Dassia Chandris. Road View. Dasia Chandris. roadview.

The hotel is not bad, there is only one big "BUT". This is the side called "mountain view". In fact, this is a view of the road, and Mount Pantokrator will be visible to you only if you hang over the balcony railing and turn your head to the right. But, even if this mountain was not visible at all, okay, but the noise constantly standing over the road (by the way, a small road) is something. Actually, when we chose a room, we knew about it, but the travel agency manager said that the road was narrow and there were few cars. And I also thought to myself that during the day we would still not be in the room, but at night everyone was sleeping. How wrong I was! They don't sleep. Never. Moreover, motorcycles and scooters rush along the road at night, of which there are a myriad. It turns out that the Italians specially come here to drive on the night roads, they have such entertainment... You can only sleep with the balcony closed, if it suits someone, then you can live here. But this did not suit us categorically. So we decided to move to the "sea view" side. There was only one room available on the second floor. It's good that you asked to see it first. It was a room overlooking. . . the roof of the restaurant. Big roof like that, right under the balcony. Well, somewhere in the distance was the sea, on the horizon. But the most interesting thing is that there is no silence here either. Near the restaurant there is some kind of hefty-sized unit (either a ventilation system, or a water maker, or all together) and tediously buzzing. And this "pleasure" is building 20 euros more per day. Of course, not the whole "sea view" buzzes like this, but only the right (if you look at the sea) part of the hotel. Politely giving up the pleasure of contemplating the roof of the restaurant, we went to meet our guide. A nice girl solved our issue by moving to the Corfu Chandris hotel, also a "four", on the same first line, located nearby. Both hotels are a single complex. But in Corfu there is no "mountain" view. It was built later and the local feature - the road - has already been taken into account. The "sea view", by the way, here is also 20 euros more per day, although Kiev travel agencies sold this hotel for more. As for the food - it is the same in both hotels. I will not dwell on it, because. everything can change by the new season. The beach at the hotels is common, large, and the beach here is the best of all that we have seen on the island. The beach includes not only small pebbles, but also a fairly large and very comfortable lawn, where you can sit in the shade of olives and away from beach noise. The sea was just awesome - very warm, very clean, very calm. Again - nowhere on the island of such a sea, we have not found. There is a very smooth decrease in depth, but not so smooth as to get bored in search of "big water". In addition, there is already sand in the sea (I don’t know how it turns out like that there), and you can play ball, but it’s a pleasure for children to swim here.
Now about the island itself. We rented a car for 3 days (40 euros per day with insurance), traveled almost the entire island. On the first day we went to the north. . . and did not find anything particularly interesting there. Our ultimate goal was Sidari, the channel of love. I will say this - in the photographs this place looks gorgeous, in real life - a dirty puddle, with the means of "love" floating in it, and the road to this "love" place is buried in garbage and human waste. The sea here is also very dirty. We had a desire to jump into this channel of love (as the advertisement says, whoever jumps will be with his beloved forever), but on the spot we didn’t want to jump into this channel of love... Conclusion - traveling by car to the north did not justify itself. From the beach of the hotel every day a pleasure yacht departs to the north, entering the bays and relaxing on the water. We paid attention to it already "after", I think, on it the journey to those places was much more interesting for us. Day two - Kerkyra. Definitely a must see city. But again, renting a car for the sake of it is absolutely not worth it. A bus stops in front of the Corfu hotel - a 1.5 euro ticket, and the hotel itself, it seems, offers a generally free bus to Corfu. In addition, it is not easy to park there... We were in the city several times, both in the morning and in the evening, it is interesting that at different times of the day the city shows itself from different sides. What was visible during the day is hidden in the evening, and what was visible in the evening cannot be seen in the morning. In general, describing Kerkyra is a waste of time, you just need to see it. Necessarily. Day Three - West Coast. For this trip you need a car. Although we were guided by the excursion route, we often turned off it and found things that would simply be left out during excursions. There are very nice villages with narrow cobbled streets and squares, colorful ones, but they are located far from the tourist routes (which is good, by the way), and you can only drive through those streets in a very small car (we had a Panda - we barely squeezed in). And it is better, of course, to take a walk there, especially in the evening. A few words about such a advertised place - the village of Makrades. The tourist guide assures us that souvenirs and homemade olive oil can be bought at this place, as well as wine. Now the truth is that souvenirs are everywhere and at the same prices. The oil is very tasty indeed. But the wine....I tried, of course, this drink before buying it. Well, a young wine that tastes good. However, they gave me another bottle, they say, closed with a cork and full... We opened this bottle already in Kyiv, and found there a cloudy liquid in the fermentation stage. In this connection, I recommend to refrain from such dumb purchases, especially since the Greek wine that we regularly took for tasting in the store was very good (we tried a lot). But they decided to bring home home))) The places on the west coast are beautiful, however, the roads are very steep, by lunchtime the brakes were already squeaking at the car. A few words about the advertised Glyfada beach. Yes, big, yes sandy, but there are a lot of people on it. No pleasure. Although, for vacationers in hotels on this coast, this is perhaps the only place where you can normally swim. All the hotels that we have seen here have very small rocky beaches.
Yes, you can refuel very modestly - there are very short distances. We refueled for 50 euros (25 liters) - we did not leave for three days, no matter how hard we tried.

Have a good trip!