Domes of Corfu, Autograph Collection

Pros Beautiful setting on an idyllic beach coupled with an amazing bed and room. Beach service. Freshly squeezed orange juice at breakfast food was good for evening meal Cons Expensive hotel very noisy overrun with toddlers and families making lots of noise past our room late at night. Breakfast was the worst I've ever had and for 5 star I expect the best not the slop i got getting coffee is taxing staff are lifeless. Sewage smell by adult pool food and drinks expensive and choice is limited for snacks everyone uses the sunloungers by the hotel and locals put parasols up infront of sunloungers would definitely not come here again very noisy hotel felt underwhelmed and drained after

Firstly, this is a lovely hotel with a fantastic beach and lovely friendly staff. Nice appointed communal areas with designer but totally uncomfortable furniture. Half board food was good with a wide and varied selection. But, if you are looking for a quiet relaxing holiday (as we were) this is not the hotel for you. This is not a five star hotel as advertised, almost to the point they could be challenged under the “trades description act. 3* plus would be my assessment and the person that appointed five stars needs series re-training. It has the look of 5 stars but does not live up to that and when paying £3k for a holiday I expect more than “a look”. It is a hotel for families as experienced during our stay with hordes or screaming, uncontrollable under 5’s running rampant. The rooms are very small to the point of claustrophobic. The housekeeping is very hit and miss with regular visits to reception to get water & towels. Room surfaces were extremely dusty on arrival and 10 days later still the same with shards of glass on one surface from day one. We doubt if the shower had been cleaned from day but as all sanitary ware is dark grey in colour, it was hard to determine. Dirty, upturned glasses and thick dust from top of tv and elsewhere. There are “adult only” areas on the beach and a designated pool area and also in the restaurant but that does not stop the screaming & tantrums noise echoing through. The hotel needs to make up its mind as to whether to target families as they do by offering “kids eat free” but there is no getting away from the noise. Breakfast & dinner most days were “carnage” and although sat in the adults area there was not escaping the screaming, tantrums and general bad behaviour with no consideration for other people by the parents.

Lovely location right on a gorgeous private sandy beach with clear waters. If you want a relaxed holiday then this is the place. We went in late September quite a few young families. Can not really walk to nearest village so you are restricted to hotel unless you hire a car or public transport. Bus to Corfu only cost €3 each way Taxi cost €42 each way!! 45 mins on the bus well worth the visit to old town though. Food was varied and all ok. We stayed in room 322 with sea view sapphire jnr suit I think which also allowed us to use the Haute living lounge with its help yourself bar and little snacks from 10am to 11pm well worth it. Staff were all very helpful and lovely Hope this helps.

Outstanding hotel with excellent , attentive staff and very good value. The onside restaurants are superb and the buffet restaurant has a big range of food with alot of variety and good quality. The entire hotel is spotless with pool options and a great beach frontage.

We stayed here 2 years ago and it was paradise. Our room was tranquil, the place was spotless and the service was first class. It has gone down hill drastically in almost every aspect due what largely looks like a decision to ***** out cost. Sadly, the prices remain the same. We booked the highest room type again and requested the same room (310). The bar below now stays open until 1am rather than 11pm when we last stayed. The noise woke our children and kept me awake until after 1.30am. After the second sleepless night I spoke with the from of house manager. He explained that there events on and assured me that, as it was a family hotel, the normal close time was of course 11pm. The following night around 12.30am I eventually went down to see what the noise was only to be told the bar was open to 1am every night. When I spoke with front of house again, he told me he had been misinformed and that it was indeed 1am. When we stayed last, towels were stored around each pool and replenished throughout the day. Now, you queue at the beach bar for towels and they were left to pile up in laundry baskets everywhere (see photos) as the staff that previously kept the place clean are no longer there. As the day went on, litter started to pile up around the sunbeds. This included glass bottles of beer, which seemed dangerous given the number of children around. One morning, my wife stood on a beer bottle top, which had not been cleared up from the day before. When we stayed last, all the sunbeds had comfortable foam mattresses. Now, only the sunbeds around the main pool and on the beach had mattresses. The rest had no mattresses and were not very comfortable. Even in the gym, where on the last trip the small standard white towels you get at even basic hotels were provided, these too were now absent. When I asked the staff at the Spa, the shrugged their shoulders apologetically. I mentioned that standards seemed to have dropped. They agreed and said there was nothing they were able to do. As a result of my enquiry, towels were subsequently delivered. However, they were enormous beach towels, deliver in a hug pile twice a day. This seem like a waste, not environmentally friendly and at odds with the hotels green credentials. At lunchtimes in the beach restaurant it was carnage. Tables would be left strewn and uncleared. Our room type gave us access to the Haute Living lounge. For the most part this was good but again, service was regularly a bit 'Fawlty Towers'. Surfaces and tables would be covered with glasses and crockery for hours at a time even when when staffed. Fridges were left to run out of water and other drinks, with guests having to constantly ask for items to be replenished, One evening, the server shut up an hour early and simply left Another family called reception to ask for drinks but an hour later nobody had arrived. The 5 star service and culture we enjoyed on our previous trip has evaporated. This seemed to be as a result of under

This isn’t 5 star hotel. This is 3 star hotel! It is absolutely dirty !!! Rooms are dirty, corritors are dirty , pool is old and dirty . Rooms are small as hell. The qouality of the materials it is made from is very poor. There is no music by the pool, It is absolutely not worth the price !!!

We had a perfect stay at Domes. I really can’t imagine a better place to stay. The rooms were very luxurious. The staff were all very friendly and provided great service. The breakfast was maybe the best we’ve experienced. Everything you can imagine was available for breakfast. There were rows and rows of choices but the fresh squeezed orange juice machine was a highlight. I am so glad we chose Domes, it had the most wonderful soft sandy beach like no other we found on Corfu. We enjoyed the beach lounge chairs, adult pool and cocktail service at both. The drinks were delicious. My personal fave was the Aperol Spritz. Another perk of Domes was that it is wheelchair accessible providing accessible rooms, parking and ramps/elevators to reach all of the wonderful amenities. This is hard to find.

Having enjoyed a perfect holiday here in August 2022 we decided to return this year. Would it match up to our memories and expectations? Would our kids—now nine and eleven—still love it? The short answer is yes, but for more detail read on. Within an hour we discovered the benefits of returning as we didn’t require a day or two to get orientated and could get straight into enjoying things again. The staff recognised us from last time and couldn’t do enough for us. As it’s a Marriott hotel we gained some benefits from being members. And the pool and Glyfada’s glorious sandy beach remain the perfect way to unwind and relax. Some specifics: We stayed in a Tropical Sublime Family Suite, two rooms with an interconnecting door, both with an en-suite and balconies. These are shaded and face the car park, but rising trees and lush vegetation dominate the view. In one of our rooms the aircon stopped working—a glitch linked to how the system doesn’t operate when the balcony doors are open—but raising it with Thalia and five minutes later an engineer was on hand to fix it, not only that but the kids had free ice cream vouchers for the rest of the holiday. On a separate occasion, we also managed to lock ourselves out of one room as the keys open only one door and it’s possible to lock the interconnecting doors in error. However, again the Front of House team resolved this without fuss. We paid extra for access to Haute Living, styled like a business lounge with armchairs, snacks and drinks. We used it to stock up on water for the poolside and as a social base for the evenings after dinner. We did manage to leave our sunglasses in here, but once we’d told reception, we were relieved to get a call an hour later saying they’d been handed in by one of the staff. We stayed half-board having breakfast and dinner at the buffet restaurant, Agora. This remains in our view the best buffet in the Mediterranean. Every day the food is different, it’s regularly refreshed (nothing is left out too long), with nods to local Corfu and southern Italian cuisine—Sofrito, Souvlaki, Kleftiko, Saltimbocca, etc.—and the sheer variety is staggering. Even so, my daughter didn’t find red velvet cake which she recalled from our previous trip, so we told our server and word quickly spread. The Manager, Thomas, explained they had found the recipe, and by the next day, the chef had made three large red velvet cakes, slices from which were delivered to my daughter at breakfast every day. Her holiday was made! We ate twice at Meze, the fish restaurant, once for my wife’s birthday, and once to try the lobster, which must be pre-ordered a day or two in advance. We were not familiar with one of the starters—Ceviche—which says sea bass on the menu but is served raw and was a shock as it wasn’t what we were expecting. Sofia ensured it was changed without hassle. Secretly, the kitchens upstairs had made a birthday cake for my wife, which was also sent down to us to enjoy, and Meze’s chef made

I booked to go to Domes Miramare with my two adult children for a week in one of the sea view suites and it was the most wonderful holiday! The beach really is very beautiful with clear blue sea and being adult only we found it quiet and relaxing. The food was amazing and staff wonderful, nothing was too much trouble and any little issue we had was addressed swiftly. I read some of the reviews on here after booking so was a little concerned as not all of them are good but having been there I can say that maybe some people just like to have a moan, of course things happen, like we didn’t have a turn down service until the 3rd night, did it ruin our holiday? Hell no, did we possibly have the ‘Do not Disturb’ light on by mistake? Probably yes. All the staff were so friendly, special mention to the lovely girls in the Haute Living, Dimitra and Maria in the 1964 restaurant and Katerina in the Asian restaurant who managed to fit us in even though the restaurant was full and our booking had not gone through as I booked under the wrong room number (whoops). I would highly recommended the hotel and would go back in a heart beat.