Corfu car hire recommendations and tips

[Guernsey Globetrotter]

Going to Corfu next week (staying at the Domes Miramare) and looking to hire a car for a few days to explore the island. Any recommended firms or general tips for Corfu from the HfP hivemind please? 🙏😊

[Stephen]

Just returned from Domes Miramare – you’ll have a great time!!

Be very careful with car hire, we did a price comparison on Skyscanner for car hire and lots of small companies were offering £15 for 4 days. Unfortunately, despite contacting them in advance, nobody turned up at the airport (it was 22:30) despite saying open until 01:00

Previously we have rented with Fairdeal Corfu (https://corfucarsrental.com/), they are a bit more expensive but they are reliable and don’t play any games. They managed to sort a car for us last minute at 23:00.

Suggestions –

Porto Timoni beach (reasonably long walk/hike up and down, but can get water taxi boat from Agios Georgios beach. If you decide to do the hike, would recommend doing late afternoon and then get dinner at Luuma afionas (lovely sunset view with parking – they will let you park there and do the hike/beach first)

Doukades is a lovely traditional village up in the mountains where you can stop for coffee on way over to other side of the island

Corfu Old Town – nice to have a walk around (parking is tricky but there are some car parks slightly further out which are 5 Euro per day. You have to try Papagiorgis Patiserie-Gelateria
Ζαχαροπλαστείο Παπαγιώργης – definitely best ice cream out there (check the Google reviews)

Boat hire from “35” Boats for Hire in Gouvia – lovely family run business, very reasonable, small boats that you can drive without needing license and they will teach you. Lots of parking right by them. Lots of absolutely stunning bays that you can’t access via road that you can get to with a boat up the North East Coast (they will show you on a map)

Few other beaches / bays that are lovely if you are in the area (Rovinia beach / Limni beach / Lipades beach / Kalami Bay / Kaminaki beach)

Hope you have the best time, feel free to ask anything else and can try and help. Let us know how you get along!

[Guernsey Globetrotter]

Thanks @Stephen – really helpful hire car tips and a load of great travel recommendations too ! We will be sure to check as much out as possible next week 🙏