Spingos Studios, Roda, Corfu
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Set back from the main road, these studios are simply furnished. Just a 10 minute walk for restaurants and shops. loading...
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Spingos Studios Reviews
A relaxing holiday that offered sunsets and peace, with hidden discos and live entertainment for when you want to go for it!
Firstly, the studios are typical Greek style self catering apartments, not very big, but big enough with two pine beds, wardrobe, dressing table etc and a table to eat at in the kitchen area, though I’d say if you are intending to cook your own food, this may not be the best place for you. (Kitchen area is small with fridge, sink, and a micro style oven with electric hob on top but it is awkwardly placed and would be difficult to cook on). Though eating out is so reasonable.. you don't need to cook.
You will find the Spingos Studios in the heart of old Roda, just off the main street, and they are in the perfect location for everything. Restaurants and bars are on your doorstep, but you'd hardly know they were there (apart from when the Greek accordion band wander around the restaurants just before sunset.. which feels very Greek indeed!) and the beach is 100 yards if that.
I really can't praise this resort enough, as a 29 & 31 yr old couple we just wanted to chill out, but still have fun without it being shoved down your throat (i.e. Malia, Kavos) and Roda offers the perfect balance. Roda itself is set around three roads which form a triangle one of which runs parallel to the beach and you can stroll around it in twenty minutes. The Triangle has plenty of great restaurants (Newport Restaurant on the beach, Roda Park on Roda's old street, the Chinese Garden to name but a few) with lots of bars offering pub quiz's and live entertainment every night.
The best part about it is, no-one hassles you to go in their places.. it's very relaxed, you can read the outside menu's without being pounced on (unheard of I know!). If you are looking for a resort that is laid back, but offers enough to keep you entertained... when YOU want to be entertained.. this is the place.
One night you could have a quiet dinner watching the sun set and be tucked up in bed at 10pm and not be disturbed, the next eat Mexican, do a pub quiz, listen to the Rat Pack/Robbie Williams acts in one of the bars and head down to the disco at the Drunken Sailor (soundproofed and indoors after midnight) and stay out till dawn!
There is something for everyone, as much as WE enjoyed it, I know my parents would too and for those with families and teenagers, the balance is there for a great holiday.
The Spingos is clean & basic , but you really don't need anything more, all of the pools in the resort are open to the public and the beach is pleasant (being sandy to the right towards the Harbour Bar and shingle to the left by Afrodite Hotel).
I can wholeheartedly say that Roda is a wonderful resort and we will definitely go back (and I never go back to places I’ve been to!) and yes, we would stay at the Spingos again (Room1 has the best view...a slight sea view.. though it's not much!)
If you want a bolthole in a central location and aren't bothered about luxury living and sea views.. book here, the price we got was way under any other hotels in the resort. Why pay for a pool when you can use any in the resort for free? why pay for a sea view when it’s on your doorstep? However, if you do want a little more luxury, a pool and you want a sea view, the Afrodite Hotel comes highly recommended by another couple we met... and yes, they would come back to Roda too.
I almost didn't write this review, because part of me wants to keep Roda my own little secret: busy enough to have an atmosphere but small enough to keep its quaint Greek charm. I hope that Roda stays this way, but if it doesn't, book up now before it is ruined by the masses.
(PS.. if you book a boat trip to Paradise Beach at Paleokatritsa, make sure you have some rubber soled beach shoes on... the beach is gravel with broken shells... a beautiful place, but very, VERY painful to walk on barefoot or in flip flops as I found out first hand.. you have been warned!)
I hope you enjoy your holiday as much as we did!