San Stefanos Online ~ North West Corfu

Hi all,

Flying with Thomas Cook for the first time in July because the flight times were better than Easyjet from Bristol but I'm hearing awful things about leg room on their planes. Does anyone have experience of them and if so how good/bad is it?

I'm 6`1" and need a little bit more room than most.

Evening all,

My wife and I are fast (too fast) approaching an age when we'll be able to retire and we have dreams of spending it abroad, somewhere warm either permanently or over the winter and back to Wales for the summer (that'll probably be a weekend in June such as it is).

We love San Stef but wonder what it's like in the winter months. From what I can glean from previous topics its very quiet but is it too quiet? Would my wife and I find enough to do to wile away the days waiting for summer again? What are the temperatues like? A friend has recommended Tenerife as its in the low 20's there in the winter but I think San Stef is noticeably cooler than that.

Just gathering info thats all.

Any comments much appreciated. 

Webcam weather looks awful yesterday and today so I was wondering whether anyone had been and come back yet. What's the news?


Yammas

First up - Corfu airport.

Spent a total of 3 hours on our feet first queuing with the luggage, then for a drink in departures and just when we were about to sit down we get called for our flight. We were knackered.

Anyway the hols itself.

Arrived at Fedra Mare just past midnight on Sat 17th - Sat was very hot - 40+ and stuffy which was unlike San Stef I thought. Over the next 8 days the temperature eased. When I say eased I mean it went down to the mid to late 30's - phew!!

Overall we thought prices seemed to hold up well from last year. Certainly didn't spend anymore nor less.

For our 13 evenings we ate at Manthos (Greek dancing night) which was excellent, Beachcomer which was okay but I tend to agree with other posters i.e. it needs to do a bit more than offer a sunset, Mistral where the starters were huge - the biggest we had experienced and great value for money (watch out for the mozzies there though), Olympia which we hadn't been to for 2/3 years and was very good, Little Prince which I thought was better than last year food wise - great chicken giros, Mythica for the first time and was suitably impressed - lovely presentation, excellent meal and large portions, Zorba's with its usual excellent entertainment and food and Sunset where as good as the Sofrito was the owner seems to have given up - sad.

Bar 38 is the place to be and is rocking. Lively late on, good music and Hilary and George were excellent as per the norm. Regularly open until 4/5am. The Little Prince bar was far busier than normal as well which was good to see.

Overall we thought the resort was busier than last year though our taxi driver disagreed. Perceptions can be wrong I suppose. Booked for next year already and only have future reviews from you good people to look forward to. oh hum.



     

Returned from a week in San Stef 2am yesterday morning and thought you may be interested in what's new and what ain't.

First up the weather - arrived midnight Friday 21st and it was decidely cold - for a moment I thought our plane had just circled Bristol for 3 hours and landed where we started from. Blankets on the bed - brrrrrrrrrr. After that frosty start the weather improved markedly from Saturday afternoon onwards (mid to low 20's) culminating in 31 and 32 degrees on Wednesday and Thursday which was much more like it.

Changes - the old Bar 38 is shut down and the new one is taking shape. There have been delays as Spiro was taken ill 6/7 weeks ago and was in a coma in Athens until early last week (bleed on brain apparently). As I understand it he's starting to improve and Hilary is hoping to have the bar open by mid-June. The Olive Press looks shut for good with no activity at all. I didn't notice any completed new places just a few in the progress of being built. One thing I did see was the expansion of the Delfino Blu which will soon have another outside pool and an inside one as well along with a spa. It will probably cost you an arm and a leg to stay though.

Food/beer prices - we ate at Zorba's (twice), Little Prince, Beachcomber, Sunset and Waves. Prices had gone up a little on some things except for the Waves which seemed noticeably more expensive than the others including the Beachcomber e.g. Tzatsiki at Zorba's 2e's and 4 at the Waves. Beer prices seemed pretty much as normal to be honest though I did notice an increase in supermarket prices - though that may just be what I bought rather than a universal price hike.

Beach has lost 10 to 15 yards of sand due to the terrible winter but it will be back I'm told.

Going back in July for another 2-weeks - can't wait. Hope this was of help.