Quick info to Aghios Gordios - Corfu
Agios Gordios (or Aghios Gordis) is one of the best beaches of Corfu. It is located at a distance of about 15 kilometers SouthWest of Corfu town, just after Sinarades village (the port of Garounas). It is the most popular sandy beaches on the West coast of the island. You will recognize it when you get there from the characteristic Ortholithi, the imposing upstanding rock in the sea. With a car it is possible to use this as a good base to tour the island and visit the historic Corfu town. Just before you get to the beach and while you are just outside Sinarades village you will find a path (a road actually) to Aerostato, a hanging spot at the peak of the mountain, offering an exceptional view towards the beach of Aghios Gordios. The Pink Palace is legendary and with it, the rest of
Corfu need not exist. It's run by a pair of characters, "Dr." George and his sister Magda. The stories that come out of a few nights in this place are retold for decades. Rates are 24 to 26 Euros per person. Located right on beach of Agios Gordios, arguably Corfu's most spectacular beach, gives the Pink Palace a unique location. The Pink Palace is the original Club Med – complete with weekly toga parties – at Greek Island prices (from 20 Europer night, which includes full cooked breakfast, private room and a three-course buffet dinner). It has Internet access, laundry, a Jacuzzi, inner-tubing, cliff-diving, bungy jumping, jet skiing, parasailing, basketball and volleyball. Mostly, though, people just crash out on the beach and recover from the night before. The
Palladium Night Club is like a spring break party every night. The place is so wild that people come here intending to stay for only a couple of days but wind up crashing for a week or more. Some of the ferries depart in the morning and the action is so furious, the mingling opportunities so plentiful and the rooms and alcohol so cheap, some never make it to the boat in time to leave and stay for yet another day. About the only way some people make it off the island is to stay up all night and stagger out at daybreak. It is self-contained with private beach and hill rooms, private bathrooms, air- conditioning, telephones and seaview balconies. But few people come here for the telephones. It's the on-site entertainment that make it a palace for its young and revel-seeking visitors. Technically, the Pink Palace never sells out. Arrivals are greeted by a pink bus (what else?) with free transportation. Then it's up to the visitors to carve out their own piece of Greek history on Corfu.
