Need to know
Rooms
76, including 18 suites.
Check–Out
11am, and check-in is at 3pm. Both are flexible on request, subject to availability and an extra charge.
More details
Rates include breakfast, lunch and three à la carte dinners a week, as well as signature cocktails, ice cream, snacks and 30 minutes use of non-motorised watersport kit. Suite and Private Pool stays of seven nights or more have additional inclusions.
Also
Two of the Standard Double rooms have been adapted for wheelchair-users and there’s a lift between all floors, as well as step-free access to the swimming pool, lobby and restaurants. Pathways around the grounds are paved, but there’s a five-centimetre gap between paving slabs, and please note that the path down to the beach is very steep.
Hotel closed
Avali closes for the season at the end of October until early April.
At the hotel
Private setting on the beach with cabanas, watersports centre, fitness area, outdoor yoga deck, laundry service and free WiFi throughout. In rooms: 50-inch smart TV, Marshall Bluetooth speaker, air-conditioning and ceiling fan, minibar, Nespresso coffee machine, tea-making kit, free bottled water, Yukata bathrobes, slippers and organic bath products.
Our favourite rooms
Interiors throughout this retreat’s rooms are a lesson in serenity, with sleep-prompting palettes and cosseting living spaces. Suites are, naturally, the more spacious of the bunch and the Panorama Junior Suite with Sea View has us mesmerised with its Ionian screensaver. If you’d rather dip à deux, one of the Deluxe Double Rooms comes with its own lap pool.
Poolside
Soaked in the Grecian sun and soundtracked by humming cicadas, this retreat’s freshwater pool is set to be its magnum opus. Striped sunloungers will rest alongside the water’s edge, and a food truck will serve light bites beside your sunning spot. There are cabanas set along the shoreline, too, if you’d rather a salty swim.
Spa
Take treatments alfresco at the hotel’s beachfront spa cabin, where deft therapists heal with bespoke body scrubs, facials, massages and the help of soothing Ionian views. The open-aired yoga deck brings the sun to morning salutations, and there’s a rotating roster of classes at the outdoor gym.
Packing tips
A pack of cards for poolside idling.
Also
Staying at Avali is a three-for-one sort of deal, with the hotel’s partnered retreats — family-friendly MarBella and adults-only Nido — a mere meander away.
Children
Over-sixes are welcome; all suites sleep up to three, and you’re welcome to make use of the child-friendly facilities at Avali’s sister-stay, MarBella.
Sustainability efforts
Avali’s respect for the environment is threaded throughout its every move. Careful construction set this space off on a strong start, with thoughtful plans to build around the land, avoiding any disruption to local habitats and communities. There are measures across the hotel to ensure water and energy consumption is cut; rigorous recycling programmes and reusable water bottles reduce waste, and the restaurants focus on securing produce from Corfu-based suppliers. Environmental impact reviews are also scheduled regularly to ensure Avali are doing all they can.
