Hotels in Corfu, coast by coast, and the one to skip

A seventeenth-century mansion at the edge of the Spianada, and the rooftop bar is the reason people book it. The roof usually opens from May to early October.

Nine rooms in a nineteenth-century mansion on a quiet side street, under five hundred metres from the Liston. The garden is the luxury.

A neoclassical mansion that has been a bank and a school, three minutes on foot from the Spianada, and one of the few old-town hotels with a lift.

It looks straight over the Spianada and the Liston, which no hotel further in can offer. No pool and no parking, and that is the trade for the address.

Nine suites in an early twentieth-century hotel at the old port, renovated in 2022, with sea views across to Vidos.

The cheapest heritage bed in town, in a nineteenth-century building on the old port three minutes from the New Fortress.

Adults-only, a kilometre from the old town, with a pool and a small rocky beach a few metres away. The compromise for couples who want both the town and a swim.

The only hotel looking straight down on Mouse Island and Vlacherna, with bungalows carrying private pools and a lift down to its own beach.

Across the road from the ferry quay and fifteen minutes on foot from the centre. Not charming, and the right bed before an early boat to Igoumenitsa or Italy.

A Grecotel resort with a peninsula to itself, three private beaches and villas with their own pools. Sold half board rather than all-inclusive.

The quieter sister of the Imperial next door, on a Blue Flag beach, sharing its watersports.

Contemporary design on a large estate over Kommeno Bay, with heated private pools in the villas. Adults friendly, meaning children from twelve, not strictly adults only.

The all-inclusive most people mean when they ask for the best one, on six hundred metres of its own beach with six pools.

Opened in 2023 across the bay from Ikos Dassia, laid out as low-rise villages over a large beachfront estate. Often listed as north-east Corfu, which it is not.

Two private sandy beaches five kilometres from town and the airport, which is as close to the old town as a proper beach resort gets.

The former Dreams Corfu, now the first Hyatt all-inclusive in Greece.

The all-inclusive beach hotel closest to Corfu Town, on sand, with three restaurants.

Adults-only and designed for a younger crowd than the resorts around it, above Kommeno Bay with a small beach under five hundred metres away.

A solid beachfront four-star on the blue bus line, with its own beach area and a seawater pool.

The cheapest of the Grecotel group around Kommeno, all-inclusive, on a slope above the water.

Adults-only and all-inclusive on a pebble beach, the one place on this coast that runs like a resort.

Adults-only in the olive groves above Kalami Bay, twenty metres from the beach, with two pools and fifty rooms.

A recent build under Pantokrator, two minutes from Barbati beach, with a small wellness area.

Twenty rooms on the water at Kassiopi, below the castle, with a pool. The best address on the harbour.

Seven family-run rooms with kitchens and a pool, five minutes on foot from Nissaki bay.

Self-catering apartments beside the main beach, with an adult pool and a separate one for children.

Twenty five self-catering units and a pool near the beach, which is how most people end up doing this coast on a budget.

The best-placed family luxury on the west coast, directly on Glyfada's Blue Flag sand, with separate adult and family pools and beach zones.

The former Pelekas Monastery, now adults-only and all-inclusive, on a Blue Flag beach. Open from June to October.

The former La Grotta Verde, relaunched in 2025 as adults-only from sixteen, sold half board or all-inclusive. Check the room's walk to the sand when you book.

Spread over a large hillside above Ermones cove, with a funicular down to the water and an indoor pool for the shoulder season.

On the headland over the bay, with an infinity pool, a rocky private swimming area and Agia Triada beach below.

Still found under its old name, Paleokastritsa Palace. Adults-only near the monastery, ten minutes on foot down to the beach.

Family-run, thirty metres from the sand, and the cheapest way to sleep on Glyfada beach.

Twenty five rooms on the hilltop at Pelekas, with a pool and a terrace facing the sunset over the whole west coast.

Hotel and hostel, run by the same family since 1965, five minutes from the beach. A backpacker institution, and it sounds like one at night.

The adults-only answer in the north, on the beach, with private pools in the suites.

A large all-inclusive on its own stretch of sand, six pools, renovated for 2025.

The water park resort: entry to Hydropolis is included, which is the whole argument if there are children.

Quiet villas a walk from Almyros beach, the calmest end of the north coast.

Its own water park with free entry and two pools, about a quarter of an hour on foot from the beach.

Two hundred metres from the Canal d'Amour, with a children's section in the pool and evening entertainment.

Seventeen rooms, a pool and four hundred metres to the sand. Small and family-run.

Nine rooms and a spa in the far north-west, seven minutes on foot from the beach. It is usually filed under the north-east. It is on the opposite corner.

Apartments with kitchens above Agios Georgios bay, seven minutes' walk from the sand.

A thousand square metre infinity pool, thirty seven pool villas and a private beach, and it takes children. Only the sky bar is adults-only.

Adults-only from sixteen, on the beach in an olive grove that was once an Onassis estate. Half board, not all-inclusive.

The smallest and most private of the three Mar-Bella hotels, adults-only villa suites. The honeymoon answer on this coast.

The big premium all-inclusive of the group, on the beach, built for couples and families alike.

A hundred suites by the water, many of them with private pools, and it welcomes families.

The newest of the group, rebuilt, adult friendly, three hundred metres from a pebble and sand beach.

A hillside family resort eight kilometres from the airport and a hundred metres from the beach, with a family pool.

The former Messonghi Beach: a huge beachfront all-inclusive with kids clubs and children's pools, priced for large families.

A budget seafront hotel with a pool in Benitses, twenty minutes from town.

Listed so you know what a Kavos hotel is: pool parties several times a week, a resident DJ and a bar open round the clock, two minutes from the strip. If that is the plan, this is the place. If not, nothing in Kavos is.