My partner and I went to Elea Beach hotel last week. We arrived early morning and were greeted by an unhelpful porter. We asked about booking a late checkout room for the following Sat and his answer was, you can't do that until the day before you need it and there will be no guarantee you'll get it; 'What have I done?' went through my head as we went to our room. Once daylight appeared my views on the hotel lightened. It is a very clean hotel with an excellent variety of places to sit and relax, whether it be in the lounges (2), by the pool, on the beach and gardens or on the terraces. It is a beautiful place to be. My only complaint is that there isn't anything to do around the hotel if the weather isn't good, as there is no indoor pool or indoor entertainment. However, the local bus number 7 stops right outside Elea Beach hotel and takes you to
Corfu Town for 1 euro per person each way every half hour and they do run until late. Something we found out when we had come back early as we didn't want to miss the last one!
There is plenty to do in Corfu town in the new and old parts. The new Fortress is by the Port, I really recommend wondering around and you will find excellent places. There is a little restaurant called 'Evergreen' which sells all sorts of finger food and it tastes excellent. Just along the beach of the hotel at the jetty for Chandris hotel there is a Boat Trip called Asteras which does a beach BBQ trip from 11:45 to about 5:30 for 20 euro pp. You cruise along the east coast, stop at a beach and have a BBQ with wine and swim, then you stop off at
Kassiopi for 1hr 30mins then come back and stop of some caves to swing through, I recommend this to get back out of the cave you have to swim underwater for a short amount of time! Then it brings you home, be careful as the floor may still be moving when you step on the ground, the wine is free all day long! The staff at Elea Beach hotel are very friendly bar the Porter but it is rare that you see him, the entertainment is great, a lot of which is self participating but very enjoyable. We did get our late checkout room! We really enjoyed ourselves and relaxed. The only down part is the facilities if the
weather in Corfu isn't great. Water sports populate the beach in peak season, however, nothing is available outside the peak season.