Corfu Imperial stands on the Kommeno Peninsula, Corfu, between Dassia and Gouvia Marina, where a wooded spit runs out into the Ionian and the ground drops to olive groves on either side. At its lower tiers it reads plainly as a resort, with bungalow collections set among gardens, olive groves and pine. What is worth the journey is the top of its accommodation schedule, where a booking is a detached house with a pool, a villa manager and a cook.
Corfu Town is 12 km by road; 15 to 20 minutes by sea, by a transfer arranged in advance and joined at a meeting point in the town. The Old Town at the end of that run carries four centuries of Venetian rule before the French, British and Greek administrations that followed, and the resort runs a guided walk through its narrow kantounia, the alleys of the old quarter.
The top of the schedule
On the top of the Kommeno hill is Medusa Estate, 411 m² indoor and 1,500 m² outdoor, sleeping 12, with a panoramic view over the sea and the island. It was an olive oil factory before it was a house, and the stone olive mill is still in place, among solid wooden floors, a fireplace and antique furnishings. The layout runs over two floors: four master bedrooms, two doubles, six bathrooms, and a private pool of 55 m² in a garden of patios, lawns and old olive trees.
Palazzo Imperiale sits at the water. It occupies a small private peninsula within the resort, 245 m² indoors on two levels in an Italian and Corfiot regency style, with wooden decks running down to the sea, a stone terrace, a shaded dining veranda and a nanny or staff room with an ensuite shower. It has a private entrance, and guests arriving by yacht are collected by tender boat.
Six-bedroom beachfront villa, 458 m², two private pools, sleeping 12, is a Corfiot mansion in the Ionian countryside, with shaded terraces, a private garden and steps down to the beach. The Waterfront Collection around it is mixed: the signature villas have private pools, gardens and direct beach access, while the same collection holds a panoramic bungalow, junior suites and a maisonette on the rocks with no pool. In the Imperial Building the schedule ends at the Presidential Suite, 192 m², four balconies, with a panoramic sea view. A villa booking carries a villa manager, a private concierge, in-villa dining and a private chef, along with check-in at the villa door, butler service and a length of beach kept for the houses, with sunbeds reserved.
Danilia, a 1930s replica
Danilia, where the estate sends its guests for a Corfiot village evening, was built as a replica of a 1930s Corfiot village. The group’s own staff organise and cater what happens there, and a table or a tour is booked through the hotel. It has a kafeneio, the village coffee house, on the square, with a folklore museum, a vineyard and its grape press, an olive mill and an old typography, and the kitchens cook on site from fresh organic farm produce. It has stood in for Corfu on screen, in the Bond film For Your Eyes Only and in the television series The Durrells. The guided tour, on Tuesdays and Fridays, is reserved to guests staying at Corfu Imperial, and the dining room runs from May to October, closed on Mondays.
The tables and the spa
Aristos, fine French, is the formal room, open April to October. Yali Seafood, a deck above the sea, opens June to September and serves lunch from 12.00 as well as dinner, with the water under the boards and Corfu Town in the distance. Merlin’s is Asian and Latin American fusion and takes nobody under 12. Mon Repos borrows its light neoclassical palette from the colonial estate of the same name outside town, and the Trattoria and Wine Bar does casual Italian. The 2026 season opened a new à la carte restaurant and a historical café on the resort’s promenade, and put new menus in every room.
Treatments are at the Elixir Spa over two storeys, with an indoor pool, a sauna for men and women, four private massage rooms, a couples room and an open-air relaxation loggia of 168 m². The concept is built on the Greek river gods and nymphs, after Kerkyra, the daughter of the river god Asopos, who gives the island its Greek name. On the beach below, the estate runs its own diving centre with Amphitrite Diving, which sets reef, cave and wreck dives by experience and takes children from eight. Boats go out from the resort’s deck for sunset cruises and days across to Paxos.
Who is this for
A party of up to 12 who want a house, a pool and a cook to themselves, and a family travelling with children: the Grecoland club takes ages four to 12 six days a week through the season, and the watersports off the beach need no booking. The ground is olive grove, cypress and pine above a calm Ionian bay, the swimming is off a sheltered beach as much as a pool deck, and dogs up to 8 kg are allowed in the houses.
