out around baby pool for most of day, but then you have to listen to noisy kids all day especially the locals that come in at weekends. Go to beach its quieter. Only 7:50 for 2 sunbeds & umbrella. Rooms are basic but clean. Many rooms have no view. bath with shower. so have to step up. not good if u have disabilities. Stayed b&b breakfast satisfactory.

Our 3rd stay at the Mandali, and sadly, probably the last unless things improve. PROS *Location - Amazing…just a short stroll to the beach, the pier and boardwalk that takes you both up and down the coast. And also just a little uphill walk to the main *****. Location is probably the best thing about hotel if I’m honest. *Pool - good size with steps down and not too deep, getting lengths in was certainly doable. Decidedly cold first thing, but does warm up after a few hours. *Cleanliness - Great - public areas and rooms are kept spotlessly clean by maids. *Friendliness of staff - most of the staff are friendly and welcoming. *Disability access - Great - no problems accessing hotel both interior and exterior. CONS *Breakfast - I never thought anywhere could muck up a breakfast but they smashed it this year! When you only ever have bread/buns with butter and jam on holiday, you don’t ever think there’ll be an issue. This year we were offered loaves of bread which had to be sliced, so you had a germ infested hand holding one end whilst, slicing the other end. Just no!!! Said bread was drier than the Sahara to the point trying to swallow it, was really difficult. A few days later we had bread buns that were so hard, they’d have passed for rocks! As I didn’t fancy a visit to dentist, we gave up and stopped going to breakfast full stop! This is basic stuff and inexcusable that they didn’t get it right. *Restaurant - if you choose to sit outside, be prepared for the selfish blighters who can’t go half an hour without lighting up a cigarette. A sure fire way to spoil someone’s meal. No need for it! *Sunbeds - a high proportion of sunbeds are damaged and pose a safety risk for anyone using them. This has been brought up, but hotel management don’t appear to be interested, and seemingly neither are TUI or JET2 who surely should be inspecting properties more thoroughly? The damage is either cracked or fully broken struts underneath or missing elastic straps, with the potential for someone to seriously hurt themselves. This is something that management/maintenance should be on top of and clearing away beds that are a danger. *Pool - deep end is missing lots of tiles and the loose ones we saw, had been attempted to be stuck down with silicone adhesive as opposed to grout. It was also full of sand debris the entire time, so pool vacuum (if they have one) is clearly ineffective. Pool shaded for most of the afternoon, due to its position. *Rooms ending in 01 and 02 have no privacy screen on the balcony between the 2 rooms, this wouldn’t have been an issue but for the fact that our special kind of thick neighbours actually climbed and leant over the divide and helped themselves to our travel pegs that were placed on our dryer!!! Never in all my 56 years of travelling has anyone stooped so low!! A quick note under their door and they were thrown back over to our side, but for the first time ever, I was wary about leaving anythin