Marbella Corfu Hotel

The hotel is built on a very steep hill, access to the beach is via a well built set of steps, illuminated at night and always cleaned daily.
Rooms are a good size and although a mini bar is provided we emptied that and kept our own items in there without a problem. (except the maids always turn off the power, which defrosts the ice.)
Other reports I’ve read suggest the staff were unhelpful, we found the opposite, friendly, helpful, competent.
Meals were of a good standard but if there is a failing it’s the dining room. Breakfast is OK, (we usually were in by 0815) but evening meals are stressful. There is a fabulous balcony but at the end of Sept the place was alive with wasps.
This caused most people after a meal or two to come inside, this meant a real search for seats. It ended with our meals being more of a relay than a quite dinner together.
The swimming pool is very nice, salt, but not so as to spoil the swim, plenty of sun beds with mats and free beach towels.
The beach has free sun beds and free deck chairs. Its a man made beach so you cant stretch out on sand as such but its still nice.
Tennis courts are fast smooth concrete and its best to take your own equipment.
The other failing is the "gym". It would help if travel companies took note of these, this was in very poor shape, dangerous in fact, none of the kit worked and it was small.
If a brochure warns of this then you can make informed choices, I took Gym kit which I had no need for as I couldn’t use it.
Just down the hill are local shops, all you need for light lunches and drinks, also on the sea front are a row of three lovely Tavernas where Greek salad for lunch at 4.5 euros is a must.
You will also find the beer and spirits here cheaper than the hotel where drinks are very pricey.
I don’t often say Id go back to a hotel but I would to the Marbella, a very nice holiday