After reading the reviews on Sunrock resort, I really thought it was
"heaven on earth", but it was definitely not!
We had booked a double room with sea-view and, when we arrived, we had to
walk up the mountain with our heavy luggage to reach a room with
olive-tree-view; the "shortcut" to the room that Magdalene kindly showed us
was as long as the direct route, just a little more dangerous.
Talking about the room, it was quite dirty when we arrived and the only
thing we had at our disposal to clean it was an old, dirty broom, not very
useful to clean the bathroom after a shower, so we had to buy a rag at the
nearest mini-market. Moreover, almost all the light bulbs were broken and
the only one that worked was so weak that at 7 pm you could hardly read!
Oh, and the bathroom door didn't close.
And what about the water? as we lived up a hill, there was a pump that took
water to our room; but this pump didn't really work and the result was that the
water stopped about 3-4 times (for 10-20 seconds) during every 10-minutes
shower...when we were lucky. It also happened 2 times (in out 7-days stay) that
electricity went down, leaving us without water and light, so that one of us
had to get dressed and walk down to the reception to complain about that, until
the electricity came back.
Talking about the meals, breakfast was very good and generous, although the
tables were often dirty; dinner, instead, was composed by a tiny greek
salad (most of the time without greed capsicum and with just one olive) and
a main course, which most of the times wasn't really a typical greek
dish...like cold overcooked pastina with simmenthal or spaghetti with acid
sauce!
Regarding the staff, Magdalene didn't show up a lot...the last day we kept
asking her when we had to pay and she kept saying "after dinner", but,
after dinner, when we looked for her, the bartender told us she was sleeping!!!
As we were leaving at 5 am we sent him down to wake her up and we tried to
pay with our credit card (which, looking at the labels on the door, should have
been accepted) but she didn't accept them, so we had to collect all the cash we
had left and pay; after we gave her all the money in cash, she didn't even try
to smile to us!!
As the hostel was very isolated from Corfu's nightlife, the Vrachos bar was
the only place to go; fortunately the Vrachos bar-staff (Paul, John and
Alex) was very nice, friendly and available to us and almost every night we
played funny games; moreover, the 0,5 l-beer costed just 2 euros!!
Thanks to Paul, John and Alex we really had fun at Sunrock but I wouldn't
really recommend this place.
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