Cheap food & drink, but don't expect high quality meals. Excellent beach, very safe for children and very clean. Very clear sea, gets warm after about 1pm. Locals pleasant enough. Weather fantastic (late August). Drink bottled imported beer - a bit more expensive but you know what you're getting. Drink bottled water (use this to brush your teeth!). Try not to drink too much of the local (paint stripper) wine & spirits - they will give you a wicked hangover :( The pools are safe and clean - good for children. DO go to Aqua Park - fantastic day out. DO take mozzy cream - leave this behind at your peril. DO take your own toilet paper.

5 August 2002 updated from July I holidayed in Roda last year and I'm returning again this year. It is a quiet village with no “Kavos yobs”. The pools I used were clean and well maintained. The beach was clean and the water very clear. The sand gently slopes out with no sudden drops. There were plenty of bars and restaurants. The food in general was of a good standard and cheap, about £6 each for a three course meal. The lobster salads were fantastic and the cooked breakfasts at Theodores were huge. For those that can’t do without their football, like me, pretty much all of the games that are televised can be seen in most bars. There were also a wide selection of new films repeated during the day in the same bars – ideal if the kids get bored. Beer was cheap about £1.20 for 0.5ltr bottle of Amstel and about £3 (varied) for a 1ltr carafe of wine. Soft drinks and ice cream - a bit less than UK prices (these prices I believe have risen slightly this year due to the Euro being introduced). The mosquito’s can be a nightmare, but if you shut the doors before you go out at night and take cream repellents and plug in room repellents with you, you should be ok. I was only bitten three times in two weeks and one of those was getting off the coach on the way there. The shops were fairly average and only took about an hour to tour. Leather goods were available but were quite expensive. There were a lot of fake t-shirts and alike. The self-catering accommodation (we were in Spingos) was small, very basic, but again clean and well maintained. Quick tip: make sure you always have a few bottles of mineral water in the fridge (they are very cheap) as it gets very hot at night (no air con.). Acharavi, the next town along, is 1/2 an hours walk away. This has just recently had a small water park built. But if you want bigger thrills the water park Aqualand is only an hours drive away. Its situated at the centre of Corfu island and boasts 100ft freefall slides – these are a real buzz. In Roda there is car, motorbike and cycle hire available – I would not recommend the motorbikes unless you are a competent rider as the drivers on Corfu can be a bit erratic. Overall I would say Roda is good place to go if you want to relax and take things easy for a week or two. Don’t expect too much though, as places like Roda are not up to UK standards in many areas.

The comments below are from the kind of Brit scum that has been ruining what is a very beautiful island, for a long time. Infesting clubs and pubs with the type of violence and outrageous behaviour that brings shame on NORMAL British people. Thank god steps have been put in place to remove these idiots from Corfu for good. The sooner - the better.

kavos is an absolute hellhole full of the lowest form of retarded, pissed up brit scum. these imbeciles are so far down the food chain it’s actually impossible to communicate with them. most of the people that run the bars and clubs are letching greasy tossers just interested taking as much money off you as possible. the beach is filthy, the streets are filthy and the whole place smells of puke and s**t. beer and spirits are watered down cheap crap. psycho drivers try to run you down in the streets. the “food” is laughable. the accommodation is a joke. i could call it blackpool in greece but frankly that would be way to harsh on blackpool. do yourselves a favour, don’t go.

Small, basic, but clean and well maintained. Far enough away from the Bars to be quiet at night. No pool, but you can use any in Roda so this wasn't a problem. 100 yards from the beach - if that!

Brilliant and well worth the money. The free fall slides are the best, although you need a head for heights to get to the top of the tower. The fast foods a bit naff. If you go after 3 pm its half price to get in. There are lockers to put your stuff in and plenty of places to sunbathe.

im sorry but whoever wrote the report below must have been a another resort or using drugs heavily. the beach had litter on it, by this i mean empty bottles, ice cream wrappers, boxer shorts floating in the sea - the usual. talking to a lad there he said he'd been walking up the beach and nearly stepped on a syringe!!! - after this he had taken to wearing trainers for the rest of the holiday. they should change this resorts name to s**tholos.