Sunshine Vacation Club Corfu

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Booked very late via internet paid £1000 each for 12 nights A/I and was a little concerned as I couldn't see any reviews at all! When we got there we found it had a recent name change and has only recently started taking british customers.
Mainly a family resort, we were a couple 32/39 and were in a minority.
This was our first visit to Corfu and on the whole we enjoyed ourselves and will come back but not actually to this resort.
Fisrt point to note and very important, The hotel and complex is on a massive hill/mountain and its all very steep! there are lifts connecting the various levels but they are not the most pleasant places by the end of the day, after lots of soggy, sweaty, bathers carrying cokes around have been in and out, and they are glass walled which makes them mini greenhouses!
Room - Basic, clean on arrival however housekeeping wasn't of the highest std, nothing serious just not what we would have expected from 5/4 star. make up smears remained on the side in the bathroom and throughout the whole stay the mirror was not cleaned either(we were advised to expect greek 5 star is uk 4 star but still feel it was little below) The toiletries provided were limited to bars of soap and a shower gel dispenser, hmmm. Air con was one of the best we have seen anywhere, multiple settings so noise could be controlled, timer options etc very good. Our room was a 'bungalow in the greek village' There are so many room types at this massive hotel there could well be vast differences. All of the greek village balconies were sea view direction although trees and top or bottom level dictated if you could actually see it, we could it was lovely.
Food - main restaurant buffet style 3 meals per day, food mainly of 4 star quality but as always a little boring after 1 week, deserts probably weakest area, big queues for 'hot' desert in corner, when it was any good! (not all that often) no pizza's even though we could see pizza style oven, also no burgers, so picky english style eaters were limited, strangeley not lots of greek food either, just a weekly greek night. Overall though all edible and no illness at all even though we ate uncooked things such as salad fresh fruit etc.
Asian restaurant - poor. food quality ok but bizarre combinations etc,
Greek restaurant - very good we ate there twice, enjoyed the souvlaki, moussaka and mixed grills.
Fish restaurant (extra charge) - not available as not enough people wanted to pre book, they need minimum 15 covers I believe.
Snack/Pool Bar - poor - food quality average but just a mini main restaurant, same food selections, just less of them. No freshly cooked snacks at all, only 'snack' was some premade sarnies. better to go upstairs unless you really couldnt be bothered to cover up.
Pools
2 of them, the 'relax' pool was at the top of the hill on the ground level of the hotel, accross the hill from the greek village , no bar, just a water cooler and (clean) portaloo, nice idea but needs pool bar and proper toilets. to get to either you have to either go into hotel complex and up 8 floors or get the lift down to the bottom 'activity' pool. The bottom pool was smaller, this had music and the animation staff running activities. they were good not pushy at all, and although we idnt join in anything except the toughest aqua aerobics in history we were not bothered by them all. they run all the std activities so if you like that sort of thing you are well catered for.
Beach
narrow, pebbly and rocky, but with a great pier to jump in from and lovely clear water, a few days we went up to the very far end near the watersports as it was quiet and we could walk up lots of steps to our greek village bungalow. No beach bar or snack bar, again just portaloo and water coolers. There is a lift back up to the level of the activity pool.
Water sports, we didnt do much, the best was the boat rental 80 euros for the day for a 30hp boat, we had great time exploring the coves further north around avlaki.
Staff
Generally very good, always a smile and seemed hard working and polite. A smooth check in and out. Bar staff operate a proper british style queue system at the bars which was strange but it works.
General
The hotel is let down by its poor location on the side of a hill/mountain making getting around a struggle in the muggy heat (34 felt like 44)! It is overall what we would expect from a 4* all inc family holiday ie iberostar etc but it doesnt exceed expectations anywhere or have anything to make it stand out or make us really want to come back. It could do with a little more luxury or something special for that.
Don't go if you are not very mobile or if you are scared by wasps, after 1 day I felt almost immune to them, just very sorry for the bar staff who were constantly stung. It is an incentive to stick to water rather than coke! Any sweet drink would bring them swarming. not pleasant at all really. A hotel extermination squad is def required.
This hotel is not isolated like the nissaki beach further north it is actaully in/near nissaki itself and right at the top of the hotel drive there are local shops, taverna's, bike rental etc but its not a busy are for nightclubs or bars so def more family orientated.
Other
We rented a quad from the rental agency at the hotel entrance at the top of hill on 2 occaisions to visit a beach on the opposite side the island, that was a nice change. cost 40 euros per day inc insurance.
We got the 'taxi boat' to corfu town, 20 euros each return, so we got to do some shopping and saw some sights around the old town, just book the day before when you see him moored at the hotel pier. The Skipper is great fun to talk with and has good english.
We rented a boat for one day as mentioned before from the hotel run watersports complex, this was great.
I went horse riding just up the coast at avlaki, they collected and dropped us back off at the hotel www.dimitriscorfu.gr - They do advanced rider hacks which is what i did, 3 or 4 canters and 1hr 45 mins. they also do the std beginner treks. As far as i could find out the other riding locations do not offer anything other than beginner treks.