Corfu Part 2 – Roda Oasis Hotel
Well, if you recall my post from a week ago, you’ll have noticed that I was to visit the Hotel Roda Oasis, and looking to find out whether it was, or was not like the reviews said.
First, it was clean. There was a regular maid service — the rooms were cleaned every day (except Sunday), and every other day you got fresh towels. Can’t fault the hotel in that regard. Our room was maybe a little small, but that’s because it was basically a double room with a set of bunkbeds put in for the kids. So maybe a little cramped, but that was because the room was at maximum occupancy; again nothing to complain about.
Facilities at the hotel were fine: internet access was available downstairs if you booked it (but as there were plenty of internet cafes/bars elsewhere I didn’t), the main bar/restaurant area had a couple of TVs in where they had Sky Sports news on for most of the time (although they did also switch it over for specific things such as The Ashes and the Newcastle game on BBC1). There were a couple of pool tables, and a very nice pool.
The pool wasn’t massive, but I wouldn’t say it was too small either; when the pool was quiet you could get a decent bit of swimming done, swimming lengths. The pool was open from 09:30 through to 19:30 (basically, after breakfast finishes through to when they start serving the evening meal) and it was perfectly pleasant. There was also a slide for the kids to go into the pool — you can see SWP just coming off the end of the slide in the photo.
Drinks were expensive in the hotel: taking ‘the large diet coke’ as a standard measure, you’d pay €2.90 in the hotel or between €2 and €2.50 elsewhere, but if you did as we did and just had bottled water with your meals, this kept the costs low. Air conditioning, fridges and safety deposit boxes were all available at an extra cost (but as we were told this in the brochure this wasn’t a surprise) — €7 a night for aircon, €5 for a fridge, and €7 a week for the safety deposit boxes.
We did find these to be worth it: it was lovely to get back to the room and be able to have 1.5l of ice-cold diet coke waiting for us (costing €1.95 from the supermarket across the road), and without the air conditioning I don’t think we’d have been able to sleep, but we had it set to bring the temparature down to 16°C which was quite pleasantly cool. One thing I would warn you about though is that Corfu is is certainly a mosquito area: we got quite badly bitten for the first couple of days until we stocked up on repellent and got some more repellent in the room.
The breakfast wasn’t up to much — a couple of slices of toast with jam, ham and cheese — although you could buy an English breakfast for €3.90 (€5 if you weren’t booked in for breakfast). As you can get larger English breakfasts elsewhere in the resort for less, I’d not particularly recommend going for the B&B route. However, if you go half-board as we did, then you get quite a selection of nice meals in the evening — every night you get a choice of two or three starters, two main courses, and two or three desserts. The main courses were also variable — in the 13 nights we ate at the hotel I think I had 11 different main courses — pork kebab, moussaka, swordfish and so on…
The chef, surprisingly enough is a chap from Vancouver called John (Janni) who seemed a pleasant enough bloke and whom I got chatting to one evening. Evenings also bring with them entertainment — a quiz where you win some free drink for your room (if you win it — we didn’t), bingo (no idea, didn’t try it) and of course karaoke. You have to watch out for Nikos though… he does have a tendency to think he’s ZZ Top with his karaoke standard being Sharp Dressed Man
(although to be honest, I’ve got no right to complain, having been talked into ‘performing’ The Kinks’ Dedicated Follower of Fashion twice)
In short, lovely holiday, hotel more expensive than elsewhere for drinks (but nothing unusual in that), a ten minute walk from the beach (maybe 15 with small children), pleasant friendly staff, and I’d happily go back either half-board again or self-catering (as I don’t really think what you get for breakfast makes the B&B aspect worthwhile). I also suspect you can probably get a better deal if you contact the Roda Oasis direct, but then the flip side of that is you obviously need to sort out your own flights and so on…
Gary Miller says:
September 4th, 2009 at 8:56 am
It’s always a trial isn’t it? Hotel looks and sounds great in the brochure; then you have to wait until you actually get there to see if the write-up was true or not.
In this case I’m really glad it all turned out OK for you and the family!
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