Aphrodite Hills is delighted to announce that the InterContinental hotel has been chosen as one of the best 60 new hotels in the world for 2006 by the prestigious Condé Nast Traveller Magazine.

Below is an excerpt from the article:

More holiday village than conventional resort

The US$85-million InterContinental is the island's biggest-ever mixed-use leisure project. The 290 bedrooms and suites arc housed in traditional Mediterranean-Village-style buildings centred around a huge, free-form summing pool and an 18-hole golf course. There are also 400 privately owned villas (many available to rent), 11 tennis courts and five restaurants including Mosogios, where chef Stefanos Chrysanthou updates traditional Cypriot classics such as grilled kebabs and trahana (yogurt- infused risotto).

But what really makes this InterContinental dazzle is the ultra-comprehensive Retreat Spa. With its fountain-fitted courtyards, domed roofs, stone walls and terracotta floors, The Retreat evokes a Graeco-Roman village -albeit one with 18 treatment rooms and a clutch of thermal "zones" including a tepidarium, a marble-walked steam room and a fiery laconium. More active types may want to try the cutting-edge sports equipment, used in training by the British Olympic team in 2004 before the hotel officially opened.