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Facing the Ionian Sea connected the north-east seashore of Corfu, Almyros Beach Resort & Spa is an charismatic household vacation getaway buzzing with regular activities.
Under the adept guidance of affable and energetic wide manager, Dimitris Moraitis, 48, the diverseness of indoor and outdoor options for some children and adults alike is impressive, including a private, brushed soil formation implicit with lounge chairs and umbrellas.
Dimitris Moraitis, General Manager. Photo by Columbia Hillen
Name the athletics and its apt it’s catered for astatine this fashionable hotel, from shot and tennis to gym workouts and volleyball, not to notation swimming, either successful its freshwater pools oregon the azure bluish sea, a specified 50 meters away. The edifice adjacent hosts its ain fittingness classes each time including aqua training.
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Children volition walk endless hours astatine a peculiar outdoor playground featuring waterslides, playing array tennis oregon cavorting successful their ain shallow pool.
That’s conscionable the day-time activities. In the evenings, Moraitis, a autochthonal of Corfu, and his unit big lively, fun-filled quizzes and philharmonic events including karaoke nights.
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For those seeking much restful indulgences, there’s the Pasithea Spa and Wellness center, named aft the Greek Goddess of relaxation, which features 3 attraction rooms, a hammam, sauna and quality parlor.
The edifice opened conscionable implicit 3 years ago, is portion of the V Hotels Group with whom Dimitris has worked for much than 5 years. It has 180 rooms and suites, acceptable among lush gardens filled with exotic flowers specified arsenic Mexican pitunia and Indian feathers and a assortment of herbs including lavender, myrtle and rosemary, arsenic good arsenic swaying thenar and citrus trees.
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Each country has a backstage balcony with views implicit the sea, the swimming excavation oregon the garden. Our high-ceilinged room, 114, connected the archetypal level was spacious with modern décor, and a balcony, implicit with duplicate chairs and a debased table, overlooking some the excavation country and the oversea beyond. Furnishings included a large-screen TV, a comfy armchair and settee and a java table.
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Dining astatine Almyros is either buffet oregon à la carte. The erstwhile takes spot successful a glass-enclosed, ground-floor edifice with a ample terrace facing the excavation and sea. Here abstracted designated areas diagnostic a wide enactment of blistery main dishes, salads and desserts. During our stay, paper items ranged from pasta dishes and grilled meats specified arsenic lamb, beef and pork to chickpea burgers, mushroom pastry and assorted food and seafood.
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A much intimate upstairs edifice offers an à la carte paper wherever we sampled oversea bream, octopus, squid with saganaki and rib-eye steak. The edifice has 3 abstracted bars - 1 beside the buffet area, 1 upstairs successful a country with a balcony overlooking the oversea and the different adjacent to the outdoor swimming pools.
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V Group has purchased 41 acres attached to the hotel and plans to make villas with private pools, restaurants, bars, and to treble the size of the rooms.
Local Greek beingness is not acold distant from the hotel, with the tiny municipality of Acharavi less than 3 kilometers from the hotel, with its 7-kilometer pebble beach and a drawstring of tavernas, section stores, cafes and restaurants. It besides has a tiny folklore museum.
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A fifteen-minute thrust from the edifice on a winding state roadworthy is ‘Bee Happy,’ wherever you tin ticker a queen bee laic her eggs (a whopping 2,000 per day) and drones, oregon idiosyncratic bees, flying backmost and distant collecting pollen from adjacent flowers. You tin besides bargain delicious varieties of honey, from oak and orangish blossom to chaotic forest.
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