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Good day. We didn't want to go to Corfu. The almighty toad won (the price of the tour in March was cheaper than similar options), plus “Corfu is the greenest of the Greek islands”, and Paleokastritsa is almost a fabulous place in general ...Let's go! We arrived in Corfu around 20:20. While luggage - passport control - almost 22:00.
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Good day.
We didn't want to go to Corfu. The almighty toad won (the price of the tour in March was cheaper than similar options), plus “Corfu is the greenest of the Greek islands”, and Paleokastritsa is almost a fabulous place in general ...Let's go!
We arrived in Corfu around 20:20. While luggage - passport control - almost 22:00. Darkness. The bus goes to the hotel in pitch darkness, neither on the right nor on the left - not a light. Rare illuminated benches about once every 10 minutes. Where are they being taken - HZ ...
The hotel is the first normally lit place after the airport. In about half an hour.
Its full name is Primasol Louis Ionian Sun. At the same time, Navitel sees it as the Iberostar Regency Hotel, and inside in places there are Louis Regency signs, and the local Corfuans (Corfuans? Korfuyaks? ) know him as simply Primasol.
They settled us in the Family-room. Etto yeaaa ...Not only that, climb to the 6th floor, then from the roof along the bridge to the slope, and again go up a rather steep climb to about a height of 4 floors. The entrance to this block resembles catacombs.
Long dark passage. The air is damp, almost musty. Only on the left instead of caves are doors. Our door is the eighth. Opening...
And we understand that we do not understand where we have come. Saved on the trip, damn it. There is really nothing to breathe in the room. Warm damp air. There is no passive ventilation in the room. Simply no. Ventilation from the bathroom - by opening a window that leads ...to the already familiar corridor - the catacombs! Get hurt! Make ventilation of the room by opening into the adjacent room. There are no extractors in the toilet or in the room. Tile on the floor. We return to the reception:
- Please change the room. In a child, the bronchi are a weak point. I do not want to swallow pills on vacation.
- No way, the hotel is full, maybe tomorrow. Come at 9:00.
After almost a day of travel, despite the air and the disco on the roof of the main building, we fell asleep.
And in the morning all the grandeur of the room appeared before us.
What is inevitable in a room, one wall of which is below the surface of the earth (albeit on a slope)? FAUNA. After the night we are bitten by insects, then we find hefty grasshoppers and ants in the room. Against this background, the sea view, prescribed in the contract, and flat 32 'TV are not encouraging.
Again, the reception does not change the number for us. We connect the Biblioglobus guide Irina, who, after lengthy negotiations with the administrator, promises us a room with a sea view in the main building, which will be free ...again tomorrow! OK, we'll wait...
We return to the 6th floor - the bridge - the rise to the bungalow building ...Yes, they call it a bungalow ...
Each entrance to this bungalow was accompanied by ventilation with the door wide open and a balcony, and then an obligatory air conditioner, but not for cooling, but for drying the air. No other way. The bronchi are patient.
There are rooms in the main building "Land View".
Windows to the west, and the slope of the mountain is quite steep, so the time of active insolation of these rooms is short - the sun hides behind the top. But the view from the balcony is worse - in addition to the green slope, there are all sorts of pumps, communications, etc ...We met our colleagues on vacation from such a room. They also asked to change, because at 4 am the kitchen starts to work and the extract from it is very buzzing under the window. They say it's like an airplane. May be. They were offered to move to the same room on the floor above : ) . They refused, and after 3 days they moved to the "apartments".
The beach with the main building is nearby, 30 meters away. But those 30 meters go through the main east coast highway. Nothing can be done, almost all mountainous coasts are like that. There are no traffic lights, or at least a “pedestrian crossing” or “zebra” sign.
You can go to the beach from the main building through the underground passage, on the elevator (-1 floor), but some water was leaking in it (I suspect that it was not mineral at all), and it was slippery and unpleasant to walk. They walked across the road.
Breakfast is standard - fried eggs or scrambled eggs. Vegetables, croissants, yogurt. But their yogurt is our sour cream. However, not bad. And with dried apricots and raisins - good.
The coffee in the coffee machine is not very good. But you can drink.
It is impossible to eat in the open area of the restaurant - wasps constantly climb into the plate. After the first dinner, they always sat inside the premises.
Animation is incomprehensible. On the one hand, it is there, and quite loud until 23-00, on the other hand ...Having visited it a couple of times, they no longer went.
Everything seems to be fine on the beach. But if you are on its right side, then, having sailed 30-40 meters from the shore, you will see two pipes going into the sea under you at the bottom ...Hello, Gelendzhik? At the same time, the water is clear, the bottom is clearly visible.
Sea urchins, again, which are available here, will not live in dirty water.
Do you know where the playground is in this wonderful hotel? Well, which one is for the little ones? At the very top of the area. This is even higher uphill than our bungalow body. It is not clear how mothers will drag strollers or babies there on foot. However, there is almost no one there. There is a tennis court and a volleyball court nearby - and the fact that the coating - asphalt painted with oil paint - is not surprising, after all, the hotel is not premium, and the location is also, because an athlete is an athlete to go uphill, but a playground ...
Further not quite about the hotel, but still. Biblioglobus offers car rental. But as an intermediary company ANSI International. Car rental is not cheap, to put it mildly. Volkswagen Polo on a mechanical box - 55 Euro. Insurance - another 10 Euros. Instead Polo eventually drove Fiat Punto.
When asked where the Volkswagen is, they answered that the Punto comes in a higher class, 10 Euros more expensive, and we give it to you at the price of the Polo. It's funny. It seems like Polo and Punto are classmates in all classifications. Do they have better FIAT? .
Having traveled almost all of Corfu (we didn’t visit the Throne of the Kaiser from the planned one due to a Navitel glitch that led us to a steep slope), I can say that the main attraction of the island is the beaches. That is, a place for a beach holiday and nothing more. Take a car to go from one beach to another beach? Meaning?
The city of Corfu is very filthy. The houses seem to be beautiful from the point of view of architecture, but shabby, with falling off plaster. Be sure to walk along Spianada Liston - a copy of some Parisian street! and what? The same shabby houses. Cafes on the first floor. Doesn't deliver. If you really want to walk along a copy of a Parisian street, we will fly to Paris. And the garbage in Corfu town mountains.
Realistically, every 200 meters of Awesome Dimensions Garbage with the appropriate smell. You can say that the garbage is taken out, say, once a week, so what? Will this stop smelling? The bus from Corfu Town towards Agios Ioannis does not go from the stop where it drops off, but from the bus station. And go to it and go through these garbage dumps almost to the exit of their city ...
I liked only the Achilleion Palace - such a micro-micro-Peterhof. Not even like that. Nano-Peterhof.
And when we were nevertheless moved from the bungalow to the main building, the view of the hotel changed.
Rooms are standard and small. There is a sea view (east). Their plus is that during the day and in the evening, in the very heat, the sun does not shine into the room. And the view is beautiful. The bathroom is normal, clean, with a bathtub. I wonder if anyone is picking it up? Pleased with the hair dryer. It is carefully placed in a drawer in the room. This is clearly stated on the sticker on the same table. Furniture is not new, but not old, everything works. Fine.
Towels are changed as they are thrown on the floor in the toilet. Leave on a hanger - do not change. In general, the number is a solid four.
The restaurant is evil. No gymnastics-jogging-not using the elevator-tennis-swimming will save you from excess weight. The cuisine cannot be called unimaginably diverse, but there is always a choice, and the quality of the dishes is on the level. Daily and meat, and poultry, and fish. Sea reptiles such as squid - once or twice a week. But I'm not a fan. Once a week - Mexican cuisine (burritos-fajitos). Asian is not seen.
Champagne is offered for breakfast.
At dinner, the manager walks around the restaurant, approaches each table, wishes you a pleasant stay and asks if there are any complaints and wishes. Nicely.
Ice cream 4 types constantly, except for breakfast. When the restaurant is not open - ice cream at the bar on the beach. Free. Beer and wine - also not super-duper, but more than acceptable quality. In general, food for four with a plus.
For birthdays at dinner - a personal bottle of champagne, a decorated festive table and a personal cake. Our friends are such congratulations from the hotel. Nice to say.
The beach is the best place. Not overloaded, like last year in Budva. Sun loungers and umbrellas are free, even when you come to the beach at rush hour you can find a sun lounger. Small pebbles are the best option in terms of comfort and cleanliness. Every day in the morning and in the evening, employees clean up the remains of vacationers: ) (glasses, sticks and other garbage). The water is clean. Once in a while there was a small wave. But once and small. In the bar, in addition to drinks and cocktails, there is something to eat: pancakes, vegetables, every other day - gyros (like shawarma). Free.
There is a bus stop next to the hotel. Walking on schedule. Half an hour - and for 1.80 Euro you are in Corfu Town.
There is a certain charm in the narrow winding cobbled streets of the old Mediterranean towns...The centerpiece is the "old" and "new" castles, as well as the Cathedral of St. Spiridon, in which his imperishable relics are kept. Every day before the evening service, the shrine is opened so that the worshipers can bow.
Next to the new castle is the memorial of Fyodor Ushakov. The Greeks remember who freed them. And while there is no talk about the transfer of the memorial (hello to the Poles).
By car, it’s really possible to visit other interesting places in Corfu. Of course, Paleokastritsa is beautiful. Especially from above, their village Lacones. Especially with ice cream...
The beach in the town of Peroulades is very picturesque. A sheer cliff 50-70 meters high, and a narrow strip of beach. And at the top of the slope there is a cafe with a mandatory platform with a glass floor. And next to the bar - swings. On the edge of a cliff. It's funny like that.
In general, the holiday was a success. The hotel is very decent, if you do not take into account the bungalows.
The beach is perfect in my opinion. But the second time in Corfu there is nothing to do, alas.
For those who only have a beach in their plans, I recommend it.
There was no desire to leave at all.
We didn't want to go to Corfu. The almighty toad won (the price of the tour in March was cheaper than similar options), plus “Corfu is the greenest of the Greek islands”, and Paleokastritsa is almost a fabulous place in general ...Let's go!
We arrived in Corfu around 20:20. While luggage - passport control - almost 22:00. Darkness. The bus goes to the hotel in pitch darkness, neither on the right nor on the left - not a light. Rare illuminated benches about once every 10 minutes. Where are they being taken - HZ ...
The hotel is the first normally lit place after the airport. In about half an hour.
Its full name is Primasol Louis Ionian Sun. At the same time, Navitel sees it as the Iberostar Regency Hotel, and inside in places there are Louis Regency signs, and the local Corfuans (Corfuans? Korfuyaks? ) know him as simply Primasol.
They settled us in the Family-room. Etto yeaaa ...Not only that, climb to the 6th floor, then from the roof along the bridge to the slope, and again go up a rather steep climb to about a height of 4 floors. The entrance to this block resembles catacombs.
Long dark passage. The air is damp, almost musty. Only on the left instead of caves are doors. Our door is the eighth. Opening...
And we understand that we do not understand where we have come. Saved on the trip, damn it. There is really nothing to breathe in the room. Warm damp air. There is no passive ventilation in the room. Simply no. Ventilation from the bathroom - by opening a window that leads ...to the already familiar corridor - the catacombs! Get hurt! Make ventilation of the room by opening into the adjacent room. There are no extractors in the toilet or in the room. Tile on the floor. We return to the reception:
- Please change the room. In a child, the bronchi are a weak point. I do not want to swallow pills on vacation.
- No way, the hotel is full, maybe tomorrow. Come at 9:00.
After almost a day of travel, despite the air and the disco on the roof of the main building, we fell asleep.
And in the morning all the grandeur of the room appeared before us.
What is inevitable in a room, one wall of which is below the surface of the earth (albeit on a slope)? FAUNA. After the night we are bitten by insects, then we find hefty grasshoppers and ants in the room. Against this background, the sea view, prescribed in the contract, and flat 32 'TV are not encouraging.
Again, the reception does not change the number for us. We connect the Biblioglobus guide Irina, who, after lengthy negotiations with the administrator, promises us a room with a sea view in the main building, which will be free ...again tomorrow! OK, we'll wait...
We return to the 6th floor - the bridge - the rise to the bungalow building ...Yes, they call it a bungalow ...
Each entrance to this bungalow was accompanied by ventilation with the door wide open and a balcony, and then an obligatory air conditioner, but not for cooling, but for drying the air. No other way. The bronchi are patient.
There are rooms in the main building "Land View".
Windows to the west, and the slope of the mountain is quite steep, so the time of active insolation of these rooms is short - the sun hides behind the top. But the view from the balcony is worse - in addition to the green slope, there are all sorts of pumps, communications, etc ...We met our colleagues on vacation from such a room. They also asked to change, because at 4 am the kitchen starts to work and the extract from it is very buzzing under the window. They say it's like an airplane. May be. They were offered to move to the same room on the floor above : ) . They refused, and after 3 days they moved to the "apartments".
The beach with the main building is nearby, 30 meters away. But those 30 meters go through the main east coast highway. Nothing can be done, almost all mountainous coasts are like that. There are no traffic lights, or at least a “pedestrian crossing” or “zebra” sign.
You can go to the beach from the main building through the underground passage, on the elevator (-1 floor), but some water was leaking in it (I suspect that it was not mineral at all), and it was slippery and unpleasant to walk. They walked across the road.
Breakfast is standard - fried eggs or scrambled eggs. Vegetables, croissants, yogurt. But their yogurt is our sour cream. However, not bad. And with dried apricots and raisins - good.
The coffee in the coffee machine is not very good. But you can drink.
It is impossible to eat in the open area of the restaurant - wasps constantly climb into the plate. After the first dinner, they always sat inside the premises.
Animation is incomprehensible. On the one hand, it is there, and quite loud until 23-00, on the other hand ...Having visited it a couple of times, they no longer went.
Everything seems to be fine on the beach. But if you are on its right side, then, having sailed 30-40 meters from the shore, you will see two pipes going into the sea under you at the bottom ...Hello, Gelendzhik? At the same time, the water is clear, the bottom is clearly visible.
Sea urchins, again, which are available here, will not live in dirty water.
Do you know where the playground is in this wonderful hotel? Well, which one is for the little ones? At the very top of the area. This is even higher uphill than our bungalow body. It is not clear how mothers will drag strollers or babies there on foot. However, there is almost no one there. There is a tennis court and a volleyball court nearby - and the fact that the coating - asphalt painted with oil paint - is not surprising, after all, the hotel is not premium, and the location is also, because an athlete is an athlete to go uphill, but a playground ...
Further not quite about the hotel, but still. Biblioglobus offers car rental. But as an intermediary company ANSI International. Car rental is not cheap, to put it mildly. Volkswagen Polo on a mechanical box - 55 Euro. Insurance - another 10 Euros. Instead Polo eventually drove Fiat Punto.
When asked where the Volkswagen is, they answered that the Punto comes in a higher class, 10 Euros more expensive, and we give it to you at the price of the Polo. It's funny. It seems like Polo and Punto are classmates in all classifications. Do they have better FIAT? .
Having traveled almost all of Corfu (we didn’t visit the Throne of the Kaiser from the planned one due to a Navitel glitch that led us to a steep slope), I can say that the main attraction of the island is the beaches. That is, a place for a beach holiday and nothing more. Take a car to go from one beach to another beach? Meaning?
The city of Corfu is very filthy. The houses seem to be beautiful from the point of view of architecture, but shabby, with falling off plaster. Be sure to walk along Spianada Liston - a copy of some Parisian street! and what? The same shabby houses. Cafes on the first floor. Doesn't deliver. If you really want to walk along a copy of a Parisian street, we will fly to Paris. And the garbage in Corfu town mountains.
Realistically, every 200 meters of Awesome Dimensions Garbage with the appropriate smell. You can say that the garbage is taken out, say, once a week, so what? Will this stop smelling? The bus from Corfu Town towards Agios Ioannis does not go from the stop where it drops off, but from the bus station. And go to it and go through these garbage dumps almost to the exit of their city ...
I liked only the Achilleion Palace - such a micro-micro-Peterhof. Not even like that. Nano-Peterhof.
And when we were nevertheless moved from the bungalow to the main building, the view of the hotel changed.
Rooms are standard and small. There is a sea view (east). Their plus is that during the day and in the evening, in the very heat, the sun does not shine into the room. And the view is beautiful. The bathroom is normal, clean, with a bathtub. I wonder if anyone is picking it up? Pleased with the hair dryer. It is carefully placed in a drawer in the room. This is clearly stated on the sticker on the same table. Furniture is not new, but not old, everything works. Fine.
Towels are changed as they are thrown on the floor in the toilet. Leave on a hanger - do not change. In general, the number is a solid four.
The restaurant is evil. No gymnastics-jogging-not using the elevator-tennis-swimming will save you from excess weight. The cuisine cannot be called unimaginably diverse, but there is always a choice, and the quality of the dishes is on the level. Daily and meat, and poultry, and fish. Sea reptiles such as squid - once or twice a week. But I'm not a fan. Once a week - Mexican cuisine (burritos-fajitos). Asian is not seen.
Champagne is offered for breakfast.
At dinner, the manager walks around the restaurant, approaches each table, wishes you a pleasant stay and asks if there are any complaints and wishes. Nicely.
Ice cream 4 types constantly, except for breakfast. When the restaurant is not open - ice cream at the bar on the beach. Free. Beer and wine - also not super-duper, but more than acceptable quality. In general, food for four with a plus.
For birthdays at dinner - a personal bottle of champagne, a decorated festive table and a personal cake. Our friends are such congratulations from the hotel. Nice to say.
The beach is the best place. Not overloaded, like last year in Budva. Sun loungers and umbrellas are free, even when you come to the beach at rush hour you can find a sun lounger. Small pebbles are the best option in terms of comfort and cleanliness. Every day in the morning and in the evening, employees clean up the remains of vacationers: ) (glasses, sticks and other garbage). The water is clean. Once in a while there was a small wave. But once and small. In the bar, in addition to drinks and cocktails, there is something to eat: pancakes, vegetables, every other day - gyros (like shawarma). Free.
There is a bus stop next to the hotel. Walking on schedule. Half an hour - and for 1.80 Euro you are in Corfu Town.
There is a certain charm in the narrow winding cobbled streets of the old Mediterranean towns...The centerpiece is the "old" and "new" castles, as well as the Cathedral of St. Spiridon, in which his imperishable relics are kept. Every day before the evening service, the shrine is opened so that the worshipers can bow.
Next to the new castle is the memorial of Fyodor Ushakov. The Greeks remember who freed them. And while there is no talk about the transfer of the memorial (hello to the Poles).
By car, it’s really possible to visit other interesting places in Corfu. Of course, Paleokastritsa is beautiful. Especially from above, their village Lacones. Especially with ice cream...
The beach in the town of Peroulades is very picturesque. A sheer cliff 50-70 meters high, and a narrow strip of beach. And at the top of the slope there is a cafe with a mandatory platform with a glass floor. And next to the bar - swings. On the edge of a cliff. It's funny like that.
In general, the holiday was a success. The hotel is very decent, if you do not take into account the bungalows.
The beach is perfect in my opinion. But the second time in Corfu there is nothing to do, alas.
For those who only have a beach in their plans, I recommend it.
There was no desire to leave at all.
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I really liked the hotel. We stayed in a room with a sea view. The soundproofing is good, you can't hear the neighbors even with small children. The road in front of the hotel did not interfere at all. The air conditioner worked at night, so the balcony was closed and the passers-by could not be heard. The path to the beach can be passed through the hotel's tunnel under the road - safe and very convenient.
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I really liked the hotel. We stayed in a room with a sea view. The soundproofing is good, you can't hear the neighbors even with small children. The road in front of the hotel did not interfere at all. The air conditioner worked at night, so the balcony was closed and the passers-by could not be heard. The path to the beach can be passed through the hotel's tunnel under the road - safe and very convenient. The problem with sunbeds is the same everywhere: Poles and Germans occupy them at dawn in whole batches. The sea is clean, with fish. The food is wonderful and varied. The animation is good. Near the hotel there is a city bus stop, which takes 25 minutes and 1.60 euros to get to Corfu. A beautiful old town. Rest were very satisfied.
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