Aqualand Resort

We recently stayed at the Aqualand resort for 7 nights, we were travelling with our 7 month old baby. I’ll start off with the positives, the room is spacious and modern. The tv is great and has built in YouTube (thank god for Ms Rachel)! The water park is great and the selection of slides and pools are excellent. The hotel is just a 20 minutes drive from the airport which is amazing when you’re travelling with young children and have been on the go all day. The hotel itself has a little mini market which has literally everything you could need (although there is a super market down the road from the hotel which is much cheaper!) we got a taxi to corfu town one evening, reception arranged the taxi for us which arrived and was lovely. The journey is €35 each way. If you’re planning on going, the veranda is a lovely place to eat and the views are incredible! We had 2 rib steaks with fries, 2 beers and 2 cokes and the total was €46!! Definitely recommend. The hotel does offer a free bus to Corfu town which you have to book a day in advance. You can go in the morning and get collected later on in the day or get the bus there in the evening. They also offer a free bus to Glyfada Beach. Would definitely recommend visiting it’s a beautiful busy beach with snack bars and restaurants, there is also a mini market there too. The only negatives I have to say about this is the bus drops you off at the top of a hill and the walk down is abit steep with a buggy and belongings. This can’t be helped though as the bus physically can’t drop you any closer. The restaurants own the sunbeds on the beach too and charge to use them, we paid €40 for 2 beds for the day. The bus picked us up at 9.30am and collected us at 16.15pm so you get all day there. It’s only a 20 min drive so not far at all. so on to the negatives... On arrival we were told our room wasn’t ready so had to wait around, which isn’t a huge problem but when you’ve been travelling and want to get your stuff in the room it’s annoying. And considering we arrived after 2pm we thought we’d be able to go straight to the room. We didn’t get in there until gone 4pm. The air con worked but wouldn’t turn off unless the key was taken out which was useless when we were in the room, the room was freezing, we asked reception to send someone to fix it and he didn’t speak much English so couldn’t understand our issue. We ended up either being roasting hot in the room or freezing cold there was no middle ground, which meant our baby was really unsettled during the night. The room had a strong sewage smell which was not pleasant. We stayed in apartment block 12 which is right next to the main road and is VERY noisy, the cars go past so fast and loud that they were waking us up. We were also woken up numerous times by noisy kids and adults, as soon as the entertainment is finished and everyone is heading back to their rooms it’s so loud, one evening there was kids running around screaming until gone midnight. I literally

It has it all for a family, friendly staff, swimming pools, a bar, entertainment and very clean comfortable rooms. On arrival it wasn’t ideal as we booked through EasyJet and they had made some mistakes in the initial booking, which although corrected twice through easyJet, they never followed this up with the apartment complex. Our rooms were not adjoined, instead two different apartments, lucky enough this wasn’t an issue for us as a family as we had an additional adult with us to help split the family. We were told this could may be fixed with the manager the next day, but we didn’t chase up, we were content and happy with our rooms as they were, giving us two places for ease. The site isn’t large so it wasn’t a stress. The food was of large variety and what we felt of a good standard especially considering the amount of people it was feeding every day. Menus changed through out each day and every day. There was something for everyone. The swimming pools aren’t heated, but in these warm weathers it’s a refreshing cold dip. A nice outdoor bar serving a wide variety of soft and alcoholic drinks. A snack bar also providing toasties, cookies, hotdogs, fries and a good selection of help yourself tasty ice creams. The entertainment was comical, but serves a purpose, another small bar that continues serving the beverages. For a budget all inclusive, this was exceptional. The newly refurbished apartments made it feel even more value for money. Would we come back? Yes

The staff were very nice, had a great time and Willy was very helpful and very kind and made us all laugh. There were a lot of food options and a variety of activity’s for different ages. Over all we had a very good time staying at the Aqualand resort this half term and will hopefully be coming back soon some time in the holidays.