A short travel vlog-style YouTube video by Nate Buchanan documenting a stay at the Acapulco Hotel in North Cyprus. The speakers arrive, enjoy the hotel’s large beach and on-site water park (noting minimal lines and adrenaline slides), and later sample a large dinner buffet with Turkish-influenced dishes and many desserts. The vlog ends with plans to explore more of Cyprus the next day.
This is our first morning in Cyprus. We are super pumped to be partnering with Go North Cyprus this week. They've put us up in the Acapulco Hotel and it has the largest beach in northern Cyprus.
It's so nice. And they have a water park. So we're about to go lay on the beach for a little while and go down some slides.
Here's where I'll be settled for the morning.
It's been a fun few hours at the beach. Now we're going to check out the water park.
Do a split.
It's like a water park with no line.
That one stop is big enough to get your adrenaline going.
Really?
Yeah.
Okay, I'm going to do it.
Sam.
Apparently the water park closes at 5, but that's okay because we needed to go back and get ready for dinner anyway.
The restaurant at the hotel is this massive dinner buffet and we really worked up an appetite going down all the slides today. So I am hung.
North Cyprus is also called the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. So all the food here has a heavy Turkish influence. So we're looking forward to trying a lot of good Turkish food tonight.
So I found a few Turkish things to put on my plate, and then I filled up all the rest of the empty spaces with sushi. This one was called something that looked like gulaki gnocchi. It kind of looks like lasagna. I'm gonna call this one Turkish pizza. A fish ball with spicy sauce, a very large pepper and some kind of spinach stuffed pastry thingy. And of course, sushi.
It was very delicious. I have no idea what it is. It's very cheesy, which I love. I'm gonna feel really silly if everyone knows what this is and I don't.
Do the fish ball.
O.
Smells fishy. Kinda tastes like a crab cake. Like a fried crab cake.
Are fish balls even Turkish?
I feel like we're on the coast. I feel like a fish ball is something very coastal. I don't know.
I'm tired of watching you eat, so I'm gonna eat the pizza. Round number two. I found some fish wrapped in paper that just seemed interesting. Delicious olives, hummus, and bread. To eat the hummus with another piece of pizz.
Looks like a stack of stuff. Not positive that was the proper way to unwrap the fish.
Looks great. Fish with tomatoes and onion.
There are just as many dessert options as there are food options. The table is massive. I obviously got all the chocolate things. Nate, are you excited about dessert? I want you to try the hairy one.
I got that. Just to try. Not because it looked good, but because I feel like it needs to try. I feel like this is Turkish.
It tastes like hairy baklava. Dinner was really good, but we both have little self control when it comes to buffets, so we're both completely stuffed.
And as much as we loved being in the resort today and going to the beach and the water park, we hope to see more of Cypress tomorrow. And we can't wait.
I don't like it. Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, no.
We've had a fun few hours at the beach, and now we're gonna go check out the waterfront. We've had a great two hours.
Ah, I missed you.
All right.
