2 options from €60 per session. Departures from Sunrise Beach, Pernera. Duration 12min. Rated 5.0/5 from 931 reviews.
A parasail flight with XS & Stephanos on Sunrise Beach costs €60 for one person, €80 for a tandem and €105 for three. The price is per flight and follows the harness rather than the head, so two people flying together pay €80 between them and not €60 each.
The flight itself lasts ten to twelve minutes.
Baywatch Watersports flies from Kalamies Beach in Pernera, at the same Protaras end of the coast, and prices the same three rungs €60, €80 and €100. On both stations take-off and landing are from the deck of the boat rather than from the sand. XS & Stephanos quotes heights of up to 600 ft over the water towards Fig Tree Bay; Baywatch states no height and says its team may change who flies with whom once it has looked at individual and combined weights.
Photography and the optional drone video are sold separately at Sunrise Beach, and neither station runs a hotel transfer — you come to the beach.
A 10-to-12-minute flight from a Warrior 33 parasail boat off Sunrise Beach in Protaras, with the operator quoting heights up to 600 ft. Single 60 €, tandem 80 €, triple 105 €. Instructors are BHPA-certified and brief you before take-off; two boats run in parallel, which the operator says is why there are no waiting lists.
Take off from the boat over the Protaras and Pernera coastline. The price depends on how many of you fly together: 60 € single, 80 € double, 100 € triple. No experience needed, all safety gear provided, and the operator recommends the early hours when the sea is calm.
| Tour | Duration | Group | From |
|---|---|---|---|
| Parasailing up to 600 ft over Sunrise Beach and Fig Tree Bay | 12min | up to 3 guests | €60 per session |
| Parasailing over Protaras and Pernera from Kalamies Beach | — | up to 3 guests | €60 per session |
Operators: XS & Stephanos Watersports · Baywatch Watersports
What a fabulous experience! First time parasailing with these guys, they were very helpful and friendly. Explained clearly what to do and made it so easy.
I was very nervous at first as I've never done anything like this, the safety is great and thought out, the staff are wonderful.
30 years ago my family and I visited Protaras and XS water sports were running the water sports. I'm pleased to say 30 years later they still are! My family had a great time — the team are complete professionals.
XS & Stephanos fly parasails at the Protaras end of this coast, off Sunrise Beach, and it is a short boat-launched flight rather than a beach-run one. Baywatch Watersports flies from Kalamies Beach in Pernera, at the same end of the coast. Everything — briefing, harness, take-off, landing — turns on the operator's boat, so the useful questions are about the boat, the weather and the time of year.
Ten to twelve minutes in a harness under a parachute towed by a Warrior 33 parasail boat, taking off and landing from the deck, with heights quoted up to 600 ft. You fly alone, in a pair or in a three, and the fare follows the harness: €60, €80, €105 at Sunrise Beach and €60, €80, €100 at Kalamies, where Baywatch publishes neither a flight length nor an age limit of its own and says its team may change who flies with whom after looking at individual and combined weights.
The instructors are certified by the BHPA, the British Hang Gliding and Paragliding Association, and give a complete pre-flight briefing. The boat takes up to fourteen people, so anyone not flying can still come out for the ride.
Sunrise Beach and Kalamies Beach both lie on the eastern side of Cape Greco: Sunrise in Protaras, Kalamies in Pernera, the village beside Protaras — not the Pernera beach inside Ayia Napa, where the underwater sculpture museum is, about twelve kilometres away. Protaras is about 5.6 kilometres from Ayia Napa in a straight line by the official beach coordinates, and roughly twice that on the road that goes round the cape.
No official road distance or journey time is published. There are no railways on Cyprus. Intercity buses connect Agia Napa with Protaras and Paralimni, town and village services are run by M.E. Ammochostos Buses, and the Kapnos shuttle from Larnaca airport stops on Protaras Avenue and Pernera Avenue — none of those carriers publishes fares or timetables, so check with them.
A taxi runs on a compulsory meter at the official tariff: €3.80 to hire plus €0.95 a kilometre between 06:01 and 20:30, €4.80 and €1.10 between 20:31 and 06:00, and €1.40 for each piece of luggage.
The operator's booking calendar runs daily from 11:00 to 18:00, with the centre as a whole listed as open 09:00 to 19:00. Months are a different question: on the operators' pages the season is simply not stated, so ask. What the state defines is the bathing season, 1 May to 31 October — the period when water quality in designated bathing zones is monitored — and the official cards for the Blue Flag beaches here put lifeguards on duty from April to October.
Those are two different periods about two different things, and neither is an operator's calendar. The weather argues for the same half of the year: at the Paralimni station the mean daily maximum stays above 26 °C from May to October and summer rainfall is close to zero, over the 2002–2011 averaging period the Cyprus Department of Meteorology reported through the WMO.
Photographs and the optional drone video are extras alongside the flight rather than part of it. There is no hotel transfer; you come to Sunrise Beach. And the operator's other activities at the same centre are their own bookings, not part of this one. Carry cash as well as a card: Cyprus has used the euro since 2008, and the official guidance on card acceptance covers hotels, larger shops and restaurants — a beach watersports desk is not on that list.
On tipping the official line is that it is entirely at the customer's discretion; no percentage is named anywhere.
Important
Whether you fly is the operator's call on the day. The official beach cards for this coast describe the water as calm or relatively calm on both sides of the cape, but that is a statement about the sea and not about the wind, and no Cypriot state source publishes monthly wind data for Ayia Napa or Protaras — so there is no windy month to plan around, only the conditions on the morning you turn up.
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