Tropicana Studios - (Accommodation in Arillas)

Paul H           

 All the appartments were clean and spacious, also a pool bar,20-25 min walk to a slightly pebbly beach, where there are some supermarkets along the front and restaurants.Recomend Thalassus is very good Ammos bar is ok as is his restaurant Brouklis which is on the way down to the seafront is good as well.

Leonidas - (Accommodation in Arillas)

Paul H           

If you are booking through manos EXPECT up to a 3hour transfer time ,the apartments were clean and basic,no pool but you can use the one over the road at the Tria Adelphia. 

Manos - (Tour Operators on Corfu)

Paul H  (08 June 2005)         

This is the first time that we have travelled to Greece -Corfu and it quite possibly could have been the the last.We travelled with Manos WE WILL NOT TRAVEL WITH AGAIN to Corfu.

We had to wait on the coach for up to 25 mins when a Manos rep came on board only to tell us that he would not be travelling with us today and that the driver was well aware of where we needed to be dropped off and that there only a few stops , we arrived at our appartments in Arillas  just short of 3hrs later when we had realised that the driver did not know where Arillas was,he did stop in Sidari for 30 mins while he tried to enlist the help of another coach driver to take him to a drop off and he also successfully enlisted the help of another tour operator rep to do another few drop off's as well   
If you are leaving on a flight around 1300-1400 expect to be picked up at 700 am on the morning.We did not find out our pick-up time untill the day before, so expect this please a lot of people were unhappy about this. You may arrive at the airport as early as 9-20.
 At the end of the day you cannot blame the drivers or the reps ,you can only BLAME THE COMPANY, MANOS!! so all you can do is make your feelings felt to the rep and write to head office when you get back which is what I will be doing.
 
What we did was we hired a 12 seater coach and 7 people went to the airport on this coach it took just over an hour (traffic build up)picked up at 9-45 got there at 10-50. cost 75 euros
At the airport please expect pandemonium(reminiscent of a cattle market) no organisation no reps untill 2 hrs before your flight.
From what I have heard Thomas Cook have a better transfer time and pick-up time and there is more communication available.