The Daily Telegraph - I'm in hotel heaven

Deities and celebrities have long loved this peninsula of paradise - Anassa. Sarah Conway explores why?

"One reason for the influx of famous guests since tl1e Anassa was founded 20 years ago is its fabulously out-of­the-way position. Cyprus can hardly be described as an unknown destination - every year, thousands of British holidaymakers flock to the beach hotels of Limassol, the popular resorts of Paphos and the gaudy bars and up-all-night clubs of Ayia Napa. The Anassa is different - not least because it is a rare example of a five-star hotel pinned to tl1e upper shoreline.

There are no members of The Beatles or Duran Duran on the mornings I wander down to breakfast, although such is the laid-back atmosphere at the Anassa, with every guest left to do as much or as little as they want, that John Lennon, never mind Paul McCartney, could be sitting at the next table, and nobody would bother him. It is a haven where you can drift happily through the day without once noticing the passing of time; the hours dripping into the ether like one of Salvador Dali's surreal melting clocks - 9 am coffee and croissants in the Amphora restaurant blurring into a light lunch of seafood and salad at Pelagos, an al fresco taverna with tables on the terrace."

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