Agnes - Kavos - Corfu

3 girls early 30’s went to Kavos in Corfu for one week in early September 2009. First impressions of the Agnes hotel were OK, except the reception to check into was in a really small shop!. The room was pretty small & basic but it did the job as we only wanted to use the room to sleep in.

The pool is pretty small but nice enough & there is a nice little bar next to it. The hotel also shares the 24hr bar & pool with the Odyssey next door too. It’s right on the beach next to the water sports facilities. After being at the hotel a day or two we found out that the guy who ran the pool bar was incredibly rude, was terrible at customer service whatsoever & a has a really bad attitude. If you ordered a meal or a drink he’d make you go & collect it yourself & never listened to the order correctly so you’d always be something short of what you ordered. If you asked him where the item was he would shout ‘have you paid for it’ or ‘you didn’t order it’ when clearly we did.

They try to charge you for the sunbeds by the pool but they seemd to pick & choose who they’d ask. I think this is outrageous, shouldn’t this be included in the cost of the hotel? They say you get a free drink of water with the sunbed, but we often saw that they neglected to provide this after charging people. We were told though that the bar owner got all the cash from the sunbeds & the drinks so I guess that says it all.

The pool played banging music from 9am which when you have been out all night listening to that sort of music at that volume then a bit of relaxing, chilled music wouldn’t go amiss or better still, some peace & quiet!

The cleaners would come in every day but would only tidy up & maybe mop the floor. Our sheets & towels were never changed (and the towels were tiny). You get given one loo roll & when that has finished you are told to buy your own! The location of this hotel is perfect, right by the strip of clubs in Kavos but set back slightly off the main road which was good. There is a night watchman walking the hotel at night too which was a good thing. 

The lady who owned the hotel was probably the most friendly member of staff while everyone else was just plain rude &/or unhelpful. I wouldn’t choose to return to this hotel again but we made the most of the holiday & enjoyed ourselves. My Tip: stay at the ‘Lemon Grove’ hotel next door to ours on the beach. They have nice, polite staff and it was just a shame we only discovered this place the day before we left.