Flamingo Beach Hotel in Larnaka

This hotel is closed down. At last. I went to this hotel eleven years ago for a wedding a beautiful wedding in fact but even back then the buffet breakfast was extremely poor and the rooms where shabby. Little black lady bird insects absolutely smothered the room the family had stored their luggage on the last day. Moving on a few years later we had a small family reunion there and had to call reception to get rid of these same insects crawling from under the bedside cabinets. They sent a young girl with a bottle of vinegar. Moving on to October 2024 my auntie a glutton for punishment stayed again and it turned out she was the last customer. Hopefully someone will renovate this sad looking hotel. I suspect it will be used to house the homeless. But after looking at some recent reviews it looks like they actually took bookings a month or so ago. It's definitely closed now though.

The hotel must have been very nice in the past, like the old pictures show. Unfortuantely the whole hotel is scrup now, nobody takes care for it and my impression was the staff gave it up as well. Once we complained, everyone agreed on our statements. We stayed just one of the three nights we booked originally and also the one night just because we had to, as we arrived late.
What is offened and advertised online is totally different from what you get indeed.

Our "Top 3" disappointments:

1. About 15 hairs in the bed, before we even entered it, so must come from other persons. Overall, cleaning is not priority in the hotel anymore, I could give many examples..

2. Pool area and rooftop bar on the 5th floor are a ruin and not accessible anymore anyway. But it is not mentioned anywhere when you book the hotel and see the nice pictures of the rooftop and pool.

3. The bathroom, the furniture, the beds, all equipment either broken or very old. So the mattress let you feel any spring f.e. I just hope we didn't catch any bed-bugs or something like that.

We had a look on the breakfast, I have to say it is not making it better. Just one aspect added, coffee and tea water comes out of the same way. My tea water was already with the colour of coffee, so no tee for me that morning.

Basically, I find it scary that the hotel is still offen or at least that there is no indication about it. Of course for the pice it is not high luxury, but still I see it as a big scam.

**1 Star**

I stayed at the Flamingo Hotel in Larnaca, and it was a very disappointing experience. The rooms were dirty, the furniture was old and had an unpleasant smell, and the AC was so loud it made it hard to sleep. The food was also terrible and definitely not worth the price. The only positive aspects were the hotel's great location and the kind, helpful reception staff who arranged a taxi for us to the airport. I wouldn’t recommend this hotel to anyone looking for a comfortable stay.

Dirty room no properly cleaned for days. No clean towels, every other day, like they claim, dirty mattress, filthy curtains with brown hand stains on them, damaged furniture, rust in bath and sink, woodwork swollen falling apart and bathroom door wouldn’t shut properly it was so swollen. No air vent in toilet. Filthy! Very poor cheap breakfast, the balcony was falling apart. We stayed 10 days so they literally stopped listening to our complaints even turning it round as if we are stupid and that’s how the Russian receptionists made us feel. Very rude and unprofessional. They left us without face towels for 4 days they even tried to say that I’m lying. I said we haven’t had a face towel for 4 days their reply was you only get one! I said but you don’t even bring us one to share!
They question everything you complain about. I had to get serviettes from the restaurant to wipe my face after washing and dried my hair with a body towel. They even questioned us running out of toilet roll. Luckily she had one left behind reception. The shower gel was empty too so I had to leave the pump out on sink so they will refill it. I mean these are essential things.
Sometimes we walk in after room clean to find sand and crumps still on the floor and the bedding just pulled up instead of being properly done. It’s very clear that they don’t care about the long stay customers as they make their money on one night stays as the airport is so close by.
We couldn’t even use the balcony as the aircon unit which was rusty took most of the space and blowing hot air. The balcony rail was snapped and rusty screws were pointing upwards.
Also they lie on every brochure that there’s a rooftop pool when in reality they pool was shut more than 5 years ago due to the building being unsafe. It needs a proper inspection and should be taken off every site on the internet.
It wasn’t the cheapest hotel either so basically they just get away with ripping innocent people off so why not sort of speak.
A total and utter disgrace of a hotel very third world vibes and unfriendly staff apart from one young guy who was very helpful and friendly

Unfortunately, we had a terrible impression. The first room was with very bad-smelling smoking. Everything in the hotel is old. We changed rooms but in the new room, there was a head air conditioner.