Corfu Escape and Bardis Sun Studios

suzanne simcox · August 31, 2006, 02:24:42 PM

Hi Willowlark, we may have seen you before as we have been going for about 16 or more years, we fly from Birmingham on the 18th for 21days, see you there. Sue.

azzymo · August 31, 2006, 07:45:14 PM

woohoo! last day of work until I fly out to Arillas on Sunday (well manchester on sunday, arillas on monday)! Starting to get really excited now. It's been a heck of a long summer! Adios!

jenna · August 31, 2006, 08:59:06 PM

We're flying to Glasgow on Sunday then on to Corfu on Monday as well. Staying at the mirage, maybe see you around.

RUSSELL · August 31, 2006, 09:09:46 PM

I finished work last Friday and it has been one long week just waiting to go,but nearly there.
Roll on Monday

Lisa and Steve · September 01, 2006, 10:59:32 AM

I must say I agree with you.The service from Nancy at Corfu escapes is excellent.Would recommend the company to anyone.Look forward to seeing you in June.Is anyone else going?

blondegirl · September 01, 2006, 11:50:14 AM

Apart from us?

Lozicle · September 01, 2006, 12:07:04 PM

I don't know if we're going to be able to make it next year

LisaW · September 13, 2006, 01:45:06 PM

Myself and my partner RUSSELL recently visitied the Bardis Sun Studios via Corfu Escape for the first time and had a lovely holiday. We received a warm welcome on arrival and this was extended throughout our entire stay. Poppy and Spiros and not forgetting Bobby are wonderful hosts, the studio we stayed in was cleaned every day and adequate for our needs. The bar, which of course was a popular area was well stocked and both drinks and food were excellent. The pool area was very clean and relaxing - both myself and my partner enjoyed a much needed break, rest, respite whatever and were very sad to leave. I think the fact that whilst we were there many guests whom we spoke to had enjoyed previous holidays at the Bardis and were returning for yet another visit, speaks for itself. SPIROS, POPPY AND BOBBY (AND NOT FORGETTING GEORGE) were wonderful!!

Smiffypink · September 13, 2006, 02:30:27 PM

They are very good hosts, i met them last year when i stayed at the hotel and went to watch the football in their bar, Bobby and i got chatting then that was that, cocktails in there every night!!

We're heading back there in May next year and i cant wait!

Lozicle · September 13, 2006, 04:17:36 PM

We walked past the Bardis many times and have heard such good things about it. I can't wait to stay there

Smiffypink · September 13, 2006, 04:37:43 PM

You'll have a fab time Lozicle, im so jealous that youre going soon!

When you get there say hello to Bobby for me, thanx.

Clare.

blondegirl · September 13, 2006, 05:12:07 PM

We have booked for next year too and are looking forward to it very much after reading the good reports!

Lozicle · September 19, 2006, 11:47:22 AM

Is anyone else flying out of Manchester on Monday ? (25th) ?

JennyD · September 19, 2006, 09:43:06 PM

Hi We are flying out of manchester on 25th Sept but on the XL flight at 10.30a.m. We went to Bardis Sun in May with Corfu Escape and it was great. We are staying at The Horizon this time. My friend from work flew out of Manchester yesterday to the Bardis Sun. They had a 3 hour delay and they had a storm last night but she has said it was OK today thank goodness.

Jenny

azzymo · September 20, 2006, 02:51:48 PM

well just back into work today after two weeks to bardis sun with corfu escape. We had booked to go there again after enjoying our stay in 2005 so we expected to have a good relaxing time in arillas as we had done the year before and I must say we weren't disappointed.

One slight disappointment though was that the famous memory of Poppy didn't remember that we'd visited the hotel the year before, so much for her impeccible memory!

just kidding. Remembered everyone else bar us! haha. Bobby didn't remember us either when we got off the bus but we soon put them right!

As expected, the rooms this year were clean and adequate for a good holiday with air conditioning a nice option for those who can't sleep in their boxers with the doors open! We were woken up every morning by quite a bit of the noise around the pool but we shouldn't have really been lying asleep when the sun was shining anyway! I just wish the young girl who circled the pool with her recorder would have played a different note than the one she did for the guts of an hour!

The craic at the bar was mighty. Bobby and Poppy were great hosts (i say this as we never really spent any length of time with Spiros and George). Hope you like your wine festival jug Poppy and hope you like the Linfield top Bobby! The volleyball game on the Friday was great fun, really good 'hotel bonding' experience. Loved it. Just raging that I missed the previous weeks game.

Yea, so the wine festival. We went to all 3 nights with the wine tasting gradually worse over the weekend but we still enjoyed the festival and the entertainment on hand although why oh why was the clarinet up soooo loud of the friday night, greece don't seem to have good sound engineers! Saying that, the festival is a great time to see a touch of authentic greek nightlife.

We ventured to Albania for the day during our stay. I'd safely say that it was the worse organised trip I've ever been on and I've been on some dodgy sunday school trips in my time! We decided not to go on the additional guiding excursion in Albania and opted to walk around Sarande ourselves, seeing it was also an option that the trip provided. The announcement over the boat tannoy was "everyone to get onto the coach at the Albania port". Fair enough, so we all got on the coach. The coach drove through a few albanian streets with the tour operator showing us points of interest such as 'a bank' among other very non exciting viewpoints. The bus stopped outside a hotel where the operator said to go and change money and have a drink. AFter around 30 minutes of confusion we boarded the bus again on instruction. Next the operator said for everyone to hand in their excursion ticket so we obviously didn't go for the additional excursion so had no ticket so we were told there and then to just "get off the bus". No map, no directions, no help, no nothing, pathetic. The differientiation was never made between the people who opted for the extra trip and not. A very inapt tour operator. I will say here of course that this tour was not operated or anything to do with either Corfu Escape or Bardis Sun. It was booked through Arkodel Travel in Arillas.

So yea, back to Corfu Escape. We never had any problems with them, the help at the airport was sufficient, the transfer to the hotel was a little long on the way there but direct on the way back so no qualms there. I would 100% recommend Corfu Escape to any doubters. I just wish we found out about their excursions earlier than we did as we booked all of ours through other companies.

Now for the food review...... Top spot without a shadow of a doubt goes to Kostas on the Beach. Absolutely scrumptious and top class service. A great range of meals at reasonable prices and a brilliant view of the beach not too far from Bardis. We also really enjoyed Hellens Creparie, some great snacks and meals there, never had one bad bite in that place. Sea Breeze and Grazella disappointed me this year being a big fan of Sea Breeze previously. This time round the service wasn't great, the food was ok but wouldn't attract you back neccessarily. We went to Broukilis for the spit roasted lamb, a tad disappointed with that but the starter was great. The pizza place beside Broukilis was lovely, we carried out from there after our flirt with Albania. The gyros in the grill room was outstanding as usual, oh how i'd love some right now.

Bar wise, we spent most of our time either in Bardis or the Mirage as it always had a good range of football and films (and also did magners). I can't go without saying NORTHERN IRELAND 3 v 2 SPAIN!!!! What a result! Was sitting as the only Northern Irish person in the Mirage when Healy popped up with a hat trick and was cheering away even with the Spanish folk behind. Unfortunately due to the England game being played on the big screen we had to settle for a 21" with no sound for around 80 minutes as the underachievers of England got preference.

We hired a beach buggy for 3 days altogether, what craic that was. We drove to a number of beaches and to Sidari for a McDonalds milkshake and for the girlfriend to fill up on Paul Frank merchandise and boy she really did! If you like fun, hire a buggy, best days of our holiday i'd say.

The weather was immense until the last 2 days of our stay but that didn't dampen our spirits as we were kindly escorted up the north coast by some folk who'd rented a car and who we'd befriended at Bardis. Basically I reckon that's what made the holiday so special this time, more so than 2005, as we met some real cracking people this time round. the atmosphere at Bardis was second to none and the fun factor was at a constant peak.

I think I've wrote enough, yea? I'll try and post a few pictures in the next week of our stay if anyone would be interested.

Ok, well, better go for some lunch now.

Holies