'We've visited Cyprus every year for years - but after 'horror' change we'll never go back'

Cyprus has been a fashionable vacation hotspot for Brits for years, but a caller canvass has revealed that galore tourists are unhappy with the destination and vow to ne'er return

Disgruntled UK holidaymakers are turning their backs connected Cyprus, with galore declaring they volition "never" return.

Despite implicit 30 per cent of tourists to the land being repetition visitors, a precocious for the EU, furious travellers are present scrapping their Cypriot getaways and abandoning aboriginal visits. One holidaymaker vented to the Cyprus Mail astir the assertive income tactics successful Ayia Napa: "Everywhere successful Ayia Napa," they said, "there are reps. They get successful your face, interaction your body..." Another was appalled by the resort's atmosphere: "Ayia Napa was disgusting. Drunk Brits everywhere, adjacent connected the beach. The euphony was truthful large we couldn't sleep. And everyone was selling something. I don't truly privation to travel back."

Visitors besides griped astir packed beaches and utmost heat. A Welsh tourer noted, "The beaches are overcrowded," A German household reported, "The formation showers were broken," Meanwhile, an aged Slovakian mates lamented, "The h2o was dirty." Mancunian Harry, aged 28, recounted his astonishment astatine the aggravated heat: "We looked up the weather earlier we came," helium explains. "But it said Cyprus would beryllium successful the mid-30s successful July, and we knew that'd beryllium good due to the fact that we've been to Spain earlier and it's the same. What we didn't expect was 40-plus. For days connected end."

Harry continued, expressing regret implicit his formation holiday: "I paid for a formation holiday, truthful that's what I did," helium remarked. "But I'm opening to deliberation I should person conscionable spent each my clip successful my room.", reports Birmingham Live. Another tourer reflected connected erstwhile trips: "We person been earlier to Cyprus but not similar this. We were not blessed adjacent astatine night, it was excessively hot. Before, we utilized to devour by the oversea and past spell to the town. This time, we lone went to the edifice edifice due to the fact that it had aerial conditioning."

"It's silly to expect anyplace to enactment the same," a tourer remarked to the publication, expressing disappointment implicit Cyprus' transformation, "But the differences are becoming much pronounced with each trip. When I archetypal visited, Cyprus was inactive a gem. Over the years, it's go the Costa Del Sol overcrowded and over-commercialised." "Everywhere you look, there's a caller improvement going up. Even the upland villages that utilized to beryllium truthful peaceful and authentic are tourer traps now! ".

It comes arsenic Cyprus has admitted that it is facing 'challenges' aft experiencing a dip successful bookings. The Deputy Minister of Tourism, Kostas Koumis, told the Express that contempt facing 30,000 cancellations earlier this twelvemonth astatine a outgo the system of astir £30million, the state continues to acquisition 'remarkable growth' successful some visitant numbers and revenue.

He said: "There is nary uncertainty that the existent twelvemonth is simply a twelvemonth afloat of challenges for the tourism manufacture worldwide. The fiscal concern successful galore European countries, the simplification successful the purchasing powerfulness of cardinal of households internationally, on with respective different challenges person led to stakeholders concerns regarding the show of the sector, nevertheless the show of the Cyprus tourism manufacture remains beardown and the assemblage shows resilience."