Meryem's Hotel

Meryem’s is a grand looking boutique hotel with a humble Cypriot story. The property was built as a home for the family that today run it, and Meryem is the name of the lady who created it. At age 9, when Meryem and her parents were forced to leave war torn Cyprus to take refuge in the UK, Meryem envisioned that she would return and build a house ‘bigger’ than the one-room traditional Cypriot family house she left behind, and that remains in her village Pile. Her dream was to build a grand house with four Doric columns, surrounded by its own lush garden blooming with plants, flowers and fruits of Cyprus, and encircled by a gold trimmed gate. Three decades, a husband, three children and a very successful restaurant business later, Meryem built the house of her childhood imagination and dreams, and in 1999, together with her husband and children, Meryem returned and settled into her house in Cyprus. Since, however, the children have moved out, leaving Meryem and her husband, Zekai, to l