Merit Park Hotel Review - 21 of 39 Reviews

The Mecure is the name of the latest hotel to be my home away from home whilst staying in Northern Cyprus. I have previously booked my trips through a company called gonorthcyprus and have really found the service to be great, so thought i'd do the same again but choose a different hotel. I tend to go once a year (alone, more often than not because the children have moved away from home and my wife despises the heat) to let off some steam and enjoy a cocktail or three. I've been doing this for around ten years now, and I've stayed at a different hotel every year.

The Mercure comes in at the top end of this list, in terms of overall quality. It is advertised as a “casino resort”, which may have some negative connotations for some potential visitors but rest assured that I found it (for me at least) free from the tackiness associated with a casino environment. It has a fantastic sea-view from (I presume) all of the hotel's rooms thanks to its position atop a small cliff, along with a well stocked bar (with internationally-branded liquor, unlike some of the places I've stayed) and an above average standard of food (I went full-board on this occasion, so I wasn't able to compare it with local cuisine on a like-for-like basis). Where the rooms are concerned, there are four different types- from standard rooms to royal suites. Regardless of the room type, the Mercure apparently guarantee that yours will be equipped with a plasma screen television, a full size bath, air conditioning, a safe and a mini-bar. Mine was spotlessly clean on arrival, but I suppose that could vary. If you're a fitness freak, there is a gym on-site and jacuzzis and saunas for afterwards. I only made use of these facilities once and they seemed nice enough, but I get little enough time to relax as it is and didn't want to spend my holiday working even harder!

Liked — top quality hotel with plenty of attention to detail
Disliked — nothing to note this time

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