Cyprus Travel Blog

Now is the perfect time to book your Cyprus holiday villa or apartment rental for Summer 2007.

With the run up to the Summer season many villa and apartment rentals are becoming booked for the months of June, July, August and September 2007.

Visit our Property Rental section for our Summer 2007 Cyprus Holiday Villas and Apartments.

If you have a a property in Cyprus which you wish to offer for holiday rental or long term rent MyCyprusHoliday.com can get your villa or apartment the exposure it needs on the internet.

Our website has been optimized for maximum web presence for many search phases in Google, Yahoo and MSN; and is being continuously monitored for better SERPS (search engine result pages).

Further information on can be found here: Rental Advertising.

Cyprus now has three championship golf courses, all in the Paphos area.

These courses are:

• Aphrodite Hills Golf Resort
• Tsada Golf Course
• Secret Valley Golf Resort

Cyprus has now become a popular destination for Golfing Holidays, making an alternative to Portugal and Spain.

Scuba diving in Cyprus is a popular holiday activity with tourists. There are many dive companies offering introductory dives to full instruction for PADI diving qualification, in all holiday resorts.

There are some great dive sites in Cyprus, but the most popular and best dive is the Zenobia Wreck Dive off the coast of Larnaca. The Zenobia has been listed in dive magazines as one of the top ten dive sites in the world.

Secret Valley is a golfing resort 15km from Paphos town centre and 5km from Paphos Airport. Private villas and apartments are available for rent in the golf complex.

Many investment properties have been built in Secret Valley, with property owners wishing to rent their villa and apartment for short term golfing holidays to Cyprus.

Easter time in Cyprus is the important time in the Cypriot religious  calender.

In keeping with Cypriot traditions, the female members of the family prepare flaounes and dyed boiled eggs on the Holy Thursday.

Flaounes are a savoury cheese pie (tyropitta) with mint and sometimes raisins

The eggs are hard boiled and dyed either red or yellow.

Also, church icons are covered with black veils or sheets on Holy Thursday.

We would like to wish all our visitors a very Happy Easter.

Hoping that you all enjoy and relaxing festive period, with most people enjoying a very long weekend.

Airport tax has recently increased in Cyprus. The government and the Cyprus Airports operator, a private enterprise Hermes, has increased the passenger tax to £7 per person.

This tax is levied on all passengers from all destinations and on all age groups.

We are please to launch our new fresh design website.

The website has been further search engine optimized, to get the best property exposure for our clients.

With Easter fast approaching, many rental villas and apartments have been booked.

Official public holiday days are Friday 6th April, Sunday 8th April and Monday 9th April 2007. During these days are Government offices, along with banks and many other businesses will be closed.

Easter is a big occasion in Cyprus, with many Cypriots observing the 40 days fasting period and attending church for communion from Good Friday through to Easter Sunday.

Since joining the European Union (EU) in 2004, any EU national is able to live and work in Cyprus. The EU allows for freedom of movement for all citizens of the European Union members.

An EU citizen wishing to work in Cyprus, must register with the Department of the Population and Migration Archive within 8 days of arriving in the country. By doing this the worker is able to work for a period of up to three months.

To be entitled to work more than three months an alternative procedure must be followed.

The highway roadworks in Limassol have been progressing with speed the past few months, with the Ayias Phylaxeos overpass opening last week.

This make four out of six sections now open.

Finding long term rental property is becoming a slight problem in the major tourist areas of Cyprus, especially in Paphos.

Property owners now that they can rent their properties for 4 months during the summer period and gain the same rent as they would over a year for a long term rental.

We recommend making your summer 2007 accommodation booking as early as possible to avoid disappointment.

With many properties to choose from, select a villa or apartment which best suits your needs:

• Budget
• Area
• Amenities
• Private Pool
• etc.

When drinking in Cyprus you will be asked whether you want local or imported spirits. Why is this?

It goes back to the pre EU days when imported spirits were over £25 a bottle. Therefore, local spirits were much cheaper - £1.50 a measure, whereas imported was being charged at over £2.50.

With Cyprus joining the EU, imported spirits fell in price to £5 a bottle! So, why do bars still ask whether you want local or imported drinks. The imported drinks are cheaper and better than the local spirits.

Since last year the number of timeshare companies and representatives has increased considerably in Cyprus and in all of its resorts.

As tourists are walking the streets, they are being stopped and pestered by couples riding along on scooters trying to entice them into a seminar for their timeshare resort. They are promised a gift or even given a couple of scratch cards which one will undoubtedly win, just to get the tourist into their offices for a 'hard' sell.

With the privatisation of the airports in Cyprus, both Paphos and Larnaca International airports are undergoing extensive renovations.

The Shakolas Group of companies purchased the airport operations contract and under its subsidiary 'Hermes' will control the running of Cyprus airports.

Most travellers to the island of Cyprus spend their holiday by the sea, and who can blame them. But there is more to Cyprus than just the coastal regions.

The Troodos mountains are the highest peaks in Cyprus, with Mount Olympus rising to 1952 metres above sea level. There is much to do in this region with many walks and sightseeing opportunities to be had, with many quaint villages in the area to be explored.

With Cyprus being an ex British colony, driving is on the left hand side of the road; as is the case in the UK.

Road quality has improved in Cyprus over the last few years, but there are still some major roads with have large pot holes. Caution should be taken at all times.

Laws regarding smoking are now being enforced rigorously in Paphos, with many bar owners and patrons fined for smoking at the bar. A law was passed outlawing smoking at the bar at few months ago, and owners have been flouting it since.

Cyprus is preparing to accept the Euro as its currency in January 2008.

There has been increased publicity of the Euro in the last few days, with TV and newspapers giving basic advice on its use.

The climate in the last few weeks has changed considerably. It's been getting hotter and hotter, but with a scattering of rain.

With daylight saving ending at the end of the month we can all look forward to a fruitful summer in the sun.

Every few years both Greek Orthodox and 'Western' (Catholic and Protestant) Easter days coincide on the same day. This is true in 2007 when Easter falls on 8th April 2007.

Be sure to plan your holiday in Cyprus in advance, since this year will be ever more popular.

Self catering holidays in Cyprus are becoming ever more popular. Cyprus has a wide choice of taverns, restaurants and cafés; along with many supermarkets.

The choice of property for your self catering holiday in Cyprus is huge. There are many villas and apartments available year round for both short and long term rental.

In the last ten years Paphos property has been booming. There are numerous developments which are now complete or in the process of being built.

In the area of 'Universal' there must be over 300 new villas and apartments being built.

Visitors to Cyprus often complain that some things take an extremely long time to get completed.

I see many travellers and people who have moved to Cyprus for many years who do not even try to learn a little of the language.

Today I am starting our blog which will give information and travel tip for your holiday in Cyprus.