The hotel standard is about 2-3 stars, not much, but the rooms are clean and cozy. The hotel is a quite place located on a mountain in a Mediterranean garden (it's not very green, but still it's a garden). There are no discos or anything like this at the hotel. We personally liked it. There was really very quiet. The only problem was a telephone in our room. Someone called us in the middle of the night. Twice. We waked up and were a bit anxious, because there was silence on the other side of the telephone. It was strange. There were no AC in our room, but usually it was not problematic.
The swimming pool is small and shallow, rather for children.
Personally I also didn't like the service. A typical Greek family - puffed-up and not helpful at all.
Food is quite ok, but there is not much to choose from. There are a lot of insects in the canteen - e.g. wasps. They sit on the food which hotel guests eat - yuck! and bite if you try to get rid of them.
There's no beach next to the hotel. You can walk down the hill (about 5 min) and get directly to the water, but it's deep and there is no place to put your towel or anything. To get to the public beach you have to walk along a narrow busy road (about 20 min) or take a hotel bus which goes there 3 times a day. The public beach is not sandy and you need special shoes to get to the water (lots of small sharp stones). On the beach you can borrow some water equipment or try paragliding, banana boat, etc.
There are some cheap public buses which stop next to the hotel and you can try other beaches in the area. Although if you are set on sight-seeing or tracking, Korfu is really not the best place. Me and my husband wanted to reach the top of the Pantokrator mountain, but unfortunately there is no special trail blazed and even the local people wasn't able to give us directions. We went back to the hotel angry and disappointed after hours of trying to find the trail.
If you decided to visit Corfu, I strongly recommend a water park. There is a lot of differentiated water slides both for adults and children and most of them is not extreme, but achievable for anyone. You can call the water park and they will send a free bus for you, straight to the hotel.
I don't really know to whom can I recommend this place - Nautilus and Corfu itself. We chose it, because people call it "green island" and my husband is crazy about nature.
Corfu is NOT green, there is not much nature, beaches are poor and there is nothing special to do there. If you like nature and look for something interesting I recommend Croatia.
- Nautilus Hotel Barbati
- Nautilus Corfu
- Hotel Nautilus Corfu
- Nautilus Beach Corfu
