Whilst there is a lovely promenade near the marina, with a very pleasant sandy beach all along the front. Most tourists don’t ever get beyond this beach. If you keep driving along the same coast road (which at some points looks so close to the sea, you might fall in), you move closer and closer to the airport. Just before the airport is Mackenzie Beach. It is signposted off the main road and there is a large municipal car park.
The area behind and lining the beach is back to back with good local restaurants, including lots of good fish taverns. You will find grilled chicken, traditional meze, kebabs, fresh fish served by the kilo – it’s all here. The beach itself has hundreds of sun beds and umbrellas and the surface is really good sand-castle sand, so perfect for the children. Many of the beaches in Cyprus are rocky and pebbly, so this is a real gem.
The sea is shallow here too, so you can walk out for at least fifty metres and it is only waist deep and sandy underfoot, so again, perfect for the children.
You will see lots of the locals ‘power walking’ up and down the beach too as it is very long. This is good fun for the people watchers amongst you.
Sadly the beach is right in the approach path to the airport, so if you are an aircraft spotter then you’ll have a great day out, but if you are not, the novelty of seeing planes coming only a few hundred feet over your head every few minutes does wear thin, pretty quickly. The noise, the smell of aircraft engines and the smell of burning tyres when they land is just not good.
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