The Corfu Imperial, at Corfu’s Kommeno peninsula, regarded by many as Greece’s most beautiful peninsula, is a symbol of true cosmopolitan dolce vita and luxury, a place for a deeply personal experience of the type that remain in the memory to serve as aesthetic standards.
The first impression is often a lasting impression. Entering the main gate of the Grecotel Corfu Imperial carries a movie-like quality, like entering a set filled with cosmopolitan aura, surrounded by one of the most charismatic spots of the Mediterranean and the entire world. This spot is none other than Corfu’s lush Kommeno peninsula, a miracle of nature that unfolds before your very eyes. Visual contact with this wonderful location is offered from all points of the hotel.
Corfu, the spot’s nature, and tales of personalities that have passed through over the years all combine for a unique mix. The Grecotel Corfu Imperial’s legacy in the country’s tourism history is iconic. It also represents a Greek perception of beauty. The light, as it spreads over the hotel’s sculptures and gardens, reveals the identity of Corfiot style, architecturally adjusted to our times.
The Grecotel Corfu Imperial is a composition of experiences. It is a mosaic of feelings headed towards becoming lasting memories. It is a perception that considers us all as being unique, special individuals, which is why the hotel bases its offering on fully personalised experience design. The Grecotel Corfu Imperial is its people, individuals who have identified for years with the style and culture of the resort and possess a deep knowledge of the place and the region. They are present to weave, with dexterity, the realisation of your latest inspirational thought.
The aroma of oud wood and exotic spices pervades the atmosphere at all the hotel’s spaces. The gardens, pines reaching the sea, abundance of bays and beaches, villas, some of which are truly unique, restaurants using pure ingredients for their recipes, as well as an overall sense of tranquility and privacy are features of this hotel, which truly deserves to become a part of one’s special life memories.
Grecotel Corfu Imperial
Ingredients of culinary bliss
Food sparks feelings. It is the element that unites us around a table and then goes on to bind us with memories. At Grecotel Corfu Imperial, yet another quality completes the experience, this being the magic and aura of a uniquely beautiful setting – food for the soul. The gastronomic exploration offered by the Grecotel Corfu Imperial is a journey of various cultures, seas, gardens, techniques, methods, and, above all, people, professionals dedicated to their cause. Here, restaurants and bars offer experiences at various settings, a variety of colours and flavours, all intense and full of character.
Merlin’s Βar Restaurant, which deserves to be explored in detail, merges Asian culture with inspirational Latin American touches. It is a modern, genuine bistro for experiences that open up evenings to excitement. The menu includes sashimi, ceviche, sushi, tartare, dumplings, inspired pasta dishes, seafood, and special meat cuts, all of which create a celebration of exotic and intense flavours. The restaurant offers a view of Corfu’s Old Fortress and the Ionian Sea.
Yali Seafood promises an intense, unbeatable and unforgettable experience. Superbly located, it is set on a deck over the water. The spot serves Greek cuisine, based on fish and seafood recipes. The menu’s simplicity combines Greek culinary ways with the delicacy of Mediterranean cuisine.
Aristos, the Grecotel Corfu Imperial’s gourmet restaurant, was named after shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis. It offers an immaculate menu carrying French spirit and refined flavours, complemented by a section of special meat cuts.
Trattoria & Wine Bar is the spot that could not be missing from the hotel’s overall offering. A joyful place, it serves classic Italian food, including pizza, that fills the heart with anticipation followed by satisfaction.
The Grecotel Corfu Imperial also features the cosmopolitan-style Mon Repos, offering a buffet, daily, and a magnificent Ionian Sea view, as well as two superb cocktail bars, Alkinoos Bar and Odysseus Cocktail Bar. Both bars fulfil expectations and dreams. Enjoy expertly mixed pre-dinner cocktails at what has come to be widely regarded as Greece’s most charismatic location.
Grecotel Corfu Imperial
Architectural poetry with a view to the horizon
The preciousness of the wondrous Kommeno peninsula, as a location, cannot be overstated. The Grecotel Corfu Imperial offers view choices, including greenery and sea, with the Imperial Building, the Gardens Collection and the Waterfront Collection.
The hotel’s main building stands imposingly on the Kommeno peninsula to offer a view all the way out to the horizon. The décor encapsulates the obvious influences of an aristocratic, refined setting, with modern comfort style based on the rejuvenating power of the colour white.
The Gardens Collection includes family bungalows with swimming pool as well as apartments with a swimming pool and a view of the garden and sea. The spaces have been designed for family summer fun, relaxation, games and luxury.
Waterfront Collection/Grecotel Corfu Imperial
Waterfront Collection/Grecotel Corfu Imperial
Waterfront Collection, architecture of happiness
If rarity of experience serves as an incentive enticing us to experience it, then Waterfront Collection is just the place for a singular, memorable time. Its villas, apartments, maisonettes and residences, for 4 to 12 persons, feature architectural design for happiness, on the beach, and include everything you could ever dream of wanting.
Palatial experience, seaside poetry
Grecotel Corfu Imperial offers a palatial experience, cosmopolitan, splendid and clearly Venetian-inspired. The palazzi on offer, ranging from 115 to 325 square meters, stand like poetry above the water, offering authentic style, combined with modern luxury and décor. Only at the Grecotel Corfu Imperial.
Elixir Beauty Spa
Change comes from within us, and this change is a destination.
The first steps taken at Grecotel Corfu Imperial’s Elixir Beauty Spa are enough to make you realise that you have entered another world, an all-white microcosm where the people are different, relaxed, only need to speak very softly to be heard. Anticipation for the ensuing rituals here is always high.
True wellness is all about the ability of seeing life. It’s never just a massage, treatment, or relaxation method for a hotel guest, but a whole lot more. Grecotel Corfu Imperial’s Elixir Beauty represents a small step towards a new way of seeing things – with greater clarity, simplicity and functionality.
The list of offerings at Elixir Beauty Spa is like a tapestry of experiences, to be enjoyed with all the senses. Aromas, music, dim lighting and thoughts prompted during treatment are part of the experience.
The Elixir Beauty Spa functions immaculately, typically inspiring visitors to keep returning for more sessions. Its list of choices includes various types of targeted massages, facials and scrubs, while the area has an indoor pool that is heated during the months of April, May and October. Elixir Beauty Spa also offers a 168-m2 space for relaxation and rest; men’s and women’s saunas; a hamam, mixed, for men and women; an aerobic gymnastics hall; a beauty salon and hair salon.
The Kids Massage, specially designed for children, boys and girls, between the ages of 5 to 16, is a surprise offering. These sessions entail gentle massage treatment with natural hypoallergenic oil on muscles and joints. The treatment covers hands, back, legs, face, neck, scalp and hair.
Elixir Beauty Spa is designed to become a memory of reinvigoration.
Sunlight at the Grecotel Corfu Imperial
The sunlight at the Grecotel Corfu Imperial is a wonderful game of nature. The peninsula’s position on the Corfu map enables the sun to create an alluring setting. Sunrise at the Grecotel Corfu Imperial is unforgettable. The Grecotel Corfu Imperial offers a front-row seat to a daily miracle which life’s everyday demands deprive us of enjoying. The sun, as it emerges from the mountains, seems reachable from here. Enjoy the splendid colours of dawn with a floating breakfast at the swimming pool and a view of the endless Ionian Sea, as fisherman boats follow their daily morning routes.
An hour before the sun sets at Grecotel Corfu Imperial, board a luxury boat and tour the coast of the Kommeno peninsula, the best time of the day to do this, when the sunset colour range reflects off the sea. The Daphnila Bay and Eva Palace hotels, both belonging to Grecotel’s big family of hotels, are situated a short distance from the Grecotel Corfu Imperial. They offer fine restaurants and beaches.
