Observe this sign on the way down though, especially if you are a smoker. You might enjoy a fag while sunbathing, but nobody likes digging up a buried butt. So take them away with you when you leave.

As you enter the beach you could be forgiven for thinking it was wall-to-wall sunbeds, but, as I said, they are all clustered around the restaurants and amenities.

There is a bit of a space in front of the sunbeds to plonk your own towel, but when the tide is high it might get wet. Not that Cyprus has much in the way of tides, but the water level does change depending on the phase of the moon.

When we first visited Coral Bay we stayed in a villa near the ones you can see in the top right of this picture. It was a lot less built up in those days though.

They have added concrete reinforcements at the base of the cliffs. I don't know if it is still there, but there used to be a staircase leading down from the top to a tiny little cove. From a distance it looked idyllic, but I swam to it once, and the beach there itself was wall to wall seaweed.